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Tom Urie · Not Another Football Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Not Another Football Podcast with
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Speaker 1: myself Simon.
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Speaker 2: Donnelly and Jackie McNamara.
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Speaker 1: And we're delighted we've got a man of many talents,
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Speaker 1: many fields, TV, comedy, music, Tom Urie.
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Speaker 2: How are you doing?
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Speaker 3: I'm alright, I don't know anything about football.
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Speaker 2: And we'll promise not to ask any questions on football.
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Speaker 3: You can but I'll not answer them right. Tom and
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Speaker 3: Stuart get me on quite a lot and it's just
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Speaker 3: for the sole purpose of laughing at the fact that
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Speaker 3: I know nothing.
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Speaker 2: So no interest in football at all?
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Speaker 3: Well, no, that's not strictly true. I've never really had
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Speaker 3: an interest in anything until during lockdown. And I don't
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Speaker 3: know what happened, but I ended up watching Scotland versus
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Speaker 3: Denmark when they qualified for the Euros. Listen to me
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Speaker 3: talking about football. And I had a wee bit of
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Speaker 3: a road to Damascus moment. I jumped out of my
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Speaker 3: seat and I was jumping about cheering when Marshall saved
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Speaker 3: that goal.
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Speaker 2: And I went, oh!
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Speaker 3: Oh, this is what it is. It's like finally seeing
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Speaker 3: a dolphin in a magic eye picture, you know, after
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Speaker 3: squinting for ages. And then Susie McCabe that you've had on,
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Speaker 3: she took me to my first game at Hampden. Oh,
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Speaker 3: was it a Scotland game? Scotland game. And it was
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Speaker 3: good because there was pies and I got all carried away.
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Speaker 3: But she was laughing at me because I was saying
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Speaker 3: things like, do we order drinks for the interval?
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Speaker 2: And, you know.
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Speaker 3: How did the audience all know the same songs? Things
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Speaker 3: like that. She was speaking as if I was in
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Speaker 3: the theatre. She was howling. No, so I... I get it,
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Speaker 3: but I don't understand. You get it, but you don't
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Speaker 3: get it.
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Speaker 2: Fair enough, thanks.
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Speaker 1: So, you've just finished... We were just talking there before
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Speaker 1: we came on.
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Speaker 2: Kelvin Grove.
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Speaker 3: Kelvin Grove bandstand. Karen Dunbar and I do an act
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Speaker 3: called Almost Angelics. Which we've been doing for... centuries now
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Speaker 3: I think but we kind of wheeled it out again
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Speaker 3: recently because it took off on TikTok and the kids
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Speaker 3: liked it so Marty Perlow asked us if we would
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Speaker 3: open for him at the Kelvin Grove Bandstand for three
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Speaker 3: nights and what a riot absolutely banging really really funny
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Speaker 3: just the audience all leathered up for a laugh mad
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Speaker 3: it was really good.
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Speaker 2: What were your somersaults on stage?
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Speaker 3: Oh that was yeah all my own work The amount
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Speaker 3: of people that think it was me phoning him up going,
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Speaker 3: how did you manage to learn to do that? And
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Speaker 3: I'm like, do you really think it was me? I
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Speaker 3: kind of stand up. I kind of walk to the
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Speaker 3: spa and you think I'm doing double somersaults and everything. No,
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Speaker 3: we had a stunt double. About a third of my
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Speaker 3: age padded up a wee bit and he did all
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Speaker 3: the somersaults. And I came back on eating a banana.
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Speaker 2: We described you as a man of many talents, comedy, music, TV.
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Speaker 2: What is your... You get a favourite out of them?
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Speaker 3: Aye, music.
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Speaker 2: Is it music all day?
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Speaker 3: It's always been music. I ended up acting by accident.
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Speaker 2: So take us back then, how did you...? Well, I was.
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Speaker 3: I'd done some acting in the early 90s because I'd
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Speaker 3: worked for the singing kettle and I ended up doing
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Speaker 3: a few shows with them.
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Speaker 2: I used to go and watch that when I was
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Speaker 2: a kid.
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Speaker 3: When you were a kid?
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Speaker 2: No, with my kids. Did you not meet the guy
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Speaker 2: on a plane or something? No, it was Gary. I
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Speaker 2: made an arse of myself.
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Speaker 4: I don't like flying and we were coming back from
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Speaker 4: America and I got tanked up before we got on
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Speaker 4: the flight with the Celtic team and halfway across I
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Speaker 4: think I had so many complaints against me with different
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Speaker 4: people who were just trying to enjoy the flight and
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Speaker 4: I spotted Gary and I went over to him and I.
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Speaker 2: Went split out the handle and.
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Speaker 4: A lot of my teammates at Celtic didn't have a
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Speaker 4: clue what I was doing or who he was and
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Speaker 4: Gary was to be fair he was brilliant he was
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Speaker 4: a lovely guy he just kind of with his wife
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Speaker 4: and kids being out in America and he's like how
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Speaker 4: you doing and he actually lived about half a mile
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Speaker 4: from my house out in Lone Head And I met
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Speaker 4: up with him and I went and I took, because
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Speaker 4: I used to take my daughter, love to sing in Kettle,
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Speaker 4: and I took her to a few of his shows
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Speaker 4: and then went to the Festival Theater and watched them.
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Speaker 2: Artie and Siller.
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Speaker 3: Aye. Artie and Siller.
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Speaker 2: Aye, but I think I was giving him an uncomfortable
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Speaker 2: moment on the flight.
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Speaker 3: I could be all right if I'm used to it.
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Speaker 2: Aye.
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Speaker 3: Be used to it, aye. No, so I worked for
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Speaker 3: them and then I kind of, aye, I was pals
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Speaker 3: with Karen Dunbar and she knew that... the boys, Ford
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Speaker 3: and Greg, were doing Chewing the Fat. They'd done the
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Speaker 3: first series and they were doing Chewing the Fat live
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Speaker 3: at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. And they wanted a
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Speaker 3: sing-song at the end, like a panto, and they needed
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Speaker 3: a piano player. So she said, will you come and
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Speaker 3: play the piano? I went, aye, all right. So they
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Speaker 3: ended up putting me in a dress. Because it was
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Speaker 3: in the Klansman, it was Jack and Victor sang it,
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Speaker 3: I was the originaliser. so they put me in a
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Speaker 3: dress and a wig but it ended up that they
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Speaker 3: started using me for other sketches during the show and
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Speaker 3: then the funny thing I think was it this I
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Speaker 3: was in the house one night and the phone went
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Speaker 3: and it was our production assistant saying tell me what
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Speaker 3: time my pick up was in the morning for chewing
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Speaker 3: the fat for filming and I went what said oh
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Speaker 3: you're down we've got you down here is coming in
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Speaker 3: to be in series 2 and I went nope didn't
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Speaker 3: know anything about this So, aye, next morning I was
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Speaker 3: on set working with Ward and Greg. They were cops
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Speaker 3: in a subway and I was behind the counter the
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Speaker 3: day before I had any known I was going to
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Speaker 3: be in it. And then I just ended up doing
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Speaker 3: loads of stuff.
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Speaker 2: Scottish cops or something?
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Speaker 3: Scottish cop and a New York cop. So it's my
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Speaker 3: first ever time acting on telly and I'm mince and
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Speaker 3: I'm bowfing and it's back on TikTok again.
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Speaker 2: The other one you did was Install Game, Martin.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 2: That was one of my... I like that one.
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Speaker 3: What you were saying about meeting Gary in the plane,
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Speaker 3: I went to New York a couple of times as
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Speaker 3: well and they stopped off at Iceland. I don't know
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Speaker 3: what they were doing but they would take you in
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Speaker 3: a bus to the Blue Lagoon and let you go
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Speaker 3: in for a swim. I think it was a way
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Speaker 3: of promoting Iceland, it was Iceland there. So I went
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Speaker 3: and I was swimming in this lake in Iceland at
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Speaker 3: the top of the world, and a guy swam up
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Speaker 3: to me and went, maybe if you have a job, you.
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Speaker 2: Might be able to make your ass feel that. Iceland! Iceland!
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Speaker 2: I was going to bring you some snowballs in.
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Speaker 3: I know, mate, I know, because nobody's ever done that.
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Speaker 2: So that's the line you get more often than not?
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Speaker 3: Aye, all the time. And you know what? I mean,
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Speaker 3: people say that must annoy you, doesn't it? It's like
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Speaker 3: a total buzz. It's a still game, come on. It's like...
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Speaker 3: amazing imagine being able to be in still game.
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Speaker 5: I loved Chewing the Fat as well Chewing the Fat
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Speaker 5: was brilliant it was because I remember at the time
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Speaker 5: when it was the second series that really took off
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Speaker 5: and I remember going out because I don't drink anymore
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Speaker 5: but I was still having a pint back then and
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Speaker 5: I went out.
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Speaker 3: For a drink with them and it was like Beatlemania
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Speaker 3: for the two of them they were just getting mobbed
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Speaker 3: and it was like they couldn't they were having to
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Speaker 3: get smuggled out the back of pubs and stuff It
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Speaker 3: was insane. It was wild.
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Speaker 2: I mean, out of all the sketches of Tune The Fat,
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Speaker 2: like Jack and Victor's.
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Speaker 4: One with the older ones, it wasn't my favourite. But
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Speaker 4: to turn that into a still game.
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Speaker 3: It ended up working brilliantly, I know.
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Speaker 4: I think I like Ronald Villiers and the one with
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Speaker 4: the painters, the two wee kind of Neddy painters.
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Speaker 3: They were funny. You can get too far.
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Speaker 4: Aye.
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Speaker 1: So the second series, they've just... sent the car for
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Speaker 1: you the next day. They've no really give you a
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Speaker 1: heads up and suddenly you're in it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it wasn't as if I was doing a
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Speaker 3: soliloquy from Hamlet or anything. It was like any time
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Speaker 3: they needed a... How many of them was there? Was
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Speaker 3: there five of them, six of them? Any time they
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Speaker 3: needed another person, they just phoned me, which was brilliant
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Speaker 3: because it was just... I ended up in some funny sketches.
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Speaker 3: Take a drink and what else? The Vintiton, the Quick
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Speaker 3: Fit advert. There's one where... You know, Ford used to
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Speaker 3: do this character where he'd smash up everything because he
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Speaker 3: was frustrated.
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Speaker 2: Hi, Ballistic Bob.
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Speaker 3: Ballistic Bob. And there was one in a restaurant, and
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Speaker 3: I'm just sitting in the background, and they hadn't told
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Speaker 3: any of us what he was going to do, and
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Speaker 3: he just did it, and I burst out laughing. And
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Speaker 3: they couldn't do it again because they'd smashed up the set,
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Speaker 3: so if you watch it, you can see me going...
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Speaker 3: It was just, it was brown. And then that led
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Speaker 3: on to Only An Excuse, and so I worked with
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Speaker 3: Johnny Watson and Philip Duffer for a while. And that
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Speaker 3: was incredible. I didn't know anything about football. Johnny had
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Speaker 3: to explain who everybody was that I was doing, and
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Speaker 3: he would have to do the impersonation for me to
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Speaker 3: learn it, because I just was like, I just don't know.
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Speaker 3: I just don't know anything. I don't know who yous are.
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Speaker 1: Aye, so you say music then, so did you come
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Speaker 1: out of school, did you pursue a.
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Speaker 2: a kind of music career.
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Speaker 3: At such a start? I went to rock music college
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Speaker 3: in Perth and it started in, I think it started
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Speaker 3: in 1985 and I went straight to school. About a
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Speaker 3: year after school, I failed everything at school and went
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Speaker 3: to Cardinal College to do maths or something and I
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Speaker 3: never went. I used to leave the house in the
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Speaker 3: morning and pretend I was going and just go home
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Speaker 3: with my pals. But that was incredible and that's where
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Speaker 3: I started singing. and playing piano and stuff. And then
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Speaker 3: from then I got quite a lot of session work
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Speaker 3: in Glasgow in the 90s, so I did a lot
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Speaker 3: of adverts for Clyde and stuff, Howard Bedding and all that,
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Speaker 3: that was me. And just gigs and music and stuff. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Got you onto, did you do a lot of the
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Speaker 2: stuff for Chewing the Fat as well?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, did the music for that. I've done the music
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Speaker 3: for loads of stuff like that. I think I'm cheap.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I did some stuff for Only An Excuse as well
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Speaker 3: and Burniston and Frankie Boyle and stuff like that and
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Speaker 3: a few documentaries and everything so aye it's frequental.
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Speaker 2: Must be good looking back and seeing all your stuff
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Speaker 2: still going.
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Speaker 3: Aye I mean what have you written you go well
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Speaker 3: Willy's Pies you know for chewing the fat the kind
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Speaker 3: of Willy Wonka thing with the pies and then probably
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Speaker 3: the biggest thing was the Still Game live shows I
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Speaker 3: did all the music for them and the third one
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Speaker 3: was a full scale full on musical so I was
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Speaker 3: there for the whole six weeks rehearsal, and that was
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Speaker 3: a total buzz, the hydro, man, that was incredible, yeah,
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Speaker 3: that was just before lockdown as well, so, no, but
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Speaker 3: it's always been music, music since I was a tiny
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Speaker 3: wee boy, and I think maybe, because my brother and
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Speaker 3: my sister love football, they're mad for football, and I
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Speaker 3: think they just used up all the genes, there was
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Speaker 3: none left for me, and I just got all the music.
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Speaker 2: What sort of music are you into then, is it
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Speaker 2: a varied.
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Speaker 3: Loads of stuff. I love the Beatles. I've always loved
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Speaker 3: the Beatles. I love... I love everything. Genuinely, I love everything.
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Speaker 3: I write stuff as well. Favourite gig you've been at? Oh, man.
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Speaker 2: 1987.
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Speaker 3: Me and my pals borrowed my pal's dad's car because
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Speaker 3: his mum and dad were on holiday and we drove
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Speaker 3: down to London to see R.E.M. R.E.M.? Where I put?
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Speaker 3: In the.
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Speaker 3: The Hammersmith Odeon.
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Speaker 2: Class.
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Speaker 3: And it was amazing. And I think we just all
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Speaker 3: slept in the car and then just drove back up.
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Speaker 2: What age would you have been then? 18. 17, 18.
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Speaker 3: But it was dynamite. Another brilliant gig I went to
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Speaker 3: was Dolly Parton. You ever seen that?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 3: The Armadillo.
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Speaker 2: Your street, isn't it? My mum was at that one.
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Speaker 2: It was magic. Was that about.
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Speaker 3: 2002, 2003? Aye, aye. And she'd come out on the
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Speaker 3: stage and went, Hello, Chinas. Lang May, you're Lomreek. Somebody
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Speaker 3: had been teasing her partner. No, it was brilliant. I
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Speaker 3: love going to gigs. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I like concerts and all that. It's so much better live,
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Speaker 4: isn't it?
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Speaker 2: I used to listen to R.E.M. towards the end of
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Speaker 2: school and I've never seen them live.
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Speaker 3: Because in the 80s they were kind of mysterious. They
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Speaker 3: were from the deep south and they were all a
12:10
Speaker 3: bit kind of, And they didn't really enunciate what they
12:13
Speaker 3: were saying, so you were like, it felt really weird.
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Speaker 3: And then they got really kind of popular and commercial,
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Speaker 3: but it was just, it was a real, it was
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Speaker 3: the first kind of running away from home thing. Nobody
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Speaker 3: knew where we were going. None of the parents knew.
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Speaker 3: I think they think we were camping or something, but
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Speaker 3: we were in London.
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Speaker 2: And you were in River City as well?
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Speaker 3: Aye, and I was there this morning, because they've just
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Speaker 3: demolished it.
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Speaker 2: Have they?
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Speaker 3: They've just demolished it. Did that read.
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Speaker 1: Somewhere your last, recorded the last bit was it April
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Speaker 1: this year or was that well I left it 14
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Speaker 1: years ago so but folks still think I'm in it
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: But their final recording was in April final recording in
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Speaker 3: April yeah I think so it's going to be on
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Speaker 3: the last episodes next month but they've demolished the set
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Speaker 3: which was it was so traumatic because it was beautiful
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Speaker 3: it was like being in a bit of partick totally
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Speaker 3: to scale it was really really beautiful so today when
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Speaker 3: I went down it was flattened and it was just
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Speaker 3: like and the one thing that was left was the
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Speaker 3: wee fountain in the middle they'd left it standing and
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Speaker 3: it just looked like they'd asked me to go down
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Speaker 3: is it in Dumbarton? just before you get you know
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Speaker 3: the kind of petrol stations at the roundabout just before
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Speaker 3: you head up to Balloch it's just off there and
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Speaker 3: it was stunning it was like a town and it
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Speaker 3: would be weird because you'd be sitting there looking at
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Speaker 3: it going I feel as if I'm in the city
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Speaker 3: centre but I'm smelling cow shite and hearing birds singing
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Speaker 3: because it's the countryside but no they'd asked me to
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Speaker 3: go down because they'd found some stuff like photos and
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Speaker 3: everything that they thought I would like so it was
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Speaker 3: lovely my car's full of stuff but that was amazing
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Speaker 3: they did that for five years and I played Big
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Speaker 3: Bob Shellsuit Bob's uncle Shellsuit Bob's uncle aye There were
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Speaker 3: two bobs.
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Speaker 1: And you did your World Cup song with Sanjeev as well.
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Speaker 1: So we had Sanjeev on a few weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: Aye. Just before we did it, Helen had sent me
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Speaker 2: the song. The song, it was very good.
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Speaker 1: I would never ever, I guess, it was... Sanjeev at
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Speaker 1: the time but you wrote it with him, you co-wrote it?
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Speaker 3: Well not really he wrote it, he wrote the rap
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Speaker 3: and the kind of concept of it and I produced
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Speaker 3: it all so what had happened was I went to
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Speaker 3: his house in January with my laptop and recorded his
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Speaker 3: vocal and then forgot all about it and then he
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Speaker 3: phoned me up about probably about three weeks before we
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Speaker 3: released it and went have you done? Are you ready?
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Speaker 3: Oh no! So I kind of did that kind of
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Speaker 3: two day.
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Speaker 1: In fairness, that sounds like him because see when he was,
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Speaker 1: we obviously gave it a wee plug on here. But
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Speaker 1: he said, have you got a video? No, I've not
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Speaker 1: done the video yet. I says, but the World Cup's
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Speaker 1: just about to start.
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Speaker 2: It's like a week away. You've not done a video.
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Speaker 3: We sort of went mental for about a week and
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Speaker 3: a half, two weeks. We just went, oh, and that
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Speaker 3: was all we did and all we thought about. And
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Speaker 3: we went about radio stations and stuff with a brilliant laugh.
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Speaker 3: but it was me in the house with my headphones
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Speaker 3: and the keyboard for like two days and then phoning
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Speaker 3: him and saying, do you need this bit? He's going, aye,
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Speaker 3: because if you cut that bit out then it's, because
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Speaker 3: of course I don't know what any of it means. Aye,
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Speaker 3: and he wanted the bagpipes in as well then? Aye,
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Speaker 3: he wanted the bagpipes in as well, but I faked
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Speaker 3: the bagpipes.
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Speaker 2: Oh, did you? Aye.
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Speaker 3: Couldn't afford bagpipes. So I just got a wee bag,
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Speaker 3: pressed the bagpipe button.
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Speaker 1: See, in your music thing as well, we were just
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Speaker 1: chatting before you came in, I noticed that Did you
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Speaker 1: do something with Shane Stevens?
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Speaker 2: Aye. Can you talk us through that? Aye, well, aye. Random.
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Speaker 2: There's loads of.
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Speaker 3: Random things like this, right? So when I was in
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Speaker 3: River City, I'd always wanted to do an album, right?
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Speaker 3: So I phoned up this record company and went, can
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Speaker 3: I do an album? And they went, yeah, all right.
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Speaker 3: So I made it and then part of the promotion
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Speaker 3: was They got me on to support Shakin' Stevens at
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Speaker 3: the ABC. And I loved Shakin' Stevens as a kid,
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Speaker 3: but my pal Angela absolutely adores Shakin' Stevens. So I
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Speaker 3: phoned her up and I said, do you want to
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Speaker 3: come along and pretend you're my PA or my assistant
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Speaker 3: or something? So she did in a way. We went
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Speaker 3: along and he invited us into his dressing room and
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Speaker 3: I immediately grasped us up. I went, look, she's not
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Speaker 3: my people. She's just a fan. I've smuggled her in.
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Speaker 3: And he went away and he got two big box
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Speaker 3: sets of all his albums and sang them for us.
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Speaker 3: A total sweetheart. Legend. Absolute legend.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was class.
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Speaker 1: That's what we were talking about before you came in.
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Speaker 1: I think it was my first record. The wee seven inch.
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Speaker 3: This old house? No. Green Door?
16:47
Speaker 2: Oh, Julie.
16:48
Speaker 1: Oh, Julie.
16:49
Speaker 2: Oh, aye. We were talking, I was just telling Blair
16:51
Speaker 2: before you came in.
16:52
Speaker 3: Aye.
16:52
Speaker 1: I think that was my first record. And then we
16:54
Speaker 1: looked at it on Spotify. The amount of plays that
16:57
Speaker 1: guy's had over the years. Merry Christmas has got about
17:00
Speaker 1: 600 million.
17:01
Speaker 3: Massive. That was just a bloke that wrote that. I
17:04
Speaker 3: can't even remember who it is that wrote it, but
17:05
Speaker 3: it was a guy that had just wrote this song
17:08
Speaker 3: and then now he could retire. That's the dream, right?
17:11
Speaker 3: A Christmas song.
17:12
Speaker 2: So many in these top 10. Millions of views. Aye, aye, aye.
17:16
Speaker 2: So what do you see for your future?
17:18
Speaker 1: What are you looking to be getting into next then
17:20
Speaker 1: after you're supporting Marty Pelo?
17:22
Speaker 3: Destitution maybe? I don't know. Well, we're doing, Carton and
17:29
Speaker 3: I are doing some more stuff with Almost Angelic and
17:33
Speaker 3: I gig a lot.
17:34
Speaker 2: Do you tour with that?
17:36
Speaker 3: We've not toured, but it's not something that we've even
17:40
Speaker 3: talked about.
17:41
Speaker 2: Fringe, we did the fringe with it.
17:44
Speaker 3: I've struggled to even come through and see something let
17:47
Speaker 3: alone come through every day oh no but we're doing
17:52
Speaker 3: that I do a lot of DJing and a lot
17:55
Speaker 3: of piano stuff a lot of gigs but no I've
17:59
Speaker 3: never done an acting job for a while.
18:02
Speaker 2: Do you miss that?
18:04
Speaker 3: I mean folks say do you miss River City my
18:08
Speaker 3: memory of River City is having to get up at
18:10
Speaker 3: half five so I go well Aye, I miss, aye,
18:14
Speaker 3: I sort of miss it, but at the same time,
18:17
Speaker 3: thank God I don't have to get up at half
18:18
Speaker 3: five every morning. But no, I did love it, but
18:21
Speaker 3: acting's never been my passion. It's always been music and
18:24
Speaker 3: some comedy and stuff like that. It's never been acting. Also,
18:29
Speaker 3: and I did Panto for a few years, but I
18:31
Speaker 3: cannae do that again. It was too sore.
18:33
Speaker 2: That's a lot of work of that as.
18:35
Speaker 3: Well, isn't it? I did three Pantos in Dundee with
18:39
Speaker 3: Darren Connell. just before lockdown and I've never laughed harder
18:44
Speaker 3: in my life than I have at him on stage
18:46
Speaker 3: doing Panto I hope he does it again sometime because
18:50
Speaker 3: he's just you know how funny he is yeah his
18:53
Speaker 3: energy see that every day in an audience with kids
18:57
Speaker 3: and parents he just he would go off on one
19:00
Speaker 3: and everybody would just let him just go right this
19:02
Speaker 3: is Darren's bit just let him do five minutes and
19:04
Speaker 3: it was you would cry and laugh at him cry
19:07
Speaker 3: and laugh at how funny he was especially when me
19:09
Speaker 3: and him were the ugly sisters And Darren just being
19:12
Speaker 3: Darren in a dress, going, I don't know what I'm
19:14
Speaker 3: doing here. What am I doing in a panto? Mate, mate,
19:17
Speaker 3: can I come and live in your garage?
19:21
Speaker 1: I know the panto as well, because you're talking about
19:24
Speaker 1: the fringe day after day, but the panto season's similar
19:27
Speaker 1: to that, is it not?
19:28
Speaker 3: Well, it starts like... Our one kind of finished at Hugmanay,
19:32
Speaker 3: which is all right, but a lot of the bigger
19:34
Speaker 3: ones run on. And they don't tend to do it now,
19:38
Speaker 3: but they used to go into February.
19:40
Speaker 2: And then it's done.
19:44
Speaker 3: You know, what are you doing? And it's all just
19:46
Speaker 3: old folks homes that they bus in. It's day after
19:48
Speaker 3: day after day of old folks homes. in the audience.
19:50
Speaker 3: And it's just lavender, you know, and no response. But
19:56
Speaker 3: it's not my cup of tea at all. And I've
19:59
Speaker 3: had to just kind of say, because I've got to
20:01
Speaker 3: crab it with everybody else as well. Don't get me
20:05
Speaker 3: in your pan, I'll ruin it for everybody. Too grumpy.
20:07
Speaker 2: Too much.
20:09
Speaker 3: I can't believe if I hear High School Musical one
20:11
Speaker 3: more time.
20:14
Speaker 2: I suppose it'd be hard doing the same repetition.
20:17
Speaker 3: Aye. You're sitting the third week of January in a
20:21
Speaker 3: damp costume you've been wearing since November going, what am
20:23
Speaker 3: I doing with my life?
20:24
Speaker 2: Yeah.
20:26
Speaker 3: I suppose when you're doing it with a comedian, you're
20:28
Speaker 3: a bit different in it.
20:29
Speaker 2: It is a wee bit. We've done a wee bit,
20:30
Speaker 2: haven't we, recently? Billy and Tim, we did.
20:33
Speaker 3: You familiar with that? I've never seen it, no, but
20:35
Speaker 3: I know what you mean.
20:36
Speaker 2: We get roped into that.
20:37
Speaker 1: So it's similar to what you were saying about you
20:40
Speaker 1: get the phone call and the next thing you're.
20:42
Speaker 2: In, Series 2. You know Scott Kyle?
20:45
Speaker 3: Yes.
20:45
Speaker 1: So Scott kind of hoodwinked us into doing a football
20:50
Speaker 1: Q & A at one of.
20:52
Speaker 2: The venues and we got down there and all the
20:54
Speaker 2: actors were in the green room. Mm-hmm.
20:56
Speaker 1: And it was me and Charlie Miller, who's an ex-Ranger player.
21:00
Speaker 1: And he says, oh, we've got a couple of lines
21:02
Speaker 1: for you. And, like, the blood just drained from my face.
21:06
Speaker 1: I says, I thought we were here for a Q
21:08
Speaker 1: & A, but it was his way to get us
21:09
Speaker 1: into the show.
21:10
Speaker 3: I thought you meant a couple of lines. No.
21:13
Speaker 2: No, not a couple of lines. A couple of lines
21:16
Speaker 2: and reading lines. A couple of reading lines.
21:18
Speaker 1: So, before we knew it, we were playing the Pavilion.
21:22
Speaker 1: We were part of the show, and it's kind of grown...
21:25
Speaker 1: You and Davey Robertson have come into it. I think
21:28
Speaker 1: we're back at the Pavilion in October. So we've done
21:31
Speaker 1: a wee bit of that. But for us it's totally
21:33
Speaker 1: out of your comfort zone.
21:35
Speaker 2: Totally.
21:37
Speaker 1: We're much more comfortable playing in front of 60,000 at
21:40
Speaker 1: Celtic Park. Ask us to say a couple of lines
21:42
Speaker 1: at the Pavilion.
21:43
Speaker 3: How about we start doing this?
21:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. This is a wee bit different again.
21:49
Speaker 2: It's a wee bit different again.
21:50
Speaker 1: But you're kind of out of your comfort zone there
21:53
Speaker 1: at the Pavilion playing.
21:56
Speaker 2: We're playing ourselves really aren't we.
21:58
Speaker 4: I mean I went to watch it just to start
22:00
Speaker 4: with before he brought us other two people.
22:04
Speaker 2: Into it and watching it the crowd the crowd it's.
22:09
Speaker 3: Mental the pavilion's great though for that the pavilion.
22:12
Speaker 2: Audience if you get one half if there's one.
22:15
Speaker 3: Audience to be frightened of it's the pavilion audience because
22:17
Speaker 3: you're not good at what you know.
22:18
Speaker 1: We kind of learned that but it was Rangers Celtic
22:19
Speaker 1: so that brings another element to it the light's dim
22:23
Speaker 1: and your bit comes up and the spotlight's on you
22:26
Speaker 1: and you're getting fucking heckled by half the theatre and
22:31
Speaker 1: then the other half is giving you a little bit
22:33
Speaker 1: of a cheer it is it's weird.
22:35
Speaker 3: I get a lot of because I was in Trainspotting
22:38
Speaker 3: 2 and I was in the scene where have you
22:41
Speaker 3: seen Trainspotting 2? I've seen the clip it's the scene
22:45
Speaker 3: where the orange lodge and I'm the bouncer that makes
22:49
Speaker 3: them go up and sing on the stage and everyone
22:51
Speaker 3: So I'm neither Catholic nor Protestant. I don't understand any
22:54
Speaker 3: of it. I wasn't brought up that way. Don't understand.
22:57
Speaker 3: I don't support any bill. I support Officially St Mern
22:59
Speaker 3: because I'm from Paisley. But I've never understood any of
23:02
Speaker 3: the kind of stuff. It just goes over my head.
23:06
Speaker 3: And we did four days filming on Trainspotting 2 and
23:09
Speaker 3: they covered me in tattoos. So I had the red
23:12
Speaker 3: hand of Ulster and King Billy and what year is it?
23:16
Speaker 2: 1690.
23:16
Speaker 3: 1690 on my neck and everything. And I didn't even
23:22
Speaker 3: know there was.
23:23
Speaker 2: That was the pin.
23:24
Speaker 3: The pin number, right, uh-huh. It's genius, it's hysterical, right?
23:28
Speaker 3: And there was a lot of folk there from Lodgy's
23:31
Speaker 3: World as the extras, and a lot of them are going, oh, right,
23:33
Speaker 3: big man, didn't they know you were... And I'm like,
23:37
Speaker 3: I'm just an actor, I don't know what any of
23:38
Speaker 3: this means. No, that was mental. So I do get
23:43
Speaker 3: people coming up to me and asking me to sing
23:45
Speaker 3: the song from that, and I'm like, I can't even
23:47
Speaker 3: remember it.
23:49
Speaker 2: It's a good scene actually.
23:50
Speaker 3: It's a good scene. There's a guy who.
23:52
Speaker 4: Was telling me a story about the boy, the ex-player
23:56
Speaker 4: over on an island and he got a tattoo put
24:00
Speaker 4: in but it was King Billy on the horse and
24:04
Speaker 4: he was going to pay for it and he thought
24:07
Speaker 4: it was for the whole thing so he couldn't afford
24:10
Speaker 4: to put the horse in so he said I'll come
24:12
Speaker 4: back and finish the horse so his first bit of
24:14
Speaker 4: the tattoo was.
24:15
Speaker 2: King Billy with wee legs.
24:19
Speaker 4: And that was a kind of, I don't remember the
24:21
Speaker 4: guy's name, the guy told me the story and I
24:24
Speaker 4: couldn't stop laughing. So it was like a kind of joke,
24:26
Speaker 4: because you've got King Billy, who you think, so obviously
24:29
Speaker 4: he's got the wee legs because he's on a horse,
24:30
Speaker 4: but he couldn't afford the horse.
24:33
Speaker 3: Amazing.
24:34
Speaker 2: And years later, he's still not got a horse.
24:37
Speaker 3: Oh, brilliant. But that makes it more of a talking point,
24:40
Speaker 3: doesn't it?
24:41
Speaker 2: He's still not afforded to put the horse in. Mental.
24:46
Speaker 2: Where did you film that?
24:48
Speaker 3: That was filmed.
24:48
Speaker 2: Was that in Edinburgh?
24:50
Speaker 3: No. So I did two kind of blocks of it
24:54
Speaker 3: because I had to go back and reshoot stuff. So
24:58
Speaker 3: the first one was in the Orb in Bells Hill.
25:02
Speaker 3: I think it was because they could blank out the windows.
25:05
Speaker 3: So I was there for a few days and then
25:07
Speaker 3: went back a few months later and in between I
25:10
Speaker 3: had had a gastric bypass. So I'd lost something like
25:14
Speaker 3: eight or nine stone in between the next... So in
25:17
Speaker 3: the shot on Trainspotting 2, when you see me from
25:20
Speaker 3: the back, I'm like, fat bastard. And when you see
25:23
Speaker 3: me from the front, it goes like that. It goes
25:26
Speaker 3: like that. As you go back and forth. You can't
25:28
Speaker 3: notice it unless I've pointed it out. And that was
25:31
Speaker 3: in Clyde Bank.
25:32
Speaker 2: Right.
25:33
Speaker 3: So, no, I don't think, I don't think any of
25:35
Speaker 3: it was filmed in Edinburgh. I think it was all
25:37
Speaker 3: through there. Did you have much to do with, like,
25:40
Speaker 3: Sir Ewan McGregor and the guys in it? I spent
25:42
Speaker 3: two or three days.
25:43
Speaker 2: They were lovely.
25:43
Speaker 3: They were dead nice. I spent two or three days
25:46
Speaker 3: with them. Because it was just him and the boy...
25:49
Speaker 3: It was him and Johnny Lee Miller. They were quiet. No,
25:53
Speaker 3: they were just obviously concentrating. But no, they were nice.
25:56
Speaker 3: They were really nice. He's quite posh.
26:00
Speaker 2: He's a pair, isn't he?
26:03
Speaker 3: Yeah. He kept getting phone calls from famous people. And
26:07
Speaker 3: I'd be like... Who are you talking to? It's Ty
26:12
Speaker 3: Burrell from a show called Modern Family.
26:14
Speaker 2: I'm like.
26:17
Speaker 2: He was in Star Wars and all that. Obi-Wan.
26:18
Speaker 3: That's right.
26:19
Speaker 2: Obi-Wan. One of my favourite ones was Shallow Grave.
26:23
Speaker 3: Ah, brilliant. His first one. It was banging. Yeah, absolutely brilliant.
26:26
Speaker 2: There's a few in that as well. Boy, he played
26:28
Speaker 2: Doctor Who. I forget his name. So you enjoyed that.
26:31
Speaker 2: Would you like to go to more of that? More films?
26:33
Speaker 3: Aye. I mean, I do love it, but you cannae make.
26:36
Speaker 2: Plans for that.
26:37
Speaker 3: You just gotta wait and it's a lottery, you know.
26:39
Speaker 3: Somebody needs a fat guy that can play the piano.
26:42
Speaker 3: Get him. You know, it's this kind of thing that's
26:44
Speaker 3: what happens. But.
26:46
Speaker 1: Do you get used to that then though? The kind
26:48
Speaker 1: of uncertainty of it or just waiting for that next bit?
26:50
Speaker 3: It's a lot, you know, because I do the music
26:54
Speaker 3: and I do other stuff as well. You're busy all
26:56
Speaker 3: the time? I just concentrate on whatever's going on at
26:58
Speaker 3: the moment.
26:59
Speaker 2: And if that comes on?
27:00
Speaker 3: And if something comes along then you go and do it.
27:02
Speaker 3: I did have a spell of doing really good stuff
27:05
Speaker 3: and then it all kind of stopped at lockdown. I
27:07
Speaker 3: did a film and a series and everything that year.
27:12
Speaker 3: I think called Guilt which I really enjoyed and then
27:15
Speaker 3: I think called Elizabeth is Missing which I got to
27:17
Speaker 3: act with Glenda Jackson in who's like this legend and
27:21
Speaker 3: then lockdown happened and it changed everything and there's not
27:25
Speaker 3: as much stuff getting made and it's sort of as
27:28
Speaker 3: if the industry is now just starting to recover from
27:31
Speaker 3: it and you know I just sat in the house
27:35
Speaker 3: and played Animal Crossing for a year and a half
27:39
Speaker 3: watched football.
27:41
Speaker 1: Well I ended up watching the Euros I know I
27:44
Speaker 1: know surreal nothing else to do in lockdown it was
27:47
Speaker 1: difficult it was tough especially with somebody like yourself for
27:50
Speaker 1: the music.
27:50
Speaker 3: Well what I ended up doing was I started going
27:53
Speaker 3: mad and I thought I need to do something.
27:55
Speaker 1: So I started did you do stuff on Zoom on
27:56
Speaker 1: the new stuff well I started as folks started playing
27:59
Speaker 1: well I started I decided that I wanted to do
28:02
Speaker 1: a song a day so I would I would layer
28:07
Speaker 1: up all the instruments so I'd get the guitar.
28:08
Speaker 3: And the piano and I would use a drum machine
28:10
Speaker 3: and I would say on Facebook what song do you
28:14
Speaker 3: want today and somebody would say and I would record
28:17
Speaker 3: it and then I would do a video and by
28:20
Speaker 3: 7 o'clock I posted it every day and it started
28:24
Speaker 3: off quite simple like it was a Billy Joel thing
28:26
Speaker 3: and then there was something else and then somebody asked
28:28
Speaker 3: for Bohemian Rhapsody and I went right so I spent
28:33
Speaker 3: I spent about two weeks working it out in my
28:36
Speaker 3: head And then I spent a whole day recording the
28:40
Speaker 3: harmonies and the piano and all the instruments. And then
28:44
Speaker 3: posted it and it went mental. And then Brian May
28:47
Speaker 3: ended up posting it.
28:49
Speaker 2: Seriously?
28:49
Speaker 3: And I had to go to my bed for a
28:51
Speaker 3: couple of days because it was too overwhelming. But it's
28:53
Speaker 3: on YouTube if you want to have a look at
28:55
Speaker 3: what a nervous breakdown looks like.
28:56
Speaker 2: And where did you put that out? Just over?
28:59
Speaker 3: I put it on YouTube. Right.
29:00
Speaker 2: Yeah.
29:01
Speaker 3: It's still there. There's about 60 of them. And I
29:03
Speaker 3: got more and more kind of elaborate with my videos.
29:07
Speaker 3: And I was just making them in the house.
29:08
Speaker 2: Yeah.
29:09
Speaker 3: A lot of them did really well. And it kept
29:14
Speaker 3: me busy and it kept my head from attacking me. Yeah.
29:17
Speaker 3: Because I have big mental health problems. So this was
29:20
Speaker 3: a real good focus for me. Because it was like quicksand,
29:26
Speaker 3: that lockdown for people that had mental health problems.
29:30
Speaker 2: Yeah.
29:30
Speaker 3: A lot of people.
29:32
Speaker 2: It's a tough thing, lockdown. Definitely. Yeah.
29:37
Speaker 3: But have a look go on YouTube and look for
29:39
Speaker 3: Tom Yoruba absolutely definitely.
29:42
Speaker 1: So moving on to obviously your TV film what sort
29:46
Speaker 1: of stuff captures do you watch comedies is that aye cliche.
29:49
Speaker 3: Aye no I do I do I love I love
29:51
Speaker 3: comedy erm I like American comedy erm I much like
29:57
Speaker 3: the stuff Darren likes, you know, kind of Norm Macdonald
30:01
Speaker 3: and people like that. But I like stand-up as well.
30:05
Speaker 3: I'm too much of a shitebag to actually do it.
30:08
Speaker 3: Have you ever done it?
30:10
Speaker 1: No.
30:10
Speaker 3: I mean, I can sit behind my piano with a
30:12
Speaker 3: mic and yap and have a laugh and stuff, but
30:15
Speaker 3: I couldn't have charged somebody money to say, give me
30:19
Speaker 3: your money and I'm going to make you laugh in
30:20
Speaker 3: return for it. I couldn't do it because I'm too
30:22
Speaker 3: much of a shitebag. but TV wise no I love
30:25
Speaker 3: watching I love binging I think my big thing is
30:28
Speaker 3: David Lynch and Twin Peaks and all that kind of
30:30
Speaker 3: stuff I like some things that are a little bit.
30:32
Speaker 6: Weird and a bit spooky a bit dark a bit
30:34
Speaker 6: dark aye and Breaking Bad was my ultimate just incredible
30:41
Speaker 6: show to watch and the one what was the one
30:44
Speaker 6: Succession I loved that as well have.
30:46
Speaker 2: You seen that no somebody mentioned that to me it's
30:48
Speaker 2: incredible if you've not watched.
30:49
Speaker 3: It please watch it and there's an episode set in
30:52
Speaker 3: Dundee even though it's an American show, which is mental. No,
30:56
Speaker 3: I love watching all that kind of stuff, and I
30:58
Speaker 3: watch a lot of movies as well.
31:00
Speaker 2: Movie-wise, which are?
31:02
Speaker 3: Well, my favourite movie is, and I just have to
31:05
Speaker 3: be open about this, is The Sound of Music, because
31:09
Speaker 3: I loved it when I was a wee boy, and
31:12
Speaker 3: ended up working for them, because they did this thing
31:16
Speaker 3: in the theatres called Sing Along, A Sound of Music,
31:18
Speaker 3: and people would go dressed as nuns and Nazis and whatever,
31:23
Speaker 3: and sing along with the movie. And it became huge.
31:25
Speaker 3: It started touring everywhere. So I got a job doing that.
31:29
Speaker 3: Karen Dunbar had got the job actually. And she phoned
31:32
Speaker 3: me up and went, I don't really want to do this.
31:36
Speaker 3: You'd be brilliant at this. And I'm going, I know.
31:38
Speaker 3: And she went, do you want me to pretend I'm
31:39
Speaker 3: not well? I went, if you don't mind. So she
31:42
Speaker 3: pretended she wasn't well, but I've got somebody else that
31:44
Speaker 3: could do it. So I went and I did it
31:46
Speaker 3: for years. And they ended up flying me over to
31:49
Speaker 3: Salzburg and doing it.
31:50
Speaker 2: I was about to say, whereabouts did you go then?
31:52
Speaker 2: Far afield?
31:53
Speaker 3: I did all the Scottish dates, so I did the
31:57
Speaker 3: Playhouse and the Glasgow Kings and Aberdeen and things like that.
32:00
Speaker 3: But when it came to the, I think it was
32:02
Speaker 3: the 40th anniversary of it at the time, they flew
32:04
Speaker 3: me over to Salzburg and I hosted it on the
32:07
Speaker 3: actual location with one of the stars, the girl that
32:09
Speaker 3: played Lisa. And I sang 16 going on 17 with her.
32:13
Speaker 3: So it was just absolutely nuts. so that's my favourite
32:17
Speaker 3: film but I've got loads of others like Airplane is
32:20
Speaker 3: on more often than not in my house Groundhog Day,
32:23
Speaker 3: I love I love Apocalypse Now and Monty Python stuff
32:32
Speaker 3: and all that kind of stuff.
32:34
Speaker 1: Life of Brian Life of Brian, yeah It's one of
32:37
Speaker 1: your favourites isn't it?
32:39
Speaker 2: I can keep watching it and watching it.
32:41
Speaker 3: See if you listen to the new Rolling Stones single
32:44
Speaker 3: It sounds like Brian's mum singing it. Once you hear it,
32:47
Speaker 3: it'll ruin a few. She's singing in falsetto and it
32:50
Speaker 3: just sounds like.
32:52
Speaker 2: That's brilliant. I mean, the Holy Grail was good, but
32:55
Speaker 2: the life of Brian was... I know.
32:58
Speaker 3: I mean, that was her life when it came out.
32:59
Speaker 2: Airplane's good as well, though. The wee sketches come up
33:02
Speaker 2: in Ted's Riker.
33:04
Speaker 3: I just... See when that came out, I think I
33:07
Speaker 3: was probably about 11, right? 10 out of 11. And
33:11
Speaker 3: there was a cinema at the bottom of our street
33:13
Speaker 3: I went every day to see it every day to
33:16
Speaker 3: see it playing on the it was the Christmas holidays
33:18
Speaker 3: and I just every time I saw it and still
33:21
Speaker 3: nowadays if I watch it now there's still things that
33:23
Speaker 3: I've never noticed before I just think it's incredible it's.
33:28
Speaker 4: Amazing how the old comedies are just kind of stopped
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Speaker 4: on it Fawlty Towers all the rest of them amazing
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Speaker 4: you don't get a lot of them coming on now
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Speaker 4: they're not PC enough.
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Speaker 3: But still Game seems to be the kind of Scottish
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Speaker 3: yeah thing that people really hold up as the best.
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Speaker 4: Stole Game was brilliant, especially the earlier ones, you know,
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Speaker 4: the first sort of six series were brilliant, so well written,
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Speaker 4: and the guys in it just being young, the old
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Speaker 4: people being young.
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Speaker 3: I know, and now it's like, need to get less
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Speaker 3: make-up on if we're doing it, don't need aged up
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Speaker 3: as much.
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Speaker 4: Two Doors Down, we had Johnny on that. I really
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Speaker 4: enjoyed that, I know.
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Speaker 2: Two Doors Down. You haven't really watched that, have you?
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Speaker 2: I haven't, no.
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Speaker 3: It's good. Johnny's a genius, isn't he?
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Speaker 2: He's brilliant, isn't he? His character in it is.
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Speaker 3: Because I did a show with him called Watson's Wind-Up,
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Speaker 3: which was a radio thing that was on every Saturday
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Speaker 3: before Time and Stuart. And we did it for seven
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Speaker 3: or eight years. But it wasn't just football, it was
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Speaker 3: politics and all that kind of stuff. And I learned
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Speaker 3: so much from, because I hadn't done an awful lot
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Speaker 3: of acting, I learned so much from Johnny Watson and
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Speaker 3: Philip Differ. They really were, that's where, I didn't go
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Speaker 3: to drama college or anything, I learned from these guys
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Speaker 3: and they're just dynamite.
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Speaker 2: Aye. You should watch it. I told you it was brilliant.
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Speaker 3: Aye, it's good.
34:58
Speaker 2: It's a good show.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 1: Still Game was the one, I've seen it recently, I
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Speaker 1: think it was Limmy. Did you ever work with Limmy?
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Speaker 3: I've never worked with him, but I've bumped into him
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Speaker 3: once or twice.
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Speaker 1: He was doing the chat, and I think his show
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Speaker 1: came in at second, but Still Game was number one.
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Speaker 3: Aye. And he was quite happy with that.
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Speaker 2: He was delighted with that. He was delighted just to
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Speaker 2: be in that vicinity. But Still Game's special. My kids
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Speaker 2: all watch it. All through the years, they can relate
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Speaker 2: to it.
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Speaker 3: It's just because we all had grandpas like that.
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Speaker 1: And we all had an Isa.
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Speaker 3: Aye. Aye.
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Speaker 1: I remember meeting her at something I think you were
35:36
Speaker 1: meant to be at it it was a charity night.
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Speaker 4: Yes I went to see them they'd done a thing
35:42
Speaker 4: called Old Pals yeah in Belfast it was so you
35:48
Speaker 4: had Sanjeev you had when she's not in make-up you'd
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Speaker 4: oh she doesn't look like the same person no she
35:53
Speaker 4: doesn't look like the same person you had Tam when
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Speaker 4: she speaks you know it's her aye but they were
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Speaker 4: telling the stories of the show and everything else but
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Speaker 4: it was brilliant Aye You should.
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Speaker 3: Get Jane on here Yeah She's a good girl She's funny.
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Speaker 1: Aye she was good Slowly but surely work her way
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Speaker 1: through the Get Greg in that as well Aye Big
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Speaker 1: Fran coming on as well the quiz master That's right
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Speaker 1: Big Fran Aye Aye.
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Speaker 2: There's a unique one as well What was his one again?
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Speaker 2: The quiz member the quiz knee points Oh a knee
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Speaker 2: points prick The big angry big angry barman Bob as
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Speaker 2: well Bob the Barman.
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Speaker 3: Gavin.
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Speaker 2: Aye, he was in the whole Pals thing as well.
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Speaker 3: Aye.
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Speaker 2: Gavin Mitchell.
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Speaker 3: Aye, aye, aye. He'd be a good Doctor Who.
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Speaker 2: Aye.
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Speaker 3: Do you think he'd be a great Doctor Who?
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Speaker 2: Aye, he would actually. Aye, he was brilliant.
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Speaker 1: Right, well, we usually wind up with a recommendation. We
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Speaker 1: got the sound of music out of you, so maybe... Aye, no,
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Speaker 1: don't do that as my recommendation.
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Speaker 3: It's bad enough.
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Speaker 2: So we had John Spencer on last and.
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Speaker 1: He's kind of cheated a wee bit because he's went
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Speaker 1: for a series rather than a film.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 2: And it's The Lionesses.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: Paramount, I'm sure he said it was. I think it's
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Speaker 2: like a CSI. I'm not too sure. I'm not too sure.
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Speaker 2: I haven't seen it myself.
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Speaker 1: So it's The Lionesses series, so if you want to
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Speaker 1: pick a series, we'll allow you that.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 2: His song was Eminem, Stan.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, brilliant.
37:21
Speaker 2: And his album was Justin Bieber, Swag, which I have
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Speaker 2: not heard.
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Speaker 3: Are you familiar? I've never heard that.
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Speaker 2: Who's that guy? Who is it? John Spencer, so he's
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Speaker 2: an ex-footballer.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: So, again, over your head.
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Speaker 3: Over my head. Sorry, John.
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Speaker 1: That's his recommendations. Can you recommend a film, a song
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Speaker 1: and an album for our next guest?
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Speaker 3: Okay. My favourite film of last year was Sinners. Have
37:45
Speaker 3: you seen Sinners? No. Right. Nobody's seen it. Everybody I
37:48
Speaker 3: speak to hasn't seen it. It won loads of Oscars
37:50
Speaker 3: and everything. It's the most entertained I've been by a
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Speaker 3: film in years. It's just, it starts off and you go,
37:57
Speaker 3: all right, and then something happens and you go, what?
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Speaker 3: And then you're like, for an hour and a half,
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Speaker 3: you're going, oh! Incredible, please watch Sinners. It's just not
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Speaker 3: what you expect and it is really, really, really good. Song,
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Speaker 3: what am I listening to at the moment? I'm obsessed
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Speaker 3: with the Beatles just now as I have been all
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Speaker 3: my life but especially just now because I got I
38:26
Speaker 3: got a new toy last week I got a Paul
38:28
Speaker 3: McCartney bass guitar replica made by the same people and
38:33
Speaker 3: somebody gave me it as a present and I'm just
38:35
Speaker 3: I've not played it yet but I've actually I cuddled
38:39
Speaker 3: it the first night I had I took it to
38:40
Speaker 3: bed with me I took it to bed with me
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Speaker 3: and cuddled it.
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Speaker 2: That was my first album Paul McCartney.
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Speaker 3: What one?
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Speaker 2: Pipes of Peace.
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Speaker 3: Ah, brilliant album. Absolutely brilliant. I guess I'd be a
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Speaker 3: bit laughed at, but it was brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I liked it.
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Speaker 3: So, right, so song-wise, there's a Beatles song, Tomorrow Never Knows,
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Speaker 3: the last song on Revolver. Okay. Groundbreaking. Changed everything. Changed
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Speaker 3: everything about music. It's probably, because people used to go
39:04
Speaker 3: on about Sgt Pepper as being, but it wasn't. It
39:06
Speaker 3: was just before that, and it was this Revolver. The
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Speaker 3: whole album's great, but that last song, Tomorrow Never Knows...
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Speaker 3: That's where it all started, as far as I'm concerned. Cool.
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Speaker 2: An album?
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Speaker 3: An album? My favourite album ever is Moon Safari by Air.
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Speaker 3: You ever heard that?
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Speaker 2: No. More than you.
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Speaker 3: Ground.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's from the 90s. It's a kind of... I
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Speaker 3: put it on when I'm falling asleep and it is
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Speaker 3: just it's so many people's favourite ever album right get
39:36
Speaker 3: a candle on and put the lights off and listen
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Speaker 3: to that whole album it's just brilliant I normally.
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Speaker 1: Put the recommendations on when I'm off car on the
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Speaker 1: way home but I'm not doing it with that one
39:45
Speaker 1: if I'm going to fall asleep.
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Speaker 3: Aye just wait till you get Moon Safari Moon Safari
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Speaker 3: by Air, two French guys. It is the most beautiful
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Speaker 3: music you've ever heard.
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Speaker 2: Great.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for your recommendations. Thanks for coming on. We
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Speaker 1: wish you all the best for whatever the future holds.
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Speaker 2: Cheers, Tom. Cheers.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.