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Views from the Sea #2 - Kanye/ Honest Places/ Central Fire/ Brewdog Cult/ A.I World Leaders · You Call That Radio?

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  Speaker A: Congratulations, you are tuned into Views from the Sea. On. You call that radio. Just in time for a beautiful sunset across the sea. It's a Wednesday night, the sky is nice, the sea is seeing. And yeah, views from the Sea is back. And I want to always start these episodes with a little bit of positivity. And today's positive thought is somebody said to me this before, but I remembered it today when I was. I hurt my finger and I burnt my foot, foot and I banged my knee all in the space of about an hour. And I called myself a idiot. Like out loud I went idiot. Talking about myself. And the advice that I was given was treat talk to yourself the way you would talk to a friend. So I stopped myself and went here, don't call my friend a idiot. Because I'd never call a friend a idiot. Well, I might if they were being a idiot, but that's not the point. You know what I mean? We're starting positive. It's Views from the Sea when you call that radio. So we'll do it, we'll do, we'll do a breath thing. We'll do a breath in first. So we'll breathe in for seven seconds, hold it for five. No, sorry, breathe in for five seconds, hold it for five and breathe out for seven. So in for five, hold for five, out for seven. Let's try that together. So after three. One, two, three. Hold it for five seconds. Five, four, three, two, one. There you go. Feeling, feeling more relaxed already, I hope. The reason we need to do this is because Views from the Sea is a collection of things happening in the news and opinions and stuff like that. And it's not always rosy, some of the subjects. But the plan is, is to attack every subject with an element of humor, a little bit of positivity and try and find some understanding. Find the grey area, find the nuance. I know it's not very popular. That's why it's, that's why this podcast isn't very popular because you need to have an extreme take on everything in order to be successful. In fact, I'm going to do it the next show. I'm actually going to give a 10 point plan and all the things I do that you shouldn't do if you want to be successful. But by being successful it would mean doing something that I hated. But we'll get into that another time. The today's show. I've been in a bit of a strange place because I last Saturday played my last ever gig with my band. But I'm not Going to go into that. Don't worry. If you want to hear about that, then I talked about it for 45 minutes on Patreon. So you can, you can, if you're a Patreon, go check it if you care. Or you can join patreon@patreon.com forward slash. You call that radio. Oh, by the way, if you're using. If you've got an Apple phone, don't use the Apple Store if you're signing up for the first time because they've brought in a new thing whereby they take 30% for doing absolutely nothing. So sign up on the browser and then download the Patreon app if you want to use on your phone. But anyway, that wasn't meant to be an advert, but that's the only advert you're gonna get because there's no adverts, there's no funding, there's no sponsorship. We're all here because we want to be here. So I. The. Yeah, it was quite tough because obviously it was really busy. I had a View from the Sea ready about two weeks ago, but I couldn't get myself. It takes me about an hour or two hours to edit it all together. All the stuff that I've already made and then do an introduction just wasn't. I couldn't not find that spare hour or two to. To bring it all together. So as a result, a lot of the views from the sea things that had lined up are maybe a little bit of a date and I've got loads of ideas, but what would I do with this old stuff? And they just ban it. That's not very fair on the audio podcaster. Why do the YouTube people get extra stuff? So I've kind of came to a compromise where I've made a couple of new things today and I will put some of the stuff from two weeks ago at the back end of the show so they're not missing out on anything. It's just really hard after a. A busy couple of weeks and then taking a few days to sort of recover, you know, you just feel it's quite hard to get moving again. It can be quite difficult, especially since, you know, views from the seahorse used to be. This is the news. What I like to do is I've got a big, massive list of things I want to talk about and then I spend a couple hours researching stuff and just fact checking myself and. And then I just sort of start thinking about what I think and then I challenge what I think and then I make some Bullet points. And then I record. But to get moving, to get things done, it's really hard to go, right, we're going to do this. And it starts with researching something. It's really. I just. I woke up today and went, this. This face from the sea should have been it two weeks ago. You need to do something today. So I just turned the microphone on and recorded a thing about Kanye west getting cancelled from wireless Festival. It was the first thing in my list. There was a bit. There's about a hundred things in the west, but Kanye west was the most recent thing I added to it. So I just, I don't need to research. I know what happened. I know about Kanye West, I know about wireless festival. I know about all of that. So I just talked for the Kanye west and I went, right, no editing. Just. Just do it. I did it. I'm not adding it. It's just. It is what it is. And then I thought, I went on to talk about Honest Places, which is actually a YouTube channel I really like. But he went on a pub crawl in Springbone and walked away with a chipped tooth because he was trying to film in a pub that you shouldn't really be trying to film in. And this is nothing against Honest Places, but it brought up a few. A few thoughts regarding privacy consent of being filmed when you don't want to be filmed filming in places. But I know it's perfectly legal to film in public places, but this is nothing against Honest Places. It's more about these other guys who are walking around schemes and cities and they're just filming the worst of every single area. And a lot of the time they're antagonizing people to get a reaction. A lot of the time they get racist. They're just the race baiting. They're clickbaiting and race baiting. And it's a shame because there's a shame for a lot of reasons. But for people that are. Do have good intentions for trying to film stuff, I think it's making people more and more suspicious of somebody walking a bit with a camera. And yeah, so I went and I rant about that. No editing, no bullet points. So I'm sorry if it starts off a little bit. There's no bullet points for the first half here. There's been none so far. There'll be none for Kanye. They've been in for Honest Places. But yeah, I just needed to get. I need. I just needed to do the thing. I needed to just turn up and go to work. So that's What I did, that's what I did. And then we'll go back to something that I probably was a bit more prepared. That would have been a light at Glasgow Central, the Central Station fire, which I was actually, I was there when it happened. An eyewitness account for myself and I kind of edited a video for that on YouTube. So I've got that. Then there's another thing about Brew Dog, about how, why everybody hates Brewdog because they've went bust. So we've got that, that is, that is bullet points. So that should be alright. And actually I'm curious to know if the bullet points ones are better than just having a, having a rant because sometimes having bullet points can throw me off. So. And then we'll maybe finish with the thing about the rumor that Benjamin, Benjamin Netanyahu was dead and they would replace them with AI. And that just made me start thinking about could all our world leaders be AI or if not already, how long until they are AI? You know, Donald Trump, when people liked him, if he died they would just play, could just make him AI. But I mean, I think currently, because he's in the middle of World War Three, threatening genocide, all those kind of things, he's not very popular. Actually that's not why he's popular. He's not popular with American public because gas prices have went up and the only thing that people in the west seem to care about is petrol prices. But regardless, it's good to see that people are starting to hate the current as much as me. So that is the kind of, that's, that's today. So it's gonna be a wee bit of a mishmash. I'm kind of, I'm kind of winging it for the first bit and then it'll be a little bit more orchestrated for the second half and then the next time I do this show, I've got lots of great ideas. Well, I think they're good. I don't know, I don't know. You never know with these things. But from now on it's going to be a little bit. Things are going to be a little bit smoother here. I've got a bit of time off to do some writing and focus on the podcast and the YouTube channel. And we've got some events coming up with the so called Spring May the second with God, the Duncan the Fear and Aaron Friel Seven Sisters Cafe. I think that is nearly sold out. But if you're quick, you will get one on May 2. As always, there's a patreon discount for that. We have Becky Wallace and Stravan. On the 8th, we have Hugh reading the Velvet Underpants. On the 17th of May, there's a daytime session in the Isle of Butte with support from Becky Wallace and, yeah, also Jinx Lennon. So as I've been helping book Becky Wallace's tour, so check Becky Wallace page for all the dates, but she's done a full rural tour of Scotland. And I'm also delighted to announce that we're bringing Jinx Lennon all the way over from Dundalk and he's an absolute Irish legend. He's toured with the Mary Wallopers and he's toured with the Gyro Babies. He looked after us when we were doing an Irish tour last year. So I hope that everyone goes to Sneaky Pete's on 15 May. 16 May is a secret gig that's not been announced yet. And then on the 17th of May at night time is at McCool's in Glasgow. So you could actually do the daytime session in Bute and watch Shoe Reid and Becky Wallace and then get the short boat ferry back to Glasgow to enjoy the Jinx. Let me make cool. So that's. That sounds like a good day. I hope you're up for a bit of that. But anyway, I think it's time to start the show properly. Thank you to everyone who supports the show. Thank you for choosing to sail with. You call that radio airwaves? This is the news. This is the views from the sea. You call that radio? Can you ask? Can you, can you ask? Can you, can you ask anything? Anyway, Wireless Festival is cancelled because Wireless Festival booked Kanye west, or Yay, as he prefers to be known these days. And they kind of forgot about the fact that he was doing a lot of Nazi stuff. You can't call him a Nazi. Exactly. Because he put a newspaper a letter. He wrote a letter to newspapers apologizing for all the hurt he's caused. And he said it was his bipolar that made him do the Nazi stuff. But. But if you don't know, ye did some mad stuff. Right, but this isn't being eccentric stuff. He wrote a song called Heil Hitler. He released a song called Heil Hitler. He also sold T shirts, swastika T shirts. And he went on a podcast run where he was on Alex Jones podcast saying Nazi type stuff. And this went on for months. And Wireless Festival is a commercial entity that is funded by Pepsi. Now, Pepsi don't care about morality because Pepsi is gonna Pepsi. But once the bad feedback began the controversy get too hot to handle. Pepsi dropped their sponsorship with Wireless, I believe. Others look Rockstar energy, I believe. PayPal also said, we want nothing to do with this hot potato. They don't want anything to do with the hot toy. And Wireless had booked. Yeah, not just for one night, but for all three nights, headline sets. And with only a few months left, it was unlikely they were going to find a suitable replacement that could sell as many tickets and fill that space. And to me, it's of no surprise that Kanye west caused problems. Take the Nazi stuff. Although we shouldn't. But just, just for argument's sake, let's just say that he was bipolar, he was genuinely sorry, could, you know, leave it a wee while, give it a couple of years. Let's see the redemption arc. Let him prove that he's sorry, Let him do stuff. They suggest that the guy did have a bad time with his mental health, but to do all that stuff for an extended period of time, I mean, it's not like he was in a manic episode where he actually wrote recorded released songs, printed T shirts and, you know, was hanging about with Alex Jones crowd. I'm not saying I don't believe that it was a bipolar episode because the guy obviously has his genuine issues, but. Leva, leave it a bit. Leah. Beat you cannot just run about doing Nazi stuff for a couple of years and then write an apology letter that looked like it was written by a lawyer. To be fair, it didn't look like anything. Can you would say, you can't just get your lawyer or your PR team to write a letter to the New York Times or whoever it was said, oh, sorry about that. I've got a new album and tour it and expect it to all go away. What I'll say is about the new tour is I did see some clips of it and shout outs to the stage design guy. I know that it was maybe his idea, his artistic idea that he wants to be in top of the world, that would make sense. But the people who actually brought that idea to reality, the actual stage technicians, the, the roadies, the, the, the actual people, boots on the ground, who built that hang. It looks incredible. It's genuinely one of the, the most incredible stage designs I've ever seen. Would it have been good for that stage design that. That planet to roll into the uk? I. Would it be good for a Nazi to be on top of it, talking about Hitler on that? No, no. That Kanye or ye has been part of the problem for the rise of the far right over the last few years if he genuinely was going through a tough time and he has changed his mind and he does feel bad, then just sit in the subs bench for a wee bit longer. There is going to be consequences to your actions. He's obviously not canceled to be able to do say one at stadiums. Again the demand is there to see you but has once his sponsors dropped it Wireless got cold feet. They did defend him initially and they said we're picking for his music, not his views, which is a bit of a cop out. And then I mean it's a bit of a cop out when you consider that Bob Villen and Kneecap were called anti Semitic for opposing a genocide in Palestine. And then yeah, was kind of getting a almost like a free pass. It felt like. One thing I don't like to see though is Keir Starmer getting involved. I hate to see that guy getting involved in anything. In fact the best thing Starmer has done since I even heard this guy existed is to not do anything or do less by not getting directly aligning with Trump and being Trump's little bitch. That's the only thing he's done just by not doing anything. I think Starmer the very small b hair chance he has of getting any labor people ever re elected it's just by him just saying all and just hiding in 10 Downing street and doing nothing because everything he does, everything he says passes everybody off. Everybody in the left hates him because he is a neoliberal right wing genocide denying prick who only cares about as rich paymasters and does not give a shit about the working class people of the country he's supposed to represent. But yet he's so bad at his job that the right wing think he's a Marxist communist socialist Stalinist. Woke. They think he's woke up now. People in the right don't know any of those words even even mean they can't define them. But the Hank Starmer's one of them. So that is what I would say is I don't like to see prime ministers getting involved with booking decisions. So he can fuck off. He's not in this conversation. I think this is a conversation that the wireless booking team should be having and the wireless sponsors that all the while everyone involved in wireless is why ye was given three nights at a massive festival in London. Especially when your festival in order to go ahead with it is funded by the evil corporations like Pepsi and PayPal. Rockstar Energy. I don't actually know the corporate background of Rockstar Energy. I would imagine they're bad people because they're selling liquid speed to children and they target children by sponsoring cool events. And, you know, energy drinks is one of the few things I've never got right into. I remember having Red Bull as a small child and going absolutely crazy and I loved it. But I don't know how much that was made up a placebo effect because of the Red Bulls gives you wings adverts and the fact that they sold it in the cabinet next to the beer and the cider and all that. It felt like we were drinking alcohol. But yeah, I don't know. I can't really speak for energy drinks, but I have had things before that had similar effects, if that makes sense. So. But I don't know. Is Rockstar bad? They're probably bad these days. Any successful corporation, if someone does well is. Gets successful, then usually somebody bad comes along and wants a piece of the piece. Anyway, what do you think? What do you think is a should can us be banned from the country? I suppose that's what I'm thinking about because the guy definitely had that crash. He has. He has had a brain injury. He's definitely bipolar at times. He's a musical genius at times. He makes utter, utter tripe. There has got to be. I would say there should be a bridge to redemption. There should be space for him to make a redemption arc because he may have genuinely just lost his way for a while. And maybe he can make it up, but not. He can't just be a Nazi for a few years, then make an apology statement and then just come back like nothing ever happened. It's too soon. Can you. Too soon. But yeah, I would say wireless festival have majorly this up and I hope that it's hot Pepsi and PayPal's reputation even though they pulled it. Because those guys, Rockstar Energy, I don't know much about them, but they're selling liquid speed to children. So probably not good guys, but who knows? Who knows? What do you think as ban? Wait, so far. So the final thing when he said that is can you. Could he do this tour as an independent artist where just some of his own team. I don't know. That'd be a different conversation. But I don't like Keir Starmer getting involved in the booking decisions in the same way that I didn't like Swinney getting involved in the kneecap situation. But let's not compare kneecap opposing genocide with Kanye west selling swastika T shirts and making songs about. They're very, very, very far apart and it's interesting to see that YE is not really. From what I've seen so far, both Bob Vowen and Nikap got a lot more bad press from the right wing press than YE has. And I think that tells you all you need to know. Let us know in the comments if you think Kanye west should be banned from the country. Bye. You are tuned into yct. Well, if he can use Scottish Scumbags as his clickbait YouTube title, then I'm sure he won't mind me using Poverty Safari Pub Crawl as my clickbait title. Let's talk about Honest Places. Honest Places is going viral right now for a video that says attacked by Scottish Scumbags on Glasgow's roughest pub crawl. Now, Honest Places, what I'll do is I'll read you my Facebook post and I'm going to react to some of the comments because it's kind of dividing opinion this once. Right? So what? Yes, I still have Facebook. Yeah. And what? So what I said was I like Honest Places, but I feel that this comes with the territory if we're going to film in a tasty pub. So he calls the pubs he goes to tasty. He likes a tasty pub. What he needs to realize is that not everybody wants to be filmed. Now, the fact that he did this in the north of Glasgow was a terrible idea and anyone who suggested the idea to him was either naive or. Or deliberately trying to get him any trouble. Still, utter shite behavior from those involved. Not condoning that in any way. Basically, he tried to walk in a pub and they started throwing chairs at him. He walked, they told him to off, he off and then they chased him. You don't see that on camera, but he says that they stole his glasses, his phone and punch. Chipped his tooth with a punch. But he did get his phone and his glasses back. So not condoning that at all. Of course not. But what I'm trying to say is. Sorry for God. What I'm trying to say is there is an increase in Poverty Safari type YouTube channels who are either taking the pass or like just wandering around place. He's going, look at the depravity. And then there's that other side of them who are actually instigating racism and causing division. And they seem to be very well edited. It wouldn't surprise me if they are being paid to cause division. But what I say about Honest Places, I do believe Honest Place is a guy who just likes a pint of Guinness and a dodgy pop. It shouldn't be Confused with the actual problem. But generally people are starting to get a bit sick of vloggers using slick editing to make people in their areas look bad. And I've watched Honest Places for a while now, maybe at least. At least a year, maybe two. It's a YouTube channel that comes on in my algorithm sometimes and I find it quite relaxing watching people just. Just switching your brain off, turning, just turning the news off for a bit and just seeing somebody going for a pint. It's. I think it's quite entertaining. He's not doing any harm. He doesn't like fancy cocktail bars. I think he's a working class guy. He comes across like he's a working class guy. He's not going in the hair, you know. I don't think there's anything bad. He just likes a good old fashioned pub, A flat roof pub with a bit of bite to it. And who doesn't he. But it surprises me that he doesn't come up against these situations more often. The look, he's going in the Morvin with a camera right now. The Marvin they just told him not a film and he accepted that and didn't film anything in the Morven. I remember I went in the Morven years ago and I was with a friend who lived there and I'd never been there before. I'd probably never even been to Springboro before. I was very young and there was a pool table there and at the time I liked to be gamer pool. So I asked the old guys that were at the pool table, I say old guys are probably my age now. And I says oh, how'd you get on for a game of pool? And he went, you don't. I was like how did he get on for game of pool? You don't. And he said that sort of shaking with aggression. And I sat the fuck then. I can't imagine going in there with a tripod and a vlogger camera. Or any of the pubs. Any of the pubs. I mean he starts off in the Budgie which is an industrial estate and it seems like it's a weekday. It seems like it's a morning, early afternoon. There's nobody there apart from a couple of guys playing pool. And then he starts getting pissed off because the woman had a bad attitude or she was in a bad mood. And she didn't say thank you or please or anything like that by the looks of it. You can see that he's walked in there. She could see the camera. Do you think she wants to be filmed? 7 pints in the budget at that time in the morning, it was a really. I think he was having a bad day, man. I've seen him do loads of stuff and he seems like a fairly affable chapter, but he goes, oh, that's put me in a bad mood now, the way she treated me. I can't even give this tenants a score. Then he walks about the scheme. He drinks Bucky for the first time, which is surprising because he's done loads of videos in Scottish pubs and all about Scotland and whether it's the city or in rural areas. And he seems to really enjoy Scotland. And it's surprising he's never drank Bucky before because the guy likes a swallow. So then. But then he says it's the most disgusting thing he's ever drank. And then he makes his way to the Gargad, I think in Royston. I've never been in there before, but once again, doesn't look like the kind of place you should be taking camera equipment in. And he meets a couple of boys who are on the pish who had been on it for a while. And he gets beat at Gamerpool. Oh, so far so good. Well, so far okay. And then he gets into the Morven. He doesn't film anything in the Morven, which is good, but he gets told that somebody recommended that he goes to the Bells Bar and that I think somebody was wound them up because this is a pub that went viral quite recently for someone was aggressive to. I can't remember his name, but he's. He's a nice Irish YouTuber guy who loves Scotland. And basically he was told, get that camera my face. And there's been a couple, you know, there's been, there's been incidents in this pub quite recently. This is the last place you want to walk in with a camera. And when he gets there, there's people at the door and they tell me off. And I think he kind of argues a little bit. Listen, argue. He just sort of says, oh, really? And they tell me off. They start picking up deck chairs. If you're watching this on YouTube, I'm not going to use the actual pictures because I don't think any of these people should be in camera. The, the thing about. You're allowed to. You, you are allowed to film in a public space, right? It's not against the law and I understand that if I understand the law, but it's just common courtesy. Don't put people on camera that don't want to be on camera. I, I've. I've got. I have to film sometimes out in the streets and in pubs and venues for certain things. And I'm very careful either to get permission from the pub or the venue or make sure there is nobody in the shot. And I don't think that's always adhered to with these types of things. You've got that guy Simon, who does really cool travel vlogs. He's a nice guy, but he's just walking about with a camera on the sly. I don't know if they can see that he's got a camera or he's not got a camera. But you've got to be careful when you're filming people. You don't know what their background is. They could be fleeing domestic abuse, they could have stalkers, they could be alcoholics that are trying to secretly drink. Or you may go, they shouldn't be doing that anyway. But that's not any of your fucking business. It's just. I feel like I don't. I don't know if there should be a new law brought in, but just some common sense, like, stop filming people without their permission. It's not cool. And it surprises me. This doesn't happen more often, but basically, yeah, he got. He got chased it. It looks like he got a cracked tooth. He got hit. And it's a shame because, like I said, I like the channel. I think the guy seems nice and there's a. There's a lot of other channels that are doing similar. You've got faster Master tv. I think he's changed it to Glasgow Alive or something like that. And he just walks about having a drink and he's. He's a very pleasant guy. I don't think he would. He obviously knows Glasgow better, so I don't think he would try and do something like that. Shouts to Martin McGee is another guy. I've watched him doing some pub crawls in Glasgow, New York, and he seems to be quite good at it as well. And. But then you've got the. The people like Kirk, whatever he's called. I don't even want to. I think it's Kurt Kaz. Kurt Kaz. And I remember watching him walking through, like the slums of South Africa or Latin America and that was his thing, going into dangerous areas. And when I first seen it, I. I just watched it going, oh, this guy's quite bold. This guy's quite brave for doing this, walking about with a camera and. And those kind of areas. And then I seen a video of him doing Glasgow and I was like, I Don't. This wasn't sitting right with me because now it was coming to my door, which is hypocritical, I know, but I just, I don't know if it's because he was coming to the UK or it's because somebody started paying him to, to cause, to cause it. But he now walks around different parts of rundown, deprived areas in the UK and basically tries to blame everything, immigration, everything. He never mentions corporate greed, he never mentions billionaires avoiding tax. He never mentions politicians that are bribed and blackmailed and, or have no conscience and are only in it for themselves. It's always about stoking division and the right wing laps it up. I don't know if these are all real people or they're bots, but. But these channels get a lot of engagement and it's causing a lot of damage. It is heightening racist divisions in the country when we are literally watching what a stone's throw away from World War Three because rich people want to get richer and want to distract you from Epstein files and all the horrible shit that they're doing. And the best way they can do that is by getting newspapers and television channels to whip up a frenzy about immigration. And it's a tale as old as time. It has worked for centuries, but it was starting to fall apart with independent media and now they've realized that and that's why they pivoted to the American podcast. That's why you've got all your Joe Rogans being used as a vessel to promote right wing ideology, whether he knows it or not. That's a totally other. I'll do that another time. I want to, I want to take a deeper dive into that. But a lot of YouTube channels are compromised either because they're getting paid like Tommy Robinson by the Israeli state to blame Muslims, either because of that or either because of people like the Scouse guy and that cut guy for South Africa. I don't know if they're actually, I don't think they're actually getting paid to do it, but they realize that these things get clicks, it makes money, it causes engagement, and at times they're actually going up to immigrants and basically just antagonizing innocent people until they react and then they edit it and they've been caught Photoshopping ran like Arabic writing on shops. They don't have Arabic writing. It's. It's a very strange thing that we're witnessing. And. Yeah, I just, I think, I mean, we'll just. My point was, I'm Going to look at some of the comments, but, you know, people are saying things like, he deserved a slap. There's other people saying that the people at the pub were in the wrong. It's. Yeah, you know, I think. I think Kelly nailed it. We're saying you can't go into the budgie with a selfie stick. That's hilarious. No wonder they got the cold shoulder. Yeah, yeah, it's divided opinion in that one. But what I would say is honest Places seems like a decent guy. He likes a paint and a rough pub and. But all the other ones and. Well, not all the other ones, but there's a difference between going on a pub crawl and just if you're going to pub crawl, research it. Make sure you're going to somewhere that's going to be okay with you filming. Or even better, ask for permission in advance or just keep people off camera that don't want to be on camera. Get consent for people to be on camera. And. And as for these people that are just walking about places that have been ignored by the government for 20 years and you're walking about with a camera going, look at this, this is a hole. The people are sick. People are sick of YouTubers treating their shithole because it belongs to them. I'm from a shithole. I can be proud of my shithole, but I don't want to see a YouTuber coming in and going, oh, my God, look at this shithole. Anyway, that's what I think about that. Let me know what you think in the comments. This is. You call that radio Views from the Sea? We have a Patreon for more things like this. Yo, this is Charlie tuna from Jurassic 5, live and direct here in Glasgow, Scotland. And you call that radio? And now it's time for my own personal eyewitness account about the fire at Glasgow Central. We're going to do the who, the what and the how. So that would be, why did the fire start? What happens next? And like everyone else in Glasgow, how did I make this fire all about me? This is Views from the Sea on youn call that Radio? Well, it was just a typical, ordinary day in Glasgow city. Celtic had just beaten Rangers on penalties. Some Celtic fans jumped on the pitch to celebrate with the players. And then Rangers fans ran the other side of the pitch to have a square go. Flares were exchanged in the same way that traditionally other football fans may share a handshake at the end of a game. I went to see my team play just the other Saturday against the old enemy. So after the game finishes, I'm walking through the East End. If you listen to the show, you probably know already that I live quite far away from Glasgow now and every time I go back to Glasgow it takes me about three days to get back. And I was determined this wasn't to happen. So instead of enjoying a few beers after the football, I went to my friend's house who supports the other team. Who that is, I'll no say. And we recorded a song for a Gyro Baby's B side album that's coming soon, launching on the art School on 20th March at the Farewell gig. So anyway, we do the song and then I'm on my way to the last train, last ferry, I'm going home and I notice sort of a big giant smoke thing and I'm like, that isn't the direction essential? But I'm still quite far away. So all the footage you're going to see just now, if you're listening to audio podcast, I'm just going to show some footage and I'll talk you through it. But basically at this point we don't. I have no idea what's going on. All I know is that I'm heading towards Central and that seems to be exactly where the smoke is coming from. And I was talking to somebody on my phone, so I've sent a video of saying, I don't know if this is a good sign. And then when I get closer and closer I start seeing that it is Central and it looks quite bad. So I immediately put my phone away because I can see everybody else sort of holding their phones up and these people aren't journalists. I'm not really a journalist, don't know how bad it is. And also it's a sort of the Darwin Award of walking towards a fire when by this point I'm aware that all trains are cancelled. So my instinct is to just go the other way and find a publisher because I'm stranded and I need to find somewhere to go. There's also lots of football fans about and all the trains are cancelled. So rather than being like reporting live for TikTok, I just got. I just got out of there. I spoke to a guy who looked like he was always at Central. He just seemed like a kind of guy that would be there all the time and he said it was accidental and it came from a business down the stairs. So I think it looks like he's right. But the pubs were filled with conspiracy theories. And then it was even worse when I went online. I know I had everything from. I think, I think it depends when something big happens in the news. When it's a breaking news story. Well, this isn't even a breaking news story anymore. I've missed the boat because I literally missed the boat to get home. It took me days to get home because first of all it was the. The trains get canceled Sunday it was total chaos in the Monday and then there was a. There was bad weather on the Tuesday. So this is me finally just sort of bringing the subject up. But the problem is that when there is a breaking news story people just want to have, they want to jump on it instantly have a knee jerk reaction. And I get that, I get that, I do understand it. But it's really interesting how racist people go straight on and blame the immigrants. There is lots of people that don't like football blaming it on football fans. There is, you know, you'll hear all sorts. You'll hear it was Nicola Sturgeon with a flamethrower because she wants to turn Central Station into student flats. You hear that kind of side of the Internet, getting quite excited by it all. And yeah, it looks like there was a. It looks like right now that as we. As. As a. As I record this right now that it started in a vape shop. A guy originally from Ghana who's been in Scotland for eight years tried to put it out but at that point the flames had got too high. Somebody else tried to put. Put it with the wrong fire extinguisher. And it looks like he stopped that. You can see the footage just walking past, right?
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  Speaker B: Walking past and I see this shopkeeper
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  Speaker A: running out of the shop.
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  Speaker B: All I can hear is fire, fire. So I asked where he says in the shop. And then I look there and I've seen the fire like small fire. Then I was asking him about him, do you have a fire? He says no. So I had to quickly run out, go to the next shop where there's a subway or something like that. That's where I grabbed this fashion username us it. But when that finish we can't do anymore. Then if I then the first explosion comes, I can control it. So I have to. The only thing I can do, come out, get people away as quickly as possible. Right? That's it. Even though I was feeling smoke or I wanted as far people can go away from there. Somebody has to do something at the right moment. Unexpected thing when happens, somebody has to do something.
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  Speaker A: So that guy is a hero. So the anti immigration crew don't like that. They don't like that. But well done, that man. Unfortunately, the building couldn't be saved and it's an iconic building for people that don't know Glasgow. Glasgow Central is the center of the universe for anyone from the west coast of Scotland, or it connects the whole of Scotland together. And, you know, we all grew up going past that iconic building, so it's horrible that we're losing that. It's great that the ocelet, the firefighters have saved the actual train station, although that's probably going to be shut down for a few weeks. So Paisley Gilmore Street's the new central, so. But yeah, it's got to be inconvenient. There is going to be a lot more travel chaos for a while now, but nobody was harmed, which is the main thing. Obviously, there's lots of people's livelihoods are at stake, lots of businesses have been affected by it all and everybody is obviously blaming it on vapes, which it looks like it might be vape related, to be fair, but the. The vapes may have caused the travel chaos, but the vape helped with the travel chaos as a nicotine addict who's quit smoking, mostly quit smoking for the last couple of years. So, yeah, there's probably going to be some big conversations about that going forward and maybe it's taken a little bit of the conversation away from the Celtic Rangers game, which, because the atmosphere is good when away fans can be there. And I know it's embarrassing scenes and stuff, but I do feel like the policing and the stewarding could have been better and it's quite embarrassing to be if they play so early on in the day. And it looks like now that the chance of away fans going to these games may. May be affected going forward once again. So, anyway, a pretty eventful day in Glasgow and yeah, I just thought I'd give you my exclusive eyewitness account. Yesterday's news tomorrow, as usual, a bit late in the day, but I think just to get a little bit of context, I've just been watching the news about what's happening in the Middle east and, you know, we're just lucky that nobody was harmed. We have lost an iconic business, an iconic building, and there is businesses affected and there is going to be a lot of travel chaos. I personally have just lost two days of my life to this. But yeah, I think we also just need to realize how lucky we are to be at this part of the world right now when there's a lot worse things happening in the world. And I know probably getting in trouble for saying that, but I've just watched the news there and it's. It can appeals an insignificance if you actually see what else is going on. So. Yeah, but anyway, that's. That, that's. I just thought I would. I would say something about it and we'll just kind of play players out with a wee clip of the Gyrobaby song. A light at Glasgo Central. Stop. Go. Stop. I woke up at Central on the Hope street exit. They sedated me so I look alike, like me, but a younger version. He seemed scared of me. I asked for a light but there was no light there yet. He just dingied me. Tried to warn him about the future but I'm slurry and sleepy and the tune misdeed and my battery. Brew Dog, the death of a culture. And I just want to start by sharing the story. My first introduction to Brewdog. Many, many years ago, I posted in Facebook. Is anyone about. I'm in Argyle Street. Is anything happening? It's a Saturday afternoon. I've got a couple hours to kill, kind of thing. A friend who I will not name, I will not name him. He messages me to say, I'm at this bar. It's a Brew Dog bar. It's kind of next to Kelvin Grove park, so I'm not far away. I go to it and when I get there, the place is packed with equity punks. I didn't know an equity punk was at that point, but it's basically a bunch of people who think they've got shares and Brewdog, but they don't. It's a con. Like many other cons Brewdog did. Basically you get a membership card and you get a free pint on your birthday and. And you think you have shares in the company. So when the company is expanding, opening new bars, announcing sales, stuff like that, they get excited because they think that they're going to get a cut of the pie, which they never get. It was a con. What many cons the Brew Dog did. But anyway, I'm kind of. I feel a bit out of place. I'm obviously not really. I don't really fit in to this world. But all of a sudden I hear ding, ding, ding, ding. And the gaffer of Brew Dog, I think it was James Watt or one of them, he jumps on a table and everyone cheers and he starts telling this big. He just goes in a big spiel and he. I think they were celebrating either. That was a new bar that just opened, but I don't think it was. I think it was Something like a new ipa. Or maybe it was the first foray into whiskey. A brewdog whiskey. I think it was whiskey. Everyone's excited about this new Brew Dog whiskey that's going to change the game. They're cheering everything he says. Sheer fandom. Why everything? He says everyone is cheering and cheering anyway. But he keeps on hinting that there's a special surprise he's not told us yet. Now I'm a little bit uneasy. I feel out of place. But then he starts announcing. But I'm curious of what is the big surprise? Because you know, you're kind of getting swept up in the moment and you're like, okay, what is the. What's the surprise going to be? And then he announces the big surprise is a Brew dog burger. And he starts naming a steak Angus burger. Blue cheese, onions, onion rings, lettuce. And people are cheering lettuce, cheering tomato. Every ingredient, he says, gets a big cheer, like a really big. The puppies is bouncing for this. And he goes in. The best bet is it's only 23.95 and you get a free shot of the new whiskey weight. And everyone goes mental. And this is 23 quid for a burger. Back 20. It was more than that. 225 quid. 2395 for a burger and chips. And these people are celebrating it like a World cup final goal. And at that point I went from feeling uneasy and out of place to a little bit scared, a little bit confused. I just kind of blacked it. And I don't really remember what happened after that. I remember what happened after that. Who are you anyway? You got swept up in the moment and you fell over and everyone was pointing at you and laughing and laughing. What did I fall over? You fell over your little shopping and everyone was just pointing at you going, that cunt brought his little shopping into Brewdog. Everyone's just pointing and laughing and laughing. And I don't remember that. You fell over your Lidl shopping. Everyone just pointing at you saying, that cunt fell over his little shopping. Who brings her little shopping to a Brew Dog agm? It wasn't an agm. It wasn't an agm. He's didn't have shares. And this is one of the many reasons that people hate Brewdog. Why do people hate Brewdog? Views from the sea on. You call that radio? We're going to go through five reasons that everyone hates Brew Dog and the reason everyone is celebrating the death of Brew Dog. Let's go. The pretend punk. Self made. So as someone you Know I've been in a punk band. We wouldn't try to be a punk band. They just couldn't sing very well. So we get kind of put in the, the punk genre. So I know what punk is about. And there is nothing punk about Brewdog. It was always weird from the start. There's nothing punk about charging a tenor for a pint of perfume. Now as the idea that James Watt was a self made man, two men and a dog in a garage, staying with her parents, it was always an utter con from the start. And most people could see that. Number two, stealing money, land and ideas. So everyone hates James Watt. And James Watt does not care because he sold it for 33 million, allegedly so, invested other people's money, calls in the administrators, he walks away with 33 million and a really weird apology, a very strange apology. He does not give a shit that everyone hates him. As for the land, that's a whole, that's a whole conversation in itself. But they seem to get government funding to buy land, to try and re weld it. Re weld it, re land the land, rewild the land. And I think they ruined the land and ideas. What they would do is invite people for a high paying job. They would ask them to make portfolios, give out their best ideas, and then they would just use those ideas without giving the person the job. And this is something that is happening very often in multiple disciplines. Different places of work are now doing this, where they just give intensive four interviews to get to the end and then you just get told you don't have a job, but the ideas that you brought to the job interview suddenly magically appear. Number three, the treatment of staff. Every person that I know that ever worked with Brewdog has horror stories to tell. There is a full documentary about how they mistreated the staff. And I think the, the PR image took a big hit after the documentary aired. So it's no surprise that they're taking the money and running. Number four, publicity stunts. That annoys people. Doesn't even really bother me. If you're trying to be successful in a capitalist world, you're going to need a publicity stunt. So you know, whether that was stealing the Super Furry Animals tank idea, once again stealing the idea, or like making a ridiculously highest beer ever, they had some publicity stunts. Personally that doesn't bother me, but I know it pissed other people off. A number five shite beer, now that's in the eye of the beer holder, as they say. And I personally didn't mind the punk ipa I wouldn't choose to buy it, but I quite like the fact that you could drink it on a train and it just looks like you're drinking a bar's lemonade because it kind of fits in your hand and it looks like a juice. So. And it was edible. You could drink it. It was drinkable. Sorry, Punk IPA was drinkable. The rest of it tasted like perfume and farts to me. But I know lots of people like IPAs. I very rarely have a good IPA. It's not really my thing. I prefer your typical shite draft lager. I'm a peasant with peasant T spuds. I like a Joker's ipa Shows to Williams Brothers. I like a Joker's ipa. That's probably the only IPA that I would choose to drink. Unless I was trying to be secretive and drink a beer outside in a park or something, then maybe an ipa. But I think other beer companies are starting to figure it. The people want a cola sized can of beer so that they can be discreet about it. Brew Dog Beers. We're just actually getting some breaking news. We're just getting some breaking news. The Innis and Gun has entered administration but has been saved by tenants and not tenants owned innocent gun. Anyway. Well, it seems that tenants now owe more innocent Gun than they once did. And like Brewdog, it looks like the beers will be saved but the pubs and all the jobs will not be. So there's going to be a lot of empty brew dogs and a lot of empty innocent guns up and down the country, but the beers will be saved. So you can still buy the beer. You just won't be able to go into any of their pubs. There is. I've had a quick look at the comments and there's not really anyone hating on in this and Gun apart from people saying that they don't like the taste of innocent Gun. But nobody seems to hate innocent Gun like the hate Brew Dog. People really hate Brewdog. Really. I think they created a cult very successfully and I think the people that sort of failed in the rabbit hole following that leader now hate them because they thought that they were going to be rich off of Brewdog. They have been bumped. So they don't like Brewdog. And then the people that never fell for the this is punk buying shares and perfume beer is punk. People that didn't fall for that never liked it. So as one of the most. Yeah, the approval ratings of Brewdog are down. People will probably still buy the beers. People will still buy the beers. But it's the end of The Brew Dog swindle. It's a beautiful day. I hope the world leaders just leave hangs Elaine. Lay it Alain for the day so we can enjoy our day. Or are they all going to die and be replaced by AI as Benjamin Knight Netanyahu dead. There's evidence that he is. There's evidence that he's. No, but it doesn't really matter because what, what, what we can prove is that nobody believes anything anymore. There is a video on his ex that he posted or even he posted if he was dead. Obviously this seems to show him with six fingers. And although the guy lacks humanity, he doesn't have six fingers. But then fact checking websites are saying that it's a shadow. And then you're like, well, who owns the fact checking websites? And you just. Nobody believes anything. Everybody's got an opinion and they're sticking to it regardless of what happens. And what we do realize now is that if a leader should die, that doesn't mean they stop running the country. Because I'm not convinced that he's dead. Even if it was AI that wouldn't have put it past him to manipulate and mislead the public when AI video. But it could be for security reasons. It could be for many reasons. There's people saying he is dead, there's people saying he's not dead. But what this is really, what this is, this has opened up the Pandora's box of. Well, for example, if Donald Trump was to die, they could just make him into a cartoon, even more of a cartoon. And we'll have animated AI world leaders eternally, forever. And I don't think most people would know. And more importantly, I don't think most people would care. We are now so tired of trying to figure out what is fake news, what is computer generated, that I think everybody would just go, oh, I don't know, I don't know. I don't care if the leader of a country is a cartoon. That's where we're at. There is no way that there's going to be. No, I'll be very surprised if there's any midterm elections. Trump is using this so they can be a wartime leader and he can ban the midterm elections or he can rig the midterm elections, but this guy is in power and definitely, I would say indefinitely until he dies of natural causes or assassination or something like that. So you're thinking he's going to be in charge until he dies. And now I'm thinking even if he does die, they can just sort of, well, when we sneak, we can't. The weekend at Bunny's tactic, Weekend at Bernie's tactic with Joe Biden where he was half dead and he just kind of got floated a bit. And Trump seems to have something wrong with him. Whether that's dementia, whether it's just insanity, but if he was. Now it seems that we're at a stage now where if a world leader was to die, they can just make them stay alive and do press conferences and nobody would notice, or not enough people would notice. And then a large percentage of the people that notice and believe that this is a generated animation wouldn't care or they would be too tired to argue anymore on the Internet about what's real and what's fake. But is there any point in keeping someone like Netanyahu alive anyway? He has the, the lowest popularity scores in over 10 years in his own state of Israel, the state where people are fleeing because of the wars and genocide and general warmongering that he's doing. And it seems that this old man, does he really want Greater Israel that much? A greater Israel that he won't even see? No, probably not. It's probably just so he can be a wartime leader and not go to jail and not face any consequences for the horrific actions he's taken. Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, the list goes on and on and on and on. And Donald Trump is Netanyahu's me pal and he's happy to cause an international incident, incident that's going to result and millions more refugees, rising oil prices, therefore a rising cost of living crisis and potential terrorism. Or I mean, it's pretty much guaranteed there's going to be some sort of, there's definitely going to be American trips dying, this conflict. So why is he doing all that? He's doing that because he doesn't want to talk about the Epstein fails, because he doesn't want to leave office. Because like Netanyahu, if Trump leaves office, he is going to jail. Or potentially these people have so much money in power that they never seem to face consequences ever, ever, even in the afterlife. And maybe, maybe they would jail a generated animation of Netanyahu and Trump. But anyway, what I've learned from is Netanyahu alive or dead, it doesn't really matter because nobody needs to admit it and nobody really cares. People would celebrate the death Netanyahu people would celebrate. But from beyond the grave, they can continue to talk Pesh, they can continue to incite hatred, they can continue to create war, destruction, devastation, ethnic cleansing, the misplacement of people and a cost of living crisis that is already out of control has just got worse. How can these people continue to keep making things worse? It's so bad now that even Joe Rogan and all Trump's podcast buddies are starting to turn on maga. Let rats flee in a sinking ship because there is no redeeming qualities to these people in charge. 0 not one redeeming quality is unsure here. How can the structure of our systems and society be so redundant that we can allow wealthy greedy men to cause death and destruction in order to keep themselves out of jail and facing any sort of consequences for their illegal actions? This is the News Views on the sea on you call that radio. Thank you for tuning in to viewers from the sea on you call the radio. I'd like to thank my team, but there is no team. If you want to support the show, the best way to do that is go to patreon.com forward/you call that radio. Thank you to everybody who already does and the people that may just do it today. I hope you've enjoyed being by the seaside with me. It's been a pleasure time for you to off now. Bye.