Episode 107 - My Son (2021) - The Culture Swally

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Yeah, I'm good, I'm good, all as well. I've not had too many try not to be a boner,
sort of, intrusions on my ex for the known as Twitter feed, I guess, because I've not really been,
I didn't really engage with them before, so I've not had any for a while. One did pop up,
like after weeks and weeks, a boner, one of their posts popped up.

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I think I sent it to you because I was like, "Oh, it's back!"
You sent me a photo of it, thankfully you didn't send me the actual link.
We had some big family news, long suspected that my youngest daughter is own, the
spectrum somewhere, but we thought we would get her formally assessed. And she is, and it's not

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like a massive shock, but at least we know, but the thing is, part of it is she's got this thing called
Path of Ojical, let me just find out, Path of Ojical, Demand of Oidance, in that she doesn't
like being told what to do. So, one of the, sort of, for the WAP things from the assessment centre was

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a lot of literature that she can look at in websites and podcasts and things that she can engage in,
and, you know, learn to understand. Because her IQ is very high, that was the other thing that
they recommended us assessment, they said she's got a really high IQ, and she does do well at school.
But, so, you know, someone who doesn't like being told what to do, doesn't like being recommended

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things either. So, it's like the sort of the head bite in the tail, but, one of the things that
manifests in is she, like metaphors and analogies, just don't make any sense to her. And my younger,
my older daughter is, she's, she's had coursework to do for her GCSEs over the summer. And getting started

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on it, each day is a challenge for her, you know. So, we're sitting at the table. I don't, I don't know
why I decided to go down this path, but I said, you know, there's a book that someone gave me to read
when I first became a manager, like, helped me, called Eat That Frog, right? I might hold the store,
so I was like, oh, what does it mean? And I said, well, I said, the, the, the whole, sort of,

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contention of the book is, if you had to eat a frog every day to, like, stay alive, it's the first
thing that you would do to get it out the way, you know what I mean? So, like, you think of your
tasks as your frogs. And I can see my youngest daughter's eye, but I've given it the Roger Moore,
the corner, out the corner of my own eye. And I said, well, what do you think of that? It's just like,

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why would anybody have to eat a frog to stay alive? And I was like, no, no, like nobody would,
but it's, you know, this is the, this is the contention of the book, like, if you had to, but,
but you would never have to. No, I, I know that, but then it's shippered then, isn't it? Doesn't work?
It's shippered as well. This book has helped a lot of people well. It wouldn't help me because I just
think it's absolutely stupid. So, that's kind of what we're dealing with. But, but notice, that's fair enough.

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Yeah, it's good that it's good that she's had her, her diagnosis and she's, then she's taking it really
well, because she's always sort of known herself that she marches to the beat of a different drummer
to her peer group, you know? So, so she was quite, she was quite pleased to go into the assessment and,
and get like, the sort of diagnosis, and there's a few things that which we can sort of suggest to her

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that she'll, uh, turn down because of her pathological demand avoidance. And, uh, yeah, get her to
where she needs to be. So, that was her big, or a big news. This, this, this, last couple of weeks.
Very good. Oh, very good. Well, at least, yeah, at least that's, um, there, uh,
culture, so I, they wasn't on the recommended podcast. I suppose I thought I thought I'd think we'd

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be recognised as a source of, uh, autism information, not yet. Maybe after this episode, we'll
maybe, I don't know, I've got a story about, um, seagull insurance, so perhaps not.
Yeah, and I've got one of that steak pie. Um, what are you giving up to? Yeah, I'm fine. Uh, nothing's

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usually exciting, just, uh, yeah, busy weekend, um, nothing, nothing exciting to report.
I'm afraid to just say more. Same old, same old. So, well, shall we see in all? Shall we see what has been,
what has sat in the things that have been happening in Scotland in the last couple of weeks?
Cute, the jingle.
Hello, this is the Outdoor Heavily's Broadcasting Co-operation. And here is what's been going on in the new.

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Of course, I think, I think probably the most significant thing, obviously, has been the riots in,
which haven't, which haven't been in Scotland. They'll have seen a lot of people kicking off
on the socials because the media keep reporting these riots as the UK riots and people are coming on
saying, uh, excuse me, there's no rioting in Scotland and there's no rioting in Cardiff in Wales.

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Um, but that is rioting and they'll fast.
And I think, the thing that kind of makes me laugh about the riot, I shouldn't laugh about
rap, because writing is not funny. Um, apart from a guy getting hit in the nuts of the brick,
that was really funny. But what makes me laugh about the riot and then bellfast is they made this
big thing about sort of extreme sort of Catholics and extreme Protestants sort of coming together

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to protest against immigration. So, like, the only thing that they hate more than each other are
Asian people. Yeah, shouldn't laugh about that, but yeah, you're right. It's, um, it's just ridiculous.
Like watching it, you'd just like, really, but, yeah, you know, and it's just an excuse for them to go
leave. I know a stuff, like, some robbing wash, Greg's the baker, some bad bombs, you say I should express

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and stuff. Like, it's fucking ridiculous. I think it's like, there's all this kind of well, you know,
they were taking all these people in and it's, it's where their tax, our tax money goes. So the first
thing I'm thinking is, I don't think quite a lot of you guys pay tax. And then the second thing is,
you know, they're a massive drain on the British economy. And I'm thinking, well, why don't you fucking

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go and write outside Buckingham Palace? Because, pretty sure that we pay that the British tax money,
probably not quite as much as, I don't know, I'm absolutely ignorant of it, but I'm sure, but we're
talking millions and millions and millions of pounds a year on the Royal lifestyle and millions and
millions of pounds a year on housing, desperate asylum-seeking people. But they're all like, they're all like,

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they're all like fierce, royalists, just contradictions every one of them, but anyway, we look at
the royal family bringing so much money from to just some Greg and stuff like that. But that's a thing,
that's a, just, they're saying, you know, these, these men that are coming in, haven't been
background checked, there could be pedophiles and protect our kids and I'm thinking, well,

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at least one member of the royal family is suspected of being a pedophile or at the very least
of nons and we're quite, you know, you're quite happy for the his wages to continue.
Okay Greg, so what have you seen in the news from Scotland this last week that it's caught your eye?

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And you'd like to share with me in our lovely list. Okay. And so my first story this week, so a few
weeks, a couple of, was it last episode, there are a couple episodes ago where we're talking about the
Glaswegian Glasgow airport hero, word of many, but the one who is perhaps the most famous, I guess,
what about a word off the back of it? John's meeting? Yeah. So John has been voted the most famous

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person in Scotland on the 7th of August in a day, the record. He fended off fierce competition
from the viral umpa limpa from the disastrous Wonka experience and he even beat out Shrek.
So the report, the reporter begins, if someone asked you who you think the most famous person in
Scotland is, who would come to mind, would it be veteran, the late veteran actor Sean Connery,

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or perhaps the tennis superstar Andy Murray? Some might even choose national treasure and internet
star, the Rene Kelly. These would all be good options, but none of them won a recent poll and read it.
At the beginning of August, a social media user who goes by supermarket, super salt,
posed that very question in the Scotland subreddit is part of a series of polls that put together to

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identify the most well-known places, people, dishes and sites in the country. They all started
when they asked their fellow scots to name the most famous landmark in the country, and forum
users voted for the M74 penis trees. You familiar with the penis trees? Yeah, rather than
so for anybody who's not familiar, basically just off the M74, as I think it's maybe around

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eco-fecan or Lezmehago or somewhere like that, there is somebody at some point in the last 100
years, thinking it was a great laugh as planted as small forest in the shape of a cock and balls.
It has certainly been there for as long as I can remember, and it's nice that a landmark,
if you live in Glasgow and you're travelling up from the south because it tells you that you're only

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about 40 minutes from home. So the penis trees beat out fierce competition from Edinburgh Castle
and the fourth rail bridge. Voting for the most famous person from Scotland was even more heated
than the landmark poll with over 761 comments received on the post, but overall winner,
none other than the heroic Glasgow airport baggage handler John Smeaton, the subject of arguably

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one of the most famous daily record headlines of all time, quote, "I kicked a burning
terror with so hard on the balls that I tore a tent in my foot." John, I wasn't actually John Smeaton
who did that, it was Michael, oh come on, we second name, Michael Care, but obviously John was in
the story, so very much not familiar with John in 2007 to extremist numpties try to blow Glasgow airport

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up by driving a sort of a state car full of gas cylinders into the terminal. John was off
juteine on a break when he spotted two men driving the burning car full of explosive gas cylinders into
the airport entrance. He immediately ran over to help shout in "Fucking Monning!" and, uh,
and, oh it does say that he kicked one of the terrorists, Kafele, Ahmed and the crotch. John also

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helped to drag a fellow have a go hero Michael Care to save the, Michael from Denny had been left
lying beside the burden Jeep with a broken leg, after also kicking Ahmed, sorry the bad day for
Ahmed all round really, the first vote for John Smeaton came from a user called, "It's all a bit
mental in it, who wrote" "That guy who kicked the airport terrorist in the nuts?"

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Somebody else then shared a screenshot of a daily record front page below it,
why the third reference John's favourite catchphrase, if you saw a famous catchphrase,
when asked on camera by a journalist that they had a message for would-be bombers they said,
"This is Glasgow, we'll just set up it, yeah!"
It was a, it was awarded the Queen's Galaunchy medal for these are the late Queen's

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Galaunchy medal for his brave actions, presented by the Lady herself at a ceremony
at Buckingham Palace on the 4th of March 2008, although John was crowned the winner of the poll
by supermarket super salt, there are quite a few other unconventional Scottish figures who received
a lot of votes as well, several people voted for the Wonka Experience Impalumpa, referencing

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the viral actress, Christy, from the Wonka Experience, a disastrous Wonka experience that was
held in Glasgow earlier this year, Christy Patterson that is, she went viral for the
one of the disastrous day, as many said that it more like the meth lab from the Hitchell
Breaking Bad, than where the Wonka's magical chocolate factory, another person suggested Shrek,

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when someone else chimed in with William Wallace, Rabby Burns, Sean Connery,
Billet, Sean Connery or Billy Connery, they were told off for being too sensible, if they can
let, if they can let's do it seriously, said the respondent, "After the penis trees, you shouldn't
really realise how the tone's gonna go!"
Mrs Doubtfire, Susan Boyle, Wee Frankie, clanky, sorry, wee Jolly clanky, sorry,

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Rabby's seen as but in Super-Gran also received votes, but not enough to not
Jones meeting off the top spot, sorry Super-Gran, and well done to Jones, so anybody else
should have put in there than the ones that were mentioned for famous Scots, like unconventional
famous Scots? -Unconventional famous Scots, I mean, I don't know, I'm trying to think of

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top of my head, I mean, Groundskeeper Willie, but I guess he's a fictional character, so...
-So, but so are Shrek and Mrs Doubtfire, so I think you're right.
-Oh, that's true! -Yeah, that's very true actually, I think, kind of covered quite a lot of
the bases there, I mean, is there anyone you would call? -I think we've had a few people
over the years on the Swally, like the girl who got the Gregs tattoo, the R-s, she was famous for

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if she was famous for a few minutes, that's it? -Yeah, famous for a few minutes, that's true.
-That's true. -And the women who had the combat signal to be open or chippy, to remember?
-Inverness, that's right, brilliant! -And then the other women in
Inverness who got a chippy-windows pan then for not being gleeful stricken when the queen died?

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-I don't know if she's a hero though, I think. -It's just the most famous person, is it?
-I guess so, I guess so. I mean, you'd have to go some to be a man who kicked a burning terrorist
in the box, arguably prevented what could have been a real catastrophe. -Yeah, I think John
Spieten is definitely a top contender in terms of the, for what he did, and yeah, I think very

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big thing. I do like those polls and things though that obviously nobody takes it seriously,
and are commenting, and stuff like that. -Yeah, it's fun. -Yeah, we picture the penis trees on
our Instagram later because I've got a feeling that people who haven't been to
Scott and before will think that I'm making it up. -But I'm really not. -It's true. -It's been there for,

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like, it's been there for at least 46 years, if not longer. Anyway, that was my first story,
for less episodes, what are you starting us with this week? -My first story is from the Scottish
Sun this week, Greg, and the headline is, "Every Little Helps". A shopper has been left stewing.
After a little stake in Gravy Pie wrecked his £5,000 national. Ricky McConnell,

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Ricky McConnell, 61, told how he'd "bitt into a bone the size of a pinky nail,
breaking two of his twinkling pearly whites". The stunned charity worker have been tucking into
the meat dish bought at the store in Springburn, Glasgow. He recalled, "All of a sudden, I hear
crunch, and I'm like, 'Oh my God, I broke my teeth!' Shocked Ricky complained to store bosses about

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stake in Gravy Pie incident, and he said, 'The tome, we've sold over a million of these pies,
and we've only ever had two complaints. I've wanted to know what the other complaint is, like,
cursing his luck, Ricky added, 'I've got more chance of winning the lottery. I don't think
you do, Ricky. I think the chances are winning the lottery are something like £14 million to one of these."

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Ricky had travelled to Turkey just weeks earlier to get his brand new teeth, but he now faces
forking out £8,314 at a very specific number. On another trip, to get a replacement set, he said,
"I wanted better looking teeth, and I better smile. The only way to get them repaired is to get
new ones in, because it's all one unit. He has now threatened a retail chain with legal action.

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Last night, a little spokesperson said, "Following contact from the customer, the matter was
escalated to our quality assurance team who investigated with the supplier. We pride ourselves on
having thorough procedures to ensure our products of the highest possible quality. While great
care is taken to remove all bones, it is possible for small pieces to remain. For this reason,

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the packaging includes a clear warning, that's you fuck." So yeah, poor guy, just got his brand new
Turkey teeth, bites in his little staking gravy pie, there he is, smiling away with his teeth and
holding a pie. So it's how his teeth fix then? Well, no, he's not really smiling fully, so I can't
really see which teeth is broken, but I think if you're biting into it, it must be used to some of

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those front teeth. Yeah, so that's a bit of a bastard, poor Ricky. It's gonna have to go all the way
back to Turkey again. I've seen, ever since I've learned that this was a thing, this Turkey teeth
business. I see it every day I know. People like I work with and stuff, that just suddenly turn up one
day, and it's something different. You know, the real eyes of the parties, he's like teeth put in. Yeah,

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it's a bizarre, I mean I can't say anything, because my front 40s are video-friendly, but yeah, so I
can't actually say anything, but they're not like, when you see the Turkey teeth, they are filed
to just things, whereas I, the only reason I've got it is because I had a massive gap in the middle.
Of my teeth, and when I was 17, I got two vanillers put on to space out, and then I needed them

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replaced after about 10 years, and this is when I was in Dubai, and the dentist was like, I would recommend
you get them smaller, and you get the other teeth done as well, just to make it symmetrical and nicer,
so I was like, yeah, why not? So I got them done. Okay, so that was it. So, I had to do anything like that.
Yeah, I've got a bit of a teeth thing, though, you know, some people, they're just really terrified

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of certain types of pain, like for me, it's like my teeth, they thought of having a broken tooth
or something, and they haven't got the dentist, and I had to be like, I don't, I really, really don't
like, go on at the dentist, and the other one is like my eyeballs, like I can, like putting drops in my
eyes is really difficult, because I just, I've been thought of like, you know, like, you see, some people

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like, will like touch their eyeball, like, guess me, the boat, just like, yeah, okay, so when, when,
my, my, many, that all weird, quirky, for the, you're, you know, I don't think there's anything wrong
with that, like, you know, this, that's fair enough, I've, I've got no problem, like, if I've got an
eye lash that I can feel on my eyeball, I've got no problem opening and poking around to try and get it,
no, no, um, yeah, I just, I just, I'm, I just, I'm blanket out, like, furiously, blinking it out,

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it's not worth it, so when you go to bed, you feel someone in your eye, and you're like, oh, you're
bastard, I'm gonna have to, you sort this out, I'm not gonna sleep, but when your eyes shut, you know,
yeah, yeah, but it's still annoying in your head, in your like, trying to not blink, but yeah, it's,
it's, um, quite infuriating, when I was about, when I was about 17, I had a weekend job, uh, working on, uh,

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like a boarding canals, and I started, like, kind of laboring, you know what I mean, like, so that,
a, a little bit of sort of, kind of, kennel cleaning and sanitizing and mostly it was just,
they sort of like, all jobs and stuff, and I remember I was carrying a slab one day, and, uh, something,
it was quite windy and I guess, something like a bit, a, a little stone or a bit of dust,
a sharp bit of dust or something blew off and, and, and, and screw, kind of, scraped my eyeball,

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and of course they need to put like, I sort of die into your eyeball so they can see where, where the
wound is, and then I had to put like, gel straight onto my eye, um, that's fucking horrendous, like,
they just, look, they were like, thinking about it. Oh, do you? Never mind. Okay, it's a bit,

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clock recording. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I struggle, but that's seen in that film as well.
Yeah, yeah, never mind. Okay, so yeah, so that's poor Ricky and his teeth, so I hope you get some
fixed and you'll be very careful when he's biting into a steak pie from that one. Exactly.
Well, so have you seen this one? Uh, so we've had a few, over the years, we've had a few stories

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about Scottish seaside seagulls, um, anyway, what we, the last one we had was about the ex-sale gullies
of Aberdeen, which, uh, I'm quite disappointed that it hasn't caught on that phrase, it's quite funny,
but this, uh, is one from the Scottish sun on the 4th of August, swoop and sandwich.

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Scots seaside cafe offers seagull insurance, as does, there's dozens of customers keep having their
toasties stolen by dive bombing birds. Uh, so this is Sam Lang, the proprietor of the cheesy toast shack.
If the pay an extra, if you pay an extra 50p for your sandwich, if a seagull next it, you'll give you
a replacement free of charge. It reckons the hungry raiders feast on up to 30 of his lunchtime

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favourites daily by dive ball, dive bombing diners, it's, it says, it says, it says, it says, it's an
Andrews, uh, in five. He said, uh, he said a t-shirt made for his cheesy toastie shack with a cartoon
of a seagull on it with sunglasses on. I wonder if he's, I wonder if him and the seagulls are collaborating.
Uh, previously he paid for replacement sandwiches out of his own pocket, but he admitted it is unreal

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that it's come to us. The seagulls are insane here, they're a real pain and it's a big problem.
On a busy day, customers are standing in line for an hour to get a toastie. I mean, that, I would,
there's fucking no way I would stand in line to get a toastie. You'd be quick at going home
and making one yourself.
You know what I'm, and I would. Uh, on a busy day, customers are standing in line for an hour to get a

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toastie and every single day seagulls are stealing them. I used to replace them with no questions asked,
but that's costing us too much money now. Can't afford to do it anymore. The seagull insurance would
give them a better protection and mean they get a new toastie straightaway. Sam has also installed
eagle shaped kites and birds of prey sound effects, but they haven't worked. Uh, he's warned that

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people have been left with cut fingers after birds have attacked them. It's not a joke anymore.
I'm addicted to the fur. Uh, I'm worried that it'll keep the customers away. The Scottish
sons reporter saw one of the seagulls spill racial priors kind of eye and brew while dashing off with
her pals mac and cheese toastie. I wish I thought it's the mac and cheese toastie. I've, uh, look, I like

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mac and cheese, right? However, when I was at the toldry in February, that's the first time I've had
a macaroni pie and it'll be the last time I have a macaroni pie. So I think I'm just going to
stick with just mac and cheese, right? Yeah, I don't fancy you in a toast. I think the toast would have to
be that the bread would have to be really, really super toasted. So it's going to be the soggy,
really quickly otherwise, isn't it? I think, yeah. Yeah. Worcester Pat Dodds, 76, who has worked at the nearby

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harbor cafe for 41 years said that the birds sit in the roof and wait for someone to come out.
They'll take anything they can. Sea side stall owner Tony Gough was gutted when his bacon roll was
nabbed after after being left unguarded for just a few seconds and he has to keep sponges and
cloths to white bird shits of the pictures he sells to tourists. He warned. He warned. What's the answer?

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I've got no idea, but there needs to be action because it's getting pretty horrific. Um, I think
what's the end of the story? There's lots of pictures and videos with a story. There's a picture of a
mum who's just taken a photograph of a seagull. It's literally sitting on our daughter's face,
taking a hot dog out of her mouth. Oh, this is Lucy Stewart. She said, we had no idea how big a problem

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this was. Those of people who've gotten in touch since I posted the picture to tell me about their
own seagull encounter. Um, a frightened mum says she's being terrorised by a rudy seagull next to
the outside of her foot door, which the council won't remove. I'm sorry, but the picture of this
seagull is sitting in some like overgrown grass out of this wooden store and it's given her this like

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mad side eye. Is she taking a picture? She's a classic squawk in her. Um, yeah. I mean, we have, we have
litigated uh, Scotland's, well, not to Scotland's, I'm sure it's not just Scotland, but certainly
with me there's an Aberdeen, there's like seagulls like Albatross flying around Aberdeen and they

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pretty brazen, but um, I have to say it's one thing about living in the living near the sea in
Scotland that I don't miss. To go back to this gentleman, so he's charging 50p extra in shootings
on its Tuesday. How do you prove your toast is been nicked? Like you're not just paying 50p and
then you're getting another free toast day, isn't it? Right. But then can you be ours? Because then

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you got to join the queue for another hour. I think you've spotted perhaps a flaw in his, um,
his plan, the end of the cake, so I'm sure there'll be a few people that will, I mean, I'd imagine that
most people who are visiting the sea season that Andrews are probably nice, sort of touristy type
people that are coming to visit the home of golf and, and are above such dishonesty, but you know,
sure that they want her to. But then it, what is sort of shines a bit of a light on? Is it if he's,

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if he's asking for a 50p insurance, then that must be what it costs him to make a toast day, right?
Great bread, jeans, fill in whatever. So then he's not mentioned in the article how much he's
selling the toast before. I bet. Yeah, because he's got overheads as well. Of course he's got a
make a living. He's saying he should just be making free toast days. No, no, no, of course not. But,

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you know, you know, you don't want people to know how much your costs are when you're selling
something, you know, because people don't account for the things that you've accounted for, you know,
just be like, oh, yeah, fucking foot pads, charging me, they, for 50 for a toast day when it's only
costing you 50p to make it. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. So, yeah, so the cheesy toast, they shack, there's

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a little plug for your man's little restaurant later in the beaches and Andrews. Then he'd go
buy one of these lovely t-shirts. Oh, you can buy his t-shirts or a tote with the sea golf on it,
on his, um, his website, but there's no costs there. Not me if I look on TripAdvisor. It's always a good
sign. It just says price range five to seven dollars. So, for a toast day, I don't know. Yeah. So,

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he's probably charging about, I don't know, four pounds, maybe. I think he's struggling with a charge
more than four fifty for a toast day, even in some Andrews. Yeah, yeah, would you think so? Anyway,
enough about his, um, his pricing strategy for his toast. You know what he's doing?
Kind of shouldn't have gone down that rabbit hole there, maybe. I'm sure he knows what he's doing.
Anyway, that's my, yeah, sure. Second and final story of this week, where you got, take this home.

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Okay, my second story this week, um, I should have saved this for October, Greg, but I couldn't
sit in it for until then because it just happened this week. You know, it's on a daily record, they
have a section. So, news, Scottish news, and then they have subsections, and this subsection is
under the supernatural. I have to have a check and see what else is on there. Okay, so this is from the,

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the daily record this week. A Scott seller is advertising a one-of-a-kind vampire hunting kit
up for sale with all the essentials needed to fight off the supernatural creatures. The unusual items
comes in a vintage, globe-trotter leather suitcase, which is lined with tartan material, and there is
a photo, and indeed is, I'd say it's more of a briefcase than a suitcase, but it is indeed lined with

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tartan material, and all the items are out there. So, inside the suitcase is two wooden stakes,
which is ideal for ensuring a vampire is dead, a mallet, a steel axe, and a compass all featuring
Christian crosses. Alongside these are what appears to be a bible and a depiction of Jesus on the

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cross. Other items include a small vintage mirror, because of course vampires don't have reflections,
and small binoculars in case the potential creature is being hunted from far away. How are you
going to, so you'll spot it, but then what are you going to do with your stake? But the kit also
includes items to make sure that the budding hunter has a chance to escape an attack with a small

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bottle of holy water and lentils. Reports, Classical Life. Do you know that legend has it that vampires
have OCD? So, if they're attacking you, you throw a load of lentils at their feet, and they'll have
to stop and count them. I've never, I've never, ever heard that in all the vampire movies that I've

(29:37):
seen over years, books that I've read, the rental factor has not been part of the story.
So, the item is being sold in Glasgow, which has had its fair share of tales regarding vampires
over in the years. In September 1954, there was said to have been a seven-foot tall vampire with
iron teeth roaming the Gorbis. I heard about that. Yeah, I heard about that, yeah.

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Children told tales of the beast, not that kind of beast, which was said to have kidnapped and murdered
two young boys and feasted on their corpses, spooked by the rumours, hundreds of children descended
on the city's southern necropolis to hunt for the Gorbals vampire. Armed with blades, crosses,
steaks and dogs, they prowled the graveyard for three days until poor weather made them lose their

(30:23):
chest. So what? But the active mass hysteria, or maybe the truth of the vampire, has since been
ingrained in Glasgow folklore, with a mural of the supposed creature now located in the Gorbals.
Anyone concerned about the possibility of vampire infestation in the city can buy this kit,

(30:44):
listed on Facebook Marketplace for 175 pounds.
No, it's crude with the history. The description reads, "Pick up an unusual gift, a vampire hunting
kit with a Scottish team." I mean, the only thing Scottish is that it's in a tower.
I mean, I could start knocking these out myself. "Pick up an unusual gift, vampire hunting kit with

(31:04):
a Scottish team." The kit is enclosed in a vintage globe-torture leather suitcase with the
integrity of the inside left alone to see the originality of the case see the photos. Then he just
lists what is in it, which they've already said in the article. "It's one of a kind, not too many
out there like it." Well, if it's one of a kind, then this definitely... Okay, not out there like it,

(31:27):
I thought many... Easy to carry around two casemessor 17 by 12 inches by 5 inches deep.
So there you go. You could get your hands on a vampire hunting kit if you want to. I love the
attitude of the little, of the young, garbless kids. We're on a mission from God. As long as the
age stays after. The young team descended armed with blades, crosses, dogs and dogs. They should have

(31:55):
they didn't take lentils with them. Did you ever see, you know, like your old buddy, a
technical joke? Did you ever see his vampire teeth that he had? Yes, I did actually. They were like,
they were, they were like, they had them like, made, they took like a mold of his teeth to make these,
to make them. He ended up, he ended up losing them in the car park and am a dais. Oh Jesus.

(32:17):
One night, unfortunately. What did he do with them? Just, just stick them in and pretend he was in
buffet of vampire slavery. I think, I think the objective was to make himself interesting to women.
So, you know, because they would go for a night out with them and they'd just pop them in and hope
that they, like a nice looking girl would see them and come over and talk to them and think that he

(32:41):
was sort of when swept and interested in with these vampire teeth and then he could maybe get a
lumber. You know, I think that was, I think that was, that was, I can't think of any other reason why
it wasn't like a member of any sort of sort of vampire film, we in-actimate groups or, or like,
vampire clubs or anything like that is, I mean, in the, in none of his friend group as far as I could

(33:04):
see, and it obviously been a member of his friend group were into any of that sort of thing. So,
he did dress like one of the lost boys to be honest with his leather trousers or his really, really,
really tight jeans before, really, really tight jeans were fashionable and his bespoke leather sort of
trench coat and his cowboy boots. Yeah, I guess the teeth did fit him quite well. I just don't, I guess

(33:27):
you're heavily relying on getting a goth girl. Well, this is it. Into that. There was a girl that he
was going out with once that he met in Nottingham who came up a few times and went for a night out
with them and she insisted that he led her about with a dog lead and we were stood, okay,
we're much clubbling in the palace or something like that, we're still telling her to drink,

(33:49):
and he says, I just got to toy that you, which might hold in the lead and I was like, there is
fucking, there is absolutely no way that I am going to hold this lead. What the fuck? I don't know,
it's just into some weird stuff. I mean, the, the, the, the, the, the best thing with him was when he
decided to change his look. He bought like a pair of like sort of silver sketches, a gray pair

(34:15):
of combat trousers and a gray t-shirt and, and you know, he felt like he'd, he'd change his look.
Which I suppose he had, try to be so versatile for, so, he sort of looked like a, he kind of,
like a kind of forwarded a pensioner. You know, this vampire, the vampire teeth were lost by this
point and that was, this was, oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, so we can't go for a piss for your hold to

(34:40):
the lead for it. I mean, I don't know what somebody that knows me sees me. You know what I mean? Yeah.
You're a record come by. I could never fucking live it down. You were still be taking a piss out
before it. No. And rightly so, taking a piss out before it right now, you know, it's like 25,
23 years later, whatever the goal was. Absolutely shocking. Anyway, never mind, good old

(35:03):
technical joke. So yes, that is the, the vampire hunt and kit that you can get. Yeah, so is that
everything that you've got this week? That's everything that I've got. The only other thing,
I'm not going to read the whole story, but I just find this really amusing. It is an article from
Edinburgh Live this week and there was a cherry picker that sunk into the pavement on, on Leashwalk

(35:26):
on 4th of August, 2023. And the cherry picker was removed, but there's still a massive hole in,
in the ground. And what the council did is they put a fence sectioning off this collapsed manhole.
And it's been there for a year. So on the August the 4th, 2024 locals put balloons and cards on the

(35:46):
fence to wish the happy birthday. Those are photo there of, yeah, balloons and they put up a
bunting happy birthday. And there's a few first birthday cards on it. So I just thought that was
quite amusing and never underestimate how humorous us slots. Absolutely.

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of this episode. Okay Gregg, so it was your choice on the swally this week, so why do you tell us
what we're going to be talking about today? Well, I went for something both.
Reasonably recent, which doesn't happen that often in the swally. I went for a film from 2021,

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which you can see on Netflix, The Mystery Thriller, written and directed by Christian Cario.
It's a remake, an English language remake of his own 2017 French film "Mont Gason",
and it stars James McAvoy, Claire Foy and Gary Lewis, and it tells the story of Edmund

(38:28):
Murray played by McAvoy and his ex-wife Jones, a little boy who's gone, this who's gone missing from
camp on the banks of a walk up at Wilk Harbor, and the frantic search and struggle to bring him home.
So, I'm kind of being circular in circling this one for a wee while. I kind of avoided it because I

(38:53):
thought it's going to be so fucking bleak, and just before we continue, we're going to ruin
like this film with spoilers, so if you haven't watched it, probably want to stop this then just now
and then pick us back up again once you've watched it. But I would, I don't read anything about it.
Yes, it's, yeah, I thought, "It's going to be fucking bleak" and you know, like missing kids and

(39:18):
it's a French writer, so it's unlikely to have a happy ending. But you know, I thought, no,
I'll just watch it because it's got a good cast, I'll just pick it. And I watched it with the
joy of think of my son, not my son, but the film my son had.
Purpose, this is kind of similar to you. I'd been on my radar for a while, but I'd kind of

(39:40):
been avoiding it because exactly the same as you, I'm like, "It's going to be bleak."
It looks bleak. It's about a guy whose son goes missing. It's, it's not going to be a live
minute or anything. And I watched it and I hadn't read anything really about it. All I knew was,
it's James Markovoy and his son was missing. I didn't realize the big kind of, not talking point,

(40:01):
but the big kind of, yeah, USP about this film, which I guess we'll just talk about.
I know because I had written down quite a few times in my notes a couple of scenes in particular.
I was like, "Fucking hell, like this is a French writer and director, but MacAvoy's performance
seems so natural, like in particular in one scene, the way he's swaying and using it is like

(40:23):
punctuation." I'm like, "This is exactly how someone would talk like in Scotland, like it's so
fuel so natural." So finished the film and thought, "Wow, that was, that enjoyed that." And then I read
it back to it and read that James MacAvoy's performance was completely influenced in terms of
all the other cast had scripts, but he was given like six plot plots and just told to improvise,

(40:47):
run with it, no dialogue, no script, it often did, you know, two, three takes of things.
And so I had to watch it again, watching for that in his performance and you can totally spot it
the second time round. But it's so natural again and feels so good in some of the reactions of
the other actors. I mean, hey, we'll talk about them. They had to really put in a performance as well.

(41:10):
reacting to some of the things he was saying in a way. But I mean, we'll talk about that. But
did I enjoy the film? Yeah, I did. I really enjoyed it actually. I really enjoyed it. I enjoy the
as well, but I think I enjoyed the sort of second half of the film a lot more because there's a shift
in the kind of tone of the film where it goes from sort of tense emotional search for a child

(41:38):
and kind of becomes mictaken. And it turns when he arrives at O'Connor's place
who he's tracked through the van drover in the photographs. And it's sort of it's sort of
big a start to sort of channel. He's in our lean decent that we bit for a couple of scenes layer.

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And the funny thing was I was I watched it with my daughter. So I got to say the school holidays are
on at the time of recording and my daughter's mates are away. So she's you know, she's a boss soul. And
she came down. So I had it on. I think she missed maybe the first because it's not a very long film. I
think she missed maybe the first 20 minutes, 25 minutes. And she came down and she's sort of half

(42:23):
watching it. She's kind of on her phone and then McAvoy gets the welding torch out and her
her attention was peaked and and she watched like she watched it to the end. And she got quite
invested in it in the way that you know somebody hurried you would like why is he doing that? Why
did you not just go and do this? Why is he doing that? You know, because like the last the last

(42:50):
20 minutes, 25 minutes are quite exciting, you know, it's like a different movie really I think,
you know, the beginning there's a lot of quite long scenes of dialogue, you know, they
scenes of dialogue between McAvoy and CleoFoy and then between McAvoy and Gary Lewis and then McAvoy

(43:10):
and Tom Cullen as Frank and then you know, it just like the tone just sort of shifts and it was
quite welcome because the film is a little slow to get going, you know, it's a wee bit slow to get
to get off the blocks and but when it gets going it's it was good, it was enjoyable. I think it's maybe
slow initially, they're trying to kind of put out a few, I don't know if you're wrong, I enjoyed this

(43:33):
film but I do have issues with it as well. There are a few plot holes, there are a few things that
just don't go anywhere. I did quite like the fact there are, there's quite a few red herrings that
they put in initially. So you do think, well Frank's obviously, but yeah, and then at one point you're
thinking, "Mmm, is Inspector Boy?" Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got something to do with this and who's the
woman in the police station? You know, and it's, there's a lot of things that you're kind of, it's

(43:58):
throwing at you that don't go anywhere but they are just red herrings and it's okay, it is very
convenient in terms of the way that he discovers the guy with a land draw for himself. But there's quite
few elements that don't go anywhere either. Like they, they mentioned like Ethan had been having issues
but I presume that's related to the, the baby that was coming and that's maybe what they were talking

(44:23):
about. And then Inspector Roy mentions Ethan was ill a couple of years ago and Maca voice,
"Oh yeah, we went to North America and had a great time." Okay, but that was never mentioned again
in terms of what was wrong with him or what happened. So there's a couple of things that are a little
bit don't go anywhere. So I mean, it's great because it is only 95 minutes long but you could have

(44:44):
you got it even shorter by taking out a few of those things or there are quite a few scenes that do
seem to go on a little bit and you know, you get Maca voice walking somewhere and it does follow him
quite a lot. Yeah, you could have shortened it a little bit but do you need those scenes to add to
the tension as well? Well, I think, you know, the one thing that I didn't realize was at the end of the

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film, you know, there's a nice scene on the beach with Claire Foy and the wee boy that plays Ethan
in Maca voice and then Gary Lewis comes to take him away. Now I thought it was because obviously he's
taken a welding torch to a man's bare feet, right? Not another man unconscious and even though it was
all done in the name of finding his son, I thought when perhaps in the interest of making it true to

(45:31):
life, Maca voice, you know, he's in trouble for doing that and but he's actually been investigated
because his job is dodgy, which is touched on in the interview scene with Maca voice and Gary Lewis
but it's never touched on again. I mean, never found out why because he says, oh, I work, you know,
in oil, I go to Saudi Arabia and places that I can't take my son, you know, because it's not

(45:56):
like a place for a family but blah blah blah and Gary Lewis asks them if he thinks that his son's
disappearance might be something to do with what he does for a living with his phone, you know,
the whole thing with the phone, I think your phone's bugged, like by who? By his phone's bugged by
like a pedophile ring or, you know, the whole thing with the London police telling, telling Inspector Roy

(46:18):
that he's that he's to drop the case and blah blah blah and there's the not to look for a little boy
anymore. And just like, you know, it feels like this could have been maybe like a three-part ITV
drama, right? A three-part, where all these little things would have been explored a bit more and
stuff but it's obviously not. It's a 90-minute Netflix film and I wonder as well if some of that is

(46:40):
to do with the improvisational nature of the production or if it's being cut down perhaps, you know,
if it's been longer initially and it's been cut down. I don't know but it definitely, it loses a
bit of its heft with these sort of loose ends, I think. Well, to add to the other point, there is a

(47:02):
bit where he calls Leah, his girlfriend and she explains that like the office has been rated and they
take in the Iraq files and I thought it was a bit unclear at the end because the same as you, my initial
thought was, right, well, he's obviously going to go in FaceTime for burning that guy's foot because
it's not clear if he's alive or dead because when Joan goes in, he slumped over but of course he's

(47:27):
maybe just passed out with the pain. It's also not clear. The guy that he tans at the lodge,
if you read the Wikipedia plot, he's not so unconscious. Yeah, it's unclear. I mean, you'd think
getting battered with a fight or extinguish it is probably going to do a fair bit of damage. So I thought,

(47:48):
I did like the fact that initially when I thought, okay, there are consequences to his actions,
he is going to have to pay for what he's done and you never see that normally, at the end of
taking, for example, everyone's just celebrating, oh, you've shot all these people and taken down
these terrorists. But you've got your daughter back. So it's all fine. Congratulations, whereas,

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you know, you never see people actually having the consequences of the stuff that they've done.
Yeah. They have to pay for it. Do you think that, I mean, McAvoy delivers a great performance in
this, obviously, but he is believable, but I don't know, like him going round the house like the
three heavies are kind of roaming around like, would you fancy his chances against them? But he,

(48:31):
well, he's taken one out. He has the, the guy, the guy, Alan, with a big beard that he has the
chat. There's a moment where he has the chance to fucking tan him as well, because he sort of
comes down the stairs. All right, I kind of, he comes down the stairs and he comes out of a room or
something after he's walked past. So the guy's got his back to him. So he had the chance to go and

(48:56):
smack him with the, the big pole that he's carrying and take him out. And the, the, the other guy who
Alan shoots by mistake, Billing, I mean, he seems like kind of young guy who's maybe not 100%
invested in what's going on anyway. So you think that McAvoy might have got the better of him as well,
but I suppose it made for them more exciting escape at leaving one of the guys still on his feet,

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you know? I think there's obviously points that they, you know, I think I read a few things and
watched a few interviews with McAvoy and the director and he would say that the, he would do a take
and the director would say, okay, I like what you did there, but have you thought about doing a
different way of how your character would react and maybe try that? And, you know, there are quite a

(49:38):
few things that I, McAvoy said there wasn't that many things that they did like two or three takes on.
A lot of the time it director was quite happy with what he did. And there was one scene where he did
run a climb up a tree and the director said he was fucking stupid. But the, like the scene where he's
in the kitchen will Frank and you can tell that there's something happening and again, it's great

(50:02):
improvisation. I love the line from McAvoy, at least like you're a very fucking weird man. And then
he just, and then he clocks him. I read a interview with McAvoy and he said that he, he just knew in
that moment that this character was going to get into a fight and it would be natural for him to punch
this guy. Obviously they hadn't discussed anything. So he said, I just, I went and clocked him, but Tom

(50:25):
Column who plays Frank, like knew he was, like he could tell he was about to punch him. So he anticipated
but he flinched the wrong way. So McAvoy ended up clocking him with that punch. But he said a bit
luckily, I, you know, it was a stage punch. I pulled it. But I still managed like connected with him.
So yeah, I think there's a lot of, yeah, interesting things that, um, and choices that were done in terms

(50:50):
of the role. Well, that's another bit actually you reminded me of in that scene that you just
described. You know, so that scene is going to set up to make us think where this Frank involved.
Because it wants to show McAvoy or Edmund McAvoy's character, the blueprints of the house that he's
building. And there's no bedroom for the wee boy that's got missing, you know, you know what I mean?
So it's never really, that's never really resolved. Like, you know, is there a bedroom in just an

(51:15):
ex-anger? He hasn't seen it on the plan or something or whatever. It's never really resolved that
you're left thinking that Frank could be involved in it, you know? Oh, you're actually fucking kidding me.
Where's Ethan's room? Okay.
You put him in the basement? No, we're not putting him in the basement, I can see that you're angry

(51:38):
up, said. You're, hey, hey, hey, she's asleep. She's asleep. And he talked, yeah. And he talked, yeah.
Why? She's asleep. 'Cause my fucking son's missing. Yeah, I'm aware of that. I'm aware that your son's missing.
He's also my son. I love him very much. Don't, I fucking don't. Don't what? Don't tell me he's your son as well.

(51:58):
Well, as, be honest, he's been, it's been more of my son than he has yours than last year, isn't he?
You're a very fucking weird man. What have you done with my son? I've done nothing with you.
The fuck have you done with my son? I love your son.
It's a big house with the master bedroom and a basement he's going to turn into a
games room. I'm pretty sure he'd have more than one bedroom upstairs. So there's definitely going to be

(52:23):
a room for Ethan. And you do see later on when he's watching the videos that they're at the
plot with Ethan. And explaining, you know, how the house is going to be and he seems excited. And
that's exactly as June, Tess later on, you know, or June, sorry. You know, Ethan was excited about it.
We all discussed it as a family. So I think in that moment it is maybe just there's a little red

(52:44):
herring. So you think, oh, yeah, Frank Stodgy, but obviously then it's kind of resolved and he's not.
And of course, it's never seen again, but he is in hospital with a couple of broken ribs.
Well, well, he's kind of a fraction here when the videos stoke me when, um, yes, everything.
How does Edmund manage to guess the code to Frank's phone? And this is that one thing that I'm like,

(53:06):
really, really like, it's not going to be his, um, it's not going to be Jones' date of birth,
is it? Or Ethan's date of birth or something? Like that's unlikely unless it is, that's the only thing
it could be. He's only just met Frank. So how is he going to know? It's ridiculous. So I really did
think that the better thing would have just been that he didn't have his phone locked, but obviously

(53:29):
everyone does, um, nowadays, but yeah, I just, I didn't, that bit really didn't stick with me. And that
was, I've written like, there are quite a few eye-rolling moments, um, which is, in guessing Frank's pin,
can make in the connection of the Land Rover in the two separate videos. Yeah. Like he's watching
videos of his son, he's upset, it's, really, he's spotted that. I mean, fair play, but it was a bit of

(53:52):
a stretch. And then of course, Jones brother who just happens to work for an insurance company, who
can happen to get the address of that this Land Rover is registered to, and will be able to give it to
them at, I mean, it must be like six in the morning. Yeah. That he calls him because she does say sorry
for calling him slowly. And when Edmund's at that farm, it's nine o'clock because you see the time

(54:14):
on Jones computer before she gets her keys to go. So yeah, there was a couple of eye-rolling moments
that I had, you have to suspend a fair bit of disbelief to, to be able to get into that. Yeah, and it's
weird because the film, as the film stars, you know, you kind of get the feeling that this is going to be
a, a very true to life, you know, tale of like the search for this little boy in the, the first,

(54:38):
in the first maybe 25 minutes or so, we, we see them, you know, he goes to the, the box side where
there be campers and it's all taped off. And then he joins the search, you know, with a big line out
and the search through the woods. And Gary Lewis is character inspector, Roy's,
expect, expect, Roy's conducted and then he's interviewed by Inspector Roy and stuff and you

(54:59):
can get the feeling that this is going to be quite a, quite an authentic drama. And then, you know,
like you're, like, exactly as you've said, you're, you're sort of asked to just accept a few things
to keep the plot moving along, you know, which is about the shame really. And again,
come back to what I said before, it's probably been better as maybe like a limited series as opposed

(55:23):
to a 90 minute film, you know. Yeah, yeah, I would agree with you on that actually. I think it might
have been and you could have fleshed out a little bit more in terms of the, you know, the backstory
and things and yeah, in terms of his work. Because yeah, it was just a bit dodgy, like in terms of,
and that's, that's one thing that I thought in one scene in particular, dialogue was a bit funny,

(55:43):
was when Inspector Roy comes around to tell him that he's effectively off the case. And you can
almost tell that that script had been like translated from the original French because nobody talks
like that the way Inspector Roy is talking. And of course, he's like, then we get the call from London.
Well, London wouldn't have any jurisdiction over a police Scotland because it's a different police

(56:04):
force unless it was like the home office or something. But he doesn't say that. It's like an Inspector
McPherson who is the head of the police, as well. The top policeman. I don't know if like
the London police force have a Scotsman in charge of, you know, I don't know in terms of, and maybe,

(56:25):
but I don't know, it just felt a little bit stilted in that way. I'm kind of like,
well, the other thing that's a bit confounding is Gary Lewis's choice of accent that he's doing.
Yes. Because there's the moment in the interview that he's doing with Edmunds where another officer

(56:45):
comes in and speaks in Gaelic about getting hold of his phone. So you think, all right, so
they must want us to think that they're in the islands somewhere, like Shetland,
or Orkney or somewhere like that. But the only person doing that accent is Gary Lewis.
That's what a daughter of an accent, you know, everyone else is, you know, like McAvoy is doing his

(57:08):
drum chapel accent, you know, from Glasgow. Their foie is being English. Tom Cullen is, you know,
he's Welsh, he's being English. You know, the bad guys like we'll call our Fair Gasalan and DARREN
are all evidently wee-gies are from the west coast of Scotland. And it's filmed in Larkarber,

(57:28):
which is up in the Trossics in the west coast anyway. So it's just like, why are you doing that? Well,
I mean, I'll be doing it wrong. You know how fondly I'm a Gary Lewis, but I just like, why are you doing
our islands accent? Why do you think my phone has been turned? Listen, I took two o'clock this afternoon
and they got a call from Glasgow. They asked me to come off this case. I said, why? Why should they

(57:54):
drop this file? Why? You must send me a written explanation. Why I should drop this file? And they
yell at me, shouted me, and I hung up. That's 217. I get a call this time from London, from Sir
Patrick Nelson. This man is higher up than anybody in the police force in Scotland. And he tells me

(58:18):
this case will be handled from London. This time I get a chance to say nothing. He tells me that
this is in everyone's best interest. And that's it. But three o'clock I tell my team we're no longer
involved. Yeah, it did seem a little bit of an odd choice. You're right. I don't know.
Yeah, it did seem a little bit out of place. And maybe he just wanted to try some

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better. Maybe it was like, yeah, I'm gonna let me try this and see if this works. And they've
kind of been like, okay, you know, it is a good accent that he's doing. You know, it's sort of soft,
I'm a waddick sort of islands accent, but it just doesn't seem that he's in the right place.
You know, so I mean, obviously we think that, well, we know that Edmund doesn't really have a

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relationship with his son anymore effectively because the poster that says he's missing, I think it says
November. Yeah, I think so. Um, it's worth it. And he says he's got last spoke to him. He last spoke to
him at Christmas on Skype. So that would be like 11 months, but he does say at one point,
anyway, I'm a bad dad. So yeah, I think definitely is if he's not even seen as son on Skype. And I guess

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Joan does have an out with him that as well, you know, in terms of you just sent a gift for his birthday
and you never see him or anything. So I think, yeah, it's the gift being the drone that they take out
at the end of the film and the beach, right? Yeah. But again, you know, it's all like, well, you know,
we're not going to go, we're not going to look to deeply into Edmund's backstory to understand

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because he's a bad father, but he took his son to North America for a month, went to all the parks,
which went to all the parks of the great laugh. And he's the one that say, and the thing I actually
that I think the film handles quite well because of it, you know, if you're if you're if you're a parent

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and when your children is missing, I would imagine that you're going to want to be as proactive as
you possibly can. It's got to be as good as we're very difficult. Yeah, it must be very, very difficult
to sit at home and wait for updates, wait for the news from the police or, you know, whatever. So they
that all that feel, you know, the way that he acts through the film in terms of like he doesn't

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is just even in these quiet moments, he's being proactive, you know, he's looking at the video, he's
looking at the videos, he's exploring the house that he's that he's staying in, you know, I mean,
which I guess is Jon and there's a house that he had shared with Jon before they split up, right? So
he's looking for clues in the house that could help him. He's joined the search at the start and

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all that kind of thing. And so all that feels, you know, he's thinking, well, yeah, I mean, and with the
big Mac of all, you know, he's a parent. So I imagine that he is channeling some of that into his
performance. Like I can't sit still and need to be doing something until we find them, you know? Yeah,
yeah, no, completely agree with you on that. And you're right, he is doing stuff, um, trying to be

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proactive because that's the thing. Like Frank doesn't seem to give a shit. Like he's, doesn't really
speak in about him. He wants to switch his phone off. He's given Jon, volume, and I, you know, I guess
that's why you're thrown in. It is almost too much of a panto villain that they paint Frank has for
that one day that you are led to think. And he's like, oh, yeah, I've got this shack in the middle of
nowhere. And you're like, okay, so there's that way of eating it. But it's, um, yeah, a bit too much,

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too on the nose, I think, for that point. But you're right, Macaboy does do, you know, he's proactive in
everything that he's doing. And as always, trying to do something. Yeah. Um, and I did like, he did say
terms of like the, the scene, for example, where he's, um, confronting Willie. And he's like, I just,
you know, went in and he's tied up and I'm looking round to see what is there. He's like,

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because obviously the set's been dressed of stuff I should use. So he's like, so I picked up the hammer.
And I was like, okay, I'll use that. And then I saw the blowtorch and I'm like, fuck him using that.
So he said, he said we did actually have to film that twice because I used the hammer. And then
I couldn't get the blowtorch started. So that's it. But that is a brilliant, um, scene. And it just

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reminded me of, it was Bruce Robertson when he's, he's burning Willie's food and Willie's screaming.
And Edmund screams back in his face like kind of a, it just, yeah, reminded me of that. It was just a
unhinged moment. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. I mean, what was I going to say there? The, yeah, sort of. So,
the personal I think is actually really, really good in this. And I've only really seen her in, like,

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I watched a few episodes of the crown, um, worship phase, the young man. I think I think I'd be the
only thing that I've happened to have seen her in. Clear for you. Uh, I think I thought she was,
she's really, really good in this. I thought, you know what I mean? There's, there's, uh, you know,
the seat, and, you know, they, despite the fact that she, she is having to react, you know, like,

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she's got a script. She's probably nobody really knows what Maca Boy is going to say or do. Um,
so she, as much as he has to react to the script, the other actors have to react to some, to
him climbing a tree or whatever, something weird that, you know, yeah. And like, you know, like, I think
the most powerful sort of dialogue scenes in the film are between, are between them because

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despite the fact that there's a short film and there's not a lot of time to establish meaningful,
sort of backstories and things, as a couple who are separated, but making the effort for this little
boy or at least she's making the effort for them and, you know, Edmund's efforts have been somewhat
inconsistent. She, you know, she, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it feels very true to life, you know,

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like she's, um, people trying to keep their patients, try not to say what they want to say because
they know that it will cause a route, you know what I mean? And, and, and a ten situation. Um, yeah,
I thought she was really, really good, like really good in it. I, I, I, she, this kind of got, she
was missing, um, for a while. Unfortunately, you know, there's like a good sort of 20, 25 minutes,

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where she's sort of MIA, but when she, the, the other thing that doesn't reflect well in the script is
when she goes to O'Connor's and she's too late because Frank, uh, because Edmund's moved up,
he's moved on to the lodge and she looks at O'Connor's car and she finds he'll be girl there who she
takes to the hospital. Yeah. Now again, assuming that this is a small community and there's another

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that will get all missing, another kid missing. It's not, it's not mentioned at all, you know,
they know when men say you would think that it would come up, well, there's another little girl missing,
so they'll never got two missing children, blah, blah, that doesn't come up at all. It's just, it's all about,
it's all about the wee boy, you know, so who was the little girl that, um, that Joan found in the
car and took to the hospital? Where, where does she come from and why, you know, why did this, why,

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were they separated by the, the abductors? You know, why was Ethan at the house and she was still in the
car? Is she being picked up later? Then Ethan? Yeah. Yeah. What was going on? Yeah. Presumed so.
I presumed that was the case, but then with there being such a big man hunt on Ethan, why would you be
willing to take the risk to get the other kid? I mean, that's what, well, he says at one point,
the girl need 20 minutes. It's two, yeah, there's too much heat out there and, um, yeah, but it's a big

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risk to do that. So yeah, you're right, but it's, it's never really explained. You just see that
it's another girl and whether we oxygen mask and, you know, and they do mention it, the guys do say,
you know, well, but you really wanted the girl and it's like, well, you know, just take what we've got. Yeah.
Yeah. You're right. Again, another little kind of plot point that's not really clear or

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explained. The same with, I mean, okay, you can suspend this belief in any kind of moment, but,
you know, it's very convenient that Inspector Roy appears. I mean, I know that Jones phoned him,
but for him just to appear at the end, yeah, to save the day. With no backup, just to see these
things, those, you know, yeah, yeah, just there. Pood Edmond's been shot. I did quite like that

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in terms of the, you're not really knowing if, you know, I genuinely thought he was probably gay,
me too. And, and I thought that was another thing that they did do a nice little kind of misdirection
when, when they're playing the cat and mouse kind of in the lodge and the, the guy, obviously,
shoots through the door. Yeah, instantly think, well, that's Jones dead. Yeah. And I kind of assumed

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that was going to happen. So I was quite, I was quite glad it didn't. And it does effectively have a
happy ending that everyone's still alive. Of both Edmond's gone off to prison for a while. But,
yeah, I did think that we're going to kill Jones off. Yeah. Yeah. I'm glad that it didn't because I,
you know, I think, I think Macavoy is good in this, but I think that she is, I think she,

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she really, right? She's, she's the one that really sort of rises to the occasion, I think, can really
give the film real credibility, you know, just where I really strong performance. Yeah. She, I'm glad
that they'd kill her off. And I, and again, surprised because like I said at the start, it's based
on a French film. So, you know, they, the Europeans don't seem to have, I feel the same need for

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everything to be tied up with a boat at the end of movies like the Brits and Americans, do, you know,
they're great happy with it, don't be ending. But, um, yeah. But yeah, I'd be obviously all, it also,
it works out, apart from not, eh, Macavoy goes off to jail, but again, no one feels the need to tell
us exactly why he's gone to jail. What is his job? What is, you know, is he been, is he selling weapons

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to Iraqi insurgents? If he was, why would they keep files in the office and something like that? You
think you'd be, yeah. You think cover your tracks a little bit better than that if you were, if that is
what you were doing. In fact, why would you keep files on any dodgy dealings that you were doing? Yeah,
you know, no, you're right. I think the, you're right. Clear for, for poor men's is, is great. I think

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in particular the scene that I really like is the lot of emotion is when Edmund conspired to the
house and she's asleep in the bed. And they have this argument in terms of she, Tises,
Frank's not pressing charges and it's the way she delivers it. Well, you fucking should, you know,
you beat him up. And I think it's, eh, yeah, the emotion comes out there of the anger. Yeah, he's

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not been around. He's hasn't been part of Ethan's life for years and I think that's, yeah, it's a really
powerful scene. I mean, this is bad enough as it is. I don't know what you're trying to do to me.
I'm not trying to do anything. He didn't, he didn't want me to have a baby.
Ethan? No, of course, didn't.

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Does that make you happy that he hated it? No. Because you're fucking hated the idea.
He hated that Frank had moved in and he hated the fact that you weren't here anymore and the
only person he could talk to about it was me because you weren't here. So I had to deal with our

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son being upset about something that I was really happy about. I'm really sorry about that.
And he gets a better redemption, doesn't he? Because he's the one that brings Ethan home,
essentially. I mean, although, although, all the time turns up right at the very end, just the
nick of time to help get him in the car and drive away and stuff but it's, it's, it's Edmund's sort of

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relentless proactivity, I guess, that is got the wee boy back and he gets his little moment with him
in the beach before he goes away in the car with Inspector Roy. Still no sign of Frank. No sign of
Frank. He's still not always put all these fuck drops. But then there must have been a fear about a time
that had passed in between the end and that last scene because okay, Macavoy is, you know, he's

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shot in the shoulder and although he does do a little flinch, he's still operating the drill. So
you're looking at a good couple of months later, I would have thought. Wait, imagine so for that scene.
Yeah. I mean, that's a thing. I mean, again, if they're trying to, if they're trying to,
kind of root the film in a sense of reality, but I think getting shot anywhere, it's probably

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putting a horse boat for a while, you know, it's not like a flesh wound, like it would be like in
a big hollywood action film. Oh, it's okay, it's just a flesh wound, it's just a flesh wound.
Like a a Donald Trump. Yeah, yeah. Flesh wound. Yeah, totally. So yeah, I mean, there is a bit of a
coming back to the missing picture. It has Ethan's date of birth was 2020, so I thought this was supposed

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to be set in the kind of near future, but reading online apparently it's a mistake and it was
it should have read 2013, unless the film's set in 2027. You see, they should have paid a bit more
attention to detail there, in terms of MacaVloid has all of that improvisation and they can't even get
the fucking date right on a poster that they've put up there. That's just absolutely terrible.

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I could even hear that. So yeah, is there a lot of them? What is that about the Highlands that has all
these beasts roaming around? Quiet. That's a place is to because it's like in under the skin, isn't it? When
the forestry guy just decides to get a guy that you'll have to do some because there's no one about.
Very true. It's no wonder that's where Saval had his little

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accent. Yeah, for sure. So the film wasn't particularly well received by the critics, so it's only
got a 38% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. That feels really low. Yeah. And part of the,
what I think one of the things is that's pointed at it is MacaVloid's improvising, so it hasn't been

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not quite as well reviewed. It's said it's perhaps we've reviewed them, but I read a review on the national
by Greg Erie Wakeman who says that MacaVloid is no script. It's not really, it's bad for her, it wasn't his
experiment, but it says MacaVloid is no script experiment. It's more of a hindrance in my son, the actor

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who plays a Scottish father who's missing son was the only cast member not given a script. So yeah,
he's been given a bit of a stick for it. He said you can't help but wish they'd have tried
including MacaVloid in a process rather than using the gimmick that quickly becomes tiresome.
Apparently in the original film, Karjon did the same thing with his actor who was playing the

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MacaVloid character. So yeah, he's been kind of panelled a little bit, which is, you know,
it's a bit of a shame really because, you know, they don't really see me, they don't get. The last
was the last film that was, they came out last year with Simon L Jackson and we've not done yet
but set in Edinburgh and they got panelled. I can't remember what it was called though, but yes,

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it didn't get very well received at all. Yeah, yeah. We could have like another train spot
and or something, like another critical sort of success, I think, just to remind people that we
can make good films, but because there's been a little small production, the crime was really good,
but I've seen that the second series of crime is only an ITV one. Now, we'd have done that,

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what, last year when it came out in Britbox, it's only just made it to terrestrial television,
you know, so it feels like there's a bit of a, you know, we're sort of starved of good Scottish
drama at the minute, you know, or that big getting, like a prime time audience.
I think, and I've still got to watch it, but it's on my list, I think, you know,

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Rebus was very well received, so I think that's, and in terms of films that been, I think, Caliber was kind
of one of the, the recent bit even that was, that was good, that was like 2017, I think. We'd
have viewed that, we'd have viewed it in 20, 18, it was a couple of years old already, so, yeah,
so that was a good film, that was bleak, that's bleak, as well, as well, yeah, that's kind of what,

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yeah, what's thinking this was, again, that's, I guess, a film of them in two halves,
could you have obviously the great pubs, well, that's take camera and then, yes, then it all goes to
shit, and yeah, that's a great film, I mean, watching that again, something, and I'm watching this,
and that one thing I would say that Caliber does exceptionally well in this is, you know, he's

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got a good eye for the scenery, you know, because the, the Scottish Highlands just look absolutely
spectacular in the film, it is very good, yeah, I watch that on the tally, I don't watch it on
my computer, so I've got, they got quite a big TV, and it just looks, they can, you know, 4K
just look absolutely spectacular. Yeah, no, it did, it looked, it looked amazing in terms of your

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right, the, all the, the countryside and just, yeah, even like, there were a lot of windy roads and
stuff, yeah, it was, it was beautiful, it was really impressed, but I had good, it looked, so, I'd have
to get our culture slowly, road show booked in at some point, so we had to go and, yeah, go and travel
about Scotland and get into adventures, yeah, definitely, well, just not the kind of adventures that

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they got to Caliber, or anything like that, but yeah, family friendly adventures, family friendly
adventures, definitely, but yeah, no, I would agree, it does, it looks beautiful, and even though it's
kind of, I mean, one argument, be I guess, it's meant to be like November time, so it would be a little
bit, plus why is he going to a camp in November? Shouldn't he be at school? Yeah, so, it's a

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little bit, maybe, yeah, possibly, but yeah, I think that, yeah, they did capture the, the beautiful
countryside, yeah, I mean, excellent, even the, even the, the cover for the poster has
McAvoy and foie standing in the pissing rain, that's fucking, yeah, okay, my spider senses tell me

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that we're perhaps coming toward the end of our review of, hey, my son, so why don't we put it through
or swallow the awards? Okay, there's a couple of categories we can't even cover this, we do, yeah,
this is, and there, but yeah, what's first? Well, the first category that we can cover is the Bob
of the Barman award for the best pub, because nobody goes to the pub, and the second category we can't

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cover is the Yume Gregor award for the truth is nudity because no one takes a close off,
but the award we can definitely start with is the James Cosmo award for being in everything Scottish
has to be Gary Lewis, because you're winner, Gary Lewis, I would say, yeah, we're here,
we're winner, although the guy who plays O'Connor does look quite familiar, and I meant to have a

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wee look and see what he'd been in, but I forgot some of my shame. Next one then, the Jake McQuillin
Yertizu award, there are two options here, which you choose, I, I ultimately went with
burning the feet of the kiddie snatcher, I think that was the, yeah, my, my choice, but you could have
quite a few actually, so what about yourself? Well, so I went for the moment just before that when

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Maca voice nicks up on him and sort of attacks him from behind, and that felt like a good tease at
moment, because it was sort of unexpected, and you know, there's also him sneaking up on Yermand DARREN
with a fight extinguisher. Yeah, and I do like that that's done off-screen, so you don't see it,
and I think that's, yeah, I like that. Yeah, yeah, and I guess you've got this a moment where you wonder

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if it's going to be Maca voice, or if it's going to be DARREN, you know, and there's also the boy
Dylan getting shot through the door by his accomplice, by mistake, Maca voice getting shot in the shoulder.
So yeah, lots of choices there, and now the next one is the Francis Big B award for Gratua to swearing,
so I sort of, I can amist one that we've given this award to before, the type of one is a lot,

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there's a lot of f-bombs, and there's the moment that you mentioned, they are they're all in,
where Maca voice sort of punctuating his sentence, like the manager of Rexham, with like,
fucking this, fucking that, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, but what did you go for here? I, as I mentioned,
I did like the when he's in the police van and getting arrested, and just every second word's

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fuck, and I like that, but it's, I think it's the next scene where he's speaking to Gary Lewis, and
he, they're speaking about Frank, and he says either he knows something or he's criminally a fucking
yeah, I just, like, the use of the, yeah, of the language there, I thought that was quite well
delivers, but what about yourself? Well, I, yes, a thing, like, I couldn't really get, I don't know,

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like, I've sometimes, I can neglect this awards by inadvertently, you know what I mean? So like,
whilst they pick up a lot of f-bombs and stuff, I don't really get anything like that,
so I have to try harder on future episodes to get a good one. Next award then,
archetypal Scottish moment, I went with just the scenery and the landscapes, if I thought about it,

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I would have put beasts roaming the islands, but what about you? Well, I've written Child Abduction,
question mark, but then, fuck better over, and I also went with the, also went with the scenery,
because, you know, it's, it is breathtaking and it's, you know, it's, there's no doubt that it's
Scotland, you know, it's brilliant. Yeah, and then the last award then, the Big Time Awards for Who

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Wins a Production? To show that he's always on my mind, I've genuinely written in my notes Greg James Coswell,
and it's obviously, obviously, a mistake, I meant to write James McAvoy, but I've written James Cosmo
about the stakes, so. Always thinking about you, Big Man, always thinking about you. Yeah, I went,

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I agree, you said earlier, Clear Foy delivers a great performance, but I think I had to give it to
McAvoy purely because of the way it was filmed, the improvisation and the performance and dedication to
it, and yeah, and it's his film, kind of thing, so I, yeah, I went with McAvoy. I've written Foy's goods,
but McAvoy, it sort of has to get it, for all the reasons that you have mentioned, you know,

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they probably 90% of the film were just with him, you know, there's, there's a moment, there's a couple
of moments where we're with Joan, right, McChafine, when she comes to O'Connor's house, and she finds
we get all the messier outside the hospital, get a phone and inspect her, raw and stuff, but the rest
of the movie is we're with McAvoy, you know what I mean, through the whole film, yeah, so whilst,

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you know, the kind of improvisational elements don't always land very well, I think the fact that he's
kind of, you know, he obviously must have known that by agreeing to do this, it's kind of putting
his head above the fucking trench a bit, because regardless of the script and the way the story is

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sort of formed with all these sort of inconsistencies and these little things that tape off and
don't go anywhere in this ends, he's the biggest name in the film, so if it doesn't work, it's on him,
yeah, and it's, it's a shame, because that's kind of what's happened here, you know, like the
reviews, he's been the one that sort of, for, for, for, he's been praised, but he's been the one that sort of

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even the director of whose experiment this is, doing it for the second time, hasn't taken as much
stick for the, you know, how unsuccessful the film's been in terms of how it's worked and what not, so
the feel, and I'm sure McAvoy would have known that this, that he was running this risk by going into it,
so I think he deserves the award based on that, because it's a pretty thing to do, you know, and

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a little McAvoy is like, he's, he has a sort of household name, but yeah, he's not, you know, he's not,
like, a human gregar, or a general butler, kind of household name, he does a lot of interest and stuff,
you know what I mean, like, he did the X-Men films, which were really high profile, we did the,
the, the really good, the really good film, with which he's named the, the,

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the M. Lee, uh, Charlemagne, Charlemagne, um, when he plays, I guess it's called, but he plays all
different personalities and the, um, uh, it's him, but yeah, you know, so he's doing, he's, you know,
he's definitely some, an actor who likes to do interesting stuff, you know, and they can, and I think,
you know, without being disrespectful with general butler, that doesn't, doesn't seem like that's his

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objective at the moment anyway, you know, he's, he's kind of doing stuff that probably not going to,
when any Oscars, but we'll probably make about money in North America because of the type of film that
it is. And then, I don't think you make a grigger, does as, as, as interesting stuff as he used to do
when he was a young actor, you know, no. So, you know, so, so, MacAboy is taking a bit of a risk by

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doing one, like, by doing an experiment like this, because it's, it's, it's not as though, it's, you
know, it's not as though that, it's not guaranteed that you come back from a real disappointment,
but the fact that the film has only been on streaming, it's not being, it's not how big a cinema release,
probably, it won't be seen as unsuccessful in the same way that it would have been if it had been

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the, or in the cinema, you know. Yeah. And I think, yeah, it's a good timing for this as well,
because I think the MacAboy's new film comes out quite soon. It's a, a horror that is speaking
away, which is a, a Blumhouse production. So, it's a remake of a 22, 22 Danish film. So,
yeah, I think I did watch the trailer. It did look quite good. So, I might have to watch that,

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but I agree with you. I think MacAboy is a very interesting actor and he does pick pretty good roles.
I did watch an interview with him actually. It was recent and they asked him about his favorite,
favorite role he's ever done. And I was quite surprised. He said it was, um, a tonement.
Oh, really? Was? Or Keela Knightley? Yeah, he said it. Yeah. Um, he said, yeah, he really enjoyed that

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film and he thought it was great. And that was one of his favorite roles. And then he quickly followed
it up with, and also playing Bruce Roberts. Yeah, he was. Yeah. That was, yeah. That was such a fun film.
Yeah, and I remember, I remember hearing that MacAboy was playing Bruce Roberts and then thinking,
"Ah, it's not going to work." Because, you know, MacAboy is kind of boyish in stuff, the way he looks

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and everything else, I thought, "There's no way you ask." Because like, when you, when you first read
Phil, I'd imagine that you'd like me, you probably saw Bruce Roberts in this sort of middle-aged
battle for weight, you know what I mean? This sort of 40, can I wait 40's-ish? Um, it wouldn't
have saw him as like MacAboy. I imagined Bruce Roberts and it as a slightly taller, but with more

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hair, Tosh, for a bit. Yeah, yeah, when I thought about Bruce Roberts. Yeah, that sort of,
that sort of vibe. Yeah, but yeah, you know, he's, he's an actor who likes to sort of challenge himself
and surprise people and, you know, I take my hat off to him for it. Yeah, but I've not loved

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every MacAboy performance. In fact, the film, the film wanted to let you's in with Morgan Freeman,
and she's usually, despite the fact that it's based on a comic by Mark Miller, the
quit-thieness, copenage, comics, author, uh, Mac, I mean, it's not a great film anyway, but MacAboy is
it's fucking terrible in that film. Yeah, they just, it's just, it's just, it's, he's, he's, he's doing

(01:25:50):
American and it was a really early one. I think it was, you know, it's in a couple of years after
Rebes and Shameless and stuff, but, um, yeah, not good, but he's down, you know, the, the, the performances
of his that I've not enjoyed, um, are sort of pissing the pool compared to performances that I have
enjoyed, so. Yeah. So yeah, that was my son if you want to watch it, uh, some Netflix. I think it's

(01:26:14):
some Netflix pretty much everywhere in the world because it's, uh, Netflix, Netflix co-production,
um, with, uh, Peacock, the, um, the, uh, Shrieman Service for, uh, when the big American can kind of
think of it, when the big American CBS, CBS, I don't know. Anyway, I think so. So Peacock, anyway,
if you want to watch, watch in America, um, uh, yeah. So, but, yeah, hopefully you've watched that before

(01:26:39):
you've heard us, um, taken the plot to pieces, but it was my, it was my choice this week. We did think
it was going to be really bleak. Turns out my son is not quite as bleak as one expects it to be, but
that said, I believe we have a public lens are coming up in your choice. We do Greg, we've got something
because I thought we have covered quite a lot of heavy content recently with Fly Scott's Man,

(01:27:00):
Doomsday, Field of Blood. Tommy's Honor was pretty bleak as well. Um, so, um, Gregory's two girls with
our torture computers. So I thought it was time to maybe lighten things up a bit. So on the next episode
of The Culture Swally, we're going to revisit something that we actually looked at back in 2020
because I think it's time that we catch up with the residents of Latin Mayor Crescent as we discuss

(01:27:24):
the very first series of two doors. I am. I am. I am. And I should tell our listeners that that is
available to watch on BBCI Player. Um, if you want to watch it head of us covering it, but yes,
we're going to go and catch up and this has been a long time since we did the pilot. Yeah, so,
I'm just saying, yeah, I'm different vibe and different actors in some places. Yeah. Yeah,

(01:27:47):
it's a very different vibe. And yes, thankfully, a couple of the, well, one in particular is a different
actor, thankfully. So, um, yeah, otherwise the whole show would be cancelled. Okay, so yeah,
so that is series one of two doors down on the next episode of The Swally. Okay, well, thank you very
much for listening everyone. I hope you enjoyed the show. If you want to get in touch with us with

(01:28:09):
anything you'd like us to cover or if you just want to get in touch and say hello, then you can
drop us an email on cultureswally@gmail.com and you can follow us on the socials,
Insta@CultureSwallyPod and we're on X formerly known as Twitter @SwallyPod and we have a lovely website
as well, don't be Greg. You can find us at cultureswally.com for links to all our episodes and some

(01:28:31):
articles and features and Scottish content coming, check us out over there. Fantastic, well,
have a lovely rest of your day Greg. Great. Sundays we record this, we're kind of back on in
a normal schedule, yeah, normal service, you're doomed. I'm off to, I'm off to make a Sunday roast for
a few of the my friends who are Dubai, somewhere bachelor's because their families are away.
So we're gonna do that. Oh, very nice. That's very good. I'll make that a gammon there and I'll

(01:28:54):
spell over by. Very good. Well, enjoy. And, you laugh at that gammon. I still do. I still do.
I still do. Fucking gammon. You know, and you're meaning you're supposed to what gammon has
done, isn't it? Yeah, definitely has, so I think that's why I was laughing at it. Well, you enjoy
your gammon and your roast and I'll see you next time. So, the next thing.
I'm having one of the criminal justice act. You don't understand the man is taking my son,

(01:29:17):
he's been something my son or a fucking no sh*t, I'm gonna be on my life. You've got no pike here.
You're taking me fucking jail and you're taking him in the hospital. Do you understand?
You're having a f*ckin life in the desert, informed of your arrest,
and have access to a solicitor. These right-f*ck you burn up once we arrive at the police station.

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