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'Hash & History' w/ Scotland By Prestige · You Call That Radio?

• 0:00
  Speaker A: What was that? What was that? What was that? This is a democracy only. Cold Out Radio. Three, two, one.
• 0:12
  Speaker B: Ycg.
• 0:16
  Speaker A: It's season six, episode three and we're going back again. This is, this is another January episode, but it's a very good one. I love that. This is a long one actually. You know, we try these days to keep it to an hour. That's the general rule. Since the seven hour locked in interviews, we try and keep these things 10 hour. I was absolutely shattered as well. I hadn't had any sleep for this one, but I couldn't stop listening and watching. I. I can't listen to the whole thing all the way through. I don't have time. Right. But you are going to love it. There might be moments during the. The show, just every so often you might hear water bubbling and that's just the kettle boiling. Today's guest is Scotland by Prestige, or just call him Prestige, but. But if you want to follow him on TikTok or Instagram, which I recommend you do, it's Scotland by Prestige. And I think I'm just going to need to call this show Hash in History because I'm not really sure what he does. He couldn't really explain to me what he does and I like guessing like that. But you'll just find him finding interesting facts all across Scotland and beyond. And he likes to discuss his medicine, which is cannabis legal. I would like to point out legal medicinal cannabis, which a lot of people don't know, even sometimes the police don't know that this is a thing. So we have a conversation about medical cannabis, interesting facts about Scotland. If you're a smoker, you're going to enjoy this one. If you're into history, you're going to enjoy this one. If you're into neither, I think you'll still like this. So stay tuned then and enjoy this. I. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I know. Rather than cut it off in an hour, I went for an extra 40 minutes or something. So it's a good one. And thank you to the patrons who support the show. You're not going to hear any adverts or any sponsors during the show. We don't have any funding, nothing like that. This is DIY independent radio. Well, podcast or whatever. And it's. It's purely because of the patrons that any of this can happen. So thank you to the patrons and if you want to be a patron, then you can sign up at patreon.com forward slash. You call that radio. It's how we can do all the things that we do. And I've actually put in some bonus content the last week. One is me explaining poetry wars and it's too controversial for me to put on YouTube, so I put it on, on Patreon only. And the other one is me explaining what happened in Dublin because something bad happened to my band on tour in Dublin and everyone's been kind of hinting, everyone's been asking about it and I thought, this is one for the patrons, because I don't want it to be public knowledge, but the patrons can hear the story. It's a patreon.com forward slash. You call that radio. And that's as close as you're going to get an advert for the rest of the show. So I hope you enjoy it. In fact, actually, I'm just going to pick up on the it. In fact, no, I'm going to wait to listen to it. I'm not going to say anything or maybe I'll maybe give my opinion on a certain thing, but I can't give my opinion until you've heard it because that's a spoiler alert. But maybe next show. I'm going to disagree with one of the things that he says here a bit strongly, but let's not spoil the surprise. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. You call that radio? As you call that radio. We are live first. First live stream of the year. So Happy New Year and absolutely buzzing to welcome Prestige onto the show tonight. I don't really know how to explain. I don't even think he'll know to explain what he does, but it's somewhere between harsh and history and we'll get him on a little second. As you know, we don't have any adverts, we don't have any sponsors on the show, so don't worry about that. There'll be any of that. But I'm excited because I've got a book and we're launching it with the Fiction Burn supper on the 31st in Glasgow. Special guest headliners, Yoko Poro Hunters and hundreds of performers. And also today, we just announced the Birdun one in Soul Coach the week before on the 23rd. That's it. Name your adverts. Let's get Prestige on the show. All right, mate, how's it going?
• 5:18
  Speaker B: Thanks for having me. Good to be here, man.
• 5:22
  Speaker A: It's you. I don't understand tech talk, really. As you know, I think I've got 300 followers. I try and use it, but the only thing that I watch is you. And Darren Connell's good, brilliant Comedian man. And he seems to have done really well at Tick tock as well. So I called this show Medical Cannabis and Scottish History. So people were, what. What is that? Is that a fear summarization of what you do, or do you want to correct me? What is it?
• 5:54
  Speaker B: No, no, I'd say that's pretty fair. So I started off on the beach scene. That's basically where I've been for the last 10 years. That's been where I've been all my life, right? That's where I've been all my life. But on socials, that's where I really started. I've been on Instagram, I'm just pointing at bong videos, bong videos, dab videos. But I'm not showing my face, I'm not talking. Know what I mean? I'm just doing videos. Eventually I started doing bongs outside, right? Because I just been doing them in the shed and like that. But eventually I started doing them outside and I would take them to, like, landmarks and I've done Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, I've done Parliament.
• 6:34
  Speaker A: So you're taking. You're taking a bong outside Buckingham Palace. The first time I met you, I think was St. Luke's Souls of Mischief. And you were like, I'm the guy who tagged you in a video because, like you said, you covered your face so I didn't recognize you because.
• 6:50
  Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 6:51
  Speaker A: I just remember a Gyro baby song getting tagged by you. I don't know, taking a bucket. I'm taking a legal bong.
• 6:59
  Speaker B: By the way.
• 7:01
  Speaker A: What?
• 7:02
  Speaker B: I was chuffed when I met you. Instant Lux. I swear I've been a fan of you. I'll tell you something else, right? You're saying I met you in St. Luke, I tagged you in a bong video, right? That's not even the start here. I spoke to you on Twitter back in the day, bro. Spoke to you on Twitter because I'm right and I'm P with Higgy.
• 7:20
  Speaker A: Yes, of course.
• 7:22
  Speaker B: When I started listening to you boys, right, I had. I had. I had one of your albums on in the shed and Huggies came in. He's like, I know them. I'm like, no way, mate. He's got a. I went to uni or whatever remark. I'm like, what?
• 7:38
  Speaker A: He didn't go to uni with me because I've never been to uni. But what he did, what he's did, he was our first ever producer. So the first time we ever. First time we ever recorded it was actually he had that we set up in his house. I think it was in air and right. Hi, Sound. And I think it was a friend or basis, Martin. And we went over there and he had like a good restudio set up and that was the first time ever recorded. I think it was bank charge, if I remember rightly. And it was Higgy that did that. Lovely guy, definitely.
• 8:08
  Speaker B: But I was already years before I knew that he knew he man. So how's he doing that instant look that night? I'm like, yes, I finally met Mark to the Drago babies. It's like years in the making. Years in the making.
• 8:23
  Speaker A: Amazing, man. So just before we're talking about, for anyone who's just joining us, and you're just explaining that you're taking buckets outside.
• 8:31
  Speaker B: Oh, I thought, how's this?
• 8:32
  Speaker A: How's. How's that? How's that a career? But I think we need to give a bit of context to what medical cannabis is.
• 8:42
  Speaker B: Jack. Sir Bob, good to see you in the chat. I'm just looking at the chat earlier. Right, Medical cannabis. So medical cannabis has been legal since 2018 here in the UK. Right now we're approaching, almost quarterly, a million people that are using it. Right. No, for you to have medical cannabis here in the uk, you need to be diagnosed by a standard UK gp. See on nhs. GP need to be diagnosed with one, a multitude of conditions. Once you're diagnosed with one of them, you need to use two traditional medications. I'm talking about modern pills. It could even be like a physiotherapy session. That counts as a treatment, you know what I mean? So you need to give two treatments that don't work for you. After that, you need to go private. So that's when you pay for a private doctor. You're needing to pay for appointments, you're paying for prescriptions, all that type of. So that's what medical cannabis is here in the uk. It's all tied for, but it's all legit. It's all definitely legitimate, but it's private. Doctors think it like BUPA or any of the other private healthcare providers, but there's not a lot of awareness to it. There is not a lot of awareness to it at all. Loads of people don't know, they really don't. And the NHS have no volunteer. So I believe there's less than 15 people that have ever been prescribed cannabis, as in Flower Forum, through the nhs, which is.
• 10:04
  Speaker A: So. Yeah, because it's amazing amount of people that I know that have taken it for pain and they're the risking getting arrested for it or getting stopped and search for it. And then I'm like, would you. Because I've. I've got a couple of friends that have been got the legally got it and it was just like good. They just went to Perth, they, they told them their symptoms and they got it. And it's amazing how many people, especially smokers that didn't know that they could get it.
• 10:37
  Speaker B: Definitely.
• 10:38
  Speaker A: Is this a deliberate thing? Why is there no awareness?
• 10:41
  Speaker B: No, no, it's not a deliberate thing. It's more ignorance than anything else and I don't think CBDs helped. Now imagine you didn't know the scene, you didn't understand at all, right? You're sat watching Coronation street and an advert comes on for medical weed. Because it happens, right? They come on in the middle of quarry now. So adverts on for medical weed, you don't know the scene. A lot of people will be assuming that cbd, they'll know, they'll be ah, that's that fake CBD that I've seen before. A lot of people assume it's just cbd. I've spoke to police and I've said to them, right, medical weed, blah blah blah, cbd. I'm like, no mate, THC after a government regulated source. What are you talking about? So even the Polish don't know about this. Napoleon briefed about things. See what you would see in the movies or in the TV shows, know how it happens. What happens is they get sent emails every quarter about changes under law and they're expected to read through that email when they get into work. And as you can imagine, the human beings and we got read that email when they go here. So they don't know if they change to the law. That B was 2018. So they definitely don't know that. No, I mean very few of them know about it, so.
• 11:48
  Speaker A: So when you're legally taking your medicine in a public place, what kind of reactions are you getting from the police?
• 11:59
  Speaker B: Well, I thought it took off me before. Took it off me quite side, right, so these two ladies, they did not believe in medical weed at all. Try to explain it to them. I was really nice, I tried to be nice. I'm always being my best, right? They just don't believe in it at all. They didn't even search me. I gave them it and then they just took it. And what gives that back? This hasn't even a legal search, I'll give you that. I want it back, you know. No, no, no, you're not getting it. So off they went. It took me 16 days to get that back after him and 16 days to keep going the police station saying, give me my stuff. Honestly, it was a bit of a pain. It was a bit of a hassle to get it back.
• 12:40
  Speaker A: Well, at least they didn't smoke it.
• 12:42
  Speaker B: I don't know if they did because the bag was opened and it was off on a bit in.
• 12:46
  Speaker A: It had a fly one.
• 12:49
  Speaker B: You're also supposed to vaporize it. So I'm obviously doing bongs. You shouldn't be doing bongs. See anything? Anything. You see me combusting is strictly CBD weed or street weed that I bought off my palace. I would never, ever, ever combust my prescription. People to. Anybody watching in the chat will know if you're combusting prescriptions. We're only ever V. Right, done.
• 13:12
  Speaker A: I seen a video the other day. I wish I could actually find it, but it was. I don't know how. I think it might be an old one. It's just resurfaced. But it was. Is it maybe a guy called Bobby Bruns there? And you're taking a. You're taking your. You're legally not. Not combustion, I think. And there's a guy going, what is he doing? He's not right, is he? Can I. Do you know the one I'm talking about?
• 13:37
  Speaker B: I know it's quite a funny video. Some fans like it. Sometimes hate it.
• 13:45
  Speaker A: Yeah, well, that guy seemed to be just. Just.
• 13:48
  Speaker B: He was indifferent. Ah.
• 13:51
  Speaker A: He was just like, what is this?
• 13:57
  Speaker B: I'll tell you how we've evolved. Three bongs in the street to cutting about doing history videos on our doorstep, right? As I said, I was updating them. So I'm setting up the frame. Buckingham palace in the background, bong in the foreground. Had to upload it, right? But I'd not just upload it. I'd go away and I'd do a lot of research. I'd write down a big paragraph or two about the history of Buckingham palace, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? I'd even had a wee bit in the end about places that you could go eat, places that you could go to smoke nearby, right? And I'd write like that. I did loads of research. I'd write it all. And I done load series. I was all over the place doing them, right? Done all sorts of them. And I said to any trips one day, I was like, did you read my. About the mausoleum? It's dead interesting. He's like, no, I don't read any of them. I just watch your bomb videos and I said to an R. Do you read that thing? I've done a bit of mausoleum. No, I didn't even know that you wrote hangs under them. I'm like, oh, my God, I'm going to take it back out mausoleum video myself walking about talking about the history so that these councils see it instead of reading it. And that's how I've started doing these mad history videos where I'm walking about talking because I was writing about it for the longest time and can't find the answer.
• 15:06
  Speaker A: I've got one here. I've got. I've got a couple here. Let me just. I'm just going to pick one. I think this is. It's either going to be ravens, Craig.
• 15:15
  Speaker B: People that you see on your right and your left when you're walking along would have been.
• 15:20
  Speaker A: Is that the one?
• 15:20
  Speaker B: Actually got one.
• 15:22
  Speaker A: Okay, so let's go for this one.
• 15:24
  Speaker B: Here in Glasgow, we're already traveling to Spain to fight against Hitler's allies. Better to die standing than to live forever on your knees. So here's one that a lot of people walk past every single day and don't even get a second look. This statue here was placed there in 1979 by an artist called Arthur Dooley. Now, Arthur was to Liverpool and duty, money constraints. This was made for fiberglass and scrap metal was actually supposed to be made for bronze. Have a look at it. That being up there made a scrap metal and fiber glass. Surviving on the Clyde for so long, that is a testament in itself. This statue of Dolores Ibarrez that is actually up there to commemorate the people that traveled through the UK to Spain to fight against General Franco's dictatorship now. Now 2100 people went to the UK. Franco was backed by both Hitler and Mussolini at the time and the nationalists didn't have much backing at all. So people from all over the world were literally traveling. I met the Republican. 128 people actually came from Glasgow. The thought was, if fascism wins in Spain, it quickly travels through the rest of the world. And that is why people really went out there to fight. Now, at the end of the day, almost a quarter of those that traveled out there died on the battlefield and 65 of them came to you right here in Glasgow. And that is what Dolores is up here celebrating. But right in the front here, we've got her most famous quote, and that says, better to die standing than to live forever on your knees. And I think that's really good. So See, the next time you walk past us, stop and pay tribute to those that have been eating fought fascism long before the battlefields of World War II had begun.
• 17:05
  Speaker A: Amazing.
• 17:06
  Speaker B: I think that's really good because it just shows how long Glasgow has stood against fascism or Scotland as a whole.
• 17:12
  Speaker A: No, I mean, yeah, it's brilliant. And just, just all the videos that you do. So you're just getting all that information in a minute and brevity is not my strong point. So that would take me about 30 minutes to get all that information in. So how do you. How do you choose your subjects and how do you. And what is the editing process like to, you know, get all that. The editing. Spot on, man. So it's like how do you do it?
• 17:40
  Speaker B: Choosing subjects. Right. So I've been a wee passenger princess all my life. I've been drove about everywhere, go on cool places where trips in that and see if I'm sat in the motor and I see something, I'll pull up Google maps and I'll be like, what the. That I'm a scholar. I'm dead interested in stuff. No, I mean I'm one of the guys. Or if I'm sitting on a train, the train gets me so many hits too. Like I'll see something extreme one day and it'll be a boom. What the. That. That's a video, right? So for there it's going on different sites and bullet pointing. See, once I start bullet pointing, it's. It's awful. Isn't replacement then it's just filler after that. You're just basically switching after the bullet points. With editing though, it's p. Easy. I'm not going lie. Editing is one of the easiest parts for me. I find Solman harder than editing. See, I think that is so easy because I got the filming done here. Sometimes I take 25 takes on one of the videos that last a minute and 10 seconds. No, I mean I can be doing 25 takes on that. No happy with any of them having to do 26. So I get this film and don't and the editing season.
• 18:47
  Speaker A: That is a good point. Just, just wait for the right take rather than Trinity because you're going to spend time in editing trying to make it look like a real thing. So you've got over 20000 followers on Tech Talk about 9, 000 on Insta. And you just told me just before we went on air. I didn't even know this because I'm. Like I said, I'm a sort of lurker. Attack talk. I'll try and put a video up. It doesn't do very well. And then I'll. I'll go away for a week or two. So then I come back on. I didn't know that you just said that. It just. You just started blowing up in March. I just thought you.
• 19:28
  Speaker B: I didn't even have one before. That's the first tech talk I ever made was in March.
• 19:31
  Speaker A: Wow. And that was that. The. Did you go straight into the history side of things?
• 19:36
  Speaker B: Straight on and good stuff. Straight onto the good stuff.
• 19:40
  Speaker A: And when did the. When did the. The history and the interesting facts start coming into play?
• 19:49
  Speaker B: August. I've been writing about it a lot longer than that, but actually doing videos and putting them up. August. Messy. It was just writing before that, man.
• 20:00
  Speaker A: Yeah, but you've got. You've got a format and that's. It's. As soon as you see you and I play shall it. Right. Where is he now? How much stuff are you doing? Maybe it's because I'm not in tech talk enough, but it just seems like there's just hundreds of new content all the time.
• 20:18
  Speaker B: It's addictive, man. It's addictive.
• 20:20
  Speaker A: Hey, it's. So how many. How many videos are you throwing up?
• 20:24
  Speaker B: As many as I can, man. Like to that way a crackhead will smoke as much track as they can. I'll put as many videos.
• 20:35
  Speaker A: Because you're getting all these likes and comments. So you're getting a buzz.
• 20:38
  Speaker B: It's endorsements. That's what. Same with the Tik Tok vibes. It's constant endorsements throwing at you, man. And like for somebody where undiagnosed mental condition, it's crazy. So you get really addicted to it. I don't know what's wrong really. I've never been a doctor, but I just know that maybe endorphins ping on me and I'm addicted to putting videos up and doing lives and shut, man.
• 21:00
  Speaker A: Oh, that's amazing. It's. There's worse addictions out there, that's for sure.
• 21:04
  Speaker B: Yeah. See that Instagram that I'm doing, I only opened that page at the start of October.
• 21:11
  Speaker A: Unbelievable.
• 21:12
  Speaker B: I opened that page October and it's more followers than I've ever heard on any of my Instagrams previous. D. I've heard them shut down at like three and a half K because they've been solely weak ones. This one's not anywhere near it. I've not even put a single bong on this page. So it's lasted longer and we're at like 8 and a half K or something like that.
• 21:33
  Speaker A: Tam shouts to Tam is in the house. He says I mentioned I can never say that word.
• 21:41
  Speaker B: Yep. I remember we were talking about Kuros earlier. That's right, Yep.
• 21:45
  Speaker A: So that's where Tom took us there when we were filming. We needed one more scene for. For the Equinox music video and time and I'm going to take it. Yeah. It's just 27th century. I don't think it's a 27th century. The 17th maybe. I don't know. It's a village.
• 21:59
  Speaker B: There's a 27th century castle. I'm doing a video on that tonight. I'm not waiting tomorrow. I'm going tonight in case I've disappeared back into the.
• 22:07
  Speaker A: I go there and find what happens. Stick some sticks at the. The lottery numbers and the football. But yeah, Tom took is there. It's a. And it feels like in a different country there.
• 22:18
  Speaker B: Video. Yeah. How did you get that? Qu.
• 22:25
  Speaker A: I can't answer. I can't answer that one.
• 22:31
  Speaker B: Are people curious about that a lot. You know.
• 22:33
  Speaker A: Do you know what? Not as much as you'd think. You know, at the time we were like.
• 22:37
  Speaker B: As soon as I seen it, I'm like, how do they get that?
• 22:40
  Speaker A: I was like, I don't know if we should even put this in. And then we did. And then hardly anybody noticed. To my surprise, it's the first thing I noticed. And obviously it's no as big a talking point now as it was back then, but I mean, back then there was people looking for Clyde and I have no idea who. Where it came for or just clarify.
• 23:08
  Speaker B: That it's like that 27th century castle. It doesn't actually exist. That was AI. That was the AI on a music video, man.
• 23:16
  Speaker A: That was after accidentally combusting some herbs. A combustion of herbs made that appear in front of me.
• 23:24
  Speaker B: So we're not meant to combat herbs. Right, well, you're in the chat still. I expect you're still on the chat, Bo.
• 23:30
  Speaker A: Right, yeah. Bob's in the house. Hello, Bob. Hello. Next to the chat as well.
• 23:36
  Speaker B: Yeah, man, I know you've got the volcano, right, but do you know what one of these ones are, Bob? This is a ruby pearl ball. Vex, man. You seen them before? Am I watching the chat? Yep, yep, seen them. Right, we gotta get a up on this. We'll show you. This is how I'm going to smoke them, Mark. See that? Yeah, yeah. 700 quid.
• 24:04
  Speaker A: 700 quid.
• 24:09
  Speaker B: Take that off. Right, 700 quid. 80 quid.
• 24:15
  Speaker A: What? How much is Tik Tok paying you?
• 24:18
  Speaker B: No, that's. I lose money on Tik Tok. I swear to God, I can spend 150 quid in a video and make nine pound back off it. It's mental.
• 24:30
  Speaker A: How's it cost you 150 quid for a video.
• 24:35
  Speaker B: Right? Think about the Marvin collab that I've done. So add to Fire Driver.
• 24:41
  Speaker A: I seen that. It was like it was a Marvin for the scheme who I actually have contacted to come on the show. So hopefully that happens one day in the future.
• 24:49
  Speaker B: I'll have a word in his ear. Right? I'm Pally B's cousin. That's how I got mine together.
• 24:53
  Speaker A: I think it was his cousin answered Instagram and said, yes, other cousin. Yeah, I'd love to. I'd love to chat to Marvin. I think it'd be a good chat, definitely. But anyway, sorry, sorry I interrupted your story, but go for.
• 25:05
  Speaker B: All right, so I got a driver to go up to K him up, bring him down to Bushy. I bought every breakfast after that, we went in. Where is that? Like St. Peter Seminary, right. Where's that? Like Bin Barton, maybe? I said, all right, so through there, done the video. Then I had to get him run back up to Komarna. Car for driver. Cost me a fortune that day. And that all Marvin collab made less than 15 quid. I had no even kidding you. But other videos, how can I spend 150 quid? Because I'm a idiot, man. I'm an absolute idea. I'll bounce that train. I'll go to the city. I'll spend extravagant money on food. I'll pass about all day. I'll smoke loads of weed. I'm terrible, bro. I'm terrible. I'd spend a score.
• 25:53
  Speaker A: What would you do your. Yeah, feel free. What's the fact? I'm not going to interrupt you. What? This is legal, by the way. This is medicinal.
• 26:02
  Speaker B: So as this is as medicinal as you can get, by the way, we're doing it all by the book.
• 26:07
  Speaker A: Yes, we are indeed. You asked me if it was okay to do in this and I went, of course. I'm not going to deprive you of your medicine during a show. That's. That's not good health and safety.
• 26:24
  Speaker B: It would also be a breach in my human rights mark.
• 26:29
  Speaker A: Yeah, I don't think human rights exists anymore. Have you know. Have you not been watching? I think they're just scrapped. Human rights. I don't. I think that was. That's so 20, 25.
• 26:43
  Speaker B: Right, so here's your V slide for that. That's the gods for these things. Right. And I've got a controller out here. Yeah, Heating element on it. Here's the heating element. See that when you stick it out there, it heats it up and you do a vape. Right. But you can talking to a dab on the top it at the same time. Don't know if any know about dabs. Right. You can stick shatter on that and be a bong and a dab at the same time. So a bit different.
• 27:16
  Speaker A: So the. What you're about to witness here is. Yes, somebody said boys get longs of steel magnetic explorers. This is going to be pretty mental.
• 27:29
  Speaker B: That's has the EAs to be honest with you, right? No, this had mental first. Right, Wait a minute, two sec. That's got to be snide honest way back. See this one? $900 when it was still in America.
• 27:48
  Speaker A: I'll put you on the full screen.
• 27:50
  Speaker B: 900 when that was still in America then it needed obviously shopping costs and port carts, customs like that.
• 27:58
  Speaker A: H. James Pollock says, boy can take bongs for days. Tom says, neighbor has the same.
• 28:08
  Speaker B: James Po's a guy. James Po. See every. Every bong about here. Jimmy sell it to people. James Po the seller of all the bongs. Right, So I will get a. A slide there. That one's pretty full.
• 28:25
  Speaker A: Do you want. Do you remember that this is going to be an audio podcast as well? So if you want to explain what. What we're actually looking at, right.
• 28:31
  Speaker B: I'm a bong up with some water. Now we'll put a bit of weed on it. You're going to hear the bong, but you're not going to see the bong. I've just been enlightened to this. I didn't understand it. It's also an audio podcast. Did you hear that? That's me filling it. But you'll hear it bubbling trips and you won't hear me coughing. So this bong's got roughly 0.8 on it. That's mainly because I need slides, people. How's that looking on screen right there? Right, audio people, listen up. Audio files. That's what I should have said there.
• 29:15
  Speaker A: This is not your typical bong we're looking at here. It's something from the 27th century. Where's the cough? Why is there no cough? Why? Why? But why though? I don't understand.
• 29:46
  Speaker B: Practice, man. It's just practice.
• 29:51
  Speaker A: But normally it goes the other way.
• 29:55
  Speaker B: You're right, but that's with tobacco. That's with tobacco. Tell you about though. I cough off of these hounds. These make me cough. That's how I said. That's why you got to be impressive. That certainly got to be impressive. I cough on me.
• 30:08
  Speaker A: So why does that one make you cough?
• 30:10
  Speaker B: Oh, no, man. Bob could maybe tell us more on the chat. I think it's causing the dry. I think it's cause it's a bit drier or something or wetter. I don't know. Bob knows more than me. A bit riser.
• 30:26
  Speaker A: So for the audio podcast listeners, when you call that radio, we've got a second bong.
• 30:30
  Speaker B: Now, I know we're just doing this one to demonstrate. So the last one is me. How we should have done it. The last one is me. Medicine. This is how you do medicine. That's the reality. Is there any Matthew of watching or if we just get Marshfield? I don't know.
• 30:48
  Speaker A: No, I think you've got some. You've got some people. There's Jimmy B in the house. Says stupor. Big up. Honey badger says Zach's cartoon. James Pollock's in the house. Magnetic explorers. And if you're new here, remember to like and subscribe. Of course.
• 31:08
  Speaker B: Well, my guys alone know how much I don't really like taking vapes. A lot. It you up? It's definitely someone else.
• 31:17
  Speaker A: Leslie's asking. Leslie Drummond's asking. How do you keep your bongs so clean? We'll wait till he's finished that one. I just remember this is medicinal and educational.
• 31:41
  Speaker B: Right? How do we keep them so clean, people? Audio people were backing around for years. Right. That's us. Don't we all above one. We'll probably know if anyone just fall podcast. But how do we keep them clean? Isopropyl alcohol and salt. Got a video on my YouTube tutorials. That's basically how we do it. Loads the ISO in there, loads of salt. Shake it a bit, then fairly like put it at the end. Shine it up like you would be a paint glass. You know what I mean?
• 32:08
  Speaker A: So if you're on YouTube, I can add you as a collaborator so it'll go on your YouTube channel automatically.
• 32:15
  Speaker B: My YouTube channel's not monetized, so I don't really mind. So if you want or don't do.
• 32:19
  Speaker A: It, the we're talking about Scottish history as well. And what is the most interesting place that you've been in?
• 32:31
  Speaker B: That's so hard, man. That is really, really hard.
• 32:34
  Speaker A: Well, what's the first one that came into your head.
• 32:40
  Speaker B: So hard, mate? I've done so many recently that my. He's following them. Honestly, what I think is the best is.
• 32:51
  Speaker A: Banging man with the Tobith pub.
• 32:54
  Speaker B: No, the. No, the land right. Minds went bank girl, man.
• 33:08
  Speaker A: You've just had two gigantic bongs. I don't know how.
• 33:11
  Speaker B: You didn't then ask me a mad question after. No, the one right, right. At Trongate the Big Steeple. What's it called again?
• 33:25
  Speaker A: Yeah, I got you, I got you.
• 33:27
  Speaker B: What's that called? Somebody in the chat. Tell me about a stop. Anyway, I thought that one. Is that not what I said? No, I said the. To. Edinburgh there.
• 33:42
  Speaker A: No, there's a bar called the Toll Booth right next to the Strong Gate.
• 33:46
  Speaker B: And does that be toll booth there too? There is Mercat Cross.
• 33:50
  Speaker A: Anyway, there's Method to the Madness.
• 33:53
  Speaker B: I thought that one was really interesting. Plus it's nearby African.
• 34:00
  Speaker A: Explorers bong hitting. Good. Says Bob.
• 34:03
  Speaker B: I know Bob. I'm going to do another one. We're gonna need to do another one just to prove that I'm not too viable.
• 34:09
  Speaker A: Well.
• 34:11
  Speaker B: We'Ll have a dummy. These are then just normal sweeties, by the way.
• 34:16
  Speaker A: I was. I was in. I've been. I had a bit of chronic pain, so I had some. I was prescribed some legal gummies. And as somebody that's obviously not got tolerance anymore, it's. It was strong. It was strong, like a wee bit too strong. The doctor. The doctor prescribed 10 milligrams. I think I should have taken half. I mean, I still enjoyed it, but I had to. It felt like a roar. I was in a bit of a roller coaster for a while, but in the end it was good. Pain relief. Pain relief and a good sleep. But I struggled for a bit, to be honest.
• 34:59
  Speaker B: Do you think the pain relief after PHC gummies was better than, let's say a cocodamol?
• 35:06
  Speaker A: Yeah, I think. I mean, I think if I just got the. The dosage a bit less, but yeah, I think so. I don't. I don't really like.
• 35:18
  Speaker B: Them. I all man. So.
• 35:22
  Speaker A: I just find them that I think that they can. They can sometimes make you feel pleasant, but then other times it's like. It's nausea. So I just don't like them. And obviously, man, it's addictive for Big Farm as well. Obviously if you're in pain, man, if I've got, you know, if it's really bad, like a broken bone, then give me a big pharma. Absolutely. But you don't want to be taking stuff like that. So I think it's a. I. I'm glad the doctor gave me that. That was good. It was nice of them to refer me. And it worked. And if you just get the doses right, I think. But I know that. I know I've got other friends who have. Who have been. Went round that path as well. They'd really severe stuff, you know, sort of terminal illnesses as well. And I think there was. They didn't enjoy it, but I think it was just the. The dosage was too high.
• 36:15
  Speaker B: Well, because people put you on like, RSO and they're telling you to take a mill a day. I can't imagine a day.
• 36:27
  Speaker A: James Polish, just calling me because he's at 600 milligrams a day.
• 36:35
  Speaker B: He'll stack up in his Instagram story, eating all these ads in the morning. I'm like, how did he do it? How'd they do it? But you've done 10, he's done 600. And he's no lying. Promise you, no line.
• 36:46
  Speaker A: I believe him. I believe him. I mean, it's. It's like. It's like anything you. You need to work at your tolerance, then. You just get some people who are built differently.
• 37:00
  Speaker B: I've got tolerance. Jimmy's got a tolerance. I mean, unless it's an edible, it won't eat a sweetie. Unless it's inedible.
• 37:09
  Speaker A: Wow. Well, no talk about history, because you're wired a bit wild for the. The that.
• 37:21
  Speaker B: Let's go.
• 37:22
  Speaker A: Night. Okay, Give it. Give us your interesting fact of the week.
• 37:31
  Speaker B: Interesting fact of the week. Right, so talking Wall street in the. Didn't end it. Right? Talking the Bearish Building. Have you seen it?
• 37:42
  Speaker A: I know the Beresfords. Yeah, there used to be.
• 37:45
  Speaker B: We.
• 37:45
  Speaker A: We played the venue below it, which I think was called Capital. I think it was called Capital. So I think it's changed hands. It's. It was capital for about seven years and then it's changed hands about a million times. But it was. It was attached to the Beresford.
• 38:01
  Speaker B: Right. It was student accommodation for a while too.
• 38:03
  Speaker A: Right, yeah. I've been in there for a party before.
• 38:07
  Speaker B: All right, but what I'm talking about is people coming right off a boat and getting put up in the berries for by Glasgow City Council. What do you think of that?
• 38:15
  Speaker A: I think it's fine. I don't care.
• 38:18
  Speaker B: Right, that's one for reviewers. But if I tell you these people were refugees for a World War II boat that get blown by the Germans. Right, now I've got you. So It's World War II wars just broke out. There's a passenger ship coming to America, right, And it gets sunk by the Germans just off the coast of Ireland. At this point they're on lifeboats and that they're sleeping. Lot of them make it to the west coast of Scotland. Glasgow is where they end up. Coming to the Glasgow City Council put them up in the bar. The President of the United States sends a lovely letter, Mary, Glasgow, saying thanks for putting our citizens up and taking care of them and stuff like that. No, at the same time, the ambassadors for the the United States of America during London was JFK's. But no, JFK's dad sent his son John F. Kennedy up here to Scotland. Right? Now he came here to Glasgow to address the Americans that were in the version. He came up to assure them that it would have a safe passage home. Essentially because they've just been hot with a German boat. No, I mean they've been sunk. They're terrified. They're not allowed to go on another boat to go home. They are terrified. So JFK's been up there, he's assured them that we'll have safe passage home. He thanked everybody in Glasgow for putting them up as refugees on a hotel, right? And then he's off back home. But you know the fascinating part about this, right, the fascinating part is that was JFK's first ever public speech and it was right in Sauky hall street outside the Beresford. And it's always overlooked like, I don't know why a lot of people don't know that, but that was JFK's first ever public speech right outside that barrister. And it was before he was anything. He wasn't a congressman, he wasn't a talking president, he was just an ambassador son. At the time it wasn't.
• 40:13
  Speaker A: Sake GfK, right?
• 40:15
  Speaker B: What do you think of that since you played the Beresford?
• 40:19
  Speaker A: Well, it was, I, I did because it was. It's kind of like the capital was in the basement of the Bear.
• 40:23
  Speaker B: You didn't know that, did you? A Deadney knows that. It's fucking hidden history. And that's what I go for. People in my comments in that video telling me, oh, I lived in that place for three years and didn't know that. Good, that's what I go for.
• 40:39
  Speaker A: Maybe what they need is because like that, that building, that venue seems cost. It's been everything, it's been lots of different restaurants and salsa bar. I think at one point maybe someone needs to call it the GFK and people presidential. The President, let's Not talk about the President. Let's not talk about President's.
• 41:01
  Speaker B: Oh, man. Oh, let's not get into that one.
• 41:04
  Speaker A: Is it? I'm waiting for a flash.
• 41:07
  Speaker B: See, when I chop that video up soon. I chopped that up about the bearish. I was so tempted to write like, oh, Glasgow boat people. See, just to just.
• 41:18
  Speaker A: Click. I click beat them.
• 41:21
  Speaker B: It draws such parallels to what's going on in. You don't. Yeah. What's going on right now in basketball. It's amazing.
• 41:31
  Speaker A: Bum up the roundabout painters.
• 41:34
  Speaker B: The other ones. The other ones get him.
• 41:38
  Speaker A: And with regards to music, we've all touched on music yet. But you're always.
• 41:44
  Speaker B: Music's your thing.
• 41:46
  Speaker A: Music's my hang. It's my mastermind.
• 41:51
  Speaker B: Would you say that podcast based on music mainly. He's mainly just talking about music or do you have different things?
• 41:57
  Speaker A: I mean, I think music's the. There is a kind of overlying theme in music because obviously I'm involved in music, so a lot of the people that I get on the show are usually involved in music. But that's. No, I just want to have interesting people on the show. I'll talk about anything. But yeah, there is a. There is a theme of music and that's how I met you was at a gig and stuff like that. So there's always a thread of music. Somehow.
• 42:26
  Speaker B: That place that's bumped in there, what was it called?
• 42:29
  Speaker A: The abc?
• 42:30
  Speaker B: No, no, it was a lovely wee venue just off the Glasgow Green. The Dream Machine.
• 42:36
  Speaker A: The Dream Machine, yeah. Yeah, yeah, that. That was. I think it was hug money last year. It just went in fire. Yeah, man. Everything. Everything just seems to go in fire in Glasgow.
• 42:49
  Speaker B: It's wild. I don't like spending too much time here in case I go in fire. Scary.
• 42:57
  Speaker A: It's funny when there's like a. Because obviously there's a lot of dodgy fires that, quite rightly, people that, you know something get refused planning permission and then it just suddenly goes in fire and then it becomes a car park or student flats. But it's funny that people don't believe in any fire at all now. So see if there's any bloody student flats.
• 43:21
  Speaker B: Especially.
• 43:23
  Speaker A: As a city, we hate a student flat to. I mean, what is it that we hate about student flats so much?
• 43:31
  Speaker B: Is it because the gentrification it brings?
• 43:35
  Speaker A: But with gentrification, you would. Normally there would be some sort of benefit. Like usually you would get some sort of mere music venues, because music venues are struggling.
• 43:48
  Speaker B: I was up to talk about Gale street last week and there was A ping pong table? No, but all you're saving basketball courts and the schemes and I don't even condone that. Right? Keeping a basketball court in a scheme instead of my pitch. Don't condone that at all. But there's a ping pong table like that's so out. He touched it. I can't. I can't get with that. That is miles that he touched, man. They've got a ping pong table. Major.
• 44:12
  Speaker A: Do you know what my dad was for a scheme and he was good at ping pong. I wonder who he.
• 44:18
  Speaker B: Your dad was clearly done time in the jail. The only people I know that can play ting. Paul. No kidding. I'm. No kidding. You just exposed your dad as a criminal.
• 44:28
  Speaker A: Rip Big rub. We know you. We know your secret. We know your secret. No, no, I'm asking you. I'm asking you. Who's your tips? Well, tips for the year.
• 44:40
  Speaker B: Sundays. You heard of them?
• 44:42
  Speaker A: Hazy Sundays. All right, I know them.
• 44:48
  Speaker B: I don't know, I've only helped them a few times. But.
• 44:54
  Speaker A: There may be the Hazy Jeans. Hold on, let me.
• 44:56
  Speaker B: Oh, hang on. Hazy Sundays, Mate, they're fire. They've got candy. I know you said candy. Andy. Vibe. Not usually my scene, but I. They're good. They are really good.
• 45:07
  Speaker A: Let me see. Yeah, no, it's different guys. Different guys, right?
• 45:12
  Speaker B: And see they. Boys. I was at a Baby Shambles gig last month or something, right? I bumped into the boys at that gig talking about. See the next day they've messaged me. They're like, we got a support slot. I'm like, you're kidding me. They ended up nailing a support slot for Pete Rocker. Else they were at that guy.
• 45:30
  Speaker A: Brilliant.
• 45:31
  Speaker B: And last minute support on Davis Shambles. Like no way. So I. They're a really good band.
• 45:38
  Speaker A: Every band that plays that, I've got a bit of a crowd. There's always people trying to get a support slot. It very rarely works. So. Shout out to them, man.
• 45:49
  Speaker B: That's what I said to them. I said, it's great getting a support slot through your manager, through an agent, through stupid PR stunts. But see, getting a support slot at Merit alone, good a it.
• 46:00
  Speaker A: A bit of luck. A bit of luck as well.
• 46:02
  Speaker B: Desperation. Maybe there was desperation. Another ban.
• 46:06
  Speaker A: I mean how. You cannot be that desperate for Pete Doherty. Can of be that desperate to finish, careful or not. In fact, we might have actually grasped him in because I know a lot of people who kind of know Pete, who probably didn't get the call. So they were fuming Sorry.
• 46:24
  Speaker B: Put on a really good show.
• 46:26
  Speaker A: I'm sorry you're finding it this way that the Hazy Sundays are better than.
• 46:30
  Speaker B: You stole your spot. Hazy Sunday banging loves them.
• 46:36
  Speaker A: Well, I would say tips for the year. Dos Cowboy Hunters, the Two. Two my favorite bands in Scotland in the Smash. They're. They're also on Tick Tock. They're blowing up on Tick Tock and my Maero who plays Keys was. She's got a phenomenal album in the works that's coming out this year. She hasn't released anything for it yet but that's going to be good to watch as well. Who's. Who else would I recommend? I'd recommend Apocalypse theorist, dead thatchers, Dr. Normal Ian.
• 47:09
  Speaker B: Ian. Love him. Great Ian.
• 47:11
  Speaker A: He's superb. He's what really happened. So much effort this year he's doing his new EP is brilliant as well. Gody Duncan, Jury Loop, Algrave Rebecca, Radical, Sammy B and the Twisted and of course Jono. I wish they were all playing in the same night and. Oh, they are. 31st January actually Mona. It's my book launch. Anyway, I sneaked in another advert there.
• 47:39
  Speaker B: Yeah. You know the laugh on Twins, obviously.
• 47:42
  Speaker A: Ah, of course. I.
• 47:44
  Speaker B: You know the drama. Young James.
• 47:45
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 47:47
  Speaker B: I'm not being one of his new bands there.
• 47:50
  Speaker A: I didn't know he's Whiskey Business.
• 47:52
  Speaker B: Whiskey Business it's called.
• 47:54
  Speaker A: Well, that's a good name.
• 47:56
  Speaker B: Are we good? Called Brandy and Guy. I don't know if you know Guy as well but.
• 48:00
  Speaker A: What is it? What does it sound like? Because he can turn his anti just about every style.
• 48:04
  Speaker B: So he's drumming the name again. Right. But he's got another band on where he's a frontman on guitar. Can I remember what they're called? But Whiskey Business. He's drumming. You know what he's like. He's on there with a four piece cat that looks like it doesn't work. But he nails it. He nails it every time. Yeah.
• 48:21
  Speaker A: Very talented Guy. Laugh on Teams are done.
• 48:23
  Speaker B: LA on Teams are done. So that's how he's doing that.
• 48:27
  Speaker A: That's mad. I think we lasted exactly the same amount of time there. I think they started a few months before us and we're ending a few months. We're ending on March 12th. So we.
• 48:38
  Speaker B: How do you feel about that? Is it Butterfly or are you happy to be leaving in the past?
• 48:43
  Speaker A: Yeah, it's. It's a strange one, isn't it? It's a strange one because I feel like by not having the band I'll be Healthier and I'll feel better for it. But I think that by then, by feeling healthy, I want to have the band. But you kind of have both.
• 49:00
  Speaker B: Starburst. What are you, like a Stardust? You're banned. Totally.
• 49:05
  Speaker A: I like I as well. I'm the only. I'm the only surviving member, obviously.
• 49:10
  Speaker B: You're the only constant.
• 49:12
  Speaker A: Everybody is just as important as me.
• 49:15
  Speaker B: I'm not the guy. So everyone really follows on you. You are organizing your manager.
• 49:22
  Speaker A: I'm the manager.
• 49:23
  Speaker B: Right.
• 49:25
  Speaker A: I think it just feels. Oh, I definitely. The thing is that when you get to a certain level to go, you just keep pushing yourself to play more bigger stages. You. You just want. You just want more. And it's just a lot of work and it's just like, wait a minute. This is actually hard work and it doesn't pay that well. Not that it's ever been about the money, obviously, but. Yeah, it just feels like the time's right. Like, I was determined to make one more album. Dreams are Mental. We brought it in March. Then I was like, well, there's no point in making an album and not putting some work in. So, you know, I've worked hard on promoting it for a year and it just feels like it's a good time go. We're gonna hopefully sell at that school. I think we will so go on a high rather than it fade away. Because this band has so many incarnations that it goes through stages. You know, everyone's talented so they've got their other projects. So you get the perfect band and then bit by bit you need to swap people around and somebody has a.
• 50:30
  Speaker B: Someday gets a better job.
• 50:33
  Speaker A: Yeah, they have way W's partners drink drugs.
• 50:39
  Speaker B: They have wife. That's what they have. They have wife.
• 50:42
  Speaker A: Wife gets on the age can be a thing as well. So you're just putting. It just feels like it's the right time because I know that I'm really pleased with album before the good with a successful year. And then just. The art school's a great venue, man. I'm so. I'm glad it survived one of the many fires. And it's. Yeah, it feels like it's going to be a good way to end because we've not played. I checked it. We've not played the art school for eight years. And we used to put on club nights there and stuff. So it feels like it's a nostalgia trip to go back there. I've not been. I've not even been there myself as a punter since before lockdown. And all that.
• 51:21
  Speaker B: What's your favorite venue to play?
• 51:23
  Speaker A: What?
• 51:24
  Speaker B: What's your favorite venue to play?
• 51:29
  Speaker A: The bar is all the way. It's got to be the bars. There's nowhere like it.
• 51:33
  Speaker B: What's your favorite venue as a punter?
• 51:37
  Speaker A: Probably the bars as well. I can't see. I can't see. Buy it. It's just. It's just there's something about it, man. There's some. There's a magic in that place.
• 51:47
  Speaker B: Institution as well, man. It's. It's the one and it's not ruined it.
• 51:51
  Speaker A: That that place hasn't been gentrified. That venue's not been gentrified. I don't even know if they've painted it since it opened.
• 51:59
  Speaker B: I don't think so, man. Look at the ceiling. That ceiling get done and then get left. It's spectacular.
• 52:04
  Speaker A: But that's a good. Have you covered the bars on your. On your channel yet?
• 52:10
  Speaker B: No, but I'm going. I know quite a bit about it. Well, you know the story of the bars, obviously.
• 52:18
  Speaker A: Ah, yeah, I'm well aware. But why. Don't spoil it. If you want I can get you in. I'll. I'll talk to the gaffer and maybe get you in during the day when it's shut.
• 52:29
  Speaker B: All right, let's do it. We'll do collab too, yeah?
• 52:32
  Speaker A: Why? No, I'm back. I'm. I'm. I'm back in Glasgow a few times this month and next month anyway, so let's make it happen. I'll get permission from the gaffer. He's probably watching this. Hello. I won't say your name.
• 52:49
  Speaker B: For a few days this month, right, But I'm going to tell you what I've done. I up people. I up. So I'm in my bed last week, right? No, even last week, a few days ago, I'm in my bed. It's two o' clock in the morning, man, and I've went and booked a holiday. Yorkne on the 23rd of January. The weather's terrible. I woke up the next day like what the am I doing now? I'm taking a bike to Orkney on 23rd January, so train to Worcester to Glasgow, train to Glasgow, Inverness, Inverness to third row, then Scrabster Stromness. Then I need to take the bike for like an hour and a half to my dug down Orkney. Then I was two days to explore Orkney and the passion Wet Monday weather and then I'll need to do that journey back again, man. It's like 12 hours traveling each way. I don't know what I was thinking. I woke up, looked at my emails like, what am I doing, man? Where the am I going? Right? And also, see, before I done it, I thought this has got to be a cheap holiday, man. That's all because it cost me a fortune between trains getting an apartment because our hotel's not going to suffice for charging the electric bike. So if you order an apartment, a load of trains gotta be a dead expensive party. Plus it falls on Burns Night when I'm away. So no, I'm messaging MPS and Orkney and like, hi there. Is there any way of hosting a buns night that could put up with me? No, I mean sake. I want to bumps up on the 21st. So messaging. I've legit messaged MPS and Orkney. I've messaged two other guys like that. But who has got a burn supper for me on the Sunday night? I need one. Well, I know, please, I know a guy.
• 54:32
  Speaker A: I know a guy in Orne, Richard. So maybe, maybe. But I don't know if. I don't know if you'll have a Buns night in the Sunday though, because it's burns. It's Burns Night is a Sunday. Doing it the Friday in so close and then the 31st. But it's. We always do it late. It's the alternative burn supper. So we're only going to do it on the actual night. But I'll put a link in the comments for anybody who's wanting to go to. Oh no, is that the right one? So if anyone's want to go to Slay, which. All right, that's another question I've actually got because we're talking about the bars, we're talking about Slay. Do you. How do you find that bouncers are way with your. Your medicine.
• 55:18
  Speaker B: This one, it's fantastic. It's great. Now see, if you just show up at a venue with your medicine and start trying to get in there, there's got to be questions asked, right? But what I do is I'm quite a organized person. I email a venue first. So a few days before I show up at a gig, I'll email the venue. I'll be like, hi there, I'm attending the Gyro Babies gig on your venue. And Friday I'm dying. I'm prescribed legal cannabis by a UK doctor. It's for a very serious medical condition. I must carry my medicine everywhere. Bami. Accompanied by a vaporizer and a water attachment. The water attachment being the Bomb. Right. I follow that up by saying, I would appreciate if you could please be your doorstaff on this matter, as I've had issues with doorstaff of smaller venues that simply don't know or understand the disagreement that disability discrimination laws in this country. Right, See, as soon as you mentioned disability discrimination, they kind of shut their pants a wee bit. I send them through a copy of my script as well, see, so that they know everyone's above board. And almost every time I get a message back saying, sound will put you on the access list. And see, for some venues, the access list means you're skipping the queue. You're going straight past. You're getting almost hospitality treatment after venue if you're on the access list. And that's just for taking. We done video trips. If I take them down to the venue, they'll treat you good every time.
• 56:40
  Speaker A: Have you done this for a festival before? I feel like I've answered your email before.
• 56:44
  Speaker B: No festival, unfortunately.
• 56:46
  Speaker A: Somebody else did it. Somebody else did it for a festival. I wouldn't name the festival, but I was doing the. I was manning the social media because someone else was. Was ill.
• 56:54
  Speaker B: There's a good chance I gave them a template. If it sounded like that.
• 56:59
  Speaker A: It was word for word.
• 57:01
  Speaker B: Oh, that's my template. I made that.
• 57:03
  Speaker A: Yeah, well, I didn't care. It's fine, you don't care.
• 57:09
  Speaker B: Most of them don't. But it's just handy to tell them straight up, you know what I mean? And it's great to be on the access list because you have no starting queues anymore. See, the first time that I went to the autobio, first time I showed up at O2, when I had a script with me and my mate Pete. Don't know if he's watching, right? And I've set the bong up, see, as I do get the full crowd sat there, I've set the bong up, we'll get those two unshot. And I've started dropping the bong. My mate Pete's like, security is walking up like them get dropped my bong, right? The security guys come up, he's like, I'd appreciate it if you could take that away to the venue, pal. And with me, I'm on the access bus for this. He's like, oh, James, no worries. Give us a shout when you're finished there and we'll get you in that sound pal. Bye. And then tell them I'm an access. Just let us know when you're finished packing up. We'll get, you know, I Mean like those two it's just if you want a bong go outside and get one See where the bar is stone behind the barriers at the door See that way you get a door of the bars and then you get that metal barrier ended up st. I'm like hell that's a bit close. I need to be around the corner doing this.
• 58:22
  Speaker A: So in general if you've got you've got to ask in advance because otherwise you pro you probably need to have the.
• 58:34
  Speaker B: They need to have the best interest in the venue and their mind at all times. That's where they need to be and they also need to work within their scope and that's the type of part of GE they'll be like I'm working within my scope. I don't know what that is so I can't even. Whereas if you've already tilt the venue then they're working with underscore they know what it is you've been dealt with it is that's what's in your scope. You know what I mean?
• 58:56
  Speaker A: I don't know if that was cutting it a wee bit. I felt like you were you were getting censored by like a radio edit.
• 59:02
  Speaker B: It's probably that guy that runs the bars that said something. That's because.
• 59:08
  Speaker A: Security shout outs to the bar shouts to the bars we're going to. We're coming to do a video in the bar as we'll leave the medicine at home. I'm going to read some comments because people have been coming away. Ali Grant's in the house. Hello Ali love the cowboy hunters. Loving the chat tonight as well. Hello Ali. Good to see you Stacy. Just Stacey using words I have no idea what it mean. And Stuart is going to the Friction Burns supper on the 31st. Yes Mon and we got Tier from Tik Tok. How's it going mate? Says Tier. So many legendary venues gone. Bar is one of the last. Yeah it's, it's. There's nothing like it. There's nothing like it or's class. Yeah I've never been. It's really really far. Do you, do you like traveling?
• 1:00:13
  Speaker B: No I get travel sick. I can sit in a motor. I can't. I can only I'm going on a boat for an hour and a half. I'm terrified mate. That's what I'm saying. I'm going through a midway crisis. I didn't know what I was doing. It was two in the morning. I've booked an apartment. I'll get four steps at Shane's Book either way it's terrifying.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker A: It's honestly an hour half's fine just on a boat. Hell it's fine.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker B: It's terrifying. Honestly.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker A: It's January so it'll be. The water will be nice and calm.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker B: I want to see Scarab. I've wanted to see Scarab for a long time.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker A: Man, why I hate traveling. I just disassociate now. I. At one point I nearly such a fear of flying. I didn't. I didn't give a. When I was younger, some for some. I think I had a bad experience once in an airplane and ever since then, just everything about it, you know, going through security just. I just, I don't like it.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker B: Nauseous. I get really travel sick like nauseous as if I'm in motors or planes.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker A: It was just a mental thing. It was just a mental thing.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker B: No reasons are physically feeling sick but never actually being sick thing. It's annoying.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker A: There is, there is medication for that.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker B: Oh, that's not right.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker A: Non combustible medication. Does that not help it?
• 1:01:40
  Speaker B: Yeah, you mentioned control security at the airport there. Yeah, I can take a bit through that too. So many countries I can travel ever. So I can take 20 gram of it to Iceland maybe see if I want to jump my plane to Iceland tomorrow. I can pack 20 gram of you dot my jar bouncing the plaint of Iceland and go.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker A: Would you take 21 grams?
• 1:02:01
  Speaker B: No, I'd probably actually push it and ask for 40. See in case I get stuck there. My flight was cancelled. Nah, I might need 40. I maybe actually push it from here. You can do that but you walk through security. But see, the first time I took it through security got to this guy straight away. He's pulled my vaporizer. It's a mate. You've probably seen number eight. So he's p. M. Vaporizer. Oh, you know what's in the bag? I'm like that's a vaporizer and there's medical cannabis in there. I say that's prescribed legally by a UK doctor. You know what the guy said? He said I don't care if it's legal or no. One gave me my bag back and sent me on my way. I'm like what? Off I went on airplane.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker A: The airport people don't care about weed noises.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker B: They hang to go but hang on.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker A: Yeah, they've got bigger fish to fry.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker B: Therefore. Therefore than my 8 gram of eating attacks. But I. I don't care if it's legal or no, it's going away.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker A: Hell man, we're losing arches. As well. Shocking Magnetic explorer.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker B: So.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker A: So this is interesting. My friends that used to work at the Arches will not I. They hate people calling the Arches the Arches because it's. No.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker B: The Arches definitely. But Nal was like across the road a bit.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker A: No, no, it's. It's in the Arches. It's. And as the. It's in the same building but basically they. It gets shut down un. Unfairly ridiculous. It was ridiculous. They shut it down for years and then somebody bought it and gentrified it up and just made it look more like a kind of posh lunch place, I think. And then they started slowly doing events and then it was events with music and then they just finally techno events with techno. When early license and then it did become. I mean I've seen some of the. I've not been to the. I went to actually watch the Scotland game. The World cup. The Euro. Sorry the Euros game. When we get destroyed. Six now after Germany was at six now. It was too many now anyway and I was in there for that and it was so weird going being back in that venue. But it wasn't the Aries. But since then they have been putting on good techno nights and people have been saying that they're brilliant nights. So I'm sad to see it go. I think it's going to be a bowling club but I have heard it's going to be a bow bowling alley. But I have heard that they will be putting on club nights as well. But I don't know if that's true.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker B: A good way to p money for the ball and Alex cancel vot for the safety.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker A: Well, why not? If. If you've. You know who's bowling at three in the morning, just do the bowling till nine and then just chuck the bowlers at. Bring in the ravers.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker B: What your sound meant a little bit me. I've never seen a game of football. See what you said you went watch that Scotland game. Never seen one.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker A: Well, you know what you ever seen like.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker B: I've seen it on the telly. It's been on the telly. I've seen.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker A: I've never heard a Justin Bieber song but when I. I've never heard one Justin Bieber song. I never. I know who the guy is.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker B: I've got a bit of respect for Bieber. I'm not going to lie.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker A: I feel wiki. I think it's shake the way that dead do you know that treated him stuff.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker B: I don't know.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker A: As well. I've got a wee bit more sympathy for pop Stars and stuff that I think when I was younger I just hated them all, mate.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker B: I hated them until I started uploading bong videos. I swear, then I'm like, it people's cool, man. He's uploading these bong videos.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker A: Do you know that that whole approach to life reminds me of when I was younger? And I remember I used to always say my brother used to slag me for it. But I would say a name, you know, I mean, I see a name like, you know, Justin Bieber. Say we use him, for example. My brother went, see who's that? She awake ago. Oh, it takes a smoky sound. He sounds. And my brother's like, do you know that they're not the same hang. You know what I mean? But back then I thought, I thought so anyway, I think it's. I suppose it's. It's a whole culture. It's a whole culture. And what do you. I suppose the biggest question is, is if you are in charge, if you were in charge of an independent Scotland, Western Prime Minister of the uk, if you're independent Scotland, you're the President of Scotland. What is your approach to cannabis and other narcotics? I know you wouldn't like the word narcotic, other medicines, Cannabis and other drugs.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker B: Right.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker A: You don't even drink day.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker B: No, I don't drink. I've not. I've not a drop in 14 years. So obviously cannabis I would like regulated to over 20 ones. Probably might be over 18s. Right? Maybe over 18s. I'd like to see people able to grow their own. I'd like it to be the same as beer. See where you can go into your kitchen and brew some beer or do some wine or something like that. I'd like people to be able to grow their own and make sure that it's goodness that they're having. I, I reckon, see at that point it would become worthless. It'd be like tomatoes. I don't think it would be so enticing in the veins anyway. I definitely. Weed needs to be legalized with other drugs. They should probably be regulated. Maybe not a mere addictive ones. No, I mean like the mere addictive ones are dangerous, but regulating stuff like magic mushrooms, ecstasy, when people are partying and stuff. No, I mean, I don't see that I should be a club selling ecstasy if it's all being treated fine. I'm not an expert, but fama experience and favor. I've read ecstasy a pretty safe drug.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker A: Well, I mean it's obviously the, the what makes it. It's not Completely safe. Sadly. I've seen a few things but the, the majority of the things going wrong, unless you've got an allergic reaction which is quite rare, then it's water intoxication. Usually it's got. Or no, well it's usually, it's usually just the, the pills got either the, the A similar, you know, an mdna NA or something instead of mdma.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker B: That's the type of stuff that. Regulation with their baby.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker A: Exactly, exactly. So I don't think even if you sell the club, selling ecky seems like a bit far fetched even for me. But what right now you could just bring in testers. There's a really good charity called the Loop in England and I've actually been to festivals down south where the testers were on the go. I think it was maybe boomtown. There was one in Bristol, I think I was in Bristol Downs Festival. And what a little screen like, like a teleprompter thing that would come up in between the acts or at the bar saying bad batch of red. Whatever's found, be careful canang. And what that does is it keeps people safe and it also means that people are trying to sell shite pills that the market's going for them. So that would stop. That means 100. And it's just like sometimes it could just be too much of something, you know, I mean, because that's, because that can be. It can be dangerous if you take too much. So if you're thinking what you, if you're normally the kind of person that can take one and have a normal, a good night taking, you're taking four, it's, it's dangerous, you know, I mean I believe it can be done sadly. I know that it can be done.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. The harder things though, the things that are really destroying lives right there, I wouldn't regulate them at all. They would need to get left to buy there. They would be totally illegal. But you'd not be able to buy cracker heroin in the shop. That wouldn't be Hartman. Or even cocaine. I hate cooking. I can't stand the stuff.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker A: There though, because. Listen. Right.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker B: Then we'll discuss it.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker A: Right, okay. We'll have a democracy. Leader of the opposition. But what about, I mean the thing that terrifies me becoming this, this happening in America just now is people think that they're, you know, recreationally just having a line and there's fentanyl in it and with a fentanyl strip you can test that. So and if you can regulate, if you could buy it from the Chemist or, or whatever. I mean obviously it must be better.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker B: I guess it would be better. Yeah. Right. I can argue with that. Right. It would be cleaner and also problem.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker A: I think it comes back the money, the tax money could be put into better services because the epidemic of mental health and drug and alcohol issues, especially in Scotland. I can't speak for other countries but I've never seen it as bad. People try, people try to get help, man. Whether that's mental health or addictions or substance misuse and there's not really much help there and it's staying on the hill.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker B: It's hard for them to stay on the hill. I think the help of this structure that way that suits him. The what the hell structured in a way that suits the workers and it needs to be structured in a way that suits the addict. I mean it really is properly residentials are totally drug free and to live there you need to stay drug free. Pink places like that are great. Right. But most of the time you'll go to a drug counselor, they'll speak to you for an hour and then they'll send you back to a hostel that's got drug dealers living in it. No, I mean it's just man, it's. For them it's a trap almost all the time. We need m play people like Hunter House are totally drug free where it's a total live in center man way staff in there all the time. No hostel that's full of drug dealers. Know what I mean?
• 1:12:30
  Speaker A: So just so just to clarify, we're going to. The President of Scotland is going to legalize all the drugs that the president of Scotland takes?
• 1:12:37
  Speaker B: No, no, no, not at all. I don't take the other drugs. I don't take ecstasies. No, I mean I don't take a key. But I'm saying like I think I've done mushrooms. Very, very, very rarely. I've took them. I have took them, but I don't take them. All right, so I've done. I've took cares in the past day. But no, for what, say 20 years? No, I mean how do you.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker A: How do. So you're quite a good example for the, you know, the old, the old thing that people say. Cannabis. Demotivate. Demotivation and stuff. You've got a lot of energy and you're always stolen. So what do you say to the people that say that you've. It takes your energy off your enthusiasm if you're ambitious.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker B: I know a lot of lazy people that don't smoke weed, man. I know A lot of lazy people that don't smoke weed. They're sat in our couch. He's fighting through tech talk, watching Corey eating Chinese or eating Chinese meals.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker A: They're on tech talk watching you jumping a bit, going on a boat to. Aren't they?
• 1:13:35
  Speaker B: I know they're loving Vikings. It's my fault.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker A: Have you got somebody going with you to or so that they can f you being sick?
• 1:13:44
  Speaker B: I'm a one man band, man. I'm a one man band everywhere. It's mental.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker A: Well, I hope you. Even though you're feeling sick, you still film yourself being sick because you know that that's. That's going to get you.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker B: I won't be able to be sick. That's a hang. I get dead motion sick and I can never be sick.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker A: Nobody wants to watch vomit on Tik Tok. But I mean, you know what I mean? Just, just capturing that moment of you struggling.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker B: So many lazy people, Ernest owners. So that.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker A: It's a very good answer. It's a very good answer.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker B: Definitely. It's the best answer. No, I mean yeah, people are lazy and that's that. It doesn't matter if they're on substances or no, they're just lazy.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker A: Do you know that actually brings us up to. I think there's no cover that I wanted to cover was two things actually. So for energy, for health takes us around there. So today I bought myself a bike. So I'm looking forward to cycling in the rural thing. It's been a while since I've had a bike, since I went to Mexico. I sold my bike before I went to Mexico. So it's been about two years. So what a few. And that was the day. Honestly. I was like a Wayne that just got his first bike. I was like absolutely buzzing. I'm in a nice. It was beautiful. It was. It was cold. It's cold. Sunny. It was sunny but. And you know why? But it's like it was a really bad December. It was stormy like so I had to. Thankfully I had my gloves in my pocket or otherwise.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker B: Your helmet or.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker A: No, no helmet.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker B: No, just check. Just check.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker A: No, no, no, mate. No, but it's flat. There's no traffic here. But it just felt amazing. You are a cyclist. You're a cyclist. Do you think that things like that is maybe keeps your energy up because actually because of the wind in my hair and it was a buzz, man. I felt. Felt great. The endorphins were firing off my energy.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker B: Up is positive mental attitude gone. Waking up at a good time, having breakfast Stuff like that. No, I mean having a good.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker A: What bong do you use for breakfast?
• 1:16:03
  Speaker B: Stay in a hang called the triple. Right. For two years and three months there, every single morning I'd wake up and I'd set up three bombs and I'd put them one after another. Okay, we'll put a charger animal there. Chapel. Right. This in a triple. Why not, man? I. I guess we're getting close to sunny time. I don't know.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker A: I normally. I normally do an hour but we've got. We've still not mentioned your walk things. Talk about your bong and then we'll do the. You could tell everyone about your walking club.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker B: Talk about walking club right now. So.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker A: Right, okay, do both. I'll make you full screen.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker B: Right. What we're doing is obviously a lot of people have been stopping us since lockdown. I decided we'll do every walking club. We'll try and get people out the house of that and get them back into unit walks. So I've set up a walk for Sunday. Coming. It's just a new local area. It's a nice moderate walk, I would say. And I've got a lot of people coming off your TikTok, people I've never met. So it's terrifying but exciting at the same time. I'm a resourceful butterfly, so I love it, man. I absolutely love it. That's what it is. It's like. So I've had people messaging me saying stuff like, oh, a bit heavy and stuff. Mate, you can come if you're too fat. I'm not being a dick, right? But that's only. I get healthy work. That's this work you need to be able to keep up. This one's got three uphill sections that I consider sleep and I'm quite active. No, I mean if I'm considering them steep and you've got an extra few pounds. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker A: So you're keeping the walk accessible as you can.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker B: Right. So I've had a few people that are wheelchair users ask me about it. This one's new use for a wheelchair user. We'll actually have one that's suitable for them in a month's time. But other than that, I'm trying to keep it accessible, trying to keep the numbers going to like maybe 10, 15, 20. I don't want an army of 50 people following me in the woods, you know what I mean? It's too hard to take care. Like, see taking 10 people there, like 10 people at a risky injury. Any of them can fall and break an ankle. Take 50 people, you bring in a first aid.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker A: You take your first aid kit. Yeah, I seen that video.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker B: You said, man, I'll have a first aid kit. I've always got one with me anyway. Right. But 50 people. I've not got a 50 person first aid kit. No, I mean. And also just to add to the risk, every person you add to that, that group is adding risky injury. It's an extra person to take care of and watch because I'm here for any country falls in the river and floats away. I've got any jumping and get them, essentially.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker A: No, I mean, it's a good thing, man. And it's like. It's. It feels like when people are down getting. Just going for a walk is a difficult thing, but going for a cycle can be a different difficult thing. But it's you. I think I heard someone say before, it's never. You never regret going for that cycle or regret going for that walk. It's.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker B: If you've got electric. What did you buy an electric bike?
• 1:19:17
  Speaker A: It's January and I'm the music industry, mate. I'm. I bought, I bought. I got a good deal. 50 quid. A 50 quid banger. No, it's. I think it's good. It's. It does the job for me. I got a free. I got a free man bag attached it. No, quite a. No, quite a basket with bells, but like a wee satchel thing at the back.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker B: So.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker A: It was a word I'd never heard before. But that's good. Go for a wee picnic where decent gigs in it.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker B: You can get a amp and a maker nap in your wreck.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker A: There's no people here to play, so.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker B: Obviously the Gyros are winding up in March. Right, what's next for you? Are you another project that you're going to be focusing on, Mayor?
• 1:20:08
  Speaker A: I'm right. I'm writing a. Well, you know, I did the. I've got the book launching. That's a kind of lyric book mostly. There's a bit of memoir stuff in it, but F by magic. But I'll be there. But I'm doing a. No, I think you're an Orton.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker B: No, I'll be having the 26th. All right.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker A: Yeah, I'm getting mixed up. Yeah. Cool. But, yeah, that said, but I'm working on a. A novel, but I'm still early in the. I don't know.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker B: I'm working on a novel and I don't like talking about it because I spoke and they tell me it's far too early to even speak to anybody I know.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker A: But it's. It's. It's. It's coming together quite well. So I just wanted to. I've gotten. I'm enjoying it because I think. I think it's going to get difficult when it comes to the edit. But right now I've just been getting lots of words. So I'm just writing while the words are in me. You know, I mean I'm just getting them on the page. I'm not worrying about quality too much at this stage. I'm just. So the editing process is going to be difficult. Long you've been on the novel for Just since September. October.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker B: Well, I've been remaining about a year right out, man. See, just fleshing it out. I've got that. So I've had to take you and insert here and there. Know what I mean?
• 1:21:26
  Speaker A: Are you taking your video editing thing of getting it right first time so you don't need it?
• 1:21:31
  Speaker B: No, man, that's. That's a rough draft and it's probably the sixth rough draft you're writing all in. This is my current draft. I am writing it all in pen on different books. And bro, I'm a bit pedantic, man. I'm. Your turn.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker A: Oh, do you know what? I write lyrics with pen but I need to write the book with a keyboard because it's. Otherwise I can't even read my own writing.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker B: Get a children's book on this format too. I'll get like 24 pages written for that. And I need that ready for Christmas. I absolutely need that ready for Christmas. Bye. How good the book sounds, don't they? It's. You've been in the music industry for how long? The profit behind books is mental when you look at it. Metal.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker A: Well, it's not even that. Like I've got by. By killing the band off. I've got the end of the book. So that's. It makes sense to it. And it's kind of just. I've just moved. I've moved to a rural place for the first time in my life and I've just hit that age where it's time to choose a middle. A midlife crisis avatar.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker B: Tell me what it is.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker A: Why. Why we don't talk about that. Old enough.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker A: Google my net worth as well. That'll probably be as. As accurate as my age. But yeah, just.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker B: I'm 38. I'm 38 in the 22nd of this month. That's why I'm off the day after it.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker A: I Just want to do this, man. This is. You know, right now I've got a few gigs coming out. I've got five gigs in the next month. And then I've got the. There's gonna be a few between now and March. I'm really busy with the gigs. And then I'm hoping that I can just take April off today. Because when I say that I started writing in September, we're touring a lot. November, December. So it's like. I've not been writing like every day or anything, but I want to use April as my. It was supposed to be January, but I'm too skinned today in January, so I'm just having to take on the work. But April. My aim is to just have a full month in April and try and write a chapter every day. Don't worry about the quality, just get the words done.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker B: Definitely.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker A: And I've got. I've got the ideas just now and I know how these things come. You. Well, for me, anyway, I get waves of ideas.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker B: And then you might change chapter two. It's annoying. That's how I've got so many drafts, man. It's like you write in chapter nine. You're like, back to chapter two.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker A: What is your book about?
• 1:24:06
  Speaker B: Many people. If we go in. No, it's just about life in general. Just about life growing up. It's not my experience, but it's drawn to other people's experience about me and just general experience and the schemes. You know what I mean?
• 1:24:21
  Speaker A: Amazing.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker B: What's your book about?
• 1:24:25
  Speaker A: I don't know. Well, no, the thing is, right, I started writing it about the. The band and then I was like, why am I limiting myself to that? I want to make it. I don't know. I want to make. It's just try to write something that people that like the band will like. People that have never heard of the band away. Maybe underground bands can relate to and then something that just people that aren't even in a band would like. So. I know. I'm just writing chapters, mate. I've got a bit. Seven chapters done. I've no idea if they're any good. I'm just going to keep writing till June and then start editing. That's my plan.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker B: See the current state in a. Just.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker A: Hold on. Before you do that. If you're just joining us, this is. I'm a medicine he's legally prescribed us and he's taking his medicine because the shows went on longer than it was meant to.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker B: Yeah. That's a quarter. Triple.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker A: It. That's wild.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker B: That's a truck.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker A: I'm stone just watching you, man. I'm still just watching you. Incredible. Well, that's a good way to end the showing that's flown in. We've did the 83 minutes. So what?
• 1:26:43
  Speaker B: Talking to you has been a pleasure, mate.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker A: It's a pleasure. And we're gonna. If you get anything. So actually, I've got your. I've got your. Your tag here. Hold on. No, it's not that one. Where is it? There it is. Scotland. So you're on Instagram, you're on Tik Tok. You're not on Facebook, are you?
• 1:27:06
  Speaker B: No, man. Should I be. Should I be on Facebook?
• 1:27:11
  Speaker A: I don't know. I. I think so. I mean, because you're making so much content, why not just throw it on there? Because the thing is, like, see, what. What I've found in the last year that's been really helpful for me is the reels. So I put them on Facebook and I connect up to my Instagram and the likes I get from Instagram also count. And. And Facebook as well. So it. It doubles the views, it doubles the likes. So I don't think there's any harm in you doing it because you've already got a following, so why not? And especially the. The content you're doing, the. The history content. I think it would appeal to the demographic of Facebook, which is. I don't know what it is now. Probably 35 to 100. It's like. Because I was like, my. My generation, we're kind of trapped in Facebook whether we like it or no, because that's where our pals are.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker B: It's the reason I don't have it is because my aunties and that are on it. Facebook's for my auntie and my uncle and my mom.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker A: But you don't need to make a personal page.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker B: Just make Instagram for the generation. That's what I think it's.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker A: But yeah, just make it for years. Just make.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker B: Just put the same videos, basically. Don't be putting it. Oh, my dog died six years ago today.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker A: Yeah, there's a lot of that. My favorite bit of Facebook is all the community groups. Because I've moved house so many times, I'm in about 25 community groups.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker B: You just stay in them.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker A: Oh, I. What? I know what I know about the bins. I want to know the green bins no been taken. I want to keep people one of the bins. I want to know if there's dog. Too much dog. I want to keep up to date. You Know, I mean with my. With my old friends in my old areas. So you should make a part of. Kevin Dun says you should make it part of the show.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker B: Who was the last guest? Who was on last?
• 1:29:02
  Speaker A: Who was on last? I don't know, mate. It's been a long Christmas new.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker B: Who's on next?
• 1:29:07
  Speaker A: I'm shattered. I'm. I'm. I don't know.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker B: Right, well, tell me somebody that could have done the three bongs, who would have been able to do the three?
• 1:29:14
  Speaker A: Bob and Tammy. Maybe I could get them in the show.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker B: Right, Bob, you able to do the three bombs?
• 1:29:20
  Speaker A: Yeah, Bob. I think Bob could handle that.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker B: Bob can go on my podcast and do it either theor I'll front the bongs and the more I be m unfortunately doing a city dash.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker A: But so what, what's the. So how. How can people support you? So you're, you're. Can you monetize Tik Tok? So I don't know much about Tik Tok. So can it be done un monetized?
• 1:29:43
  Speaker B: I. After, after you hit 10k followers, you can join the creator fund program, right? And like, you'll get paid for every thousand views that come off of the fyp. But it's useless, honestly. Look, there is all money on it. It's pointless.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker A: Have you got. Have you got. Have you ever thought of a Patreon? So wait, that. That's the only thing that keeps me going is the patron. So thank you to everyone who supports you call that Radio Patreon. Is that something you would consider?
• 1:30:07
  Speaker B: No, I'm always, I'm always on the ice saying, don't gift me. I'm not here for money, like legit. I'm here for some sort of mad endorphin addiction, right? And see, at the end of the day, see the 20, 000 followers. See if a fraction of them. Buy this book when it launches. That's what matters. You know what I mean? Well, actually then buy that book. I can sell that book out marked.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker A: Do you know what I love? I love what you're saying and I wish I could say the same, but you've only. You've only been posting that content since August. Wait till you've been doing it for 20 years. It's, you know, I mean, you'll. Thank you for supporting because otherwise I wouldn't be able to do it. I wouldn't be able to do the show. I wouldn't be able to do anything I do. I wouldn't be able to make the music. It's it's all. I've been locked in, basically.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker B: I need to just fund my own life. Yeah. Do you need to work a normal job? No.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker A: It'S the music industry, so.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker B: Music. You don't just do other jobs within the industry. Right.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker A: You've been doing things like stage managing. I could be creating a festival.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker B: I remember you said you were running the socials for that festival and I got hired.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker A: Organize a big party next month as well for my mates.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker B: Make a good income within the industry. You don't need to work an office job.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker A: Yeah, I've no, I've no idea to. I've not had to. I have not had to sign on in about six, 15 years or something.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker B: Twelve years, I don't know. I need to farm stupid chickens, right. I'm not there farming D Reed chickens to make stupid money, you know, I mean, I'm trying to sell T shirts and mugs and shite like that. That's a struggle for me. It'd be great if I had a Patreon. No. I mean, I'm stupid for saying, no, don't give me money. I know.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker A: Well, you've only been doing it since August, but I think what you. You've got to remember is if you're bringing value to people and they want a gift you. I think after a while you want to make it full time because you're. If you've only done that since August, that's ridiculous how quickly you've blown up. But it's a credit to what you're doing. You've got your format now, you know how to edit well, so the sky's the limit because you're never going to run out of interesting places to go or history. There's loads of history. There's.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker B: Right now we're making it.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker A: Right now we're making history. We're breaking the Internet with triple bongs.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker B: There's history everywhere. Right now. History is being made all across the country. Don't care what you're doing, it's party history.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker A: But the thing is, is that you can do stuff as well, like the min. The many charity gigs you can do because there is a. There's a sort of safety net of sorts is, you know, you're not going to charge people for doing certain things, you know, you can still do good stuff. It's. There is no money in the music. But having the Patreon during lockdown, so during lockdown, because I'm self employed, the reason they work, they made music illegal, they made live music illegal. And I started this and it worked. It worked for me. And as a result, that's how I managed to make the album because I had this and I'm still. And I've got to be in the. I didn't. I couldn't do it as much last year because I was touring the album so much and to be honest, I just want to talk to people like yourself, make other things that I do the news, contents and stuff as well.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker B: I just wanted to do that music playing for though. Music's worth paying for.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker A: People don't pay for music though, that's what I'm saying.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker B: So that's why they don't mind Patreon and you and gifting you because music's worth paying for. We're getting all that for free. It's fine. A gift an artist is no worth time for. Honestly, mate, it's not this book I'm writing 100 worth paying for trips, seeing that chips at £16 99. For that man. Buy the book. That's worth it. That'll be hardback, you know, I mean I'll sign it for you and everything, you know.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker A: Shouts to the legendary Hu Reid. Very informative and interesting show you'll see here on the Fiction Burn supper on the 31st at Slay. Patreon supports the arts. Exactly. It's optional, you know, that's one thing that I struggle with is like I'm. I want to make. It's more exclusive stuff for patrons. But then I feel bad that I've got a paywall and it's just no matter what you do, the arts is designed to make you feel guilty or skin and usually both. Hashtag3bong challenge.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker B: I don't think there's any way to stop that feeling, really, man. I've run events, right? I've run a few events in the past. I had a social club for 15 months, right, and I ran events on it. So I ran Scotland's two first 420 comedy shows. I always say Scotland's right, But there's a UK's first 420 comedy shows, both of them. And I found, see, any events that I put on for free, people didn't show up. See, as soon as I sell a ticket for an event, it would sell it and the place would be absolutely full and it's mental. Even if that tickets are tenor. It sells it in the place as well. But see, if you're putting a show on for free or you're doing something for free, maybe shows up, it's mad. That's my experience. Anyway.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker A: Events are strange when we're doing that one. We're doing that one in so close the 23rd and apparently that's selling well today. Just get announced. It wasn't much. It wasn't long, it wasn't much lead up notice. I only booked that. I only put a show last night and we announced it this morning and it seems to be working quite well. But that's because it's my Pals Cafe and she's just basically told everyone that came in for their morning rolls, we're there, I burn supper and everyone's like, you know, they like Seven Sisters Cafe.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker B: Seven Sisters.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker A: If you're in so Close, you're in Ayrshire next Friday. Well, Friday the 23rd. I don't know if that's next. I don't even know what day is.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker B: I've done a podcast up there.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker A: We can mellow part of the folk drama and my first ever attempt, they're trying to do a show that revolves around my book. I don't exactly know what I'm going to be doing but I'm going to figure it out that night and then perfect it in time for the. The Glasgow one is my plan. But I think I'll be at the.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker B: Glasgow for the book turn.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker A: Maybe do some music, maybe do spoken word. I don't know but it'll be interesting.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker B: When you say it's a work book, what does that mean to me?
• 1:36:50
  Speaker A: So it's just basically the Gyro Babies, the, the. The discography basically. Not, not everything because we've made too many tunes. But like social not working bust out clips. Who took you to bear? Dreams are mental. I just stopped at day four because they're like the major releases.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker B: No, of course you've got to sign them.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker A: And then every lyric, every lyric's got a wee background. Maybe like a couple of paragraphs about the back, the behind the song. It's quite difficult though because I didn't want to give away what all the songs meaning is. Obviously songs like Bank Shaggy Choice, that kind of does what it says in.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker B: The but meaning on your song as well.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker A: Exactly, exactly. You take that meaning from them. You take that.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker B: I like it. I like it. I hate it when somebody takes a meaning for you see when I think of songs I put song and you read online on all that they said it's actually about this. You're like oh well man, I don't really like that.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker A: So the way. So the way I kind of wrote up but it was more like this phrase Came to me in a dream like time Macy Prescription was a TR story and then just like who. What happened? What? You know what. What did I remember about that song?
• 1:37:51
  Speaker B: Where were we?
• 1:37:52
  Speaker A: Where did we record it? Who was there? So it's that kind of stuff. And then there's an intro and an. The outro I wrote in Ireland like the day before the deadline. But people are liking it. We sold it. The first batch available in the night in the 31st. There will be. They'll be available on the 23rd and the 31st. But the. Some people ask for it to be signed and I signed it. Some people don't ask to be signed because if you personalize a book it loses Sign a book. If you sign a book that's good but see if you say to somebody yeah, that loses value. Who's that mad guy? Corey. Is it Corey the child actor that's new in a band Corey Heim or some Corey? No, Corey him died. Corey Feldman. Corey Feldman.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker B: I've never seen any movies, bro. I'm sure.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker A: He thinks he's Michael Jackson and he's push but yeah, I. I don't know why was I talking to Corey filming anyway? I don't know. Save me a ticket for so coach I will do Bob Corey Fieldman. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. And my granny's auntie's pals Doug's budgie died last July 20 years ago. Sorry to hear that, Stacy. Sorry. Rip to the granny's aunties pals dog's budgie go and follow Scotland by prestige on tick tock and Instagram. Oh yeah. Inspires you to not sign books. Yeah. Because Corey charges. Corey charges 60 pound to sign it or 100 pound to sign it. Then he charges personalized is 20 pound but just his name's 60 pound. You know what I mean?
• 1:39:37
  Speaker B: I got a signed book the last time I was in salts.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker A: Did you? Whose book?
• 1:39:42
  Speaker B: I was on a guy called the Candy Bar. Right.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker A: Fantastic bakers, by the way.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker B: I had a bag on it said Bong Squad on it. Right. That's all guys. I hadn't been a kid like oh, I like your bag, son. And what I born Squad. He's like I I says I've got it everywhere, right. I've got tattoos here and he's got eye. He's like I traffic thousands of back in the day and what I met were on the coast. A lot of people done that. He's well, I've wrote two books about it and I'll meet you outside. I mean, so I waited outside and that's all good. He committed books on him and that man, one of them was called From Chinos to Kilos, right? Because a chino is the smallest piece that you can get on, like SM and then a kilo is a big piece, right? So he went to Even Rebuts to Big Buts. And his second book was about all his time in a Moroccan jail and that was called From Kilos to Chinos. So I bought one of the law firms. I didn't sign it in. That man. Cool guy, though, because you know what it's like. All guys talk. He's on the career bakers and he's telling me that it was this top drug trafficker in the world. I never met. Every country is that. I have wrote two books about it, though, and what I signed up to you at the front.
• 1:40:55
  Speaker A: Amazing man. Right, well, it's been a pleasure, mate, That's. I'll see you in the 31st, mate.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker B: Mark, great to be here having a chat. I'll see you soon.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker A: Absolute pleasure. Follow Scotland by Prestige on Tick Tock and Instagram and we'll hopefully see in so coach the 23rd or slay Glasgow on the 31st. Bye. You call that radio is powered by our patreon at patreon.com forward/ucallthatradio.