Episode 131 - Taggart - Dead Giveaway (1988) - The Culture Swally

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[Music]

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Hello and welcome to the Culture Swally, a podcast dedicated to Scottish News and Pop Culture.
My name is Nicky and I'm joined as always by the man who has just smashed five boxes of
Duchess chocolate liquors, It's Greg. How are you today, buddy?
Well, nothing, hopefully the end of a cold. I can probably hear it in my voice a bit sniffly,

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but apart from that I'm not bad. I'm trying a beer that was an offer, a German beer that was an
offer in the my local off license, um, called Paddle Bonner Hell. For the life of me I can't find the
ABV on it. I don't know if that's a bad story, but it doesn't taste like a sort of park

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wagon. It's quite mild actually, so I'm hoping, you know, it's definitely alcoholic, but it's,
it's not like you know sometimes if it's two-bore or super, like purple tin or something,
they could taste a bit treakily and strong, it doesn't taste like that. It's actually quite nice,
quick crisp. Can we go back to you referring to it as a park lager? Is that mean the lager you'd

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drink in the park as a tramp or salad? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, all right, yeah. A park locker.
Park lagers would be things like Carlsberg, Elephant Beer, uh, Carlsberg Special Brew, which is,
I think it's just if elephant beer is like the silver medal, I think, special brews, the gold medal,

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um, or tenants, super, that kind of thing, um, love by, love by Italians everywhere.
Indeed, yeah, lovely park lager. Oh, cool. Okay. Um, well, I hope that works like well for you.
Very so far. It's okay. It's fine so far. Oh, it's still a cracking episode. You're, um,
it's fully cold, so it's sounding a bit, uh, you sound seductive, it's fine. Um, I, too,

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tea-thruved, um, the other week, so last week, so, um, yeah, this might be a strange episode, so, um,
if you're into, before I say, hey, um, best hour, hey, um, yes, ASMR, um, then you're in for a treat
to date, listen, hey, this could be the episode that sends us viral. Uh, yeah, for all the wrong reasons,
just get your feet out and then we'll send it on the, uh, on the internet as well. Uh, everything

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else good? Everything's good. I've been, I've been enjoying this week, uh, sort of revisiting a band,
not a Scottish band, um, but, uh, an American band, I'm not listening to it for a long time,
uh, the Flaming Lips, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been listening to Yoshini Battles of the Pink
Robots, um, okay, sort of, concept album of the layers, which I hadn't heard before, um, it's got one

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of their, one of their songs that probably people might, um, recognize, uh, if they don't know the band
that well, uh, do you realize, it's a really nice song, um, but the album's quite ASMR-y, you know,
I mean, it's songs, but it's, it's a chill, you know, um, a little, a little bit guerrillas adjacent,
um, in some, in some respects, but yeah. All right, listen to the Thamian lips for, I don't know,

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25 years, maybe? I've, I've never really been a Flaming Lips fan, never really listened to them.
Um, I'm aware of them. Um, I think the, if, if I think Flaming Lips, my reference is probably,
like, Justin Timberlake being on stage with him, like in a fun costume, I think
But I've never been like a I've never listened to them properly to be honest you or she me battles the pink

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Pink robots is a nice album to be started with anyway
Okay, I'll give them up. It's kind of. Yeah. Yeah, good stuff. That's good stuff
So yeah too many caliber wafers too many cans of iron brew trip to the dentist. He three moved. What's going on?
Yeah, pretty much no. I am have a
Yeah, I

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Have had issues for a while kind of inflammation back in my mouth, so yeah
Had to get some more. It's removed
But it's all fine. It'll help in the long run, but yeah, it's been a fun couple of weeks and yeah
enjoyment of getting them removed and yeah swollen mouth lots of pink colors and yeah not much fun

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But it's okay. It's it's a long run
Yeah, back on Monday to get a deep cleaning and then the following Monday to get the second part of the deep cleaning done
And then I'm done so hopefully you hope that'll be it. Yeah
And then I'll get the joys of in six months going to get an implant done, so that'll be nice
I've no I've not had to had I've not have I've been lucky with my teeth

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Touchwood and I've not had to have sort of dental surgery since I was about
19 when I had to get in bad assembly had to get my last baby tooth pulled out and
Which is just ridiculous at 17 and I
Didn't love having my gum injected

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Although obviously highly preferable to have in a tooth yanked out without any anesthetic of course
But I was talking to a colleague the other day who had also and he had his one his crowns had fallen out
And he was at these dinner and he had to go and get a new one put in and he said that these days they rub a wee bit of
Stuff on your gum to numb it before they put the needle in so it's not as painful is that true?

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I didn't have that that's in Dubai. I remember having that in Dubai. You're right. I'd forgotten about that
And I remember having that in Dubai
When I got my vineyards replaced
Yeah
Here no just straight in with the needle but I did this in heart and I did have a
Joy of she started to take my tooth out and I was like, yeah, I can feel that and oh, okay

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Give you some more and she's like, you know, is it numb here here? And I was like, yeah, no, no
I can feel it. Do you just feel the pulling or is that sharp pain? I was like, yeah, it's a sharp pain
So yeah, we had to wait a little while and yeah, then it was all fine
I could still kind of feel it a little bit, but hey
It was like, oh, I'm not gonna complain. I'm not gonna ask more

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But yeah, it was a bastard and then of course half that came out and half that was stuck in so she had to really dig around so yeah
Yeah, you had a big wave soldier. I was a big brave boy. I didn't get sicker though
Which, remember like I don't remember that when gun the dentist and I was young
I never got a sticker because I was a little bastard when I went to the dentist not was young hence why I'm probably a

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Teet pain now paying for it. Yeah paying for it now, but I always bought a buck heel here sticker
But I never got one so it was never a good boy. I don't remember like I mean, I don't remember
I remember like the dentist that we went to would give you like a toothbrush or something if you know what I mean
Like a sort but maybe they could character on it if you if they could be spider-man or something on it if you if you are good

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Getting your check-up or whatever. Yeah, I don't know
I like it when they I remember the dentist coming to school and they gave us those sort of tablets
That you can suck in your mouth and then it shows how clean your teeth are after you've brushed them. Remember that?
Yeah, yeah, you can buy them now
Yeah, but it was cool because we're always like they were like pink or blue or you know like sort of neon-y kind of colors

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I remember some kids at school. I mean my mum always stood over me in the morning and in the evening until
Probably almost in double figures to be honest to make sure that I brush my teeth properly
But I remember some kids teeth are fucking absolutely howling
Well two minutes top two minutes bottom. That's how you meant to brush your teeth
Anyway enough tooth chat that's tooth corner over with

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Right shall we have a look at what's been dental corner? Yes, shall we have a look at what's been happening in the news in Scotland over the last couple of weeks Greg?
Cue the jingle
Hello
This is the out there heavily broadcasting

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variation and here is what's been going on in the new oh
Okay, Greg what have you seen in the news that's been happening?
You'd like to share with me and our lovely listeners
Well, this one comes from a weaker to a go just because the news was so fucking grim over these last two weeks
I'm sure we'll find anything but this is a you and me Greg are talking about the time that you really let myself down by

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swearing in front of a celebrity chef and he was on him in his pal Charlie Boorman who he does the
Sponsored motorbike rides with for unicef were on the waitress podcast dish when he made the comments
So he's spoken about the time that he embarrassed himself in front of housewives favorite deal your Smith as he was so excited

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He kept swearing the scott's actor made the comments as he and his collaborator Charlie Boorman appeared on the podcast
hosted by
Ancientite or a word-winning chef Angela Harnett
Harnett and
Celebrity Northerner Nick Grimshaw
Describing meeting the celebrated cook at Radio Times event
McGregor said I was so excited to meet her but I just kept swearing

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I didn't mean to but I just kept dropping f-bombs all the time
I really let myself down but Grimshaw said of Smith who was previously a
Majority shareholder at Norwich City
I bet she's glad she pulled the money out of there he said um she won't mind she's all right
She's down the football she hears it all remember her making an absolute
twat of herself at Norwich

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Let's be having you yeah where are you yeah remember that
Absolutely hammered
Uh McGregor and Boorman who have worked together for the last 20 years on their
One Way series of motorcycle adventures discuss some of the delicacies they've eaten during the travels
They took the script how they were once invited for a meal in a yurt by villagers in Mongolia

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Uh Boorman told the podcast they said but she liked some food
And they had this big pot in the middle on the stove and they lifted this lid
And they were 200 testicles bubbling away with all their entrails
Oh my god yaks you name it it was all in there
Boorman continued and I remember eating them
And you and his pretty good with eating like difficult things

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I took one bite and it kind of popped
Boat
Uh asked by Hartnett if the villagers noticed Boorman replied
Although they thought it was the funniest thing in the world
McGregor and Boorman's latest adventure titled Long Way Home
sees them travel from Star Wars Star
You McGregor's house in Scotland
He's still got a house in Scotland you McGregor

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I thought you lived in Hollywood
He lives in LA but yeah he does have a house in Scotland
Yeah
No, it doesn't
Um
It's got a leaf flat in leaf
(laughs)
Up, up, up, up, down street
The banana flats
The banana
The banana flats
Uh so Long Way Home sees them travel from Uens house in Scotland
to Boorman's in England

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Taking a detour via Scandinavia
The Arctic Circle
And then back through continental Europe
A board classic motorcycles
I mean it sounds fucking hellish
So yeah, you McGregor
Embarrassing himself from front of Delia Smith
Have you ever embarrassed yourself in front of a celebrity?
Ehh
Probably not that can think of
Um maybe

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Yeah, I've been discussed this in a pod before
Like meeting celebrities
I don't know
Um I mean I told Dadeus I thought he was a legend
And loved him
Um
Well that's not bad, isn't
That's not bad, isn't
True Dadeus.
R-I-P
Um
The late Dadeus
I don't think I have
Um what I'm taking from that article is Charlie Boorman
Getting in a little dig that Yun McGregor is used to sucking on balls

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Um
Something
What about yourself?
Have you ever embarrassed yourself in front of a celebrity?
Ehh pretty much in front of every famous person I've ever met
I've been
Not um
Not equipped myself very well
Um
Are you met?
Soonus and you got on well with him
Yes, that's probably the

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That's probably the best I've ever been in front of a celebrity
Was meeting
Graeme Soonus um but I was older then
I mean I met John when I met John Cleese
Um
He's probably the most famous person who
But I think he definitely is the most famous person I've met
And I bumped into him at the Martha Flethtell in Glasgow
So his my cousin was getting married there
Or she having a wedding reception there

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And he was obviously in his way for dinner
And a rumor had gone around earlier on
During the photographs that he'd been seen checking in
He was on tour
It was called his like
Alamoni tour because he was getting divorced for the third or fourth time
So he was doing sort of a stand-up tour
And uh
I can't say anything stupid to him but I just
You know when you think back

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You know like you don't meet the situation very well there
Because he was obviously on his way for dinner
He had a can-news paper underneath his arm
And he's striding with purpose towards the dining room
And I was going to get my youngest daughter's
Pram out the car
Because I had intended on driving home
And then I'd up leave my car at the hotel
And get my dad to come and get us
But she was um
Ha ha ha

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She was falling, she was starting to get tired
Because she was only, in fact
She wasn't even one
She was tight, she was only like six months or something
So I went to get the prams so we could set it up in the pram
And then I bumped into him
And um
And I had been watching something
Like the week before
Like a sort of retrospective
And some charity
Fundrate
Like is this secret police spines ball or something like that

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When he was on here with guys like Peter Cook
And the other money, I think, guys, not that
And I said oh well
Mr. Cleese
I'm sorry it is
I'm sorry it is stop you when you're walking
But I really just wanted to say hello
And I think it was, I was just like
I think it was because
He was obviously in his way somewhere
And I just had to get everything out that I wanted to see

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Um
So he shook my hand
And I sort of held on to his hand for a second if he was longer
Then I should have
And I said
Oh you know I was watching
That documentary about the
Shook it police spines ball the night and it was, I actually thought it was so funny seeing all you guys doing
It was just your routines blah blah
And he said oh he said um
I'm sorry I uh

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I'm not really getting what you're saying
Oh
So I had to sort of slow down a bit
And repeat myself when he said oh yeah he said yeah they were
They were a lot of fun
And I kind of took that as my cue to let go of his hand
And let him go and have his dinner
But yeah like everybody
Even river city actors that I've met out and they'd say years ago

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You know the complete fucking moron in my cell from front of
Just not very good at meeting famous people back then
I think I probably better know
Like some older
But I've not met anybody famous since then
I booked in as soon as and that's like 2019
Yeah it's a tricky thing
I guess you don't want to see
Um
I remember
I'm funny enough bringing it back to Norwich when I met

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Do you miss Smith?
Sir Raya
Do you miss Smith?
And time and page
And time you have
Do you miss Smith?
Oh let's be happy new
And time she was going mental
She was fucking mad on the air case
And
Uh
Do you miss Smith doesn't take air case just to make that clear
Um but I miss
So far as we know

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Anyway
Far as we know
And when I met X
WWE wrestler page
At
Summer's LUM
I did remember
Yeah
I kind of regret making an arc myself
Cause I was like hey hi, how are you?
So okay, thank you
And um
I was like oh you're from Norwich
I lived in Norwich for a while
And she was like oh great um

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Do you still live there?
I was like no I live in Dubai now
It's much better than Norwich
And uh
She looked a bit offended
But it's like
Still pains me
I was like why did I say that?
Um but yeah
Because Dubai is not better than Norwich
Dubai is not better than anywhere
No it's true actually
Yeah if I think back fondly
I have fond memory of loving in Norwich

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lived there too
Yeah I loved it
Um where the good time
Come in the visit you in Norwich
At time
There you go
Yeah we're a good time in time
It was a days
Yeah
We should have a titt
We should have for the lasers
Uh so
Yuen MacGregor
Um
I haven't watched the latest series
But I do remember watching
Alongway
Down I think was the first one

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Yeah
Alongway round the second one
I remember enjoying them
Yeah the good
Yeah they are good
And they um
Was it
They have the Argentinian
Guy the cameraman
I can't remember his name now
Kind of
Right there
Um
But yeah
I remember really enjoying those series
So maybe I'll have to watch this
This new one
Um
Because they're good banter

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It's an Apple thing
I think people probably like it
I think well maybe one of the reasons
If people like it is
Maybe why some people like this podcast
Because those two are like mates
And they go back
And they're very easy
With each other and all that kind of thing
You know what I mean
Um
That's certainly why I've enjoyed watching it
Because obviously when you see you in the Gregor
On the TV usually be an interview
And you're just talking about

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Usually promoting a film or something like that
So to see them
Sort of just with these best mate
Just having a laugh
And they
And you know
Doing like a sort of shared hobby
And all that sort of stuff
It's cool you know
Yeah
Being a bit natural
Yeah exactly
Yeah
That's that way
Yeah
So yeah
So that's all you in
Carson and Sveren
And for the deal you Smith
My mum

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Fucking
Deal you Smith
Talked my mother how to cook
Uh
Not
But not
Directly
Just through her uh
Cookbook
Dearest Smith's complete cookery course
Um
My mum's a good cook now
Um
But so yeah
But a bit of an icon
Anyway
That's my first story
Which you're first story of this week
My first story comes from
Glasgow live this week Greg

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And it is the fact
That Glasgow has been named
Disney adult
Capital of Scotland
So the rise of people identifying himself
As Disney adults
Shows no signs of slowing down
As more and more people describe themselves
As hardcore fans
New research from top theme park

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Beaking site
Attractiontickets.com
Has revealed the UK locations
That are home to the highest numbers
Of Disney loving grownups
Based on ticket purchases
By solo travellers
And couples
For Walt Disney World
Disney Amparez
And Disneyland California
Over the past 12 months
And Glasgow
Has been named the city
With the most
Disney adults

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Out with London
With Dundee
And Edinburgh
The other Scottish cities making the list
I'm so glad Aberdeen isn't on this list
I mean
I'm not surprised though
A spokesperson for AttractionTickets.com said
The subject of Disney adults
Can make some people smile
From A to A
Whilst giving others

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The Ick
Love them or love them
The devoted fandom
A here to stay
But whether you're looking
To join a community
Or stay clear
Where are you
Most likely to bump into Disney adults
In the wild
Market and direction
At AttractionTickets.com
Chris Bradshaw said
On the findings
This data shows
That the huge number of adults

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Across the UK
Enjoy in travelling
To Disney's parks
Solo
Or in a couple with their children
Cities like Glasgow
And Liverpool Rankine
So highly
Also suggest
That Disney fandom
Is thriving
Well beyond the capital
And even some small areas
Like Dundee
And Warrington
From our internal data

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We're seeing that Disney parks
Are no longer viewed
As just family destinations
Increasingly
They appeal to adults
Who are eager to experience
And a style just theme
Dining
And seasonal events
That make Disney parks so unique
The shift
Has a direct impact
On how we approach marketing
And packaging trips for grownups

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And we welcome
Any Disney adults
Who want to experience
The magic of Disney
With us
Your Disney adult Greg
Um
I mean
I mean obviously
When you're an age
You
I mean the first film I ever
When you're the first film I ever
If I ever got
Take into the cinema to see
Was slow out in the 7 dwarfs

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Because they would
Re-velease
Um
The Disney movies
Cause VHS was
Not like
But owning
Videos
Back then
Wasn't something people did
Like we wanted a player
But to own a video
At home they were quite expensive back then
Um
Honestly were market videos
Well unless they'd been pirated around
I remember we had a pilot copy of

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VT
That was doing the rounds
Amongst my mum and dad's friends
Group
Um
I think I saw ET
Before it came to the cinema
And uh
You okay
Um
So you know
I remember getting taken
It's easy
Slow way
I remember getting taken
To see
The jungle book
Possibly sleep in duty
Maybe
And uh
101 Dalmatians

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And then I remember taking my daughter
To see the line king when it was re-released
Um
And she was wee
Um
So that you know
I mean
I'm sort of interested in Disney
As
The kind of history of it as a company
But
I think
You know like
New Disney movies
We watched
Actually speaking of slow white
Uh
Against my better judgment

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We watched
The
Remake
The live action remake
Of slow white
The other week
On Disney plus
Yeah
Oh yeah
Um
And it wasn't a shite
As
I thought it
As I'd been led to believe
That
I would find it
But it was still
Shite
And you know
Just like the story is
Like the story takes turns away from it

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From the
Original narrative
Um
Of the original one
But there's a lady that I work with
I would say her name
But she's a Lebanese girl
And she must be in her mid-30s
And she is fucking
Disney daft
And she goes
Oh okay
She goes to one of the
She's got
She's married
Uh
She's got a little girl that she called

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That she named after a Disney princess
Um
I've become more modern
Disney princess
Not one the classic one
She's not called slow white
Or something
And arena
Um
Moana
Brave
Uh
Tiana
Her name is
Um
After the princess
And the frog
And um
She's got a little boy as well
But too
I mean
The year he was born
She took him to Disney
When he was a baby

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But I
I had to travel with her
And a business trip to Denver
Like long term
Listeners might remember this
That went to Denver
To Denver, Arizona
And Orlando about three years ago
And so she was pregnant
With a little boy
When she travels
And she's small
So she was out
You know
She was
She was
She was maybe about four months pregnant
But she looked like
She was about nine months pregnant

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And uh
I meet her at the airport
She's wearing
Uh
Many now straxuit
And vest top
Right
Bare-me-bottles
Bare-me-bottles
Spending like the next 18 hours or something
With this woman
Right
She's got a Disney branded carry on
So
We get to Denver
And we're all really pretty shattered
And I said to her
Look uh

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I'll get your suitcase off the carousel
Because she was pregnant
And I'm a gentleman
Right
I said
You hang back
I'll get your suitcase for you
What is
And before I can say
What does it look like
I like
Nevermind
Fucking many nows
Suitcase
Trunder than round on the bell
I'm like
Fuck
I mean come on
It's too much

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You have grown women
And of course women
Women were in Orlando
She got shed a bit
We had a bit of a three day
So she went off to the park
With another woman that was traveling with us
But she got shrunk
That was if I didn't go out
I would just sat in the hotel bar this night
But there was a tornado
So last night it was a tornado
And there wasn't like a Wizard of Oz tornado
Like
Bone houses away
It was just like a really bad

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Rainstorm
Thunder and lightning and all that
And her and this other woman had gotten this little boat
In the park
Out to this little island in the park
And they got stuck there for three
And a half hours
And I was glad
Funnily enough
I think my first cinema experience was a Disney film
It was the Fox in the Hound

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Oh that's a hard one
That's a tough one
That's quite sad, isn't it?
I don't know how to do it
I've only watched it once
I remember watching it when I was young
And yeah
I think I remember
Maybe a bit tough
But yeah
That's kind of it
Never really been
I don't
In fact
That's a lot
I remember one of the first CDs I ever bought was a Disney

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See was it
No that's it
No that's what I call Disney
But funnily enough
That was one of the other CDs I got
Like it was a now
Completion
But yeah I bought a Disney
So long
And I remember my mum
I sister taking a piss out of me
Like why are you buying that
Like
I must have been about 11
Or something
And
But I think
And then

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Laterally I was
I mean laterally
I'm talking like it was a couple of years ago
I think
So maybe like 12, 13
I was in
It wasn't a Disney play
But I was in the jungle book
It was based on
Rudyard Kipling's book
Rather Than
The Disney production
And that was an interesting time
Being

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Did you think mugally
Because of your
Natural
Dark skin
I did play mugly
And I had to
Walk around stage
Just wearing a loincloth
That was all of speedos
That was a loincloth
Obviously I was a painter speedos
They put
Um
Like
Fabric on
And it was a loincloth
And I had to parade around stage

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And I remember
We had to do a photo shoot
For
Uh
The newspaper
The evening sprayers
And
I
Didn't have
My loincloth was like back in the dressing room
Which was like a five minute walk away
And they were like
Oh you don't have time
Just doing your pants
So I just do it and
Paint a pants
And I had to

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In bedmine I was like 12
And in this theatre group
There were some girls
They were like 16 or so
Like then I
Quite fancy the few of them
Did you never got a stunner
For a page that even expressed
Did you?
No
But I had to take off my trousers
And I had daffy duck
On my underpants
And

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On my box of shorts
I remember being so embarrassed
They're fucking
Haven't it take off my underpants
And having
Not take off my underpants
We get down to my underpants
And I had fucking daffy duck
On my fucking
S
Pants
It's so embarrassing
No I never got a stunner
Thankfully
Yeah that would have been embarrassing

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And I do remember
And you're the getting a stunner
Because I had to
Get
Um
I'd so bad seeing this
I had to get like
Branded up every night
Like they had to be make up on me
From head to toe
And the girl that was doing it
Was quite attractive
And I, you know, it was fucking 12
Like I remember being like, oh fuck

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As she's dabbing my inner thigh
With makeup
Um
Yeah
A foundation
Yeah
Exactly
But yeah
I mean I wish
We should say
That Hazel Head
Probably not the most diverse community
In the 19th
Early 1990s
You know what I mean?
Aberdeen in general
Not the most diverse city
Back of those days
Well this wasn't even

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Hazel Head
This was um
The
The art center
In Aberdeen
It was uh
Aberdeen Children's Theater
That was a proud member of
So it wasn't even just Hazel Head
Um
Yeah
So I
Yeah
That's pretty much my Disney
I mean I've been to
Disney in Orlando
Florida
And member enjoying it

(27:37):
Um
We did debate when we went to Tokyo
Um
Last month
About going to Disney
In Japan
And we're like
Probably shite
Like, you know
Come on
We're both in our 40s
Hmm
We're not gonna go with like
It's a whole day
Outing
Probably not gonna be that great
So we didn't go
Um
But
There is a part of me

(27:57):
But if I think back to going to Florida
Like I did enjoy Disney
Um
Yeah of course
It's a good time
And Caw was probably my favourite
But most of the memories I have
Of that time
Were from like Universal Studios
Like I far prefer that
Oh yeah
That was much more spare
But this is good
I mean I
Yeah, but this is
Yeah it was fun
My wife and I

(28:18):
We were our honeymoon
We were in
Uh
Los Angeles for a few days
And we went to Universal Studios one day
And we went out to Anaheim
And went to Disney the second day
It was good
I had never been at Disney before
She had been at the one in Paris
Because she still live there
Before
Her and I met
She had been at the
Paris one
Like, wait
We took my daughter to the Paris one
Uh
12
Maybe two years ago

(28:38):
But I think um
No three years ago
But I think uh
Maybe just miss the boat a wee bit
I think there was the wee bit
Too old
Um
To really
You know
Enjoy it
They milder daughter enjoyed the rides
Cause she likes the roller coasters
And all that sort of stuff
But you know
We didn't stay for the whole day
And it's been a bit seven o'clock
Called it
Just that kind of
Edge before

(28:59):
Like it's a bit naff
But not
Nostalgia
Kind of
Heavy
Yet
Like
Being able to appreciate it
Yeah I think
They probably enjoy it a bit more
Now
Funny enough is sort of older teenagers
Like
For that nostalgia thing
Cause obviously
I mean I
I've been through all the Disney films again
With them
When my

(29:19):
Sit
I'm a lot older than my sisters
Like a lot older
So
I remember that
I remember like my
Them having
Like modes of the sort of classic ones
On video
When they were growing up
And
Them just getting played all the time
But I'm not really surprised
That
It's people from Glasgow
And Liverpool
That are
Fleeing
Reality to go to the Magic Kingdom

(29:39):
But
Bit of a break
Bit of a break from
Fucking
Savagery of the River City
You know it's
The fuck out of here
And but wait
When I was in Florida
Like I didn't go to Disneyland
But I went to
I decided
I'm shopping out there
Like a clothes out there
And it was
Like walking down
Socky whole sheet
It was fucking tons

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And tons of weegees there
Tons
*laughs*
I'm not exaggerating
As funny
Yesterday
I was walking through
Amsterdam
Central
Train Station
And
I noticed
There was a
A shop that's been closed down for a while
It used to be like a
An A-toss
Which is like a
Superdrug
Basically
Like a boots
Kind of knock off

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And
It was all branded
Disney
And I was not a fact
Through open a Disney store
And I mean I look properly
Disney ice cream store
Oh well
So there's gonna be a shop there
Just selling Disney ice cream
Mmm
To be ever um
I don't know if we ever mention
The podcasts
Or that will encounter in
Brussels
When we were walking back to the hotel
We went across the roads

(30:42):
Then we were sort of standing
Amongst these
Kind of young guys
Maybe like
They teened
Sell the 20s
And one of them just started talking
And they were all from
The West of Scotland
All right
Yeah
How much further is it to the hotel now?
Yeah
So I'm
Do you have
Stept into the fucking twilight zone or something?
Yeah

(31:02):
I think we have brushed upon it
In the past
But yeah
All in terms
Anyway
That is Glasgow
Disney
Capital of Scotland
Um
Well
Have you seen this week, mate
Uh
Well a guy who's
Perhaps
I mean
I don't know like a few years ago
I would say he's living the dream
But
I don't know if it's maybe a little bit tragic
No
But anyway

(31:23):
It comes from the
Daily record
On the 10th of July
Which was just a day
Uh
Thriftly Scott
Who built
Authentic
Garage pub
Crowns
Countries
Biggest beer lover
Uh
Overse
Being Mason
Built his pub
All in his own
Over four months
Can you guess what it's called
The pub I think you'll like it
Uh
Where's he from?
I don't know

(31:43):
But he's called the
Stoters
Oh
Lovely
Stoepters
Built in name for the pub
Yeah
Almost everything inside
Stoters
Was sourced for free
Or under £10
Thanks to
Uh
Uh
Facebook Marketplace
Free Cycle
And
Local skips

(32:03):
Wow
So this is a crafty
East Coast
Bride Local
To build a pub in his back garden
He's raising a glass
After being crowned the country's biggest beer lover
Living miles
The nearest watering hole
Self-confessed beer lover Ian Mason
55
Decided to convert part of his garage
Into a cozy bar
In 2023

(32:24):
And it was to become
A real labour of love
Built single-handed
The Over four months
Everything inside the pub
Names Stoters
With sourced for free
Or under £10
Thanks to Facebook Marketplace
Free Cycle and Local skips
Aldeys Scotland
Washed a competition this year
To find the nation's biggest beer lover

(32:44):
To celebrate one of its busiest sales periods for craft beer
With the retailer featuring a range of Scottish micro-brories
Including Williams Brothers
Fear Spear
And the Loch Lowon Browley
Stoters
Which spans 13 square metres
Impressed the judges with its authentic pub facade
Rich and Terrier detailing
And thoughtful craftsmanship

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Which echoes the charm of a traditional Scottish pub
And Ian's use of recycled material
But Ian's use of recycled materials was also highly praised
Me and they're gonna add it
And it's fucking mustard
I have a telling you this
He's got a skull beer tap
He's got a Guinness beer tap
He's got a McEwan's export mirror

(33:27):
Brandied mirror
Oh
He's got those sort of
Thick plastic pub ass trays
That he used to get
Like the tenets ones
This is the thing that's lovely
It's a belter
He's even got like the old
An old keyanti bottle
Like the sort of different shape wine bottle
That's got a sort of wicker basket around the base of it
He's got his gantry there with his optics

(33:48):
He's got his pulling mulls
He doesn't have a toasty machine
He's got like the water jugs
That he used to sit in the bar
And the branded water jugs
In case you needed to be a bit of water in your half
I've got one of those tenets
Yes right, you do indeed
Yeah
Which pops up
And what we're gonna be talking about later on today
Yeah
I'm gonna just take a wee picture and send it to you

(34:10):
So you can see it
It's really really good
I know sorry listeners
Sorry listeners
But uh
You know
You know it's well enough
Commenting on the accolade
Ian said
"I'm not a handyman by any means
So there was plenty of trial and error
When I was building stoters
But I got there eventually
Mo lighting
And dark varnish hides a lot

(34:31):
And he's got a blackboard outside
The pub
He's even got an entrance to the pub
It's not just like his garage door
He's got an entrance like he says stoters
And he's got a blackboard that says stoters
Brobiers and superior spirits
He opened it in secret
On Christmas Day 23 to an astonished

(34:53):
Crowd of ten
Not even his wife had seen it
Stoters has since become a hub
For Ian's friends and family
He's hosting karaoke nights, sporkin events
Sporking events
Not sporking
And even hug many celebrations
Guests must follow two house rules
They must bring a foreign bank note
On a business card
Dependent of the ceiling
And they've got to take a turn behind the bar

(35:14):
As well
Stoters now stalks a wide range of beers
With lots of guest-dails
Regally undraft
Including Ian's favourites from fierce beer
And lock lomond
Which are both stalked at Alday
If you live in Scotland
And in recognition of his loving enthusiasm for beer
Ian is one of twelve month supply
Of Alday Scotland's craft beer range

(35:34):
Adding to his already impressive collection
He'll be chosen from a range of crisp lagers
Pillsters and fruity IPAs
Including innocent guns
To keep a cask
That sounds fucking boggin
Eh, well, sorry
It's like a desperate adolus horrible
Eh, well
Lock lomond, Broody's body and Clyde
And fierce beers

(35:55):
Seversa
Which are all available at Alday's
109 Scottish stores
Alday should be given us a bit of money for this year
Eh, Ian continues
"I'm trapped I've been named Scotland's biggest beer lover
And so when such a generous prize from Alday
I built Stoters to enjoy a pint
With friends and family without the long track
To the newest pub
It's been a real labour of love

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And I'm very happy that the judges saw the efforts
Went into every detail
Graeme Nicholson, who's the group behind director
At Alday said
"We'd like to raise a glass of Ian
When being crowned the nation's biggest beer lover
I will deserve title for someone so thoroughly passionate
About great brews
So yeah, we're going to be the rest of it
Because it's basically just an ad for Alday
But eh, yeah, it's an absolute balter

(36:37):
You see it?
I'm looking at the photo now
And I'm in love for this place
Yeah, me see
The couple of things that stand out to me
That are amazing
Um, so on the bar
There is a huge famous Grougs bottle
Which looks like it's got coins in it
Which does a staple of any bar

(36:57):
You went into when we were young
However, the best thing for me
And I fucking adore this man for that
On the back of the bar
There is a scampy fries and bacon fries
A catch to a Nazi card
That you know if you take off those scampy fries
You're seeing some boobs

(37:18):
And we've spoken about this in the podcast
For I think it was Andy from Finland
Who got in touch with us
To say that he remembered that
The New Deal Nuts
And yeah
That you would have like Kp Nuts
You would have you would take the Nuts off
And it would reveal a little bit more of the lady underneath
And that's something that's forgotten about

(37:40):
And needs to be brought
It doesn't need to be brought back actually
I should say that
But
I should say that
I've got a little Dennis Waterman there
And that is something that needs to be
And kind of
I mean, remembered
Yeah, it's been a museum, a hall of fame

(38:01):
Something that doesn't need to be brought back
But is fondly remembered of its time
Much like Dennis Waterman
You see his painting, the blue lady painting
Which was a bit of a staple of
Yeah, grannies living rooms
That was the third thing that I was going to bring up
Yeah, the blue lady painting
That has come up a couple of times

(38:22):
On stuff we've watched in the podcast
And I was trying to
I did some research to find out if that is a Scottish thing
Or if it's just a UK thing
And I couldn't find much about it
Because I'm kind of like, what do you google?
Blue lady painting
I think even in rat capture
There was a blue lady painting
Yeah, there may be
Yeah

(38:42):
I think it was a kind of thing
I am 75% sure my grandmother had one of those
I think it was, yeah, one of those staple things
But yeah, that was the third thing I was going to point out
Apart from the bells bottle
And the new D snack
Did you see his black menu to the far right of the picture

(39:03):
With a little white letters for putting the prices up
I did
Yes
Yeah, that's beautiful
Yeah
You need that, yeah
That is wonderful
Oh, it's a cracking little part
Oh, yeah
I love to go for a drunk there, yeah
And it looks like he even knows smoking this way
Oh, yeah
Because he has to raise it
And if you were to have a little home bar

(39:25):
What would you call it?
I don't know, I mean
That's a
That's a tough one
I mean, stoters is an absolutely brilliant name
And I'm not sure that I would have came up with that on my own
And yeah, fuck, I don't know
I may be named after a pot like a fondly remembered pub

(39:46):
From my youth
Like, yeah, this is still or something like that
Just about to say the other stuff
But I think the other stuff is still open
Why do we never know?
It's a good shutdown
Yeah, it's a good idea
I'll call it the other stuff
It would feel weird to call it the other stuff
This is still open
Yeah, suppose people that got in there
When we were at an Aberdeen
That's twice that we were in Aberdeen together

(40:08):
But definitely have gotten there if we were still open
Shut down, quite a while ago
I mean, the swallow
The swallow is a good name
Yeah, but that would have to be a bar
Yeah, the bar bag
I think is my kind of choice
But yeah, you're right
Kenne needs to be someone that's, yeah, it's storker's fucking profit

(40:30):
So, yeah
But yeah, the elicit still would be a nice little kind of smarge
To eat the still
But yeah, that shut down a long time ago now
Yeah, otherwise we would have gone there
But that don't mean terms of
Indeed, a little walk down memory way
But yeah
Anyway, that's Ian and a bit of a stealth advert for

(40:52):
All day there, apologies
But we're not the BBC, you know what I mean?
Anyway
And
So, which is your next glory this week?
My next story is from the Daily Record this week, Greg
And it is shocking
Scottish bank notes quietly phased out
As Glasgow ATMs dispense English tenors

(41:14):
The Daily Record has uncovered official data
Which shows our unique cash
A symbol of Scotland's national identity
And banking heritage is being stripped out of circulation
At four times the rate of English branded currency
We find that's the Daily Record, not mean Greg
I find that ATMs across the country

(41:36):
Are now giving bank of England tenors in twenties
And politicians and campaigners have reacted angrily
To their findings
Ex Justice Secretary and Alba Partyl leader Kenny McCaskill said
The Scottish banks must explain why the decline in Scottish bank notes in circulation
Has fallen four times as fast as equivalent notes

(41:59):
South of the border
If things continue as they are
One day we might reach the ridiculous point
Where people in Scotland are simply unable to get Scottish bank notes from cash machines at all
Scottish bank notes
And I'm at a pride for Scots
And the banks must provide reassurance
But they are not being phased out

(42:19):
Against the expressed wishes of their customers
The Bank of Scotland was the first banking Europe to issue paper money
In 1695, did you know that Greg?
I did not know that
That's true
But again, Scotland's shown the rest of the world
Out of fucking take care of business
Exactly
But Bank of England data shows the value of Scottish notes in circulation has slumped

(42:44):
By nearly a fifth since 2020
The year that the Covid pandemic hit
So they're playing Covid for this
And so an increase in contactless card payments, that makes sense
Overall, it means a fall of 16% in real terms in just five years
A decline which is four times faster than the Bank of England notes

(43:06):
Which has dropped just four percent
People across Scotland have reported a rise in cash machines
To spending English notes rather than Scottish currency
The daily record visited three cash points in Glasgow
Including an ATM at St St St St
Opposite Central Station
And two other machines in the West End
The daily record's reporter took out 90 pounds

(43:29):
With 80 pounds dispensed
As Bank of England notes
And just 10 pounds of Scottish notes
In the two Cliesdale Bank
Eh? In the form of two Cliesdale Bank Fivers
You can't get a Fiverr out of cash machine
Can you?
Well, you never used to be able to
Maybe you can then
Wow, I'm shocked at that
The total value of Scottish bank notes in circulation

(43:52):
Including in people's wallets, shoptills
And the wider economy as well as ATM's of bank branches
Had slipped below five billion for the first time in November 2020
The value of Scottish notes held in ATM's of bank branches
fell from half a billion pounds
Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is very boring
But yeah, there's a Ron Delveno

(44:14):
Who chairs the payment choice alliance
Who campaigns on retaining the right cash said
There's no doubt having Scottish notes
As an expensive business for the banks
There's also an issue
That whilst English notes are always accepted in Scotland
Scottish notes aren't always accepted in England
And the further south you go

(44:34):
The more problems you get
And it's a little bit worse
We're going to more and more
See Scottish notes moving out of things like ATM
Three banks in Scotland
Issue Scottish bank notes
The Royal Bank of Scotland
The Bank of Scotland
And Clydesdale Bank
Asked if there was an explicit policy to phase out
Clydesdale bank notes
A spokesperson for Virgin Money said

(44:56):
"Now, we continue to issue notes on demand"
A NAP West Group which includes RBS
Was also approached for comment
Devano added "We're being pushed towards a cashless society
Despite the fact that people don't want it
We did a poll recently
And 71% of people
Including the polls
It just said we did a poll

(45:18):
So it's Delveno
All right, it works
For...
Let me go back, let me scroll up
He chairs the payment choice alliance
Yeah
That sounds...
Fucking bunch of busy-body things
Yeah, but he's saying that
People want...
Gashless did a poll
70% of people want
Including Scots and people in Wales

(45:39):
One at a law passed
Gallantine cash will be accepted
When Link, the ATM network, did a survey
They found 80% wanted to retain the option of using cash
There's no desire amongst people
That want to see a cashless society
But there are a whole areas of Scotland
That are completely defunded
Of bank branches and bank ATMs

(46:01):
It's very hard to get Scottish notes
People's cash access in these parts of this country
Are hanging by a thread
So, Scottish notes, Greg
I mean, we've all had the issue of
I've been with you
With you and I, with your friend
Try to spend Scottish notes in knowledge
And...
Yeah
Just not accepted

(46:22):
And...
Yeah, it's long been a kind of thing
Of Scottish bank notes not being accepted in England
And it's a kind of joke that is passed down from the ages
Or I remember being...
Kind of being humiliated
And when I was a wee boy
We moved from Glasgow to
Borrow and Furnace in England
And my mother decided that

(46:43):
After, after sort of
However many years I've been at school
Like three or four years of making me a pack lunch every day
Because I was a fussy little bastard
She couldn't be ours to do that anymore
And I had to start going to school dinner
So I started this new school in Borrow
So we got to take your money in on a Monday for the week
And then...
And get your play piece
Oh no
Well, the play piece either

(47:04):
Fucking shite
And it's a forest like
Shite school
Fucking worse school
But anyway
I remember
Don't even be in there like a week
And she sent me in
With my dinner money this Monday
And in the money
There was a couple of the Scottish pound notes
And England had pretty much
Fazed pound notes out by this point

(47:25):
This would have been about
98/7
But they were on pound coins
You don't really get it
I think the bank of England
They stopped printing pound notes
So
And the way this teacher reacted
They must have had stopped print and pound notes
Like quite some time before
Because when I handed it to her
I thought I'd just fucking shat in my hand
Passed it to her

(47:47):
And she fucking made me take it back
Home, she said they couldn't take it
And my mother went fucking mental
And wrong story short
I took the same money back the next day
And she accepted it
So, God knows
God knows what my mother said
I can imagine she probably fucking ripped this woman
And you are
But yeah, I mean
But my understanding is

(48:08):
Like Scottish money
And Welsh money
Is sterling
So and it's worth exactly the same
As English money
Despite what some
Arsholes think
And yeah
And you're
I mean
But I also think that
There's a law
Where
Business owners can refuse any currency
For any reason
That they deem

(48:28):
You know, so
It doesn't really make you know
There's a make any difference
Whether you just tell them that it's sterling or not
If they don't have to take it
I'm going to take it
I remember I've got in the Aberdeen
Folum arguing that
Technically you can go to Tesco's
And pay in postage stamps
Because yes
Legal tender
Yeah
He said he argued with someone
Not until
That like

(48:49):
Nope
It's legal tender
So I am paying with postage stamps
But yeah
It's been a long gone thing
In terms of
Scottish notes
And I
I do remember
Yeah, I haven't been careful
Like whenever I was going down to England
Or anything
Um
Making sure I went to like a
Nath West bank
In Glasgow
To get English money out

(49:11):
Because
Didn't want the hassle of
It being rejected
If I was going to go to England
But
Yeah, yeah
I've been left on that
I've been seen
Because I live in England
They gain as an adult
And I did the same
But
Yeah, I'll be quite happy if they face cash out
So fucking pay in the arse
It's so much easier just to tap your phone
Or your card or something
They know how to carry
Fucking money
They cash around with you

(49:32):
Yeah, I have to admit
Like I
I got cash
I sold something on
Like mark plates
Which is basically like
The Dutch
Dobizel
Um
And
Somebody gave me cash
Like 30 euros
And I've been holding on to that
For about three months now
Like
No, I do that
Can't spend it anyway
I mean, I could go to market and pay

(49:53):
But then I've got a cute hotel
Yeah
I'd rather just go through the
Orbs and stuff
Yeah
Just use my cash
And my card
And my phone
And
Oh, it's a boy
Yeah
Got that
Sorry
You know, it's just
Yeah
Yeah, you're only option is to find
Like
A fucking branch of your bank
Which is
That they fucking
Is like finding gold at the end of a rainbow

(50:13):
These days find them a fucking
Bank that's still
That still operates
To go and stick the cash in your account
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Shocking stuff
But never never mind
But yes
So
Scottish bank notes being phased out
That's
Shocking
I suppose this since we came up with it
As you see
I know
Scotland leading the way
I know
He's been stepping on the pay

(50:34):
And were
Sheepen
Fucking
(Laughs)
Pebbles
Pebbles
And bronze coins
If it wasn't for us
Fucking
There we go
Scotland
Leading the way once again
All right
Have you seen anything else this week, mate?
Well
Yes
I suppose it's kind of new
But I kind of want to pay me with a tribute

(50:55):
To
Uh
Glen Michael
Uh
Who passed away yesterday
At the
Ripple age of 99 years old
Oh
Now when I was a kid
Glen used to host
Uh
Sunday afternoon
Television program called
Glen Michael's cavalcade
On STV
Now I don't know if it was shown
All over Scotland
But it was definitely shown in the west of Scotland

(51:17):
When I was little
And I can't overstate
How important this program was
For kids of my generation
Because
Sundays
(Laughs)
In the UK
In the early 1980s
Were fucking rubbish
(Laughs)
In every respect
Shoppers were closed
Your pals were probably not around
Because they were dragged to visit the grannies

(51:38):
And granddads were whatever
And a television was absolutely shite
So just to give you an example
Of how shite television was
In the 1980s
On a Sunday
In the early 80s
I found some listings
So here
Here
This is a radio times
This is a 12th of February 1984
Five past nine in the morning
Link
This series of programs designed
Especially for handicapped people

(52:00):
No harm
To handicapped people
But five in sexual Greg
There's no one to watch that in the Sunday morning
Then you can keep up with yoga
For half an hour
With Glen Marshall
After that
Farm progress
The gap between the
Most and the highest crop yields
So that's on for half an hour
Then you got morning worship
Then you got the news

(52:21):
Then there's an episode of the Adam West Batman
So like a little fucking
Tiny
Oasis
And a fucking
Otherwise
Entertainment desert
And
The Sunday Matinee
A quarter to four
The White Tower
That movie were fucking Glen Ford and Quad Reigns
I mean
The football was just apps
I mean the
Not the football

(52:41):
The television was absolutely shite
On a Sunday
So Glen Michael had
A kind of magazine show
Where
And then Glen Michael wasn't even
Scottish
She was actually English
Funly enough
But this program had been on since 1966
And he had
I don't know if there was anything more Scottish than this

(53:02):
Right
But he had a talking
Oil lamp
Called a
Paladin
That was like
You know his
He was
He was a sort of straight man
To this wise cracking
Oil lamp
And he had two dogs
He had Rudy and Rusty
Like two actual dogs
And he was show cartoons
Like Hanabarbera cartoons
Like the wacky racies

(53:23):
Or Yogi Bear
And sometimes
Old Marvel cartoons
Like the Fantastic Four
Or those Spider-Man cartoons
He would also show bat over the planets
Which was like a
It was
It was
Yeah
It was like a kid-friendly version
A kid
An edited for children version
Of a fucking
Ultra-violent manga
Cotton from Japan

(53:44):
But all the
All the
All the
All the conatentical rape
And a
Big exploding heads was removed
But yeah
Yeah
RIP Gling
Because without that
That little half-an-er
Anybody would think birthday cards
The stuff like that
And occasionally
Would go to
And
Like
Attractions in Scotland

(54:05):
They can make go to
They can use the Kelvin Grove Art Gallery
And record from there
And they make go
The Transpoint Museum in Glasgow
Or
The People's Palace
And Glasgow or something like that
And
You just look forward to it
It would always be on
Sort of mid-afternoon
It was rare
There would be any sport
On that my
That my granddad wanted to watch
So I always would get the chance

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To sit and watch
Then Michael
For however long it was on for him
I guess it was probably half an hour
Maybe 40 minutes
But
Yeah, I was sad to see
That he passed away
This week
But
99 is a fucking
Good old age
And he was still
He was still interviewing
Even up to a couple of years
Ago
And he was
He was always very quick to say
How Scotland had been

(54:46):
Really good to him
And that he was
How could we have really had been in Scotland
And I think
Presenting the programme was a bit of
Accident
I don't think that was ever supposed to happen
That way
But he just happened to be the right man
In the right place
So people like
Alley from the Scotsway
Podcast
I know that he
He
But
I think he listens
He always comes as a little boost
Every week on his Facebook page

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He'll
He'll definitely remember
He'll go in Michael
And hopefully some from
All the rest does
Thank you for brightening up
Doll is fucking dishwater
Sunday afternoons
In the
1960s
1970s
And 1980s
And early 1990s
Before it was cancelled
Galen
A wonderful
tribute there
Yeah

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Sundays you're right
It was kind of
I remember
Shite
Yeah
TV
Like the best memories
I guess was the
You're waiting for the Walton's to finish
Yeah
Land how the Giants would come on
And
And then after that
It was
Well I actually know
Then Channel 4 would usually show

(55:47):
It's
Sumo or Kabadi
And then
That was it
Then you were stuck with
Songs of praise
And
Highway
Highway
And
I guess the
Actually the
Glimmer
The one peak of
Sunday Evening TV
Would be the two Rones

(56:10):
And Lovejoy
Yeah
That's how we've been later
I mean I remember
Yeah
I remember
Can a pre-channel 4 days
When it was like 3 channels
Yeah
You know
It was I think maybe
The best you could hope for
Was maybe highway to heaven
Late afternoon
Will Michael Lantern
Like the Grand Landa
Maybe in a wee bit later

(56:31):
The funny thing is
Like I'm
This copy of the TV time
Somebody scanned it
Online
So there's um
There's the Godverse in there
And it's just a different time, mate
It was just a different time
This
So the advert I'm looking at
Spot the Kenset as Smoker
Right
So there's three Eskimos
One of them
Has got an electric blanket round them

(56:51):
What other two are shivering
And obviously
The suggestion is that
That one is the Kenset Smoker
Because he's smart
He's got himself an electric blanket
Off all these Kenset as focus points
Well the other two
Um
37 and a half pens
For 20 clubs
Back in the early-night meeting
Yeah focus points

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God
That's it
There's a photo
There's a
There's an advert for Clarks
Uh
So Clarks
Are advertising
Like knee high boots for ladies
And again it's a different time
Right
So there's three ladies
But nothing on
Apart from the boots
And a big long
Big long sort of
Tom Baker

(57:32):
Like as Doctor Who then
Scarfs
And Bobo Hats
Nothing else
You can send that to me, mate
And be much appreciated
So different time
Anyway
Right
Uh right
Before we go on to what we're going to be talking about today
Let's have a little word from our sponsors
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Oh okay Greg
So it was your choice of what we're going to be talking about today
So why do you tell us
What we're going to be talking about today
Well it's another
Taggart episode
Of the culture smiley this week
Uh we've done three already

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We've done the
The pilot from 1983
Which is called killer
Uh we've done the one with the snakes
And I forgot the name of it
Next of Vipers
Next of Vipers
And this week
Uh we're going back to 1988
And one of my absolute
Favorite Taggart CDOs
Uh that often mentioned
Dead giveaway Taggart

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And Jardine are investigating a string of poisonings
Across the city of Glasgow
And the suspects include two regular Cosmo award winners
Uh Mac Estello
And the man himself James Cosmo
Planeys Dad
Just fucking mental
Uh and of course this is classic
Eira Taggart
So we've got the formidable Mark McManus

(58:59):
As Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart
And James McFerson is DI Mike Jard
Mike Jardine
Pound in the beat
And looking for the
Manialaq
Which Jim says
Just like that
A number of times
And it makes me smile every single time
So yeah I mean for I think
I don't know why
And I don't know if maybe I saw a bit of this

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When it first came out
It was so much first shown
In September 1988
And I'd been living in England by that point
And I definitely seen Taggart before we moved to England
I think
But for some reason
Whenever I think of
The kind of classic years of Taggart
When Mark McManus was still alive
And still leading the show
This is the one that always

(59:43):
Springs to mind
The set up is uh
The him
But it starts off with like a young guy
Who is walking along the canal
Uh
No no he's boxing
First of all
Yeah
And then he's walking along the canal
And falls in
And seems to drown the canal
Then it turns out it's been poisoned
It is linked back to a food company in Glasgow

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Called Wonderland
Food
Being ran by a foreigner
(Laughs)
Hungarian
Hungarian
And uh
And as the cereal goes on
More and more people are involved
There's more poisonings
Taggart gets drinks more whiskey
And gets more and more annoyed
Rather, whenever he talks to a woman

(01:00:26):
He gets a bit charming
Whenever
And then of course
We've got the great scene when uh
James Cosmo who plays Victor Beard
Slaps the shit out of his son Brian
Played by Matt Castello
Although he was he was credited as Matthew Castello
He hadn't dropped out a mat at this point
So had you seen this taggart story before?
I- I don't think I had

(01:00:48):
Right
I was trying to look back
So I'm trying to think when I first started watching taggart
And I don't remember seeing this when it came out
I mean I'd have been seven
Right
So maybe a little bit young
But
Similar to you when you think of taggart
My first thought is nest of fibers
Like that is the
The first thing and I remember watching that

(01:01:10):
And I remember watching it with my mom
So I went back into the taggart archives
And had a look at the um
The episodes to see where
Maybe my taggart journey had started
Right
So I
I think
So nest of fibers come out January 92

(01:01:30):
So I know I'd been watching taggart for a while
Before that with my mom
So I think the first episode I remember watching
Was September 1990
Right
And it was evil eye
Which is
A gang of robbers kill a gypsy fortune teller
Who puts a curse on them
And then they start to die

(01:01:51):
And just reading that synopsis
I want to watch that
I guess it's brilliant
So it's fucking amazing
But that's the I remember seeing that
Like reading this in the opposite
I was like yep I watched that
Then I went to the episode before
And I was like don't remember that
So I think September 90
Was probably my first taggart watching

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So I think this is the first time
That I'd seen this episode
It's wonderful
Like it has all the the taggart kind of parts
Like we knew
We've mentioned this episode quite a few times
On the podcast I mean you know
We've had James Cosmo speaking about it
Oh no the podcast
And we knew Cosmo could stay on the run it

(01:02:35):
But it's totally taggart
Because you know there's going to be other jams
So we have like Alison Peoples
Catherine Houdon
John Murthor
And Jenny Macrindal
We open up
And just a wonderful
Haas of Scottish talent
Just in small roles
And it's a wonderful taggart episode
It has everything that you kind of want

(01:02:57):
In a taggart
I fucking loved watching this
So it has it starts off
Perhaps a little untaggarty
With a dream sequence
Yeah
When a baby gets thrown out the window
It seems like
My Mac Costello who plays Brian
Is having a nightmare

(01:03:19):
Because as it turns out we find out later
That he's been black mailed
To supply poison to the
To the real murderers
And one of the
One of the threats has been that they'll kill his
His little baby that was Simon
And it starts off in black and white
Like
Like the "I have" video
Just like

(01:03:42):
Like
Like the "I have" video was written by Gleinchander
Costello running along the roads
And the baby crying
And then the baby getting chucked at the window
We have a few of those
Like I think it's like at least twice
These dream sequences
The Costello has in terms of the baby

(01:04:02):
Being killed
But why?
Like is it because the
It's a nightmare
The people behind it have said
That they're going to kill the baby
And that's why he's dreaming about it
But yeah
It's a strange beginning in strange star
But
Welcomeed because it was it was brilliant
Like
It's like incredibly traumatic

(01:04:26):
But bear in mind this is like
ITV in 1988
Which probably would have
You know, tread pretty carefully
Because you couldn't get away with
Showing stuff on TV
Back then that you can make it with now
And then there's also the one that are on
And he's been he's fallen asleep in the van
And he's having the dream of the guy
reaching over and cutting his throat

(01:04:47):
And all that
And yeah
It's
Just a really it's a great star
Just your end
You know
I can get the later dream
With the the guy cutting his throat
Because
When he says the flashback
And we'll come back to this later
About the lady's hand
Coming round and having a knife to his throat

(01:05:10):
I can get that
Because he's remembering someone that's happened previously
Yeah
But the the fire
And the his wife
Catherine Howden
Like throwing the baby
Simon
Down the window
Two of them
Where the fuck is that come from?
They never mentioned like
Setting his house on fire
Or anything
But she's the nice, just his worst nightmare

(01:05:30):
Maybe I don't know
And Catherine says
Maybe he's like his families at risk
I mean
It's just
I don't really know where to start
And then of course
The first time we see Jim
He's pissed off with his wife
Because she wants to look at some
Fabric samples for the new house
You know
Do you know
Do you recognise the shopping centre

(01:05:50):
That he's in
I thought it was maybe Fraser's
Some mechanical, I wasn't sure
I don't think so
Because it looks like a shopping centre
Because he goes up in the glass elevator
And then
Comes to a very specific department store
But I
It's lost on me
Because obviously his glass go in 1987
Probably it was filmed
So it may be

(01:06:11):
It's lost on me by wondered
It may be Prince of Square
Because I think Prince of Square
Opened around 1986
Maybe
And it has
And it has a glass elevator
And it's the only
So far as I know
To the best of my
Recollection
It's the only
Sort of shopping centre
In Glasgow
That was open then
At least with a glass elevator

(01:06:31):
Obviously
I mean
We find out later
They're moving house
But this is a whole
Scene of terms of
There are jeans
What a new curtains
And
Tiger just seems really pissed off
Like
I've got paperwork to do
And I think I have the arse for this
Like
I think it was
Which is basically
The subtext
Isn't it?
You know it's
Oh you made it

(01:06:52):
Hi
Well what do you think?
Ah why
They're too old-fashioned
I want something modern
Breezy
The windows open
Look if you can't be serious
You should never be green to come
Look you
You asked for my advice
And I said
That
They wouldn't go
The three don't have to go
I've got paperwork

(01:07:12):
Well try to find time to take a look at this
I'd say find out
A little bit difficult
To get on board with Jim
In this episode
Because
He said total cock to
Jean
Like I
I guess he is
Like straight the whole series
But
You know
He's
He's met her
To get curtains
He can't be arse

(01:07:33):
So obviously
Just leaves
But then he sat
At his desk
Looking through her
To the brochure
And Jardine comes
It's like
Oh
Is this about your house move
And he just like
Changes the subject
He was like
No he says
Like I'm paying
400 Nicar
For
Like the removal people
And
Like later on
You basically see that he's just like

(01:07:54):
Forgotten
And
Jean has obviously had to dealt with the removal people
To move house
On her own
She's not fucking wheelchair
I know
And he comes back
To his old house
And just comes in
The new people
I've got all our pictures and stuff
Already
Drinking champagne
He's like
And then he just turns off whiskey from them

(01:08:15):
Which is his favourite
Or doesn't go home to Jean
And see how she's doing with the unpacking
And you just see a little shot of Jean
Unpacking boxes
Looking fucking depressed as far
Like
I don't know why I've laughed at it
It's fucking terrible
It's his
It's when he turns up
But the house when she's packing up
And he's like
Look at this place

(01:08:35):
It's like a bloody junk house
You know
Is he
Froze his daughter's teddy bear in the bin
And all this
Yeah
Yeah but you can see later on
What is it? The antique dealer
And you sell in teddy bears for a night in a quid
You can see a little flashing gem
So I was like
Oh fuck
I couldn't wait for that
I couldn't wait for that thing
I mean
It's his street though

(01:08:56):
Cause he says
Like
When Jean says
That was your mother
So he's like
Well she's not coming back for it
I'm crying
I'm crying
This
Is
Is char-deen
Who gets
The sort of sharp end
A tagger the most in this
Cause it begins off
Like the young guy who gets pulled out of the Clyde Canal

(01:09:17):
It turns out
Uh, char-deen mechanises him
Cause he goes to a
He goes to a
A church group
Because char-deen we should say
Is
I could
Is a real straight peg
You know what?
Meaning he's evolving the church
Doesn't drink
Baba Black
Says
Which is what makes him and Jim
Such a good
Painting
Cause they're like
They're like chalk and cheese
But he's

(01:09:38):
Taggart immediately
Starts pushing the 80s agenda
Drugs
Drugs
Ah drugs
A char-deen slate
No no
I recognise him
That's sort of the kid's name
But uh, that's
Something Higgison
He goes to
The church group that I organise
He taggart's like

(01:09:58):
Where's it you do it that
Church group
Ping pong and Bible lessons
Usually
I've got that in my notes
Like
Taggart is obsessed
That Jules on drugs
Like he's asking
Everyone like is he on the drugs
Is he on the drugs
Is he been taking drugs
Like he's obsessed
That Jules turn to the drugs

(01:10:18):
And
I get it
Cool
A burnist in sketch
They
And the drugs
Like
It's almost like he's
Yeah he's turn to the drugs
But it is fucking right
He asks everyone
Char-deen
He says it to his dad
And when he meets
Fucking
Mr Griffiths
The janitor from Greenchild
And who runs the boxing club

(01:10:39):
Like
He asks like
Was doing the drugs
He's like
No
He's not on drugs
Then he just drops it
After that
But
Yeah right
He's totally obsessed
That this must be the reason
But then when he's meeting with the biscuit
And the biscuit's like
What happened
Taggart's like
That was an accident
Yeah

(01:10:59):
There's no drugs mentioned
It's just that
It was an accident
Yeah
Let's move on
He's got
I mean
He's got a couple of
Brilliant one-laners
I mean
When he's
When he's
Sparing with Mr
Mary
The guy who owns
Wonderland
He's got a couple of
Bright ones
There's a maniac

(01:11:19):
Here
He says
It says maniac about a dozen times
And it fucking kills every time
I'm trying to catch a maniac
There's a maniac
Poison in the city
And then
Pouts my favourite one
That he says to him
There's a pest
Here I'll control myself
[Laughs]
It's about publicity
How much can you play down what's happened
Make out it's not the fault of Wonderland products

(01:11:42):
How can you play down in the papers
I don't want my company to suffer
Listen
I'm hunting a maniac that's killing people
Your potential loss is take second place to that
You think
It's a pity
It's like
They're speaking about boxing
And Jardine
Says that
'cause obviously he's a

(01:12:02):
Godfather
And who's the church group
And he says
Boxing's very unsu Commission
And Tiger mentions that he used to box
And he said
And it kind of, that's what put him on the straightened toe
You know, can he be handy back in the day
Yeah
For sure
I mean, there's a couple
There's a couple of moments in Tiger
Where he, uh,

(01:12:23):
He gives somebody a bit of a dump
Not in this series
But there's that, there's one where
They, they, they're at some sort of
Abandoned stately home
And, um,
The encounter list, like, Biker gang
I can't remember
It might be, it might be
It might be in the sons of anarchy
Yeah
It might be in the one that Alex Norton's in

(01:12:44):
Where he played, where he's not
He's not playing the leads
He's, he's a suspect
Um, in the hood on it
And, uh, one of the, they can lead her
The Biker gang sort of spits at Tiger's feet
And he says
If you're spitting my shoes against Sun
I'll be waiting your balls as earrings
(laughs)
And, uh, that's a desired effect

(01:13:05):
The guy doesn't expect any shoes again
(laughs)
The, um, he does have just, uh,
It's, it's classic Tiger
Like, when he's interviewed in Jo's dad
Like, the, you know, his son's just died
And, he just switches from being sympathetic to him
And then, just, uh, Roots
And it's like, I know you did it
I know you did it, I know you fucking killed him

(01:13:26):
I know you killed him and your wife
And then, Jardine interrupts with some evidence
And he's like, I really fucking had him
(laughs)
So, I can bet his, and then later on
But it kinda turns out he might have been him
Tiger is like, I fucking told you
I, I, I, why does it say fucking
Because as we'll come later
This, this, this, zero is waiting
And this, well there's one

(01:13:47):
And, but he's like, I knew it
And you, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it
Like, he, he pinpointed him
But then, he's pinpointing everyone
Like, he blames Alice and people
For poisoning all the customers
Stuff, like, he's desperate to pin it on her
But it turns out
It wasn't her
But yeah, he's just, ah, amazing
In terms of the, the way he just, things on

(01:14:08):
Um, the one other thing I loved
Like, it, it's obviously a different time
Is when they find Joel's body and they drag him
Like the river
And you've got, Tiger, Jardine, and Dr Andrews
And, examining the body
And Andrews is like, puffin on his pipe
Boss these
(laughs)
Over the body
None of the remaining gloves

(01:14:29):
He's just having a little puffin his pipe
Like, oh yes, he's been dead for
(laughs)
He's like, holy, I was, I was struck by
The amount of smoking in this
Consent on its late 80s
And by this point, you know, certainly in my memory
That smoking was becoming a bit less fashionable
But even in the fact, and they were foods being prepared

(01:14:50):
People were just standing about, fucking burnin' a fag
The guys that are doing the engineering work
Fucking darts
Highlight the corner of the mouth
Is the go, you know
Cosmo is explaining all the rat poison
To fucking Jardine
Well, he's having a fag
He's hanging out his mouth
At least like, tamper, handling flammable liquid

(01:15:10):
And substance is
And he's got a fucking darts hanging out his mouth
Like, fucking
Ray stands and goes, buster
It's just, standardly explaining
Oh, this, this kills them with fear
This makes them drunk water
And it kills them
This sticks to their feet
This does this
And he's fucking smoking a fag
There's lots of ways to kill a rat

(01:15:31):
That's right
Is that sticky stuff that gets in the firm
Makes them want to lick it off
Is that stuff
Makes them thirsty
Then when they go in such a water
They kill over when they drink it
And then there's that stuff
Sinide magnesium
Once exposed there it creates siding gas
We use that to infund them in the layers

(01:15:51):
Of course, it's not all rat poisoners
Mouth, cop, roach
I'm told, look, a set aldehyres when you mix with a cereal base
My lovers should be doing your rounds
So just before we can move off a tiger
I was able through the course of watching this one
To make a wee list of
sort of "Taggarts loves"
And "Taggarts hate"

(01:16:12):
Right
So, okay
Okay
Here's the list of things that Jim Taggart loves
Boxing?
Love his boxing
Had his call a few times before we found the boxing
When he was a kid
Eh
He was like
Love's his wee husk
That he said to move away from
Love's worse than jar deen
Like fucking loves it

(01:16:32):
Love's doing his own shopping
Sometimes
Cause even he has to eat
Right
Eh
Like his babies
Like, how do we cuddle?
Have you sime in there?
Enjoy yourself?
Have you cuddle with sime in?
Yeah
He likes, he likes, by binoculars
That's what
The size of those fucking bins
He's got
Of course, he loves drums
Especially doubles

(01:16:54):
He likes the new Grenada
But he likes it
When it's got a ding in it at the end
Eh
He was quite happy with that
I think the biscuit car got
And
So that's the things that he hates
Drugs
He hates the drugs
He hates the drugs
He's beetroot
Funnily enough, as well
Not beautiful

(01:17:15):
Yeah, that was a bizarre thing
He's Mr Mary
Waste him to this time
He hates moving his
Just leaves his wife to it
To say he's more white
All by herself, it seems
He hates his late mother's teddy
For some reason
He's just no coming back for it
So, yeah, as you mentioned earlier
He hates many acts poised in the city
Eh
He hates waste him, please time

(01:17:36):
And he hates
People who think it's a free country
He also loves packed man
Which is not in this episode
But it's in killer, he loves playing par
Yeah, there are things that you notice on this one
If compared to killer
So his choice of jacket and killer
Is sort of Aberdeen, European Champions

(01:17:56):
Alex Ferguson, touch line jacket of choice
Whereas his
Yes, the jacket that he wears in lists
Is more sort of Alex Ferguson
Man United, Champions League winners jacket
I love that you're putting this
His choice of jacket on Alex Ferguson
Alex Ferguson's scale of

(01:18:18):
Middle-aged men jackets
To wear to your work
But obviously, if you're looking pretty good
With a quarter up
The jacket closed and his hands and his pockets
So the fucking means business
It looks great
Like I did feel
I find it hard to go on board
With Tiger in this episode
Because he's such a hardster

(01:18:38):
To Jeanne
To Ja
He's a little bit of an asshole
Like I enjoyed to the very recently
Where the Oslo-Bot Hegger's in this well
Oh yeah, exactly
Like I did find it a little bit difficult
To get on board with him
Is a character
Like if this was the first episode
I'd watch to Tiger
I would be thinking like
It's nice at our school

(01:18:59):
But because we know women love him so well
Like obviously you kind of forgive
And he comes to the
He works out
Yeah
In terms of like he's a beloved character
But yeah, kind of felt a little bit
Toft to get on board with him
Because he is a bit of a dick
In the talk
Because I know the character so well

(01:19:20):
I'm sort of there for it
The thing that I felt this
This type
This Tiger story did a little bit
Is that
You know like in other ones
Jardine has a couple of results
Do you know what I mean?
Where is he?
He uncovers a bit of evidence
Some self
Or he connects something himself
In this one
Bumbling is perhaps unfair

(01:19:41):
But
You know he doesn't sort of equip himself
Particularly well
As he does in the later ones
Like he
The whole train thing
Man, just to get
It's with the only person
This ever been jammed in a fucking Glasgow
Subway train door
Yeah but then
What are the chances?
There is absolutely no way
Because he runs down

(01:20:02):
And then he
Misses the train
But then the driver
Right, so much
There's never about that
Driver is fucking
Fucking never
Should have been here on time
I'm away
I
I can believe the
On the other side
Him getting jammed in the door
Of
The well no I can't believe it
Because that's never going to happen
The door is automatically going to open

(01:20:22):
But I can believe that more than
The driver
Coming out his cabin
Waving him to be like
Oh yeah, get on
Yeah it's fine
No, the driver is going to be like
Huh
Yeah, that's your fucking
Tough luck, mate
You've missed it
Yeah, the next one
He'll be in 10 minutes
Like
No chance
So
But yeah
Yeah, I don't know, they
I think
Like what they sort of did with

(01:20:43):
Jardine
Or what Shander did with Jardine
It's probably quite smart
Because he's
When he joins
Taggart originally
Livingston is still
Sort of Taggart's
Number two
If you like
And there's like
There's an end
There's like a serial
With both of them
I think it might be Livingston's last one
Before he leaves
And there's a serial
With both of them

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And that's I think that's
James McPherson's debut
And even in that one
He manages to get
From across a table
And gets
Like that's got a green teon
It gets covered in milk and butter
And stuff like that
But it sort of becomes
Kind of indispensable
As I think by the time we get to
Nesda Vipers
He's
Sort of Taggart's
Yeah, cool
In terms of
And it sort of gives the impression

(01:21:24):
That as much as
And we know as well
About Jardine
It's explained earlier
That Taggart knew his dad
His late father very well
His father had been a policeman
And Taggart had a lot of respect
For Jardine's dad
And he
A member's
Bounce and Jardine on his knee
When he was we
He's a fucking
Lose a baby
Right?
Lose baby
He's tagging
He's like a big, softy
And

(01:21:45):
But is it
You know is
Is
Jardine's character
Develops
Over the years
He becomes
Like Taggart's equal in terms of the text
Like being a detective
And then of course he
He ends up
Leading the series
For a while
Doesn't he after
After Martinick Man has passed away
I think even in this episode
You can kind of tell

(01:22:05):
That he has a
Respect
Yeah, he does
He gives him shit
But he
He likes him
And
I think
It's very much a
Taggart
Thing like in terms of
Jardine
Like Jardine
Came through
The ranks
And rules up
Where as
Livingston
Yeah
The assessor

(01:22:25):
Livingston
Was kind of fast-track
Because he went to the university
And came in
And Jim never had respect for it
Not initially
Not initially
But he deadly it right
Yeah
True, yeah
True
But I think Jardine
He kind of sees a little bit of himself
In him
And
Yeah, I think you in this episode

(01:22:45):
Yeah, he gives him a bit of shit
On occasion, there are a few quips
But that's just
Yeah, that's way
Tough off
He
Yeah
But I think he
You can tell from this episode
He respects him
And
And appreciates
Having him
I did miss
Obviously
But with Duff
In the episode
I mean, she comes in later

(01:23:05):
I think
It's
Death comes off
Yeah
Just like the old
December 1990
It's the first appearance of WPC
So that's the one where Mandy Matthews
But
From that catcher
Death comes softly
And
Yes
She's still in uniform
Jackie Weedon that
Than that
Yes
She is
I think she's still

(01:23:26):
She's still in uniform
In
Nest of Iperous
I think she's covered
She gets out of uniform in that
Doesn't she?
Because she ends up
Going to the whole channel
Yeah, on the board
Right, yeah
Yeah
I think that's the start of her
Kind of
Developing
And I think you needed her
In the series
To add to the dynamic

(01:23:47):
But yeah
Wonderful thing
But you kind of have the
The three some here
Because
The Viscate
Has
Quite a bigger role
In this
That's the
Normally
He's kind of the figurehead
But he's
He's a bite
Quite a bit
And he has some
Some brilliant
I absolutely love the part

(01:24:08):
Where Mary
Tiger is telling Mary that they
They're shutting down his factory
They need to recall everything
And Mary is like
Oh, this is ridiculous
Who is your superior
And McVeigh is like
I am
Mr. Mary
We're gonna have to close down your 5-3
I'm sorry
Close down my factory

(01:24:30):
Yeah, just since the request is linear
And we're gonna have to recall all your products
You can't do this to me
You have no right
And so
Who is your superior
I have
But he's totally
On board with everything
He can kind of tell that he

(01:24:51):
Obviously wants us on the case
But he is on board
And
Yeah
And he's proud of his new Grenada
And
Yeah
When that gets smashed up
This
Heartbreaking
But hilarious
Just the wee
Rhygrin
The tiger has to himself
Yeah
That's again, that's the
The late Ian Anders

(01:25:12):
Who plays
Ginger, Jack McVity
The biscuit
Before that, it was
Superintendent Murry
Or the Mint
That's
They all called him
She's brilliant
So a West Scotland humour
But they can
They can
Dei reads replacement in this
We're not replaced
So I suppose
Five data replaces

(01:25:32):
This character is
De-Sloric Campbell
Who is just not
Not prominent
But she's
Part of the team
She's there to speak out
With Jardine and Herrer
Keeping an eye on the shop
Where some of the poison items have come from
So this episode is
Full of red herrings
As well
I mean
Like I
I was certain

(01:25:52):
Because I guess it was my first time
Really watching it
Like I was certain
I was some people
It was kind of
Behind
But
Because she has a lot of like
Knowing kind of glances
Or looks
Or smarts
And
It's
It's a total
Tagger red herring
And she was the only person
I kind of spated
Like I knew Mr. Mary

(01:26:13):
Wasn't involved
In any way
But yeah
That was something about her
That was like
She's
She's somehow behind it
But turns out
Not at all
But yeah
Lovely tagger
It's very much what you watch
Tagger for
Because the fun
Of watching tagger
Is trying to figure out
Who the

(01:26:33):
Who the killer is
Right
That's the
It's very
Very very traditional
Almost sort of
Agatha Christie like
You know
Keeps you guessing
Who could it be?
Who could it be?
You know
In the beginning
There's a suspicion
That it might be
Harry Jones' character
Robert Higgison
Because who gets a taxi
From Glasgow to full volume like it

(01:26:55):
And then to your point
The shopkeeper then
Is maybe the knockers
Dolly
And
Her son Roy
Are they
Of course
There's even a
Is it maybe Julian
At one point
The guy that
Bies the antiques
From
Dolly and Roy
You're completely sort of
Kept

(01:27:15):
Check figure out
And I remember certainly
Watching tagger
With my mum
When I was a kid
And bestepthads
And my granny and stuff
I mean that
That was half the pleasure
In watching it
It was trying to figure out
Who the
Killer was
And
And the other half of it
Was when
Tagger moved away from his usual sort of stern

(01:27:35):
No nonsense
To having a wee twin-coanie's eye
And a wee wide grin
Because he's just
Made a joke
Or something unfortunate
That's happened to somebody
It's close to them
But
I mean that was
That from
Certainly
For us
That was
Well
That's what we shouldn't been for
You know
I mean of course
We haven't even spoken about Dolly and Roy

(01:27:57):
And the
The mother and son
They have a
Fucking weird dynamic
Their antique
Steelers
Steelers
And
Yeah
This is a strange
Connection there
Look
Why
It's his mother
Why does he always call her Dolly
He has a
A very Norman Bates

(01:28:18):
I've
I've written
Roy
And then I've underlined the word after it
Ponce
Because Roy
Is a fucking
Ponce
Of the highest order
Do you think
Because this is another thing
That has
It can
Not concerned to me
But came up
And

(01:28:38):
Castello says
That when he was
In the
The car and being kind of
Cajouled into doing this
That
It was a woman's hand
That kind of thing
That was Roy's hand
Obviously
Because there's no woman involved
In the thing
Like his mum wasn't involved
I think I was a redheading
To make you think
Oh is it Dolly
Is she got something to do with it

(01:28:59):
Is she poised
You know
I think I was a bit
Again it was a redheading
You know
Oh do you think that was
Castello was
What?
Having a
A jib or
Like
Or he just missed
He just missed remembered
Or something like that
You know
I did wonder
Because obviously
You see the white glove
Coming for
So
And obviously Roy
Worse the white glove
So is he trying to

(01:29:20):
Kind of
Say that Roy
That's feminine hand
Which could
Could be
But yeah
Dolly and Roy
We are
Payering
But very welcome
Like I love
The involvement
And their interactions and stuff
But uh
Yeah
Very odd
Payering but yeah
You're kind of like
I just want to love a bit
Tagger as well
Watching this

(01:29:40):
I was like
How
How are they involved
In the whole thing
Because
They do seem to be involved
But then yet
They come into it
And then it turns out
Roy is kind of the
The mastermind
Behind the whole thing
Yeah
And it's kind of like
You know
I don't know
I mean I think I was quite satisfied
I think with them
The ending of this
But you know
The fact that

(01:30:00):
There's not one
But three people involved
And it turned
And you would never have
Suspected John Marta
You know
I mean
That's a surprise
Yeah
Because he's
Completely
You know
And
And then
And you know
You're also led to believe
That
Uh
Hope that
Hari
It's why Robert
The actor's name's Hari
And Robert
Uh
The
Higgison

(01:30:21):
You know
He's been suspected
Early on
And he's been eliminated
So it's not going to be him
Then it turns out
Yeah
He is involved
To some extent
Because he's what it's going to be
This way
This got out of hand
But yeah
Like
It was quite satisfying I think
And the reveal is quite exciting
Is where
And also a bit gruesome
Although we don't see
We don't see
Uh
What happens to poor old Robert

(01:30:42):
We just see the aftermath of it
And he's being dissolved
And a
Drum for the vasset
I have to say
The
The set piece
Of
When you have Doug
And his mate
Who eats the
Cheese and Pickle sandwiches
Yeah
Talk about the fucking Mary
With the Mary
With the work
He'd never have thought
He'd only been
Widdled for three months
Which either way

(01:31:02):
He was fucking
Laughing and joking
And
Tracking fire in
Salison
People's in the shop
Yeah
That's very true actually
Yeah
But his wife was an alcoholic
So I guess she was um
Yeah
Done
But the set piece of him
Kind of
In the cage
Like
Now
If you
This is what
Kind of strikes me
A little bit odd
Doug
And obviously

(01:31:22):
Poisoned him
In terms of
With the pickle
So he knew his poison
Would you get into that cage
Knowing that he's about to die
But did he know
I don't think he knew that
That the poison had good
At the pickle that he
But yeah
He put the poison in the pickle
Oh
Really
I don't miss that bit
Yeah
Why did he do that
Yeah
Or because the guy found out
About the
The scam they had going on with the

(01:31:44):
Aging the
Rates of course
Yeah
I don't remember
No
Yeah
Yeah
Of course
So why would you get into that
Like
If I'd poison you
I'm in another room
But
If you'd poison me
Like
Would you let me
Drive a fork lift
That you're going to be in a cage on
And lift you up
Like do you know what I mean
But hey
It was a hell of a set piece

(01:32:05):
When he jumps off
And jumps onto the
Yeah
Kind of
The shelving
The
Shurving
Yeah
Shurving you
Yeah
Amazing little bit of
Stunt work on Tiger
But
Yeah
Why
The fuck would you poison someone
And then
Get into a cage
That you're going to let them drive
Yeah
That was a bad miss
On a
Judmert has part there I think
Yeah

(01:32:26):
I think so
Yeah
Not bad
Yeah
Wasn't sure about it
Do you buy
Cosmo as Castello's dad?
Yes
I do
Now
I do have an issue with the
What is Cosmo's issue
With
Catherine Houd
He thinks
That
His son has been

(01:32:46):
Hoddy trapped into
Maddie and Hoddy and Governor of Baby
Because apparently Brian
Apparently Brian could have been anything he wanted to be
Not Brian
Brian doesn't get that impression
Through the course of the journey
And
Like
She calls him Mr. Beard
Like
Would you
Call your father-in-law
My mum

(01:33:06):
My mum called my dad's
My grand-mate
My grand-in-pap
My mum called the Mr and Mrs McFee
Oh really?
She didn't call them by the first names
Wow okay
Okay maybe
Different time
Glasgow
A-T's
But
It struck me when she called him Mr. Beard
And he really
I mean he doesn't talk to her
He really dislikes her

(01:33:27):
And
You're right
Maybe he thinks his son could have done better
But it's
It's very strange
In terms of the
The hate
Really has for you
And I can understand
Like
And he does say
You know in terms of
You could have done better
Or
Expected more
But
Seems harsh
Yeah
That's a well
You know
But again

(01:33:48):
It's all part of the
Entry
And
Sort of
Screen the kind of writer
Subterfuge to
Make you think well
Is it something to do with her
Is it something to do with Cosmo
Is he up to something
Is he
This each other work his way
To getting rid of her
By poisoning the shop
But then it's got
Then there's a baby
And that's actually

(01:34:08):
Have to say
Like the last few minutes
When we think the baby food's been poisoned
And um
Brying and
Uh
Patricia
Um
Trata feed that will Simon
And we think
You know the
Your legs believe that the
Jara baby food might be poisoned
And it's not until the last
Couple of minutes
That Roy the ponds reveals
That um
You couldn't go through with it
Because we see him

(01:34:29):
Don't we we see the killer
Like putting the poison into the baby foods and all that
But it's funny
In terms of tagger
You're thinking
They're not gonna go
They're not gonna do that
And then you're like
Actually
They might be
They thought a baby at the window
That the start of the scene
Yeah
Yeah
I did wonder if they were gonna kill it
And then
When Castello and Catherine Houdon

(01:34:49):
Or eating a baby food you like
Oh fuck are they gonna die
Leave the baby an orphan
Yeah
Yeah
That'll Simon just sitting there on his own
Crying and
Cosmo comes in to find
The couple just sitting in their chairs
That's the other thing right
So everybody that gets poisoned
It's quite a dramatic sort of death
But Nolly just seems to

(01:35:10):
Slip away like she's sleeping
You know
Yeah that stuck with me
She just sat there
Eyes open
And then just keels over
When the attendant
Just touches her on the shoulder
And then she just keels over
No violent gagging
Or kind of death
Just sat there straight
But
Yeah

(01:35:30):
That kind of stuck with me a bit weird
So effectively
The way it works
Like in terms of killing
Like Roy was on the jury
For a poisoning
Yeah
So how you got the right years ago
Yeah
Where he got the idea
And
So he
Poisoned Dolly
His mum
By poisoning Chow
To get my name
Higgison was also on the

(01:35:52):
The Juulers
Higgison poisoned his wife
But
Accidentally
His son
But his son's room
Or really
He reckoned
His son had a little bit of this thing
And he made it
He'd been around eight if he hadn't fallen
Yeah
Doug killed his workmate
Because he'd find out about the forgery
Because they're making these bronze statues

(01:36:12):
Doug and Roy
Decide to kill Higgison
And they do kill
Higgison
Boone of that
And they tease killing Castellas' baby
But
The shop owner
Was totally ran
Yeah
To make it look good
And Roy says that
It was random
Now
I get that the
The pickles and the curry

(01:36:32):
And the chocolates
Because they knew
That they would kill
Their intended target
But the sugar
For the shop owner
Was that intended for him
Or was that random
Because
How would they know
He would have sugar on his rhubarb that night
And it was just random, wasn't it
They said that
It was just bad luck for him
Well yeah
Because they kind of said it was like

(01:36:54):
It was to make it look good
But it could have been
And nobody at all
Yeah
They would have had that
Yeah
He would be the only one
And so yeah
It was just
Just sort of nail up
The shopkeeper
And I guess as well
I mean
And again
This is perhaps
Quite symptomatic of how
Glasgow
Can it still was
Perhaps the lesser extent
In the late 80s
Can it move in a way from it

(01:37:14):
But
When he's like
Choking and dying on the street
Everybody just thinks that he's pissed
And he's like, "What? Pass them?"
Stating them
Stating them
Disgusting
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, I think by this point
Glasgow was
Can it move in a way from
That kind of image
You know
It was the
You'd be sitting a culture coming up
This was the

(01:37:34):
In fact
This was the year of the Glasgow Garden Festival
In fact
I think there's a tagger
Series
There's a tagger
Story
Set around the Garden Festival I think
Yeah, I've got to have a look and see which one it is
But yeah, I'm pretty sure there is
And
Jardine drives a
Red Ford Escort
Yeah
Class

(01:37:55):
That was my first skip
I enjoyed seeing the Ford Escort
And I enjoyed seeing the Ford Orion as well
That was amazing
Yeah
Jardine had a five door
Mine was a three door
And his is a
A D-Red J-Dan
F-Red
But yeah
That was my first car
And it was identical
Apart from the doors
But yeah
I've been I was
I was kind of trying to look into

(01:38:16):
The enigma
That is Maca Stale
A little bit
Because
And the reason was
I was thinking
Because like
For me
If he was like Maca Stale
Has always
Been in Scottish
Productions
For as long as I could remember
Right
So I
I kind of always thought that
Maybe he was about the same age as like
My parents
But I don't think he is

(01:38:37):
I think he's significantly younger
Because his first credit
Is 1989
And it's sort of a play for today
Thing
And I'd forgotten that he's in small faces as well
He plays one of the gals
And he's quite young
He plays sugar
One of the glen
In small faces
And I remember
I remember
I remember he was recently young
In that
So I think he was probably born in the 1960s

(01:38:57):
Which would mean
The
Cosmo would be old enough to be his father
Cosmo would be about 20 years or so older than him
Maybe slightly more
But
You cannot find
Maca Stale's date of birth
Online
So I was saying
Keeping it a secret
Maybe he's like
Conor McLeodin
He's been around for fucking millennia
But he's obviously written his

(01:39:19):
IMDB of self
Because it says
Maca Stale was known for
Wonder Woman 1984
The field of blood
And one arc of the glen
So
I asked
Chat GPT
To come up
With a new
Tagger episode
Like a brand new Tagger episode
And I
All I told it was

(01:39:39):
Mark Roman's is still alive
And
Like let's see what it comes up
So
It came up with this
Taggart
A cold score
Synopsis
When a young virtuoso violinist
Is found strangled with a cello string
In the acoustically perfect
But morally murky depths
Of Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall

(01:40:00):
DCI Jim Taggart
Is pulled into a case
Within music is sublime
But the secrets are rot into the core
Surrounded by rivalry
Ambition
And long-borrowed scandals
In Glasgow's elite
Classical music scheme
Taggart and his team
Uncover a tangled web of jealousy
A cover-ups
And a ghost from Taggart's own early career

(01:40:23):
May have returned to hunt him
As political pressure mounts
And the orchestra's reputation hangs in the balance
Taggart refuses to be swayed
By the powerful
Or the pretensions
So
And it comes up with classic line
Taggart says
"Graphically, you don't kill someone over a wrong note
Unless they've played it more than once"

(01:40:44):
Now
That would not be funny
But that sounds fucking brilliant
I said it's fucking brilliant
Now the cast list
And I genuinely
I did not give chat to you
Any prompts on this
The cast list
DCI Jim Taggart
Played by Marta Maris
The hardest nails
No nonsense detective
The deep sense of justice

(01:41:05):
In Glasgow grit
The D.I. Mark Jardine
Played by James Wockferson
The determined investigator
And Taggart's right-hand man
Who always ready to push boundaries
In pursuit of the truth
DS Jackie Veed
Played by Blithe Dough
Intuitive and driven
With growing confidence
Under Taggart's mentorship
Right
Now
We'll come to the guest stars

(01:41:27):
I am not making this up
But
Doctor Andrew Stevens
Pathologist
And obviously
Robbie Robertson has passed away
So they have recast him
A dry clinical but never
Will they cost the equip
The teams for Renswick Anker
Who do you think chat GBT cast
Costs
Costs
Mac is
Mac is

(01:41:48):
Stale
I genuinely
Did not make it something Mac is Stale
And the
The cast
The cast
And the
The other cast list
Professor
Elspeth Cullder
Who is a guest star
A respected
But secretive academic
With ties to the victim
And the taggart's past

(01:42:08):
They have cast Shubon Breadman
Is that
They have cast a
Lachlan Mory
Who is the conductor for the orchestra
A flamboyant and feared
But he rules the orchestra
With a baton and a fist
And they have cast Peter Mullin
In that row
I don't think they'd get him an absolute taggart
But you never know
And they have cast Emily Sloan

(01:42:31):
Who is the student whistlebrow
Talent in an ambitious
Court between exposing the truth
And protecting yourself
And they have cast Lauren Lyle
In that row
Who is in
A big Scottish show
That we haven't covered yet
Karen Perry
Karen Perry
Yes
She's in Karen Perry
So yeah

(01:42:52):
That's what chat GBT thinks about taggart
And yeah
I was abused
Like genuinely
When they cast Mac Costello
As Robby Robertson's
Like holy fuck
Like
That's
Genuinely mental
Because he is
Inevitably
Yeah
Mullin's done taggart
They're dead at 1990

(01:43:12):
Two episodes
Peter Latimer
He played
And
And Peter Lewis
Must I don't know
Must be something to do with the plot
But that was when he was up in coming
They were thinking they'd get him now
But did you
What do you think about Cosmo when he's
He's obviously worked out
In terms of the
Which is
Sun is
Just taking the poison
By tasting it

(01:43:34):
Just the taste it
Yeah
And he knows it's sugar obviously
But he
Tastes the rat poison
Well it just puts at least tongue
Then spits it away, right
I think that's okay
Oh yeah
It's so sort of gest it
I think it's all right
Yeah
He's okay
He just knows what rat poison
So suppose it tastes like
I just love when he's
Having the fog

(01:43:54):
And he's like
No
I know every hence layer
It's fine
It's fine
Yeah
I mean
This point in Cosmo's
Career
He's
You know I mean he's
It's just
I always just get the impression
It's one of these actors who
Is always just
You know he's not necessarily
Weighted for something
It just works
Right
Just you know
Whatever it is

(01:44:15):
He would
He would do it
Whether it was a film
Like
Cos this was after Highlander
Highlander was 1986
'98
'97
So he's
He's done a Hollywood film
And then he's back
Shooting Tiger
With a Scottish television
Like a
A year or two later
For the back
To 1980
Error Cosmo
So Cat Zai's
Which was on a TV
I remember that

(01:44:35):
He did an episode of Super-Gran
Playing Mr McBig
*laughs*
*laughs*
Mr McBig
Stormy Monday
Which is a good film
With Sean Bean
Then Tiger
Then he's
Just like TV
TV
TV
TV
Yeah all TV stuff really
The heart beat
Rabsey Nesbyt
Casualty
All the favourites
And then
1995

(01:44:56):
And he's into Braveheart
And then Trainspot in a year after
He did that oil rig
Drama Roughnecks
We have to do that
There's only 13 episodes
But I think that's over two series
Just for the sort of Aberdeen connection
And if you can find it
And before that
Before
That
He's
He's done Minder
He's done like all their favourite programmes
The Nightmare Man
The Professionals

(01:45:16):
*laughs*
Um
Yeah
This is a fucking legend Cosmo
It's honestly
Could just talk to him for fucking hours
That's why he's the patron saint
Of the culture as well
So speaking of which
Is it time to put
Dead Giveaway through our Swally Awards
I think it is Greg
Yeah
What have you got for?
So the first award is the Bobby Bar
The Bobby the Barman award for the best pub

(01:45:38):
I mean it has to be
The
Police Bar where they go
Just the it's always packed
It's just a, you know
Jardine has his soul then black current
Whatever it is
Jim's
Fucking
Straight into the drums
*laughs*
Not even a pint
Yeah
No that's my choice
Cos this is a pub
Goli-go
Uh
Dolly goes into

(01:45:58):
Um
And then there's the wine bar
The Dolly and Roy drinkin
But yeah
It has to be the pub
The Jardine
The biscuit
And
Taggart
Drinkin
I'm just disappointed
That Taggart didn't play Pac-Man
Um
But yeah
But yeah
So
Do you think it's time to play Pac-Man Dickey
There's a
Miniac
Poison in the city

(01:46:19):
There's a
Minie
Minie
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah you're right
Yeah
It's only got time for a quick drum
Even, even, even, there's even that scene where they suggest
To the biscuit one for the road
And is it a bit disappointing
The biscuit's like, you know
I think we better get to fucking work, don't you?
*laughs*
Yeah, definitely that wins for me, yeah

(01:46:40):
Definitely
So the next award is the James Cosmo
Award for being in everything Scottish
And normally if Cosmo's in it
You think, well, it's a slam dunk
But to be honest
There are a lot of people in here
That could hold that award
We've mentioned Alison Peoples already
John Marta, of course
Harry Jones who plays Robert Higgison

(01:47:01):
I mean, yeah
He even has a scene where he takes his teeth out
*laughs*
You know
*laughs*
He does, I mean
I mean, that's
He's just got one of those faces
With a really sort of grizzled Scottish
Kind of complexion
Harry Jones, you know what I mean
And he's in loads
He's in fucking tons and tons of stuff
I'd look at his IMDB

(01:47:22):
I mean, just in tons of stuff he's in
He's in the Muppets treasure island
He's in Loch Ness
If there's wee willy
In Loch Ness that you've been threatened
And to pick for five years
And I'm gonna pick that soon
He's in
Lovejoy, he's been in lovejoy
He's been in the bell
He's been in crocodile shoes
Ah, just fucking
Tons and tons of stuff

(01:47:43):
So he could easily be picked there
And Jenny McRindle, I mean, she
I mean, well, obviously she's passed away now
But highly respected
Uh, Scottish actor
And like, died quite young, unfortunately
I think the thing that we've had there on
Uh, that she's featured the most in
Was looking after Jojo where she's the female lead
Um, there's so many

(01:48:03):
And all in all, it's the Castell
As well, you know, so
I mean, I guess you can have to give it
To, can have to give it to um, uh, to Cosmo
Because it's his award and he's in it
But any of those ones I've mentioned
Are richly deserving of it as well
Anybody have missed?
I think
Uh, no, I went with Cosmo
Um, because the award is named after him

(01:48:25):
So obviously we have to give it to him
But um, yeah, I also put Castell here
And Jenny McRindle
And um, yeah
So how are the people?
And John Marta, yeah, he was
Very high on the Swally Tally
So, um, I put kind of all of them
But, yeah
I kind of said Cosmo
Yeah, and Castell
So, sphere

(01:48:45):
And next award then, the J. McRillin
Your teaser award
Has to be Cosmo
Slapping the shit out of the stables
I've, I've literally put Cosmo
Not in Castell about
Um, not because it is the, the T-Zoot
But also because we have had Cosmo talking about it

(01:49:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, um, so yeah
It has to be, um, yeah
That has to be the...
Um, so the next award would usually be the
Frances Begby award for Creaturitas Swaying
But because it's, uh, ITV 1988
It's fairly clean
Just a little bit of rough language
But not any Swaying as such
There's nothing at all

(01:49:26):
Um, the only thing I had was
When McVity calls the incident on the train
It was nearly a 24-karat cock
Yeah, yeah
And that's, that's it
There's no Swaying at all
There's no S-bombs, S-bombs, nothing
But yeah, 24-karat cock up
Is the best, they're gonna come up with

(01:49:48):
Which isn't really a Swaying or what
No, um, next would be the early
Orncient, the earlier mentioned
Yunigreger award for Creaturitas nudity
Um, nobody sure this nudity
I feel like I might have saw a girly calendar
In the back of a scene
Maybe like in the pest control office
Or something like that
Or, but that's, if I can't be a member

(01:50:10):
So I can swear to it
And next then, archetypal Scottish moment
What'd you have?
Um, I had the scene that Taggart and Jordy
And are sitting at a bar
And there's a tenants jogging the back way
And Danny Wilson, Mary's prayer
Oh yeah, yeah
Um, however, the winner for me was

(01:50:30):
Dolly and Roy's elation at entering Scotland
Yeah, yeah
And they're not even Scottish either
No, I know
Yeah, that's a good one
I never thought of that one
Um, yeah, I just had
Whiskeys in the afternoon
Since, since
(Laughs)
Scottish thing to do
And then lastly, uh, is the Sean Cauderay award

(01:50:53):
Who wins?
They'd give away for you
Cosmo and Castell
Oh really?
Just because it's just
Yeah
Yeah, it has to be for me
But what about you?
I had McManus, I just, I just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's sort of like peak tagger
(Laughs)
And this is just like every time
Just like, just as the way he conducts himself at his work

(01:51:14):
At home
(Laughs)
And every, and every, and suspects
At the crime scene's job
And fucking, fucking office disabled
Why did he move house on our own?
Yeah
Roasting
Jargon every opportunity
You know, it's just, I just really, cause I mean, it's, it's just nice to be back on
McManus, you know, it's
I mean, it's an episode of Tagger

(01:51:36):
It has to be my madness
Yeah, I'll give you that
Yeah
It has to be
I think it's just because we mentioned this episode so many times
So I gave it to Castello
Yes
Cosmo
But you're right
It's kind of, McManus, it has to be
Because it is his show
And it's good to see those guys together

(01:51:56):
Especially when we've had, we've had both sort of
Invented a bit of a relationship between those two and had a bit of a laugh over the years
You know
It's, um
Yes, it's good to see them once screened together
So if you want to watch Dead Giveaway
And we have given away who the killers are
And but it is like a almost 40-year-old

(01:52:19):
It's an episode of Tagger
So I can't really apologize for doing that
It's on the SDD player if you live in the UK
Some episodes of it are on daily motion
But not all of it
I'm sure there's other, uh, illicit
Ways of getting your hands on it too
Um, but if you haven't seen it for a while
And you know, fan of Tagger
It's definitely worth revisiting
So it was my turn to pick this week's topic for this wally

(01:52:45):
So what are we watching for the next episode?
Our next episode will be out on the 7th of August Greg
And Scottish football is back the season kicks off the weekend before
So we already have looked at a shot at glory
Back in June 2021
Available, we're reviewing your podcast
So it's time for another football film

(01:53:07):
The cast of this film is insane
But I'm not going to spoil it for you
I hate it watching
So if you haven't seen this before
Don't look at the cast list
Uh, however, the three main cast members are
Neil Morrissey, Max Beasley
And Richard E. Grant
However, it does have a whole host of Scottish talent

(01:53:27):
So two Scottish pubs, football teams
Play each other in order to resolve a century old grudge
With the prize of the winning team
Being the other teams pop
I am, of course, talking about the 1999 film
The match
I've never seen it
I don't think I've seen it
I watch a trailer for it
I feel like recently recently

(01:53:48):
When I say recently, recently, I mean, like in the last five years probably
But okay, well, have you seen it before?
I watched it the other night
Because I wanted to watch it and kick
The first time watching it
It's um, it's tight
But it's tight
But it's great
Um, Smelt of Fox
Is in it as well

(01:54:09):
So, um, it's a wonderful little film
Um, but yeah, the, the main kind of cast
Are English and say the African
Obviously with Richard E. Grant
But it does have an insane
amount of Scottish talent
And Scottish, um, uh,
To film people in it

(01:54:29):
Like you'll be amazed
Um, when watching it
Okay, all right
With the film select
Um, but yeah
Okay, so, uh, of course
On the next episode
We're talking about 1999
The match
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(01:54:51):
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(01:55:12):
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Okay, right
Well, I hope you have a wonderful evening, Greg

(01:55:32):
We're recording this in a Friday afternoon
You have done anything exciting
Yeah, we've got people in
So
And, so you're going, but yeah
Be a host
You know, your pink hair is a weird enough there, are they?
Yeah, a lot, but yeah
I'm gonna go and take some
Well, when that notes
And until next time
Till next time
I want to analyse
What kept you?

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He was a joker in the park
We knew nothing about
The three musketeers
But where's Heggerson?
He's dissolving
And a super
I think he was a cook this well, the broth
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