Episode 108 - Two Doors Down (Series One) (2016) - The Culture Swally

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a Christine. Hello. How are you to take Greg?
It was a very good Christine impression with you. Oh they're Greg you know.
Hello. Hello Nick. How are you? How's it going? How are you today?
I'm fine. Um, another wise dull Sunday morning has been enhanced but you know like when

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when a when a pen comes into your life and you've got no ex you've got no expectations of this
pen but then you're right with it and it's just like a really nice writer and it doesn't have to
be like a fancy pen but I've had a bit of an experience like that. It's just a uni ball fairly
box standards school goes back here tomorrow after some or holidays some of the daughters have been
buying all new stationery and stuff in my youngest daughter who likes to be sort of canny,

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Scottish jeans deep within our DNA. She got the cup bargain like 10 pens for a reasonable price
so she very kindly let me have one and it's a it's a it's a built-in aftersy really really nice
really nice writer. Yeah I actually can fully appreciate what you're saying there and it sounds

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this is probably the worst check. I was talking about pens. From my I remember on my 25th birthday my
sister and brother-in-law bought me a Mont Blanc pen and I used it for years and it was fine it was
a nice writer but then I just one day I picked up exactly as you say it was a oh god I don't even know

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how it pronounced the fucking name of the brand but like Stadler. Oh yeah Stadler. Stadler. You know
the ones I mean yeah picked up one of those like disposable pens that you get in a pack of 10
and it was a fine pen and I wrote with it and I'm like this is the best pen I've ever written with
my entire life and that is the only pen I use now I buy them in packs of 10 and I just use them

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and they're not people like when I worked in my old job in the office that would like I could
borrow a pen and I would give it and they would write with it and it'd be like that's a really nice
pen like I write so well and I'm like I keep it I've got like another eight or nine. Yeah it's fine
and oh love it yeah love a cheap one. Yeah welcome welcome to your 40s. Did you know I mean
anybody under the age any man listening that are under the age of 40 I've got this is sort of

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excitement that you can look forward to as you get a bit older so that little things. And on the next
episode we'll be discussing our favourite cleaning cloths and scourers. Thanks episode we'll be
discussing the favourite prostate doctors. Ranked by technique and temperature of gel
so good reminder I just need to get that sorted. Yeah so yeah good oh well I'm really glad to hear

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that you've you've found a lovely pen that's wonderful. Yeah I think I've tried to think what I've
been doing since the last time we recorded and lovely I've done nothing exciting at all like I
haven't watched anything that exciting. Sorry apart from obviously today's subject which I've
thoroughly enjoyed watching the first series so much that I'm on series three. The series 3D watch

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I've had to be very very careful because you know when you watch it on like the eye
there are somewhere they're just you know the next episode just starts automatically so like I know
I'm in a mind I know what the six episodes are we're we're gonna discuss but I need to be really
careful not to let any moments from series two or series three sort of slip into the conversation
because we'll obviously I'm sure we'll do them at a later date. Yeah I was the same I mean like back

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three weeks ago before we'd recorded my son and I kind of decided I was gonna do two doors down
and I sat down one night to watch the first episode just to just to check like is it you know
because I've watched it in years and I watched all six episodes in one night. Yeah like it's just
too addictive it's too easy it's just like I'll just watch one more I'll just watch one more and then

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before you know it it's like one o'clock in the morning you know I really need to go to bed but I know
that the next episode is a fucking belt. Yeah but yeah I'm exactly the same I mean yeah before we
came on to record we were just discussing it I was just saying I sat down last night and just stuck
something on quickly in the background whilst I was texting you and our mutual friend and it was

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an episode of only frozen horses and then I just ended up watching full episodes back to back because
it's just the easiest thing to do. I know anything is it's quite stressful really because it's getting
into the time of the year when there's new series of a lot of stuff because people tend to release
stuff especially they can waste in the winter you know I guess the autumn and the winter I guess

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reasoning that people are waiting their holidays or maybe people are outside more or just generally
not watching as much television in the summer as they do right from sort of September to March I guess
so there's tons of new stuff coming up but there's still tons of stuff that I need to catch up on you
know and you know you're gonna go on twitter or instagram or something and you'll see and I mean

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that's all an adverte for that that I sent you over for that surprise I was talking about
the hb you have got coming. Oh it looks absolutely fantastic. I'm like I can't wait to watch that
but then I'm like I've still got all these other things that I need to try and get off my list
just so much just so much content so there's that's yeah I was grateful like I was able
this week I did fire through series three of the bear um so that was that was fantastic but um

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I'm the same as you I've got so much stuff to watch I've got you know I stuff them watch rapists
I mean either I still haven't you know I still haven't watched the latest series of the boys
I still haven't started slow horses that go as your friend record is really good too and I'm
the same like I've seen coming up shortly the next series of severance is coming out um which is
I show I love and I kind of go back and watch series one again um and series two of shrinking

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is starting yeah in a couple of very bad as well as is an amazing show but on Friday night I watched
three episodes of street hawk and what the fuck am I doing I watched three episodes of street hawk
from 1985 for any listeners that are too young to remember street hawk it is a show it affects

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a night rider rip off but the guy on a motorbike yeah and I can safely say it is a show that I cherish
when I was younger and I loved it and I haven't watched it since if you fancy going back and watch
in street hawk don't it's utter fucking shite but I still watch three episodes of it because the
first episode Christopher Lloyd is the big baddie and in the second episode George Cludy is the big

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baddie anyway yeah we need to catch up yes I was very excited when you sent me uh that link to the
the sopranos documentary that looks amazing and again as soon as I watched it part of me was my
first thought was can I rewatch the sopranos between now and that coming out just to like kind of

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fresh but I won't I mean I know it I've watched it twice but I know for a fact I will watch that
documentary and then the first thing I will do is start watching the sopranos again from this time yeah
I mean I've watched the sopranos from the start I think I've burned through they call six seasons
it's always seven am I seasons is that six right yeah six I mean technically you've got six

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A and six B. Yeah but yeah there's six I think I'll burn through them all from start to finish maybe
certainly three times possibly four but the thing is they on sky a sky Atlantic you can turn that on
any given time of the day and there might be an episode of the sopranos on and if it's a good one
yeah I'll just sit and watch it you know what I mean you know I'll just yeah that's a matter of

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how far in it is you know if it's a good episode double eight right I'm just gonna sit and watch
this to the end right shall we have a look at what's been happening in Scotland over the last
couple of weeks through the jingle hello this is the out there heavily broadcasting
confirmation and here is what's been going on in the new okay Greg what have you seen in the news

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over the last couple of weeks that you'd like to share with me and our lovely listeners and
it's been quite a slow couple of weeks isn't it a slow news week for Swallycentric stories
but I think this one perhaps is in our real house to some extent this knows of a certain age
won't remember when this man was a absolute staple of television in the UK he's I think it's fair to

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say his star has faded a little bit he's not had the rickager veys renaissance that some of his peers
have had over the last few years but it's good to see him in the news I am of course talking about
Bobby Davro and he isn't used this week talking about the time that he performed at iBrox so the
headline reads comedy gig for rangers fans was hard to show because I wore a green jacket at iBrox

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so comedian Bobby Davro with you one of his toughest ever gigs was for rangers fans um after he wore
a lime green jacket at iBrox stadium the comic and former EastEnder star I didn't know he was just
being EastEnders maybe that's inside still watching um 65 years old said celebrity rangers fan
fellow comedian Andy Cameron invited him to a half hour standup set at iBrox Davro said he hadn't

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fully understood the extent of Glasgow's football divisions and he ended up dodging bread rolls
and haggis thrown by the angry audience Davro told the BBC's off the ball podcast which is live
from the Edinburgh festival a bad one I had was for Glasgow rangers Andy Cameron is a friend of mine

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and he very kindly gave me this job entertaining the Glasgow rangers it was that day that Scotland
had been in the rugby so I knew I was going to be on a hiding to nothing straight away I'd get up
there and Andy goes on and does the warm-up and then he puts me on and I think they had the in for me
anyway I don't know where it was at the end I thought I've done about half an hour that's all I was
booked for and I thought I'll get off with the song just like the old trooper that I am I do hey

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judes in my act occasionally and I put on my sergeant pepper jacket and of course what color is it
it's lime green and they were throwing bread rolls and bits of haggis at me he he he he he he he he
I didn't understand the football mentality up to you up here it's not quite as bad as down south
I'm a spurs fan myself or it's worth that will be this I think it's going to be finished now but

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just well better it goes out this will be finished but just for the sake of saying it and Davos
currently performing his stand-up show everything is funny if you can laugh at it it Frankenstein's
pub beerkeler at the Edinburgh fringe he said walking in the hills around Edinburgh has helped him
recuperate after a stroke I'm sorry to hear that following a performance at a comedy club in London

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in January he said I'm just getting over a stroke I've been up and down the hills so I've got my
strength back I'm getting there I'm 80% completely recovered I was very lucky so I
I'm for anybody who lives overseas whose perhaps a bit confounded by this story just case you don't know
there are two teams in there's not there's more than two teams in Glasgow but the two sort of

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most supported teams in Glasgow are the church of Scotland's Glasgow Rangers and the Catholic Church
is Celtic and unfortunately I don't I mean I don't blame Bobby for not with the understanding the
mentality because it is fucking mental how much these people hate each other so much so that somebody
wearing a blue item of clothing in a Celtic pub is probably going to get a hard time and as

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we've just heard in Bobby's example somebody wearing a goodine jacket and a predominantly the Rangers
environment is going to get a hard time and evidently bits of haggis and red rolls flung of them
I would say it is ridiculous however I have to say I would never buy a nightclub of clothing
that is Rangers blue like never and I remember when I was a kid I must have been about five my mom bought

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me a it was like a rugby top and it was green and white stripes shall we call it
for that but they were horizontal stripes I didn't think anything of it I wore it and I remember one
of my neighbours saying to me oh are you a Celtic fan and I never wore that top ever again ever
ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever bad miss and your mum's part is not there I know I

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totally should think I think she just thought it suited me so it was like okay but say yeah never
so I would never wear anything green and white striped and I would never wear innocent Rangers blue
so to get back on to Bobby D'Affro one of my favorite clips of all time and it isn't funny
because he did nearly die if you've seen the clip of him in the stocks no right I'm gonna send this

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isn't gonna be good podcasting but I'm gonna send you this now I'll trim it down it's only 30 seconds
long this is a clip from some sort of light entertainment show and I cannot give you enough 80s on this
Greg this clip features Bobby Davro Keith Chegwin Lionel Blair and Jim Bowen right let me send you

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this clip and I'll trim this time see this and in the stock probably Davro's face quite almost kill
them so let's like oh there's Lionel Blair there the title title kind of gives it away
first they pull these trousers down oh yes oh yeah bastard like that could have killed him
and it's Lionel Blair says oh Bobby

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he looks like he doesn't know what to do Lionel Blair he's just sort of he's got like one hand not
looking at his shoes let's say right this has never happened before I'm not I'm not trained for this
maybe we'll see do you know when I'm line-up player went in celebrity big brother and he dressed up
in leather bondage gear and he was like a whip and he was calling people a bad bitch and stuff
like that's something I just wish I could have raised my hand

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this is something that lives in your head since in your main event free neckiness because
because it was Lionel Blair in leather it was also when the extra is Christmas special when
um rickager vases Andy Millman and the millman is him that's really he has to tap dance content he has
the tap dance continuously or something that's one of the challenges or oh no no they have to break

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yeah we have to break into tragedy every two minutes or so every time someone says something or
I think my mum reckons that I could remember my mum taking me to see the crankies when I was
quite young remember going to see the crankies and remember they're being they can stand up
comedian opening act and my mother reckons that that was Bobby Davro but you'd have to take her
word you have to take her word for it because that's kind of an emperor I don't know if uh yeah

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it was in the pavilion in Glasgow more certain so they're in the kind of sheep her seats so it was
the guy in a white suit like sort of a dot he was always like he was kind of never in
was never offensive like Bobby Davro he was he was you know you put him up there with kind of like
the Brian Connelly yeah less Dennis type kind of TV comedians like he was always good for a laugh on

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something yeah um but yeah I think he was all right eminently well eminently watchable Bobby Davro
you know what I mean they when he was on TV when he was on I see me remember did he not you know how
you have a a memory of comedians and they do something so like less Dennis I would always think of
him doing um Davis what's Davis thank you I was trying to think I knew his cell my Barlow is

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okay I don't really know yeah yeah to Bobby Davro not used to do like uh George and Zippy
from Rainbow possibly maybe yeah he said oh oh oh oh oh oh I seem to remember him doing that
all the time but yeah that's kind of my who bungled up have you ever seen that um that episode

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of Rainbow I think it's like a scene that the cash recorded for fun for a laugh without
like the plucking their twangers double the torches and it it sort of become a bit of an urban myth
that that was actually a broadcast episode but obviously it wasn't there is a broadcast episode
that would out and it is um Zippy and George in the bath and Jeffrey's washing them and Bungle comes in

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and Bungle doesn't want to get in the bath with George and Zippy which is fine you know plus Bungle
we take up the whole bath yeah you got respect Bungle's boundaries at one point Zippy its head goes
down to look at his crotch and his arm starts moving and Jeffrey goes Zippy stop doing that and
the comments are like what was Zippy doing? Zippy whanking

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actually when I was I was trying to find that clip it sent it to you later
okay if I could be R we'd probably go back and watch Rainbow because I bet it was actually
full of stuff like that the win jokes that the cash kind of wasn't be it yeah maybe some of the
things were maybe a little bit close to the light not as bad as the you know plucking our twangers

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but I bet there's a few clips and things that you would kind of be like fucking hell how do they
get away with that? Well you know you know Rod Jain and Fredy when they started Jain was married
to one of them and then they started a boat cup and just started going out with the other one
you know what I mean? Yeah I don't know if there was an overlap they both they both parties say
that wasn't I think one of them passed away or I think Rods maybe about died a few years ago I think

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I remember I think so yeah yeah so um but anyway but either way one of them was um I guess what
we'd call a cock um so I don't know if I thought that I thought what was on that I'd be
being fake it might have been completely done and dusted before the new relationship started
I wanted to be fucking sued by Rod Jain and Fredy again

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actually I might not have shite we've said about so many people if it was wrong Jain inflated
I ended this boat catch imagine I think I'd be quite happy actually
badge of honor
oh yeah don't get us started on fucking mad Lizzie
that'll be the next thing green goddess
anyway um well the green goddess Bobbi Davor the green goddess

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anyway for fear that we've gone down a massive massive diversion here so
well Jain gets back on track a massive cock coach get his back on track by asking what's your first story
of this week Niki well Greg my first story comes from this Scottish Sun this week and it is
related to this podcast because as a lot of people might not realize this especially if you're not

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from Scotland or I mean I think it is a northeast thing our podcast logo is based on a drink
that was available in the northeast called moray cup and it was discontinued a few years ago
but it has been relaunched which has caused a frenzy now it does have a different logo um I'll

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just skirt round this issue because the original logo featured two Caribbean gentlemen um
toasting each other which is what we have kind of culturally appropriate for our podcast logo
yeah I do remember saying to you but I came up with the idea is this cultural appropriation and you
said that's fine and I was like okay well your voice black so you know I'll go with you I think I

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think crucially we've been black up for the pictures you know what it means so let's get a fair
point but it has been relaunched limited edition this week so this article from the
Scottish Sun the headline is moray mania cops were called in as the relaunch of an old fizzy drink
caused chaos in a Scotts town fans lost their mind as their favorite soft drink was brought back

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from the dead after seven long years some queued in the rain for almost two hours from 7 a.m.
to ensure they got the hands on a bottle of the super sweet beverage roads and sleepy mcduff
Aberdeenshire were hit by gridlock as people flocked to snap it up police got complaints about
the bedlam and were forced to pay a visit to the HQ of cash and carry devoran direct in the town

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they chatted with boss des chien and left warning signs at the side of the road to try and calm the
frenzy down the unreal scenes were all for moray cup which was a firm favorite in some parts of
Scotland before it vanished seven years ago but it's now been revived as a limited edition
Arlene ritchie forty three was forced to abandon her car at the bottom of the road because she couldn't

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get passed but that didn't stop her from picking up three crates and then struggling back to her
motor with them she said she said I do a four three you know what I'm 43 I don't know what I'm
saying 43 is not old but and there are five hundred liter bottles of twelve so she was carrying
thirty six bottles of moray cup back to her car at the end of the road she said it's mental the

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road was completely blocked and macar was going nowhere but it's moray cup it's been on the go
since I was little Avrilie mister Alice swan thirty three battled through the crowds with baby
Brody who's three months old she was sent on a mission by teacher husband Angus who's who at uh who
was at work in the classroom she said he wouldn't forgive me if I didn't get any we are buzzing we

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didn't think they'd ever bring it back it's exciting times you got three you know three
month old fucking kid in the northeast of Scotland moray cup was a fixture of people's lives for
decades it was seen as a better hangover cure than iron brew and the best partner for a chip
or supper but the bright red mega sweet drink became a victim of business issues and then sugar tax

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it disappeared for good in 2017 but it's never been forgotten and there have been regular campaigns to
try and bring it back des and business partner Kenneth west decided it was time to go about it
Deborah Alexander 40 was first in the queue and left her home in Fraserborough at about six a.m
she was desperate to get some bottles for her customers at marco's chippy in buckenhaven

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Aberdeenshire that's fair enough to spine it for her business that's that's okay I'm not taking the
piss now uh Deborah said people are messaging us deserving some for tonight it's a real local
tradition everyone's so excited it's back just behind them in the queue were a lot of carteshi
and her daughter Morgan Nichol 15 Laura said I never ever thought I'd be standing in the rain

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queuing for moray cup but everyone's going mad for it uh after finally getting a bottle
Morgan said oh my god this is amazing it's been crazy when we first came it was dead and now it's
mental Sparky David Henders in 33 made a nearly hour long drive from Elgin to get some well he said
it's such a staple drink as soon as I heard that was coming back I just had to get some I can't

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I believe I watch have missed it crates of 12 bottles of the drink and I want to say for 14 pounds
19 pounds great yeah that's for 12 bottles though that's just over a pound of bottle yeah I suppose I
mean for a 500 mil bottle of diet Pepsi or Iron Brew you're probably about a pound yeah yeah yeah
I think I know over a pound obviously yeah to try and ensure that no one misses out it's limited to

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three packs per person so far it's limited edition but they're waiting to see how well sales go
before they might bring it back for good dare says when you'd be popular put with been
taking our back by the demand we didn't expect this this is the busiest day we've ever had
we just wanted to do a nice thing for the community and it's great they've got behind it I just
hope the fizz doesn't go out of it oh days you thought that one I wonder and uh so there's an

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advert for it 500 more bottle the label has been rebranded it's still the same kind of label but
the the Caribbean gentleman have been replaced by two glasses filled with red okay so Greg Moray Cup
were you a fan of Moray Cup? I was a fan a Moray Cup because for the reason being that the
flavor profile of Moray Cup is quite close to bars red cola which yes I'm a big fan of two and

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that's never gonna way red colas it's always been a part a popular part of the bars ariated water
stable but yeah no I do like um I did like Moray Cup probably drank too much of it when I was a
teenager um and these are these are things that I definitely deny myself these days apart from the
old occasion I mean see be honest quite happy just for the smell of red cola maybe a sip because like

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my kids like it back in the medicking team soda I just love the smell but I used to get we used to buy
it was used to sell it in those small plastic bottles didn't they it was maybe like I what like a
200 the 200 mil or something or maybe less than that yeah that's why I remember like the
little 200 mil bottles yeah I think it would have been about 200 I think yeah that's um that's what I

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remember them coming as so it's a bit of a surprise to see them in 500 mil bottles like if they would
but I guess they're trying to maximize kind of profits because they can charge more but yeah that's
very much why I remember just the smaller bottles but yeah it was a it was a staple but was it was
was it just a northeast thing or was it yeah I think big else Wade and Scotland I mean I never
ever yeah just northeast and I've never ever saw it in Glasgow um but like bars yeah bars obviously

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hit them monopoly on fizzy drinks in Glasgow like hugely you know what I mean but um yeah but they used
to have like because like but I bond a cord used to make a sort of similar I kind of really called
it low bit it was a sort of similar money cup type drink didn't they they uh they did oh fuck I
wish I could remember what that was called but yeah they did yeah and it was kind of uh like a knockoff

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um because I remember they had like pineapple a little stuff yeah um oh yeah I remember that
well I mean all these drinks always always always always tasted and continued to taste better
at the glass bowl you have to pull it into a glass because drinking it's just yeah drinking it's
just my gas bowl can make you quite you know you end up like getting a lot of the seal too but if

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you just pull it into the cany's be glass so it has a chance to sort of wave a little bit we fancy
anine breuner yeah not a bit cooler I've got a load in the fridge actually yeah I am brewed I'm
kind of I think I've got about six cans left and every time I fancy one I kind of look at them and
I think do you really want one right now or should you see because it's a hell of a trek to the

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expat shop yeah to go in by a slab of 24 and they charge like eight ures delivery which feels a
little bit luxurious yeah and plus if you do not online delivery like I did last time
you end up filling your car like ended up spending like 120 ures on fucking monster bungee
skips and floups and york shirt tea bags and stuff like it gets out of control so it's easier to

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just go to the shop and pick up the iron brew but it's a bit of a trek so um I am savoring those
there's ever a drink your um your classic recipe bottle with a iron brew that I brought you
that summer to answer that I did and you know when I drank it I drank it on New Year's Day
I woke up with a bit of a hangover and I drank I thought have I glassed this

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and but now we're later the whole bottle had been turned and I felt like I was in a ready-breakad
after these hardening for the New Year positively glowing and feeling fucking
fresh as a day's after that so yeah I did yeah it was lovely they settle that in the expat shop

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I think it's about like eight ures a bottle or something it's it's extortionate but um
but it's worth it that's good point actually I might have to make a trek there and get a bottle for
New Year's Day 2025 yeah I know it's not quite made it's to be here to buy yet but I'm
I'm keeping my fingers crossed she's getting normal lying but yeah but I do love um I do love an iron
brew like I think it's my it's probably my go-to probably I don't know like I'm I say Dr Pepper is

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probably like a dog mate and all-time favorite I like Dr Pepper too um my daughter is a big Dr Pepper
front um and do you know what I said missed the hardy of the day and she did not respond so which
probably means it she doesn't she didn't see it but it was in a wee shop just let me find it um
you see it is Dr Pepper can be false Dr Pepper flavored can be false oh yeah I'm

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if you've seen that I've seen that here yeah yeah yeah yeah I've seen that here in like the
American sweet shops but I've often thought that is it worth a trip to the dentist yes no
and so that question maybe do you definitely isn't worth a trip to the fucking dentist definitely not
well there you go and if you don't know what Mordy Cup is then yeah google it and find out

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it's hard like a red flavor to the scrape isn't it I mean that's what they describe it as a like
a fruit flavor drink it is it's it's almost like a punch yeah like like a tropical a tropical not a
tropical punch but like a it's like a yeah it's like a punch yeah um I guess so I bet we go you
know something I bet we go nice with them a bit of rum yeah definitely yeah yeah yeah anyway

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Mordy Cup back with a bang for a limited edition let's see if it comes back
properly oh okay Greg what else have you seen this week well this event we've got a fair
bit of mileage out of it but the long term listeners will remember that we covered the
internationally covered Willy Wonka's chalk that fact to be disaster that was held in glass

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going on the other year it's it's like the third time this year yeah no so anyway they're a friend
show it was as being as been on um called willies oh willies can they spectacular a musical parody
and it stars with the cursed day who became sort of famous off the back of the original event

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um for being a somewhat a somewhat fed up looking um um pa lumpa um but she's you know she's
she's raiding that theme um but unfortunately the curse of this event seems to have hit the
musical now because um whatever it's going to continue was in doubt after key cast members were
laid low by the covid so oh well I'll just start so the future of Ed and Riffin Show willies

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can they spectacular a musical parody was in doubt after key cast members were laid low by the bug
but the show went on and is now one of the biggest hits of this year's fringe the musical was
based on Glasgow's infamous willies chocolate experience I'm a fucking dreadful name
which became a global online phenomenon after parents complained about the terrible experiences

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the event in February was slammed for featuring grumpy and pa lumpus tiny bags of sweeties for the kids
in a lack of entertainment after it went viral copycat events were staged in the US
and top producer Richard Kraft decided to make a musical about the story
Glasgow actress Christie Patterson who found fame as the grumpy and pa lumpa at the Glasgow event

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is starring in the show alongside the actress who originally played Varu Kassalt in the
Charlie and chocolate hit, we'll look Charlie and the chocolate factory movie
starring Jean Maillard back in the 1970s wow uh julie don coe her name is but Christie another
crew members had to miss shows after covid spread through the production at Ed and Briss Pleasant's

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venue julie now 65 and a grand who came out of retirement to join the fringe show said the first one
who went down with covid was Cassie then shelly no one's bought the cell was who Cassie and shelly
are and then Christie and then one of her directors the show relies on singers and without it if you
got covid you can't do the show uh Christie and julie met for the first time on thursday after almost

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half the cast were left bedbound at the start of the fringe run julie who was 13 when she started in
the original Charlie and chocolate factory movie flew in from the US to join Christie as a narrator
for the production had to rely on stand-ins after Christie and some of the other actors were
unable to perform as result of catching covid Christie said two of her main singers got it and I

(32:26):
got it it was going around but we're all recovered now so that's good julie has taken
Christie under her wing since meeting her on a zoom call to discuss the musical show she said
i'm teaching her everything i know i've had a very lucky career and to anyone if a door opens go
through it and hope it's not a toilet so there's fucking there is a life lesson from the

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from julie don coal the original varooca salt in the Charlie and chocolate factory if a door opens
go through it and just hope it's not a toilet unless of course you're needing a toilet in which case
that hope it is uh Christie added i didn't think my life would end up like this five months ago so
i'm just rolling with it i get to the rate with julie don coal which is amazing i'm really pleased

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for Christie so yeah i'm not but obviously it's sad that she's had covid but i'm glad that she's
able to get something out of this because it was a obviously a bit of a disaster um so yeah so that's
it julie don coal spreading wisdom staying in Edinburgh for the summer fan try to try not to catch
covid would you go what else can they rinse out of fucking this wonka shite what else can they rinse out

(33:35):
of it they've tried everything everything's cursed just let it go feels like so long ago what was that
back in like january february february february so the months ago i can now yeah i'm still going on
yeah i don't try to milk that so they are well so yeah the parents got their money back or anything
well someone did phone the police and they so that's right yes they did yet that's just very true

(33:57):
they did yeah i shouldn't be so disappointed by something that you phone the police
that kids party that i should understand she's ecco
if he's standing in the queue for the toy that's at a concert for like 25 minutes
right that's it i'm holding a police
fucking ridiculous anyway i'm very pleased for Christie um and i hope that she continues to

(34:21):
get a wee bit of a career out of the oh that's a lot of 15 minutes yeah i should deserve
something so yeah hopefully things work out it's just it's such a shame she got covid and
yeah you know this could have been seen as not a big break but it could have been seen as like a
a thing and you know to be fair she was obviously just doing a job for a day at this wonka thing
and it kind of exploded she's taking full advantage of what happened and i don't mean that

(34:43):
as a bad way i hate that you know fucking good on him like you know you have to seize these you know
sorry i want to rephrase that she hasn't taken advantage she sees the opportunity
yeah that was put in front of her and you know there was talks of she she went to america didn't she
to she did yeah she was going yeah and she was you know she has become like a viral sensation just

(35:04):
for it's now she's got a viral effect and she um you know it's been doing this ed brush show so
you know good luck to her she has she has grasped what life has put in front of her and um good
on her i hope things work out for her if a door opens nicky nice looks is not a toilet
fuck sake anyway that's my second and last story for this episode make sure next one

(35:29):
uh okay so i am mixing things up a little bit Greg and um because we are covering one of Scotland's
most beloved sitcoms two doors down later on this episode my next new story is about
Scotland's other beloved sitcom from recent years still game which we covered the the original
show back in our very first episode and we still haven't touched the series yet but i think

(35:52):
maybe we'll touch upon it maybe in the coming months or so because i think it's probably time
where what we're good enough now to to tackle big hair like that but still game uh this is from
the scotterson this week sorry and the headline is help my booby um
oh sorry i just beat that the headline is help my booby um still games jacking victor back but this

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time in a brand new format fans were gutted when the beloved BBC sitcom came to an end in 2019
creators ford kyrdan and gregg himpul who star in the show as oap best days jack jorvis and victor
mcdate penned an emotional series finale which aired five years ago and saw the characters fade out
spoiler alert if you haven't seen the last episode is still game um but now the pair have been working

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with a new team and are releasing a comic book the craiglang legends will go from stage to page with
the first edition he who hangeth that boot geteth nothing out next month gregg said we love jack
infictor and ford and i are still always talking about them it occurred to us that we'd never really
seen them in cartoon form never really explored that as an art form and that's where god earn

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gordon that's where gordon and the scunard ink teat came in gregg and comedy partner ford
uh worked with former dc tomson heritage editor gordon tate to recruit a team of cartoonists to
reimagine the bbc tv shows miss adventures on paper ford said gregg and i are huge fans of things
like urbally and gregg has a marvel connection and he's always collected comics gordon has taken our

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idea to see jack infictor and all the still game gang come in comic book form and turn it into something
wonderful now this is essentially why i wanted to cover this on gregg so that we could have a chat
about this later we have a long history in scotland of waiting for christmas and to get an annual
then spending an hour on christmas day in a corner reading it it's an old-fashioned idea in that
respect back to its roots and i love that about it we're really happy with it and i love how my re-carting

(37:54):
kydelings gordon has worked on iconic titles like denison nashar and the broons and he has said that
some of the busy artists signed up as soon as they found out the job was for still game gordon said
not every tv show will lend itself to a comic book treatment but still game is pretty perfect
it's the most ambitious project that i've ever worked on and the most creatively rewarding too

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we've already started work on the second book uh ford and gregg wrote every episode of the baffta
winning show which ran for nine series and uh sold out multi-date live productions at glass
cause hydro playing to a total of 500,000 people co-star in likes of mark cox sanji koli jamer carry
fans were gutted when the final series aired but now they get chance to relive some of the moments in

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comic form gregg said there are some things in the comics which the cartoon is put in which didn't
exist either in our heads or in the tv show so there are loads of easter eggs in there for our readers
the results are super exciting and a new version of characters look adorable and we don't have to
spend an hour and a half in the makeup chair either so this is great that still games come back and i
will be getting a copy of this because i love still game and i really want to read this and see

(39:01):
what happens i say i'll buy a copy i'll probably see if i can download it online um but the
that is a tradition and that was one of my favorite things about christmas was getting your anus
and i remember vividly some christmas evenings go in the bed and read in my urwally or my brunes
or my bino anyl or my denislamenis anyl that i'd got that day like it was wonderful and it

(39:26):
it started off very much a kind of for me anyway it was it was brunes new urwally was always the thing
and it was you know the bino i was always a bino boy not a dandy dan but anyls just kind of got
out of control after a while didn't they like i remember getting like transformers anyl and ghost
buster's anyl i think i remember getting a gladiator's anyl like it just it got mental like anything

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became an anyl i got a spice girl's anyl you know i've got a full one me with my spice girl's anyl
actually i'm in covers about 14 at the time actually no i can't have been because it would have been
96 i'd have been 15 or 16 i'd have been nearly 16 and i've got a full one me my spice girl's anyl
you know exactly what i did to that i didn't go to bed and read that later but i did go to bed for

(40:13):
i think when look at it for a while i was in
no i think my my dad was very keen on i mean i guess this maybe something that he because i know
that certainly the bino and the dandy have released an anyls since like before the war you know
like the first the first copies of the the first editions rather of those books go for a

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fucking absolute fortune that so i think my dad probably but it was something that he probably
had as a kid you know i grown up so he was keen that that i did as well and i this sort of like
the bino and the dandy were the kind of the ones that you i'd be guaranteed to get both of those
every year sometimes i would get i could sometimes somebody buy me the topper or the beat in the

(40:58):
beaser oh yeah which also likes beasor yeah i mean i think i was always either a rillier of the
broons because it would be like year about but like i think i would definitely i mean i probably
i wonder if my stepdad is probably has kept them see fucking there's nothing away but i'd probably
got about maybe ten or fifteen years worth of bino and dandy books with a few other ones thrown

(41:19):
in as well in the vault in apnea and abberdinger occasional bunting yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
in a decade like something something something my dad would buy me something like the hot spur or
something like that you know in the uh or or victory or something in the hot spur would have like
sort of army stories like they're a bit like commando remember commando like those sort of
stories and yeah but sometimes we'd be like really really fucking violent yes but we've seen like

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there's sometimes photos got around online of um like images of some of the cartoons and they're
they're fucking very anti-german very violent you know it would be like uh fuck you friends you know
fuck you but you know what i'm saying like on the fritz and then garble and stuff and just shoot a
fuck out of them there was one there's one story that i'd admit and i think it's actually quite a

(42:06):
famous one but i remember it um and it was they can adi f pilot who's playing crashed uh behind
enemy lines when he was in the dog fight with a german pilot and he in the german pilot crashes as well
so the bari f guys got a a knackered leg and he finds the german pilot makes some carry him across

(42:26):
the desert but like gun tees head because his legs fucked and he can't walk himself he's like
they couldn't academy across this desert fritz but i'm gonna let you have it i remember one year getting
a an action force annual um and a lot of the uh a lot of the stories in there were i guess there

(42:48):
aren't gonna be reprints from like old copies of like the hot spur or whatever but there was
the connection force story which was that obviously being written and drawn by British artists
right because the story basically has the ninja storm shadow hunting they can action force
like platoon and like some non-descript european town and it is violent as fuck right it's much more

(43:11):
violent than i remember i used to get the transformers cartoon and i was a kid and sometimes at the back
there would be like i felt like it was g-i-jol but it was called action force in the UK but
it's the heikens all know it better as g-i-jol and you would get some stories you know sometimes
the g-i-jol would appear like in a transformers trip you know they'd be better transformers g-i-jol story
yeah but sometimes it would just be like a separate g-i-jol story at the back of the comic and

(43:36):
they these were nothing like this one that was in this annual what you oughta be to say
guys getting thrown stars in their eyes and you know can ran through by ninja swords and all this
kind of thing like one guy manages to escape at the end like that's it but yeah they brutally violent
yeah i just i remember actually very very remember i get a street hawk out of your one

(43:59):
yeah to take things full circle i do yeah i loved my annuals and i loved to say go in a bed
and then christmas day and reading my brood and snow will they and waking up on boxing day
and reading reading my game got a few yeah reading a few pages now you stay yeah i still
still do that now like if i'm something i really enjoy i'll kind of like save for it and eek it

(44:23):
out a little bit so you know don't want to read it all at once because then it's done but yeah i
used to remember doing that it was a lot was wonderful you know through the days yeah i think i think
our mutual friend i know that his all the son is a big fan of so i gave him a little of them sort of
anniversary being only dad in the books that i've had for years and some other bits and bobs because
i mean my dad even when i grew up my dad would still buy me like a pinobu or something

(44:48):
even as an adult you know are you certainly always bought me or will he or the brood's every year
um yeah my mom was the same every year like until she moved to do by i she'd buy me a brood's
for her buddy every year and my sister as well yeah because it was just tradition i think i'm
going to be back in scotland for christmas this year it's like increasingly likely so i'm going

(45:09):
by my own and i'll put it by my own but i'll definitely get my own this year this is case nobody
buys it for me yeah oh well that's lovely it'd be nice to be able to to do that when you're back in
scotland so yeah and yeah you'd be able to get the still game comic as well oh well i'm hopeful
that i'll be able to um to get it here i'm going to look out there is a there's a waterstone stamp stamp
mostly sells at UK stuff so i'm hoping they get it or i can maybe order it because i was kind of joking

(45:34):
out there in terms of about just downloading it but i would quite like to own that yeah so um
but nice we'll see nice the big shot yeah would so yeah so good luck i hope that works and uh
yeah that is still game but we're going to be talking about another Scottish sitcom institution
shortly but uh is is that all you've seen in the news this week yep but we have a slow week
well for they know that everyone's back to school we can get back to master bait in delivery man and

(45:58):
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choose this week's content i'm gonna cheat us all up after last week's grim top content so what

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we're talking about this week thank you very much Greg well back in december 2021 we covered the
original episode of two doors that which aired on hogman a in 2013 always intended to be a one-off
the show received so much critical in public acclaim that the bbc commissioned a full series which aired
in 2016 since then we've had seven series and a christmas special of our beloved two doors down

(48:15):
there were a few changes to the first series from the original episode gone are daniel and our
deenys character of caroline and norwegians nina and henna are in the work we've seen
but joining the main cast of alex norton arabella weir johnathan watson and doom mckycannon are jamey
quinn recast his eon replacing sex pest killing us and the addition of and the addition of

(48:38):
elaine c smith as sofase mum um christine and harkey bambra as jazg the show revolves around a middle
class glass go suburb and the interactions that the neighbors have with each other so gregg what are
your memories of the first series of two doors down so i had seen as we mentioned on that Christmas
episode i had seen the pilot when it went out because i was still living in glass go um back then

(49:03):
2013 um but this came out in 2016 once i'd moved away and it hadn't really come in my radar until you
told me about it and then oh really i yes when i was back in scottland in 2021 when my dad was in the
hospital and i was i had to do the self uh quarantine thing because it was still covered um so i couldn't

(49:28):
go out for like 10 days and uh i just i ended up watching them all and from start to finish over
like a few days i i didn't realise you came to it so late yeah i think i'd seen wee bits and bobs
maybe he'd he'd in there but because i had that you know i had access to the out there at my
bads they you know they couldn't go anywhere nobody was supposed to really come and see me although

(49:51):
a lot of people did i just i just i just ended up watching them all um from start to finish um and
you know you mentioned at the start of the podcast that is one of those one of those shows where
it is easy just to i'll just watch one more i'll just watch another one you know what i mean and then
you end up to your point i mean i think when i rewatched this series one for the podcast i thought i

(50:11):
was away last week and i thought right i watched like two episodes a night just to get over three nights
and i ended up watching like i watched five episodes in the first night in the last episode in the
morning i woke for a bit to work um so yeah it's just you know like these shows that you know that
it's a wee bit like a kind of just like a bit of like a bowl of soup you know but it's just like

(50:34):
just fancy being in that world for a couple hours you know what i mean just to hang out with these
characters um it's most friends as we bit like that for a lot of people as well you know and maybe things
maybe things like um the big bang theory or signfield and you know places like that where
it's just you know yeah this it's kind of it becomes a habit you know just fancy being with those

(50:56):
guys for a while yeah signfelt's my go-to of that like i will stick on an episode if i'm just
doing something or then i think two doors down is almost quite similar in that there's no kind of
running storyline in a way you could watch any episode of two doors down and laugh you know i have to
to know what's happening and stuff and like that's what signfield's very similar like every episode is

(51:18):
just kind of self-contained yeah and you can just watch the one the one episode um and i think that's
the thing with two doors down i i i was the same i watched the the one off and i'm going to try not to call
a pilot because i listened to a podcast that Jonathan Watson was on and he was very clear that
it wasn't a pilot it was it was always just intended to be this one-off thing that's it one and done

(51:40):
and he he said he's convinced that um the descriptor been kicking about for about a year or so
and he's kind of convinced that somebody and he doesn't say who maybe doesn't know who but somebody
let the BBC down in terms of they were they were meant to do a show because the original episode went
out UK white at 9 p.m. on hogman 8 which is incredible what you consider that the actual series wasn't

(52:08):
really shown in England yeah it was on i think that i think maybe the last series was but it was shown
on BBC two and then it made a jump to BBC one um he's convinced somebody let him down so they had to
like hastily film this piling or one-off and he said it was genuinely thanks to social media and twitter
that the show everyone just kept talking about it and spreading you know word of mouth and then the

(52:30):
BBC were almost forced to kind of commission a series like yeah because it was just so popular
and so well received i remember watching the one at first when i loved it um i gave it to my mum
and she genuinely would watch it about four times a year she just loved it so much so when the
series came out i i was aware it was coming out and i downloaded it every week and would go round

(52:53):
every week with the latest episode to show her and she just absolutely i don't this show yeah like
she just would watch it constantly and like Christine was her favourite character and she would often say
that um that my sister um was just my sister doesn't drink but she is so much like Kathy it's unbelievable
in a way people would call her Kathy um the show is just such a simple premise but they're often

(53:19):
the best things like the scenarios that everyone can relate to like it's about how neighbours
integrate and socialise with each other and the characters of people like everyone kind of knows
like we all know Kathy and we definitely know a calling and the scenarios the scenarios are so simple
they're not complicated you know the first episode best freezer i'd well Eric leaves the door

(53:41):
of the freezer open that's it that's the premise of the whole episode like that that's it it's so
simple and some of my favourite episodes of sitcoms and i know a big sitcom fan are what they call
bottle episodes where everything happens in one place so it's effectively just one scene so for
Seinfeld is a famous one the Chinese restaurant it's all set within them waiting for a table in this

(54:05):
Chinese restaurant the two i always remember and cherish are and they were so good at doing bottle
episodes was one foot in the grave there was one set in a traffic jam on a bank holiday Monday
and there was one set in a doctor's waiting room which was a beautiful episode and i think that's
why two doors down so great and and one of my favourite sitcoms of all time is game on which is

(54:26):
effectively just set in a flat and that's where two doors down so great because technically they're
not bottle episodes because you do see other places in this series like you see you know jazz
needs flat you see them at the doctor is you see different things you do see Kathy in colons but
for the most part they are kind of bottle episodes which is why i think i just love it so much yeah
i mean this this set up for every episode almost certainly every episode in this first series apart

(54:53):
from the episode where Christine where you know the episode when um when Colin and Eric
are playing with artists and stuff and Christine looks so famous for everything um but the set-ups
always just um think the neighbours out either out staying their welcome or imposing themselves
and taking advantage of best good nature really because you always get the feeling that if Eric

(55:18):
had it his way he just wouldn't let them in for the most part you know because i thought of the
time which is not in the mood but it's uh let me think about the sort of three it's sort of if if
there's like a I saw a Trinity triangle of classic Scottish sitcom like this is definitely the
third side of that triangle you've got still game and rap scene is but right i can't think of it

(55:41):
i can't think of any other ones that you know that you would that you would put on the same level
when terms of popularity and endurance um as those three series you know um and then you know
and then you've got like a cast of uh like brilliant comic actors and Alex Norton who you know is not

(56:03):
i guess not really i mean he's very very he's very goodness but he's he's he's often the sort of
straight man um along alongside uh are a better weir but she's her background is comedy acting as well
and then obviously doing yeah doing McLaughlin Jonathan Morton and Elaine C Smith
of works on tons and tons of Scottish comedy together over the years you know especially

(56:26):
like sort of naked video and i think by the and C Smiths then a few um only an excuses somebody one
they've appeared and one they going back so they that i think and i think is well that one of the
reasons that it works so well with those sort of five adult actors in it is that they probably the
only which shall equate quite well because they probably all work together on things that we haven't

(56:48):
seen like because i know like about these guys do a lot of do a lot of like doing McLaughlin does a lot
of theater as well you know um and you know that you know that you i think it just works the the chemistry
between them just just works so well and they can just feel that of N. C Smith is channeling every wee
Glasgow woman she's ever met in her life in the christian and in that character there's there's

(57:10):
elements like characters that are so so familiar to me just from like friends and my grannies
about my grannie yourself just these just little traits that just remind me sometimes of
these women that have known kind of grown up even she sometimes reminds me of my mother a little bit as
well thanks C Smith to the ibn christian mother but yeah it just like it works so well and i think you
could only really the the format uh only really works because these guys have got such great chemistry

(57:36):
together Jonathan Watson said that he went to drama school with the agency right and they've
known each other since they were like 16 17 and that's awesome and they have worked together so many
times like they were both in city lights yeah of course they were both in rabsie nesbit you know
Jonathan Watson had bit parts in it or both in um make a video as well and that's you know as you

(58:00):
say she was in only an excuse um a few episodes like they have worked together um pretty much for
you know 55 years and it's incredible that they have that bond and they just have that that
comic timing and and you think about Alex Norton um they didn't have a scene together but he was in
local hero Jonathan mutton you know all the way back it like they they've shared so much in terms

(58:24):
of over the years um and and it's funny you say that because very much Norton and arabella we are
are are the straight kind of in terms of this and it is funny because arabella we are has so much
of a comedy background like in the fascia she's hilarious like in some ridiculous stuff she does
but she's very much they're just kind of straight you know put up on patience of us saying Beth but

(58:47):
when she loses at times it is just fucking hilarious and she just she does lose it um it is it's
wonderful and I mean we're probably gonna jump all over the place but you're right Christine wasn't in
the original pilot episode but the introduction of her anilane csmith is just an absolute fucking game
changer and I think she probably is everyone's favorite character yeah in in this I mean she's

(59:12):
certainly mine like I think as you said that there's the five kind of nucleus that the adult actors
and and we did see it because in series six dune left and Kathy wasn't there series six is probably
the worst series yeah of two dollars down and it's because Kathy isn't there because you take her
out you take one of those five out it doesn't work yeah thankfully she came back for series seven and

(59:32):
two seven was so much better but this show would not work without Christine for example you need her
she is the you have Eric and Beth is kind of the straight people Colin and Kathy are kind of the
over the top loudmouth comedy characters and Christine is like almost the social commentary she says
stuff that everyone's thinking but we'd never say and she's the voice of people she's the we've

(59:57):
voiced in your head you know one of you know the first thing lines when when Ian and jazz comes
because oh hello jazz so you're Ian's gay lover and everyone's kind of horrified but she's like what
that the kind of it's an obvious kind of joke but it's so funny it's like you never told me he was
you know and everyone's thinking because jazzization everyone's thinking Asian and she's like

(01:00:19):
English it's so funny but she is just the voice in everyone's head but she just says what she's
thinking and you're right in terms of the everyone knows a woman like that it's just it's the one
liners and I'm sorry never has been she can turn the most random sentence into the most hilarious

(01:00:41):
sentence just by dropping an f-bomb and it's it's insane I've got a list that will cover later of
my favorite lines of hers that just look hey people say swearing's not big in clever that woman
can use the word fuck in the most ingenious way that makes me burst out laughing so much but I think

(01:01:02):
it's because you know like it seems like Christine wants to present herself as a certain type of
kind of woman from a certain you know I could sort of upwardly mobile to some extent and you know
in the living in the 20th century but every now and again her background you know her own up

(01:01:22):
bring no come out when she drops the old f-bomb you know or when you know one of my favorite lines of
hers is one would the in the second episode when Collins being discovered master bait and by Kathy
and they're like well they they they're all looking a back and forth then it cuts her and she goes
sneaky wee wanker you've been wanking off again haven't you? No Kathy just give me a straight answer

(01:01:49):
have you or have you not been wanking? Come on Kathy! Happy been wanking!
I might have I mean everybody is there be fiddler with themselves did they know what?
headache! Out! Out! Come on Kathy! Get out of my sight! You're a you're a wee slow wanker!

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It's the ridiculousness of just you know a simple thing that that that light is so funny
and at the end of that episode where everyone's kind of getting up and she comes out and everyone's
shouting and Sophie comes down and just that which was I had Sophie fucking up as well!
I think for the best example of what I was looking at point of trying to make is when she's been at

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the the being of the funeral then she's going on about what I love this service it was Kathy
mass was all in Wharton you know she's trying to like be somebody who appreciates like kind of thing
and then she got help herself saying that my ass was fucking numb! Hello everybody have you been to a funeral
Christine? Yes I have indeed! Oh someone died! No! We buried focal live here in Scotland don't you know?

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Who's was it? Some women my grandma was a nightmare I've been there since terror clocks morning
her sad day Kathy so if we wish that order a service to her talk Kathy through it full that mass
Kathy my ass was fucking numb! We're obviously just into the Christine lights now so let's just get to

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tea! Whether speaking about the when our ceiling collapses and Kathy saying oh um Colin's got a better
camera and his phone is ice have a lovely big camera a fucking champ nick to off here at the Sephardic
Park! Nick was honestly how she would have ram the tripod up as we red-arced it's the immediacy of

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it though like she comes across as such like the perfect example is the episode when you know we find
out Sophie's pregnant and she's trying to find out who the father is and she's so nice to Sophie and
like so lovely and she's like oh go and get my knitting stuff and then locks her in the heart like it
like and she's so angry I'm not fucking letting you out and tell me who the father is and

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Sophie's kicking the door she's burst out if you kick that fucking door one more time I'm gonna come
in there and let her you and obviously we know she's capable of it because she fucking smacks
in it in the face the baseball bat but she's and that's the other but she's on the phone is Sophie like
I folks I can't see a fox getting up on their back legs and opening fucking gates like the edition of

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the f-word just makes it so much funnier and we'll wait until later I don't want to read an
award but in the last episode my favorite use of a swear word but it's because of the line but also
as I say she's just thinking she's what everyone is thinking because at the end of the
other speaking about the last episode Beth and Erika are gonna go and holiday their flying from

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Glasgow airport they mentioned the terrorist attack which John speaking thwarted as we we've
covered last couple episodes as she's speaking about Al Qaeda and ISIS and she goes you you where you
were with the eye on it just true the way they always called ahead everybody a fight in chance

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um there's a moment well the the the thing I like about her is you know she is the you know she's
the sort of eccentric character but in the get another sitcoms that type of character might have
been a bit sort of oblivious to everything else and she's not you know like if Kathy says something
if you know she if Kathy sort of throws a barbat or something she sort of makes that kind of

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face you know what I mean or so you know she's she she's not yeah she's not like passive she's like
she absorbs everything but one of my favorite moments after that episode where she's locked
Sophie and they she putt and um Beth and Kathy of persuader to that Sophie out Sophie's gone marching
back to the house and then Beth and Kathy are sort of hurrying after her and just being slowly walking

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but she's sort of spinning her walking stick like Charlie Chaplin you know what I mean
because they can all gallus feel that she's made her point you know yeah she's never a you're right
it's not like she's a like an uncle Albert as a oblivious to what's going on she's very switched on
and is always there with just a little cutting barb that that episode as well where they all come

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round after she's locked Sophie and then she had and when it erupts once Colin Erika having the fight
in the garage over the darts and they're all in the garage and arguing and stuff and Beth is kind
of like right I think everyone should just go like everyone should leave Christine go home and she's
like oh one minute it's how can I help you in the next it's fuck off home like yes

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like right but I was watching as watching it with my daughter and one of the moments that made her
laugh most was in the first episode when Christine spills something in the carpet she says
quick hoping to stab it in the up you miss stab it in the up you miss it's the um yeah it's the

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dead that line just it's so relatable and made you laugh so much you're right at a neighbor's house
and the beautiful thing is though that Sophie does start a stamping it in she lifts her fruit as if
it then looks offended when it's kind of like no no no no no leave it yeah it's the dead pandal of
her as well when as we just mentioned in terms of the when Colin's caught watching poor and um

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and they're speaking about it and she says oh you still always be magazines remember we find that
magazine in the hedge so fair it was a copy of everybody sluts it's just fucking like it's the dead
pan non-shelon way she mentioned yeah when um when Colin's talking about how he gives his semen

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sample with the fertility clinic and he's you know when he's saying how he gets going she's like oh fluffers
oh I mean this episode is probably just gonna be yeah Christine close I think the last
one I'll leave out for just now is when the first episode then of course when um Colin comes

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back with the sab and of course I'll look at the size of it it's like fucking jaws
so yeah doodles down um so the strange thing is that this show was really under promoted when it came out
like it was only on BBC 2 in Scotland and it seemed to take off on i-player with much like you
had watched yeah everything I've read people love it now Jonathan Watson says he thinks that it

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suffered because the first series came out and I remember this because I watched them both at the same
time came out pretty much at the same time that still game came back for their last three series
so he thinks there was so much hype in publicity about Jack and Victor coming back the two doors down
affect like Ben yeah like it didn't get any attention didn't get any publicity it was always

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seen as like the ugly stepchild and it's such a shame because it's amazing is still game is and
I don't know I've only watched those last three series once I think I might go back and rewatch
but I seem to remember it not quite hitting the mark the same as the first few they've not satisfied
you know so the early series for sure yeah but whereas two doors down just just such a lovely gentle

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comedy and and it's just just incredible like as you say the whole host and cast of characters so
I think like calling Kathy we need to talk about so the wonderful Jonathan Watson who we've he's been in
many times on the suali and he is just fantastic as Colin we all know a Colin a bit of a funny
he has and it calls like the dark sea shows he's a sore loser he has to be the best everything and he

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has to they like a bolst in a brag but but they also like the tacky things and like like they're
garden like looking like a Bangkok core house but Colin is just such a I can't say he did say
on a podcast listen to he did ask him the one of the the writers some Carlisle who
will come back to you sadly passed away he did say to him like where where to call and Kathy get

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their money from because like Kathy's never had a job yeah and in the first episode like in the
the original episode Colin works for like a refrigerator warehouse thing and and he's being made redundant
as we find out is the episode so yeah so would you actually ever know what Colin does I like where
do we get where do they get in this money from for this stuff and Simon system like don't question it

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don't worry about it doesn't matter just go with it and you never really question it to be fair
you know they're living next door Beth and Eric now as far as we're aware Eric I think we find out
in later series he used to work on the railroads yeah yeah we don't know what Beth ever did and you
know Christie we presume has been on benefits for most of our days but they they live in this kind of

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middle class suburb of Glasgow but you never question what where Colin and Kathy get their money
from but Colin's just a fascinating character he has so many good one liners and it's Jonathan
Watson his comic timing is second and none well it's second to Elaine C Smith I mean say actually
but his comic timing is just genius his deadpan delivery and I think that's why I love this show so

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much it is so deadpan and he comes out with some of the most audacious things like when he's in the
episode where he gets caught wanking and stuff and he comes outside when jazz is round trying to get
Ian's attention and he's telling jazz that he's been caught watching porn and he's speaking about
what he thinks gay porn's like about two men and baseball caps in the gym and then when they go

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where the Ian and jazz are making up and they're kissing he's just he's so awkward and they kind of
stalk for a second he's like oh oh no okay the awkwardness you feel it for Colin like you kind of
it absorbs you and then body has to say I will never wine again yeah he's got a great thing when

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when jazz and Ian tell everybody that they're moving in together in the first episode and he's like
oh that's a sort of you know as a sorted Eric now somewhere I go watch the football in a couple of
years he's really funny he's really funny in this like I like the the episode where the first episode

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when they're standing outside the house and he's having these chips before Eric was in
drops his chips like oh yeah bastard it's brilliant drunk acting like it's a fine line of
a camera but I was listening to you there are days someone was speaking about drunk acting
and you know most people do kind of sway about and pretend oh so pesh yeah whereas actually most

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drunk people are trying to pretend that they are not drunk normally and sober and are like intense
and kind of no I'm fine I'm fine I'm not drunk I'm fine but he's just with his mate having some chips
and they're having a laugh and it's genuine and Alex Norton as well is very believable as pesh
Eric in that scene because he is a bit intense like because he's staring at the chips yeah and the

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ferocity of when he gets into that house yeah tears open the oven chips put some of the other additions
sticks at the oven will've all been there haven't you but what was the last it's the very very last
second we see of them before the before I think it's before the credits right that that scene
is pre-credits so the very very last shot of them we see in that scene he's obviously

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in busys fog foggy little oven chips and a pie rex pan if you ever cooked up in chips and a pie rex
never I was in a metal I was in a metal metal metal tin with silver foil but it's like determination
and we just the last split second and he sort of goes oh that I can it this sort of like it's just

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taken the camon you meant a leifer but I've got a lot to do here so as we find out in the next scene
he is eating what looks like a whole pack of oven chips easy and a tenemakaroni with prawns all of
bets cold and a whole block of iris cheddar oh I don't know how pissed that man but I could not

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eat all of that and then go to bed and no you're missing that again I think if I all that on top of
a stomach full of beer but he um this is the thing this is the thing wow it's not in on this
because the reservoir there was a sort of subtle subplot running through it through the first series
about erics hell within his way and stuff you know and they think it's like the third or fourth episode

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that's the third episode when he's this is birthday and he's not drinking you're under wagon
Eric that's how why are you on the wagon Eric you know um and then of course the last episode starts
with him getting some incondrucing news at the doctor you know he's lost that away he's blood pressure
stone etc it's kind of good news for Eric and Beth but the thing I like about Alex Norton and this
is that he you know the Eric is in a hundred percent comfortable with he and and jazz right but

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he's made you know he makes like he's making such an effort just to be all right you know there's
like there's there's moments when you know come in you'll see he'll say hi you dancing hi a son
and jazz will say hi mr. baird and he's like hi you know there's like he's just it's a really
subtle yeah right it's a really subtle thing where you can feel like you know if obviously son

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he accepts the fact that his son's gay he doesn't really understand that world but he's
gonna make a big effort to try and make sure that he and feels comfortable when he's there
I mean he's dad and stuff you know you're right I never picked up on that but you're completely right
and I think there is a an episode I think it might have been in the last series is it where Ian is it

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the one where Ian's friend comes round is it his ex kind of yeah Gordon gets jealous and it kind of
Ian explains how he used to get bullied in stuff at school and there's a beautiful scene
yeah between Eric and Ian where he's like son I never realized you went through all of that
yeah yeah it's and you're right I never picked up on that like he is completely accepting

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yeah of the fact Ian's gay like he doesn't have a problem with that at all but you're right he
maybe feels uncomfortable of how to act around jazz in a way yeah he's so it's so it's so
striving to understand it you know I think that's for this that's I feel like I always like he really
wants to understand it and you know he's I mean wonderful um character uh in terms of Eric like the

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and you're right he's he's a vulnerable character in a way like he's he's put upon the episode where
Christine ceiling caves in and everyone's sleeping over and Beth is like Eric back up to the loft and
he's trudging back up he just does everything he just wants to watch Andy money in the US open
everyone's shouting he goes off to his bed to listen to himself you know he's a simple he's a man

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of Monhart he's just sitting having a shepherd's pie yeah and Beth calls him like what do you want for
your birthday yeah and he said I don't want anything I don't I don't want anything and I'm
Christ I'm only 43 and I'm the same I don't want to just don't get me anything leave it short sleeve
shirt he's I've got a short sleeve shirt which he says you look like jockey Wilson on safari
that's a fucking deep cut yeah for the audience to get that and then but he's just and then of course

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he's just trying to have his um I don't know what I can't remember what is he's watching something
on the TV but um he's just trying to have a shepherd's pie and then it all goes to shit because
coth Colin and Kathy come in and then Jasney income round and then Sophie and Christine come round
and it's the wonderful moment where Beth comes in and Eric's coming from the kitchen and he's got a
bottle of wine and a ham and she's rober Christine in full of hands and she's like oh someone's enjoying

(01:18:08):
himself like as if he's been busted and he's like they're not for me we've got a fucking house full
here that is the wonderful um episode of course that um we find out about the family photo
yeah um a stick of alley my coist covering his balls you really mean that alley my coist up to your

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boss you really mean that you know the thing that I really like about Alex Norton is you know like
he's probably like one of his biggest I know this is an ensemble but you know when when he was
on tiger as and even essentially they'll be back to the target on tiger on tiger although it's

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a big eight tiger became a bit more of an ensemble after Mark McManus likes it was really just
McManus and Jardine for most of the series and it yeah Peter for the first couple and then you know
this ensemble can I build up but you know the gift is is known for dramatic acting you know I was
had a beeflet through XIMDB and there is comedy there I mean he's in the second episode of the very

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first series of black adr as McSpooran um yes she's quite funny he's quite funny in that but um
to come in and do this and he's also like in Pirates of the Cat is it in some Pirates of the Caribbean
with Johnny Depp and stuff he's a pirate yeah but to come into this um this sitcom very sort of
you know like very true to life really and really play like you know he has very much as we mentioned

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he's very much the straight man I even a little bit more so than than Beth like he he is the
you know he's the sort of put upon one is the one you know the photograph with these bozoo and
when he puts the count on as they can be many skirt and the tennis shorts when him and Colin
play swing ball and stuff and you know he's he's not like he's not shy of you know looking a bit

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foolish for a part you know he's you know he's fully committed to it and then of course although
it's not in this series but that senior just mentioned um when he talks to Eric about his school days
and what he went through and stuff you know he can it can it can move very very easily from
sort of comedy to like a serious traumatic moment within a comedy you know and I guess that I mean

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that's not just that that's not just good right and like you know that it needs to be interpreted
well right and he's um he's so good at it and he's just he's just such a he's such an every man and
it you know just like you're just wanted to be synch quiet like so we you know he's he's
almost enemy sometimes as much as he likes like you know the kind of food that everybody likes but

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you get to certain age you can't eat so much of like the fish and chips or he paint a laugher or
something like that but yeah he's just the I mean he's I can't imagine anybody any other Scottish
actor in that role you know I was thinking I was thinking who else could who else could
stay there it could could could could someone they can degree have played them I don't think so
because I'm degree and degrees that was a funny comedy actor you know what I mean the

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you couldn't have somebody who is predominantly known for comedy is Eric or do you think Eric
reminds me of my uncle Bill and that's kind of the highest place I've given like he reminds me of
my uncle yeah like it's it's a someone I know yeah you know what I mean like he's he's an every man
yeah as you say and I think that he you're right in terms of like his health he's he knows okay the

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first episode he he does demolish a lot of food but it's because he's pitched yeah and you know
we're all but all guilty of that more hungry but he he does have that discipline going forward in terms
of who say the episode with the tennis he's um when when Collins wanting to get a cut off from the
Taj and he's like nope I'm not having nope I'm not having it he does end up tucking into a bit of it

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later but you can tell again because he's had a few drinks and he's just like the foods later he's
like oh fuck it I'm just gonna fuck it have some of this but he is you know he's so good willing
but you're right he just he just wants a quiet life he just wants to sit and peace him and you know
be with him and Beth or just to be honest like you could tell he's excited that episode what he's

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sitting eating is cottage pie he's watching whatever it is like grand designs or something and he's just
better peace and quiet house to myself fucking magic yeah and just all gets disrupted but you're right
I think Alex Norton is such a a wonderful actor and you're right like even he has always kind of
done comedy like he did even comfort and joy he is brilliant but he is kind of a straight

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baddie kind of it's not an obvious kind of comedic it's it's a bit of a sight film so of course it's
kind of a you know and even in um local hero I mean it's a brief scene but he's he's fantastic in
that as well uh brilliant actor and I think probably very grateful for this role to have come about
because you know I know that's what Jonathan Watson said like it all the cast are in their late

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50s early 60s the main adult cast so for them to have got this to run for a seven series has been
pretty fantastic for them yeah to do this and great to work with with people your own age and kind of
your pure group as well people your respect yeah yeah definitely I mean he's he's just done the second
series of good omens probably the last series because I think that Neil Gaimins and about a hot water

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for um oh yeah appropriate behavior with a woman um but um yeah I think yeah to your point I think
I think as a spell like you you see the photographs so it's a follow quite a few of the cast on
Instagram and they just they keep the series is added to Gradle and um Joy MacaVoy is regulars over

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the years and they just all seem like they just have a good time together you know they you see
photographs of them like in between shooting and stuff um it's probably like a nice
but a nice thing to be a part of you know but very difficult to turn down um and you know you know
you got uh didn't neglect them being a great example of you know sort of stepping away for a
series and and then kind of coming back for well well what will be the last series unfortunately

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a perfect side step to discussing Kathy yeah yes uh doing and we saw glimpses of this in the
original episode but it's almost like they have melded Beth's sister um played by Daniel and Ardini
and the original Kathy yeah although Kathy was kind of like this actually she was in the the original

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episode because she was she does say uh I mean I can't remember I should have come and become back
and watch that but I'm sure like with Nina the Norwegian she is like just take a fucking drink or something
like like she and she's smoking in front of her like when she's pregnant and stuff um so actually
maybe they didn't it's just Kathy um we all kind of know what Kathy she is she's turned up to 11 she can

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be really irritating at times but also fucking hilarious I mean obviously the episode with the when
they're rounded um Ian and Jazzy's and that that's the other thing we're doing um some of the physical
comedy that she does in this is is incredible you know the first scene we see a range she like lifts
her leg up and puts it on the kitchen table to show Beth her um our pedicure the the best part for me is

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in the scene with Ian and Jaz when they're having kind of the what they've got um Beth and Kathy
round and she's dancing to Usher and then this is a scene Ian and Jaz are talking and Kathy's
just in the background but then you see her do a slot drop to milkshake by Kaleese just in the

(01:25:38):
background of the shop but it's so fucking brilliant like and her mock out rage when the poor neighbour
is complaining about you know just try to get my baby sleep can you and he's done a bit as she goes
off on one about heating up your milk and coffee shop it's like I like things he did like it's just
like we all know a Kathy who gets outraged at stuff like that and but is it because Colin is just

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always treated her like a princess in a way and that's what she's used to or is she just a a drunk
when she's on the de-calf coffee for her stress but it tastes fine with a bit of belice
I know and then the thing is like although it's sort of done for effect on that episode when she's
talking about her counselor and the counselor said you know she says that she says I've got the lowest

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self-esteem of anybody she's ever met and you know they both she actually does have really low self-esteem
and that that's what drives this you know this sort of one-upmanship that Colin goes along with
or oh wait we were looking at the expensive ones you know like oh yeah I'll just finish a decent
stuff first that kind of thing and she you know there's like what's telling is when she sees jazz

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and Ian she's all and then the bit later on Gordon you know she sort of kisses them full on the
mouth and she always sits beside them and stuff like that and you're like you know what's she what's
her objective there you know is she trying to see just how gay this guy is you know by being a bit
inappropriate with him or what or is you know is it for Colin's benefit um it's not clear but I

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think it was smart to not as much as I like Danielle and Ardenia I think it was right not to bring her
character in for the series because I think it's fine to have two sort of similar-ish characters in
the original one because it was you know it's got one off a very long thing but maybe the bit too much
in the series to have like two kind of because they're both quite sort of eccentric characters but

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sort of manic manic eccentric characters you know what I mean yeah yeah I think there's only room for
like one character like that and I think it was smart to have Kathy I think over the the the character
the best sister yeah I would completely agree with you I think um Kathy is the wise choice and it is
you know she's basically a child in someone yeah the episode where she's sleeping over and she's like

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do you have a lamp okay to what's wrong with the big light well I want to dance in the mirror and
the lights better like just go to bed Kathy like it's you know she's obviously pissed but
she's just behaving like an actual child. I don't know what a dance in the mirror I mean I watched I went
and looked at some of her other stuff so like I watched a bit of smack the pony and she does

(01:28:24):
there's a lot of physical stuff she does in that there's there's one where she's she looks like she's
preparing to um for like a sort of really athletic swim you know she's got something cap on she's
got a cosy-oge that's like the pushy stretch and out and she's getting already and then she
does this sort of belly flop and the pool and sort of doggie paddles you know there's another one where

(01:28:46):
she's giving um Sally Phillips this kind of uh sort of alternative massage and stuff basically
she's just hurting her you know what I mean she's like nippin her and drag grab her nipple and stuff
like that she's she's really funny but the scene I like in this is when she's at the the housewarming
when she's um she keeps swinging her head over jazz his head you know what she's

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because she's really tall as well is she's like super tall yeah she's um yeah she's brilliant like
it's a wonderful um I mean I remember her probably my first exposure they would have been from
knowing me knowing you and I'm in portrait she has plays like a few different characters the
well in fact the day to day would probably be the ever the first exposure to her but knowing me

(01:29:30):
knowing you she plays uh Shona McGoth who is like lead singer of this punk Scottish band and um
yeah wonderful scene where because that's the first episode I think in Alan's waiting for Roger
Moore to arrive and Ace that Roger Moore coming best know for playing Bond and she's like Sean
Conray was the best Bond and he's like well it's you know interesting you take that point of view

(01:29:56):
the Scottish point of view but um yeah the the physical comedy that she does is is
wonderfulness and she's just an absolute fucking nightmare of a character like it like I say we all
know a catty but we hate to fucking have a catty you you kind of don't want to invite her to a party
but small doses you feel you have to or it's gonna be there yeah definitely and um of course and

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the other um character who didn't make it from the original episode is the the brother who
is never mentioned and doesn't exist anymore because that's the the whole premise of the the opening
episode is that he's coming back from the army from that night and they bait the state pie but he's
just gone never mentioned Ian is the only son yeah but we do have the wonderful and we only get her

(01:30:43):
for the first two series unfortunately uh Sharon Rune as Sophie who is just brilliant like I I first saw
her 2013 was a massive year for her because I first saw her early 2013 and I show I didn't
if you ever watched it it was on channel four called my mad fat diet no I never saw I ever watched it
you you would like it it's kind of a teen show like it's a bit like skins or um

(01:31:11):
take what take skins in this is England and kind of dilute them with like holiocs or something
it's a diluted version of kind of that right but it's set in the mid-90s and it's all set around
Britpop so it's all all the soundtrack is like shed seven cast right and there's like a whole
episode about them getting tickets to go to Nedworth to go and see your wastes and stuff like it's all
set around that but she plays a like an overweight depressed girl in it so she popped up on that

(01:31:39):
but she's doing an English accent because it's set in Lincolnshire and then she pops up in
Tudor's down to the special um in 2013 I'm like holy fuck she's Scottish like you know I never
realized that and then of course when the series starts watching her in that and you know she's
gone on to to great things she's been in a lot of stuff she's I mean she went on I think the reason

(01:32:00):
she actually couldn't do two three is because she was in Tim Burton's Dumbledore and there was
sketchland conflicts you know she's in the Barbie movie yeah she has gone on to great things and she
is fucking brilliant is Sophie and it's such a shame she kind of couldn't continue the role because
I love the scenes with her she's a fantastic actress she's perfect foil for Christine she's

(01:32:23):
lovely when she's with them Beth but her scenes with Ian are something really special you can tell
they've had that kind of a bond they've grown up together in a way they know each other for years
they have this playful relationship and I really miss that in the later series like there's only
maybe two or three scenes in this first series of Ian and um Sophie interacting but they're just

(01:32:46):
magical in a way yeah she's really good I love in her it's her reactions that um that I that always
made me laugh you know like she's you know like the faces she pulls or when she sort of rolls her eyes
whatever and the thing is funny enough when I was flying back from Kuwait on Friday the week I was
sitting in front of me was watching Barbie and um the scene in that when Margot Robbie shows the other

(01:33:11):
Barbies that are feet of God so a flat and she holds her foot up and like Sharon runny's face it
just makes me think it's so fake because she kind of just like an exaggerated reaction to some of the
reactions that she would do into a door's down but you know like I'm I'm trying to say that she's
got a really funny face but I don't want it to sound like I'm being unkind it's a really funny face

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in the best way you know yeah her facial expressions are spot on and because I think she's perfect
foil for Christine in that second episode you can tell something's up in the beginning yeah
and she's trying to be nice to her mom and you don't know what it is yeah you're kind of working out
and you know when Christine drops that she's been getting pumped yes and then when it turns out she's

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pregnant and the revelation that she doesn't know who the father is because she had a threesome is
it's fucking gold it terms of her the the way she reveals it you know because they were both
there at the same time and that leads to you know a wonderful interaction of them when

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Kathy's like oh everyone does it don't they okay and best of yes Eric and I have three
sums up the time many times Kathy oh god yeah just fantastic but yeah it was such a shame that
that she had to leave and I guess after to say I mean we're only talking about Susan one human of course
after series two jazz leaves and so fee leaves but we get the introduction of Gordon now I have to

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admit this is the first time I've watched series one in a very long time and I've kind of forgotten
about jazz in a way nothing against the actor who who plays jazz um harkey um but Gordon's just
a better character in a way yeah like he's he's got a bit more about him in terms of Gordon like he's
a bit funnier and he's a bit more entertaining and I think it saves you like one of my favorite episodes

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of all time is the the the latest series with the the carvery episode with his parents they're as well
that's just an absolutely genius episode yeah well I think jazz you know like great so wee bit in certain
episodes you know I mean like his sort of neuroses and his reaction stuff like when he goes and locks

(01:35:28):
myself in a toilet and see when he's supposed to go back to work the next day and he can't go back to
working lots of self in a toilet and all that kind of thing and then you know it's just you know like
I don't I don't really need more more jazz you know I wouldn't need more Christine or Kathy
for a show that is centered around like really smart characters who are kind of switched on and

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okay all have maybe heightened as much say like Eric and Beth are very much the the kind of straight
people calling Kathy or the eccentric ones Christine is kind of the voice of everyone the people
yeah basically Ian is a normal guy and I love that they've they've done that I don't I don't be careful
how I word this but I love that Ian's just a normal guy like he's gay but and I guess it's because

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the the writer's song Carlisle was gay but you know they didn't make him an eccentric yeah out guy
you know he's a normal bloke and I don't mean that to come across I'm really sorry for offended
and with clumsy wording there but you know what I mean yeah yeah I get it but jazz is also the same
but jazz is like stupid yeah he's he's the idiotic character which I don't think the show needs

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and and you can see like Gordon's on idiot later on he's he's a bit eccentric but he's not an idiot
if anything they kind of replace the idiotic character with with Alan but again Alan's on
idiot he's just kind of yeah I'll bloke but but jazz is he's stupid he's an airhead effectively
which I don't think the show needs no I don't think so because the thing is that you can

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kind of wonder there's some moments where you wonder they don't seem like a very natural couple
Ian and jazz you're like you know why are they buying a house together you know and uh like I'm not
sure why spoiler for series two yeah sorry yeah but I don't know why why harkey left the show I don't
know if that was if he wanted to go in some flannel sort of if like the writers felt that they had

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to change the dynamic a little bit for Ian you know because you can sort of see what you can see
what works with Ian and Gordon but with jazz and Ian even like the scenes when they're at home
and they're flat they think they think they think they've been of the first scenes in the first
episode after Ian's left the fridge open is them sitting in the sofa and jazz is flat you know

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when they get the call from bed to say you know don't go to the gym you need to come and help
us eat all this food yeah I think harkey um left I think he got um uh he was in our girl um which
was a BBC drama with um Michelle Keegan oh yeah that army thing yeah I think he got cast in that

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so probably it was scheduling conflicts and I'll be honest I'd probably rather spare my days for
Michelle Keegan and um actually no I wouldn't actually I'd rather spend my days for fucking I'd rather
spend my days with Jonathan Watson Alex not Jimmy Quinn do yeah Elaine C Smith yeah I think a
shirt has to go to and I did watch a little bit series two but I've watched the rest of it I can't

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remember if they continue this but the end credits song of each episode is perfectly fitted yeah so
we have episode one uh we have when the boat comes in which because obviously the first time in
yeah um yeah then episode two happy together by the turtles because everyone's kind of come back
it was said three rubber ball by bobby v don't always your trussers for episode four because that's

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the episode with Alex not in the kill which I think although it's a um I think it's done the
Watson that's singing that version it sounds very much like him right anyway I'm the sure um no I
think it's Jonathan Watson singing if you go back and listen to it I'm pretty sure Jonathan Watson
babysitting boogie by bus Clifford for episode five and my favorite and the funniest

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after eric has sliced his legs and his arse open first cut is the deepest by four to do it
it's just it's it's it's perfect but that is the song to close the first season after what we've just
seen like there's a nice I guess they maybe weren't sure if they were going to get picked up for
the second series but there's that but you know that that was seen at the very end when uh Beth and

(01:39:33):
Eric and the beach sort of like finally can I piece it last you know they I almost I own for a second
they almost expected so a Kathy and Collins appear at the side of the pool would say oh he thought
would just come as well you know and Eric's a fucking bouldies eyes and Beth the Beth to sort of pretend
that she's happy to see them you know they do make good use of the um a bit like that the only

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other episode that there is kind of a an ed credits sting is I think it's episode four where Sophie
tells them she's pregnant and you see the the clips of the fours and the fours and three is so funny
and of Christy and I have a break that's so funny in that wait it's actually she's in hospital she's
been sedated it's it's it's but that is such a clever way they did that in terms of just seeing them

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on the photo free yeah but you know jazz has gone to the trouble to upload them all to the photo free
yeah probably works you so fucking stupid I mean see Smith is in that in those like photographs is
just so funny so funny oh yeah she's just um she's absolutely standing so yeah I mean we've spoken a

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lot about other series of it and of course the show ran for seven series and a Christmas special
with the last series airing last year in 2023 but unfortunately on the night of August 2023
Simon Carlisle shows co-creator and co-writer passed away at the age of 47 which means it's pretty
likely that the show is over I think a few cast members have said that it's it's done now they

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they I think they don't want to continue without Simon no and I think it would be difficult to like
capture or we just say a co-writer yeah I think he was kind of the main so I so love it you know yeah
writer and away and I I don't think you could capture the essence of the show without him anymore
and I personally as much as I'm disappointed we won't get any more of two doors down I think it's

(01:41:32):
best to leave it as the way it is because it's a seven series and you know it's it's left a legacy really
I think it's probably the best decision to just leave it yeah I think you can you can take things too
far you know I mean I think that maybe that's something that the last three series are still game
maybe suffered from a bit that you know it's gonna be just a wee bit but maybe they because I know they

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came back with that series after doing the live show at the Hydro you know they were talking
in that first and then that that made them decide to do because they had fun doing it decide to
do another series I think maybe one series would have been fine but like I did speed in every
way and see Smith when someone asked her this year if there was maybe scope to do three do a three
doors down stage show and she said well she said I think the problem is the reason that it works is

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because on the TV and you're in it's almost like in a claustrophobic sort of environment because
you're in someone's front room you in someone's house it's very intimate and it'd be difficult to get
the same level of intimacy on a stage unless it was in a really small theater you know if they were
to do it that way and even then you know you're sort of limited and what you could do but yeah I

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think to your point I think all the cast would much rather just move on now you know then then try
and do it yeah yeah I think and it's not a case of they don't want to do it I think it's more of
like they want to cherish them like keep the reputation intact yeah and not tarnish something
that's so beloved and that they've done I think they would all do it in an instant in terms of

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because as you mentioned earlier that I think the the relationship they have is so close and
they're all friends yeah and they would love the opportunity to do something and I think they have
said they might do like a one off tribute kind of show right or like stage special but not like a
it wouldn't be like a live episode type thing and you're right that's why it works because it is
so claustrophobic and I did read somewhere I think it was some english journalist with him

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writing about it and described it as like the Scottish version of the royal family which I'm
like okay it's not really but I get it because and to be fair that's pretty fucking high a claim
yes the royal family is is you know a wonderful show so but there are elements there so I get it
it's definitely got stuff in common with royal family for sure you know I would say um I mean I

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think like a lot of I did see Anna about a weir like a writer for the garden uh was critical about
her Scottish accent and she was when she was being interviewed she is Scottish so as a thing she's
being interviewed so I think he said that her Scottish accent was was a working progress and when she
was being interviewed uh for her book does my bubbly big in this like the interviewer asked her about

(01:44:10):
this and she said well I'm Scottish really being my parents were Scottish you know like I lived it
it's a small you know issues at ex an ex-part pair so there's an ex-part as a young woman's
bad alien stuff but she grew up in a Scottish household I'm sure she can search for accent she can do
a Scottish accent quite comfortably yeah we've discussed Scottish accents many a time on this
podcast and not for one second did I think like I know she she's Scottish but I know she does have an

(01:44:36):
English accent like normally but not for one second do I ever think her accent was out of place
well I mean even like Dune McLaughlin did McLaughlin wasn't born in Scotland she was born in America
oh yeah of course yeah of course in Scotland you know but with the sort of things that I was just
seeing her on things like brass eye in the day to day and stuff she'll be doing she'll be doing

(01:44:56):
they can brass eye she'd up she'll be playing that one of the news anchors with the christinawris
yeah so she'll be doing the kine English accent yeah and she'd do like those different accents
since Mac the Pony's for Pimilist of Incallectors you know but they both of their accents you know I
think we can count ourselves being a bit of an expert on Scottish accents since we're both Scottish
they both feel yes very very natural you know they both sound very natural they don't sound like it's

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a stage Scottish accent I think a Scottish accent is difficult to do for non-scots you know for the
most part yeah like a couple a couple of good examples really but there's a lot of shockers
no I think famously we've said that before and I have listened to people say that on um podcasts
or like watching online people have said like a Scottish accent is really difficult to do if you're
not like a skull you know you tune in and famously if we had an award to give obviously we all know

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Johnnie the Miller will probably get the award for best non-scot to do a Scottish accent but I
not for one second did I ever think ate billiwiers accent was off no it's no it's it's natural
like it's in some in some cases it's very nuanced like the way she says certain words she says it's
a paisley accent she says she said her accent is a good as a paisley accent yeah you know so I

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think that reporter speak out fucking well he did come back and apologize for it he did come in
they say that he was about to order even even Jane Horrick's who is fantastic impressionist can't
do a very good Scottish accent as evidence in sunshine and wheat you know that's very true accent
I never thought about that and she is actually a fantastic British impressionist yeah brilliant impressionist

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so interestingly well it's interesting to me because I'm very very familiar with the area but the
the front the first series at least the the the the streets used for the credits on the external
shorts and the Bishop Briggs which is uh oh which is well my cousins grew up there you know I can
no Bishop Briggs very well and it's nice there's nice you there's got a campsy hills like nicely

(01:46:54):
see the campsy hills in the background as the camera pans over whatever crescent oh and a wonderful
intro music as well they just get stuck in your head as well yeah it does yeah wouldn't I mean I
wonder why you chose that yeah for it because it's an American band yeah they were the called DIY
or something like that I can remember it at the call SOS I think so yeah it's like an abbreviation

(01:47:15):
but it's just uh such a simple tune but it just gets stuck right in your head and you're humming it
yeah around the house like I mess you the other days it'll be about having that bit from
stall game stuck in my head for two days solid just the you're my lady you're my lady
fucking in my head for two days don't know why and now I've sung it it's probably gonna be stuck

(01:47:39):
in my head for the next two days I'm gonna regret that well I've had this stuck in my head for
the last couple of days because I've seen me watching a lot of two doors down so I've had a
say the the the the band of codes um the jeans code S will be the band of code Nathaniel
Ritalif and the night sweats um from the American band oh that'll be and that's a a beautiful line

(01:48:01):
them as well with Beth I think she's speaking to Ian when she's asking about moving in with jazz and
she's like you know when I first moved in with your father I'd never loved one a man before I didn't
know what the meat sweats were meat sweats you just imagine a young Eric having meat sweats
yeah so should we put should we put still uh and what said should we put still game should we put

(01:48:23):
two doors down through our swalley awards yes Greg let's do it and see so uh what's first I mean I
know what's first it's gonna be the Bobby the Barman award isn't it is there's the only probably
we see in the first series is the very first episode where um Eric and Colin are watching
Scotland play Malta um it is and it's called the Rook and uh it looks a bit whether spin Z in a

(01:48:47):
way yeah I wouldn't mind go I'd go for a pint there why not go for it it's a pub go for a go for a
pint with Eric and Colin oh yeah and watch Malta pump Scotland for now yeah yeah Colin if if
you if you've been a ten a reef he's been to a living a reef um and then the next one then are
probably our most famous award uh the James Cosmo award for being in everything Scottish

(01:49:08):
hey this is um I mean it's kind of three you could choose from but it's Alex Norton really like
there's an argument to be had for Watson early in ce Smith but I've gone with Norton though I've
I've written Norton but I've also done that sort of back slash uh Watson because um both quite uh
both been in a lot of the stuff that we've covered but I think to your point Norton just

(01:49:31):
edges it the argument could be that Watson's career has probably been more exclusively Scottish
yes and then Norton and comedy to a greater extent you know like
yes yeah so there's an argument for both but yeah I give it to Norton okay next then the Jake
McQuillan your tease-out award I mean it's Christine Smack and Eric with a baseball bat

(01:49:55):
so yeah for an Eric tanned by the bat yeah I mean it looks it looks a lot worse than
but I wouldn't what it had you know when he was getting when he called him was helping him
it did you know what worse that's kind of what hit me yeah he did he got really fucking smacked
she really let her dim with that bat yeah yeah next then the uh you and McGregor award for

(01:50:16):
gratuitous nudity I mean I just put it because a wee glimpse uh Eric's boss on the portrait
kind of if he squint split second once Ali McCoy's is peeled away yeah sadly so then this one then
this one is one that's going to be difficult and but it's the Francis beg be a award for gratuitous

(01:50:37):
swearing so a few of the characters drop f-bombs but uh Christine is the is the main dropper I would say
so I mean a very very difficult choice what is you what is your narrowed down to I've got two
clear favorites but I've got one clear favorite but I want to hear what you're going for first my
favorite um apart from the sneaky be wanker which is fucking really make me laugh sneaky be wanker um is

(01:51:03):
the second episode that I've had Christine see this fall and then she's telling Kathy and she's like
honestly it was like fucking Pompey um I think my my two favorites I love the Pompey one with that
doubt um my second favorite is when they're talking about the or ceiling falling in and it's the
insurance claim and she says what's wrong with the dog church well it better start fucking noding

(01:51:27):
when it sees my clean form in front of it but my my absolute favorite and you know this is my
kind of humor is the last episode when they're in calling in Kathy's garden and she says do you
remember when I was doing the patio last summer I was back and forth with sand and paving slabs in a
wheelbatter like Fred fucking est I'll tell you something Eric that we calling is a wanker

(01:51:51):
they can't have Gordel you know I give him is you he's done a good job oh why I should have got
him over the years last year when we were redoing that patio oh why next I said that was me with
the bags of sand and they're so fee batting for was with slabs and a wheelbatter let Fred fucking west

(01:52:11):
forgotten about that one it's a cracker oh yeah that's uh but that I take my favorite I was just
that's uh I have to pause this for a couple of minutes kind of line that I just I I have to laugh
and yeah it's obviously we're not laughing at the crimes of Fred no that was horrendous what he did

(01:52:32):
but we're just laughing at these labors yeah yeah it's labors yeah oh yeah I mean there's so many there's
so many that you could do the uh but yeah that's a built-in and next one then archetypal scots moment
there's quite a lot I've got I borrowed it down to three two I've mentioned already um how many of
you got about them two so my first one my first one is the because the tartan army stuff comes up a couple

(01:52:58):
of time right yeah there's the there's the obviously the very first moments there's the Latvia episode
and stuff when they're well when they're going to Latvia but then the other thing is a bit broader it's
just the sort of impromptu house party now I'm gonna laugh yeah that's series two was it fuck it
or maybe actually well I didn't do that ham I mean I got almost I got almost to the end of the

(01:53:21):
podcast without without without making an arse of it yeah I'd say this to your rate you know 100%
right but there is the there is the the tartan army stuff at the beginning and then the other thing
I mean I don't know of this it feels like a really Scottish thing to me this and you know people
people listening might say well no we do that as well they can in our own countries but it's sort

(01:53:43):
of impromptu house party that yeah you know that you just sort of comes out of nowhere and always
turns out to be the the best ones the most dramatic the funniest you know what I mean it feels like
you know just your neighbours can have sort of popping round for a cup of tea and the next thing
you know someone's home the bottom line someone's got a couple of cans out and what's turned into like a
a brief visit has become a session you know yeah no I agree I agree that does and that's something

(01:54:08):
I kind of missed like he used to happen all the time no younger yeah just people popping round and
people just coming round to the house and staying for a few hours cup of tea chat and
yeah just happened all the time yeah yeah and maybe somebody get a get a couple of cans out of the
fridge and fancy a proper drink yeah we'll be getting anyway what would you go for calling

(01:54:30):
getting his face painted to support Andy Murray it feels like an archetype of Scottish thing paint
a soul tie on your face although we've never I've never done it I've never done it I've never done it
however the clear one after me is calling someone a funny you know when you're like you'd have
a funny that's the exchange is just amazing you know total funny I told you there's a draft in here

(01:55:00):
draft my arse you were trying to put me off you know you're a cheat and we funny no you can't see
that oh yes I can you're a funny you're a cheating little funny funny funny funny funny funny
is that that is a Scottish thing yeah calling someone a funny definitely it's not yeah it's not

(01:55:20):
that's not something that you would hear everywhere but yeah that's very very no very very Scottish
that's a good one and then finally then the Sean Connory award who wins the show tough really
but because everybody has moments of brilliance but I think on for me anyway I think
unfortunately for the rest the cast Elaine C Smith just has a few a few more moments of brilliance

(01:55:44):
than the other actors I think we discussed this earlier where we said that obviously Dune was
missing from series six and the show still worked but it wasn't as good but it still worked it so
had its moments yeah they kind of replaced her with the Shivon Redmond yeah yeah but she just kept

(01:56:04):
going on about her sons have a second me all the time and no not the second me circumcision
two separate things the show still worked but it wasn't as good however I genuinely don't think
out of the core five I don't think you could take Christine out of there no like you could you could
potentially take and obviously we'd never want to see it but you could take Eric or Beth out of

(01:56:28):
there potentially you know one of them's passed away there once widow everyone goes round to see
them yeah could work without Christine the show doesn't work yeah she is like I've said a couple of
times she's the voice of the people in a way she says what people are thinking and the one liners
and she let's be honest every episode around revolves around Colin and Kathy coming round to

(01:56:51):
Eric and Beth's the some sort of minor it's agreement and Christine is kind of the social commentary
on it and let's face it that's what every episode is but it it and I know they've
wheeled out for semis but trust me it fucking works yeah and almost every episode is fucking gold
but Christine is the she's the core of of this show I think and it's just genius that they

(01:57:12):
added her in and yeah she'll doesn't work without her and yeah so for that reason I agree I'll
link see Smith wins it for me and later on I think it's when in its season three after Sharon
Muni's left you know you saw a few wee bit sorry for Christine in the first couple episodes because
there's all this anticipation of the grand kid arriving in the second series and then yeah

(01:57:34):
you know that she's sort of on their own and Sophie's supposed to be living in Wales for the guy who
comes to the stairs these box are shorts and what she's cartoons but then she obviously doesn't
have Sophie to bounce off of in the other series but that's when you get to hear more about Pat
the back yeah and stuff yeah that's true yeah and she she develops this this other kind of character

(01:57:57):
and and she develops a persona of of all this stuff going on around her like she's slagging off
TK max and stuff and she's she's almost got more of a life once Sophie's gone because she doesn't have
sofa to bounce off of but it works she's her character evolves the sort of age are a bit I think
you know because like she's thinking the first couple episodes were Sophie she seems like a sort of

(01:58:18):
maybe at the sort of fag in the middle age you know but then in the later episodes this is
particularly there's one episode in which series it is but you know joy and sort of joy Michelle
and Alan are having a party and you know they sort of they sort of fuss around her like she's a
wee old lady you know what I mean make sure she's comfortable and she's got her cushions and all that

(01:58:39):
sort of stuff and I mean it kind of it still works because Elaine sees Smith just can brilliant you
know you know it's just such a fantastic actor but yeah they do they do sort of they could they
I feel like they do kind of age you know we bit once Sophie's gone you know so wow that was good for
an enjoy going back and watch that I've not I've not watched the first series since the first time I

(01:59:00):
watched it I said to the other day because I was self-isolating I was having like a few cans every night
because I was on my own so there was nobody to go to bed or not to drink so much and so you know
there was obviously there's been some nights when I've been a bit pissed obviously when I've gotten
this was like I didn't remember Eric and Beth sitting by the pool at the end of the last episode

(01:59:23):
they that I don't remember that at all and when I watch the series again for this episode so yeah
it was a joy to it was a joy to revisit those characters and and it was been a joy introducing
it to my daughter as well because she likes you know she likes Scottish humour she likes silly stuff
and she likes still game you know so I thought she's she's enjoyed it good now I I really enjoyed

(01:59:45):
watching the first series again and as I say that night I ended up watching the first two episodes
series two and I stopped myself because I was like I don't want to get confused and muddle things up
so I'm gonna leave it there but I'm pretty certain to like I'll probably end up firing up series two
and watching that and I'll end up burning through the whole seven series over the course of the

(02:00:06):
week because it's just such a wonderful homely show and it's just every episode it's just so good you
know there's lines that stay with you in your head that is it series three I think where Eric has
operation on his is ours yes and Elaine she Smith I can't really exact line but she's talking about

(02:00:29):
fisting or something because he was like fucking sute and oh god that's that's kind of the lines
that stay with you yes uh Tito Stein available an eye player I don't know if it's available in other
countries or where it is they can buy it from the Apple store if you wanted so you could buy it from
Apple if you want to see it but yeah if you've not seen it definitely worth a watch otherwise if

(02:00:52):
you have a VPN it is available on BBCI player the entire seven series I think the only episode that
isn't available is the the very first episode and that's because Kevin Gutty couldn't keep his
hands in his pockets okay Greg so that was my choice Tito Stein and it's your choice on the next

(02:01:13):
episode of the culture swali so why do you tell me what I'm gonna be watching over the course of
the next week or so so this is not a particularly well known film which is surprising because it won
quite a lot of awards okay it is quite difficult to find but not impossible so I have gone with
the 2003 movie starring one of our favorites Shorby Henderson Danny Nucci Gerald Vapowski Russell Hunter

(02:01:41):
Dan Hadea American Cousins also stars Vincent Pastore who plays Big Pussy Bump and Sero in the
sopranos as we were discussing earlier on so two mafia members hide out with their Scottish Cousins
they try to help them with a debt collector using violence but their methods backfire they cover

(02:02:02):
story unravels as the cousin recognizes them as criminals it's a good film I've only seen it once
and that was when it first came out something for to watch it again for the pod you just you couldn't
fucking wait could you couldn't wait like you couldn't wait we've I've been searching for that for
years and I finally found it like two weeks ago I finally found it and sent it to you and you just

(02:02:22):
you fucking shot your load straight away haven't you what if I wanted to pick that next yeah what if I
were to pick that you're not fat you're not fat you're not fat you're not fat you're still gonna get
to watch it regardless where you picked it or not I don't want to pick it next anyway so it's fine
it's okay fuck you all right American Cousins I yeah I'm looking forward I don't think I've ever seen
that I'll be honest I don't think I've seen it I've been aware of it yeah I've never seen it

(02:02:45):
well the whole best stands out so I'm because I remember really enjoying it I haven't I haven't
watched it since I since I found it but yeah if you want to watch it for the next episode of the
swallow it's quite difficult to fight no in fact it's legal actually it's it's perfect legal it's
available on to be in the US yeah you just do a USB PN and you can watch it on to be so yeah

(02:03:09):
American Cousins on the next episode of the culture there we go don't get into trouble it's on
to be it's fine we're all we're all about bored it's okay thank fuck for that okay right so thank
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right it's Sunday I am off to go and take here on my sick dog I am going to go and make

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Karen lentil soup and I'm gonna go and watch Aberdeen against Kilmarnock what you up to Greg I'm
gonna go down to the supermarshe and get something for Sunday lunch from my family out getting
haircuts for school going back tomorrow then I got some iron and a do so probably they watch for
series of two doors down when I'm doing my iron and later on and in an early night because it's

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back to crushing routine tomorrow for the next to October when they're going home when they go and
have to end again absolutely shocking right well and until next time then I guess until next time
just everybody shut up Sophie your mum's just looking over you Christine you're our mum but she's

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practically a grown woman so just put a sock in it once in a while Kathy Colin said he's sorry
and he's no going to do it again are you Colin no sir what promise me see I will never rank again
said I will never rank again smash it and you too we'll find top marks so can we all for god's sake

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just get to our beds
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