Episode 137 - Whisky Galore! (1949) - The Culture Swally

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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 definitely wasn't born two drinks below par.
It's Greg, how are you today, buddy?
Well, it's tired as I was just saying.
It's been a busy week, last week.

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I was in the road again, they call me week, I think I'll get back until Friday morning.
I drove again.
Oh, and then...
That's shocking, we had a day out yesterday for a friend's birthday.
Yeah, I was in bed at half eight last night, probably.
Oh, wow!
I sleep by nine, but then because of my bed, so where they woke up at like half three,

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and I was just awake for like an hour before...
Okay.
...before I think I sort of, I don't really feel like I slept, but kind of dozed until kind of half seven or so,
and I just gave up and got up.
As you do, it's horrible that I'm just when you fucking, when you fall asleep too early, and you wake up too early.
Yeah, it's that kind of feeling of like, you don't feel like you've slept.
I know exactly what you...

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You mean, you think you kind of dozed, but you kind of feel you haven't slept, but you maybe have been,
because that's, you know, four hours is a long time to be lying awake.
But if you think you might have slept a bit, then you probably did.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
It's a fucking horrible feeling.
Yeah, yeah, it's just that thing when you're sort of dozing, you know what I mean?
You're kind of, sort of nodding out and waking up again.
Um, so yeah, and obviously we're recording this, but not it's not obvious to anybody,

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but we're recording this on a Sunday.
Um, so it's a school night as well, back to work tomorrow.
Oh, so we'll get you all finished nice and early, don't worry, but yes, we are recording this on the Sabbath.
Mmm.
The Sabbath, which we will obviously be discussing a lot more detail later on in the show.
But yeah, everything else good with you?

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Yeah, I'll be back in God's country this time next week.
Um, what are you looking forward to most?
Was the first thing you're going to be consuming or doing or...
I don't know, you know.
Um, I mean, I'll definitely, at some point,
be having a roll in chips with someone vinegar from the bluely good in Glasgow.

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It's some point.
But yeah, I know I'm still looking forward just to getting back.
I'm going to be, I'm going to be in Glasgow,
on, um, Thursday and Friday and Saturday catching up with some pals on Saturday that I've not seen for a long time.
In town for a few beers, so that'll be fun.
And then Sunday I'm getting the train up to Aberdeen.
And I'm going to see my mother in a set file for a couple of nights and then back down.

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A little bit of life-admitted deal with on, um, Tuesday, Wednesday, probably back at the town
for some aspects in Bob's and then flying back here on Thursday, so go quick,
you know what I always does.
But yeah, be nice.
It's a bit of fresh air about me, you know.
Yeah, that's definitely a little whistle stock tour that you're doing there.
Yeah, that's it.
But it'll be nice.

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That's tight week.
A tight week, a tight week.
But as you see in God's own countries,
you will have a wonderful type in terms of Scotland.
And I'm sure you'll get to do lots of things.
You'll get to have all the good food and all the good, um,
yeah, get some proper iron brood.
Get some.
I can feel my, I can feel my arse itching already at the,
about the phrase proper food because, oh,

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whatever, but I'm in the UK.
So they drink a bit more, you can just go to the holiday and you tend to drink different things,
like different beers and stuff because there's a good selection.
Yeah, I was in the up with a really itchy arse, you know what I mean?
Just haven't they go to the toy that I've lot more often?
Um, it's the same one I'm in Lake.

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What was the same one I was in America as well?
'Cause I'm just sort of drinking all the time and eating American food and stuff and, yeah,
I take it like, well, as a vegetarian that might not be something that afflicts you.
And what I really go.
Uh, yeah, I would say so.
Like I didn't, yeah, I haven't really noticed anything.
Well, of course, yeah, I did, I mean,
when did Japan need a lot of fish and developed an intolerance to it?

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Yeah.
There was that, but yeah, as a vegetarian, you're kind of
with some more stuff.
Yeah.
So I was got an itchy arse.
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No, nothing to say so.
No, maybe, no, not really.
Um, but then I take care, you know, you can put some cream on, take some soda cream with you
and put it on your arse, and it's itchy.
Yeah, it'll be available.
Maybe a well.
Or top, top tip, a little cotton ball, between your arse cheeks.

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Prevents any sweating of your arse this way.
Yeah.
So good, that's a top tip for you.
You can put it in talc as well if you want to really go over the top.
Yeah, talcum powder.
That's good.
Yeah, that's a good one.
I mean, do you remember when you were weak, sort of getting, kind of getting out the back,
and getting dried, and just being covered in talcum powder?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've been done that in a very long time, if I, I don't even know what talcum powder is for.

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I do know actually.
I think it is, it is like for a chafing kind of thing.
I did, I think I used it a little bit when I was running a lot, um,
because I did find I was chafing a little bit in the, the arse,
but it was, because it was sweaty, and then it was chafing.
Yeah.
So yeah, a little bit.
I bought some specific deodorant, um, that you can buy for that, for, um, for your arse.

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Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
It's for runners.
Yeah, it's specific deodorant.
Um, but then, yeah, I did use some talc for a while, but it's just a fucking mess.
It's just talc everywhere.
Um, and it's like, oh, no one needs this.
I so, I just asked Google AI what talcum powder is for.
Uh, it's used to absorb it.
So, Google says it's used to absorb moisture,

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with just friction, create a smooth texture in various products.
Uh, it's found in cosmetics like face and body powders, baby powders.
However, due to potential links to, to as best of contamination,
and possible health concerns, many companies in health organ,
organ health organizations recommend avoiding using talcum powder in the genital area.

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Oh, well, don't put talc on your arse home,
I think.
There's a little simple fact for you.
Right.
Anyway, um, enough for that big of that.
Um, okay.
Shall we have a look at what's been happening in Scotland over the last couple of weeks, Greg?
Here, the jingle.
Hello!

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This is the Outdoor Heavard East Broadcasting Corporation.
And here is what's been going on in the new...
Oh, Kegreg, what have you seen?
That's been happening in Scotland ahead of your visit there.
That you'd like to share with me and our lovely listeners.
So, there's been a story that is almost made the podcast.
It's been, it's been, it's been rumbling on for a bit about a month now.

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So, it's been at least two episodes before this one,
but it's been on my list that then something better has taken it away.
But, um, in Jedborough, in Roxborough,
there has been a small African tribe about five or six weeks ago,
moved in and established the Kingdom of Kubala.
Much to the Shigrin of the Jedborough locals.

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Um, so this story comes from the Scottish Sun,
and it's leads to the King in the Handmaiden of the so-called Kingdom of Kubala
have been arrested by immigration officers during a dawn raid.
Just before 8am on Thursday, 8 border control staff and cops
swooped on the group who were camping in Woods near Jedborough,
Roxboroughshire.

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Moments later, a live video with social media
taken by the group showed the King,
Coffee of A36, being cuffed by the agents as Handmaiden.
Kaura Taylor 21 was also in it.
The video was broadcast live by office wife Jean Gashel on their TikTok channel.
During the home clip, the video clip, the home office enforcement team

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tell of A, who is originally from Ghana,
who has been arrested on suspicion of overstaying in the UK
before placing him in handcuffs.
Taylor from Texas in the US laughed and said she was going on vacation
as she was cuffed before the pair were led away to waiting fans
and taken to a custody centre.
As believed they were taken to a police station outside of Jedborough for questioning.

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Queen Jean, Queen Jean.
Left the area undercover in a pickup truck before council staff were called in
to clear up the group's possessions that they left behind.
A source told how the nowface being deported
if they have breached strict immigration rules.
The insider said there was suspicion that coffee has overstayed
after coming here to stay with Jean many years ago.

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It seems that it's real doubt that the couple have ever been legally married,
therefore coffee could be here illegally.
As for Kaura, she's been getting money for donations through some online platform
so that could put her in breach of her visa.
Now they have both been taken away to be processed and questioned
and the face being deported.
This is a group's second eviction in as many weeks after they mocked

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a previous eviction order by moving 20-foot from private land
to a council owned plot where they were removed from today.
A council meeting last week, local councillor and deputy council leader
Scott Hamilton branded the group "vail"
and belasted cops for not using a 150-year-old wall to take action.
Welcome in the eviction he said it's really positive that we have got to this point.

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To get difficult battle with courts and private landowners.
The group previously told how they were reclaiming land
that was stolen from their ancestors 400 years ago
and refused to recognise the powers of the courts to evict them.
The Scottish son told in an earlier issue
how Taylor was confirmed to be a waitress reported missing by her family in Texas.

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Taylor's family previously expressed concerns that she was being brainwashed
in a stain with Kubala with Vickubala.
Yeah, so there's a problem with their claim
that the land was taken off the 400 years ago
because 400 years ago there would have been the 1600s and a pretty sure
any black people who were in the UK in the 1600s probably weren't landowners if you know what I mean.

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Yes, I do know what you mean.
And we will carefully go around this story and issue.
Exactly as you said, this has been in the newspapers over the last few weeks
and I think I've picked it a couple of times and just haven't done it
because there's been something probably better or more.
Yeah, but it is something that yeah, we do discuss it's a bizarre story though, isn't it?

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Yeah, this African tribe have just decided that they're going to pitch up in Scotland
and stake claim to this land in Jedbra and it has been ruffling quite a few feathers.
Yeah, I'm not sure Jedbra is the most sort of diverse part of Scotland anyway,
so I can imagine that people were probably quite perturbed
by the little tribe setting up shop in their local woods.

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But yeah, very, very odd story of the guy who of Ae is a weird guy as well.
He's posed as a millionaire entrepreneur and flash suits
claimed to mix with super rich clients and to write to it,
one Queen Jean boasted that he was a property magnet with a fortune to his name.

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He's a millionaire king apparently, but yeah, I mean,
a very, very odd guy, it's still a really odd situation, you know what I mean?
And I'm not, and there we have a couple of guys that the young girl that's
played and that it's been the handmaid and she must have been here
in a tourist visa or something like that because she's on a shouldn't visa because she's

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not into anyone. So Ae gets it becomes a wee bit,
so at a sin of stuff doesn't it? When you put that part of the tail into it?
Yeah, I think so and as I say, I mean, I've read a fair bit about it,
not read enough to probably be able to talk about this in a correct kind of manner and stuff,

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but yeah, it's just an odd story in terms of that they've sort of been in the woods for,
you know, for your while now and it's a kingdom, but yeah,
but they were filming like a lot of stuff live on tick-toe. So it's a bizarre, you know,
part of you does think is this a stunt in some way, but I don't think it is.
I think they really genuinely want to lay claim to this land, but I did read that the

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yeah, the counsellor said he was very relieved and the eviction and stuff and yeah,
that it's been a long effort by the local counsellor and police, so it's, yeah, it's a bizarre situation.
Yeah, it'll be a weird one. I mean, I suspect that it is probably just, you know,
some getting a publicity stunt, attention seeking, you know, I mean, you can't go back to,

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you can't claim that you want to go back to a simpler life and then film it all in tick-toe.
Do you think they've been trying to get like a Netflix documentary or something,
but you'll probably end up like a channel five documentary on it or something like that?
Yeah, maybe something like that. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I suppose if I think if you,
if you're somebody who's on tick-toe, who has a lot of followers and stuff, then you can start to,

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people can start offering you a revenue right to advertise on your page and things,
so I suspect it's probably a means to generate some cash. I don't wonder where they're
where they're plugging their phones in, in the woods. Yeah, that strikes me as a good question as
well. What were they doing? What were they eating? What were they, you know, what was their plan?

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If they were to stay claimed to this land and set up their own kingdom, what were their
important exports, you know, things, what were they trying to do? Do you need a passport to go on
their land or not? Like, it's a very strange thing. What are their laws? It really needed to
to go into a bit further, but I guess we're probably not going to find out now. Well, never know.
Neither do they, Bill. No. I've ever had your first concerns or fiscal concerns, you know.

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Well, what were the currency, what were their major exports? You never know.
Well, I'm just trying to skirt around any cat terms that might get cancelled or anything like that,
to be honest, mate. Anyway, maybe we should do a twist, they on to your first story of this week.
My first story is from the Scottish Sun this week, Greg, and the headline is, "Naygoot." A popular

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Scottish takeaway was forced to change its name months after opening after getting caught up
in a bizarre branding row. "Naybad Spud" opened its first baked potato shop on Byron Square in
Northfield Aberdeen earlier this summer on June the 20th, and it quickly became a favourite among
locals for its best quality foods, including its fluffy baked potatoes, loaded fries, and natural

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boxes. But weeks after welcoming customers for the first time, owners Angela McCall and David Groves
have said they've been caught up in a branding row over the branches name. They revealed that they
have recently heard from solicitors for "Naybad Food" another restaurant in Elgin who claimed that
they have a trademark for "Naybad." Angela and David said that let's advice them that they could

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no longer use this name, adding that "Naybad Food wanted to use its trademark without ongoing confusion."
The duo said they were totally shocked by the letter, and said that the phrase "has become
common Scottish slang over the years" and is used by several other businesses across the country.
The phrase "wildly used" to mean "not bad" is normal. When "is normally used" when a person is

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asked how they are doing, the firm is now being forced to rename it shop "Nay just Spuds" which is
costing the owner thousands of pounds to rebrand all their signage, decor, sponsorships, and social media
accounts. They forked over 5,000 pounds to change everything down to aprons, signs, business cards,

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and uniforms. Angela and David said the new name will tie in with new additions to the menu, however
they've been left heartbroken by the decision as they shared to use with customers on social media.
In a post on Facebook, the boss said "we normally like our posts to be positive, however,
this one is a little bit more serious and sad today." In July, we received a legal email

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advising us we could no longer use "Nay bad Spuds" and were totally shocked by this news as we
followed all the correct procedures to our knowledge. This business advises we could no longer
train under the name "Nay bad Spuds" they own the trademark to the word "Nay bad" so therefore
anybody tries to use it is in breach of copyright. It blows my mind that this is such common

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Scottish slang and I've googled so many other businesses since receiving this news and there are
heaps that use the word "Nay bad" well you better grasp them up then. For some reason this person
has decided to target us and I've found the entire thing heartbreaking to say the least.
You will also see a name change happening inside and outside the shop and on just eat but it's still us.

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We haven't been under new ownership and are basically making the best out of a bad situation.
So yeah, I mean this generally they did contact BBC Scotland and they said that the words "Nay bad"
in general were not what the issue was it was the fact it was connected to food restaurants and
takeaway. So that's why "Nay bad food" and "Nay bad Spuds" are kind of sort of the thing there.

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They did contact "Nay bad food" and they said "look we just want to protect our trademark without
any ongoing confusion" and I think that is perfectly legitimate. Coming from the world of
like branding and stuff I think it's perfectly legit it is you know it's okay it's not exactly
local but it's Elgin to Aberdeen there could be confusion "Nay bad Spuds" "Nay bad food"

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I can see where that could arise but yeah this pure company has had to cost a spend 5,000
pounds to rebrand "Nay bad Spuds" to "Nage Us Spuds" now "A bait potato" where do you stand on that?
I like a bait potato I used to like the tasty tatty on school hill. Yeah we have a bait potato
with macaroni cheese or something in it and something like that after I night out.

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I don't know I'm just not a fan. I quite like a bait potato now and again I like
potatoes but some of that bait potato it wouldn't be my weapon of choice on a night out to go and get
a bait potato. No I mean it wouldn't be my weapon of choice either because ideally I want something
that I could just pick up on my hand and stick in my face you know what I mean after a night out
whereas a bait potato does require a degree of cutlery manipulation so but you know I

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think it depends what's in it I suppose. I love how I mean it's such a Scottish thing isn't it to
call your business "Nay bad" something you know what I mean it's just like this it's just this
complete lack of optimism it would seem to have collectively that "ah it's "Nay bad" you know I mean
the way it is, the words "Nay bad" actually mean that something is pretty good you know what I mean?

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I don't think I really realized that and broke it down until probably I was living in Dubai
because that's my go-to people but I were you I'm not bad and people would be concerned there's
everything okay yeah yeah why well you've said not bad I mean you know it's not good no no everything's
fine so I guess I'd stop saying that but yeah I would say "well that's just my instinct yeah I'm

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not bad not bad how are you?" yeah I'm the same I mean I'd say that as well but it's yeah not bad
how are you doing not bad not great not brilliant you know like you meet people from the US
really they come across great a lot of Americans for my work and stuff and I'd be like how are you
doing great yeah yeah great and then they proceed to tell you why they're great then they ask me

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normally yeah I'm not bad. I'm alright yeah surviving we don't know we don't know a lot better if I
don't know if it will you. I thought it's fucking five days. It's just a term I don't know it's just
this thing but you it's like I did a week I text my brother in law and I was like hey I text him
probably later in the evening knowing he would get it the next morning yeah because of the time

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difference so I was I think I sent someone like hello good morning hope you have a glorious Tuesday
and day ahead then sent the rest of the message had a question to ask him and it is reply you know
morning niki every day above ground is like ludious. I can't like such a
I've heard doodaylor scotish like you see like any day we're not dead fine so it's yeah yeah I think it is

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a good thing yeah need a spot say any bad they're alright but yeah if you were a call your
business you're right like if you were to see all right burgers then are you gonna get a lot
of custom there. Yeah no. What are you probably within Scotland but maybe not anywhere else? Yeah
no just start out who knows who knows but yeah let's wait and see if how the business gets on

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with the name change. Okay well see if you've seen this week buddy. Well on the last episodes of
the culture swally we were we were covering fear the drama series numbers and primes starting
James Cosmone Mark Thompson. I had a new story about the new highlander film and how Dave Batista

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is really looking forward to coming to Scotland to film the film. He's been the Kyrgyn the big
baddie. Well he's not the only WWE superstar to be featured in highlander and perhaps perhaps
inevitably being that he's the most prominent scot in wrestling maybe at the moment. WWE

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star Drew McIntyre also can't wait to return home to film the new highlander film. Yeah because
we were talking much way about wrestlers and how like you know when wrestlers turned their hand to
acting when we were younger like when Hulk Hogan or someone did it they were always about
wooden whereas these days you've got guys like John Cena for example who I mean he's fantastic in

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almost most things that I've seen him in you know he's on he's got a new series of peacemaker on
at the moment and he's very good. Dave Batista is a pretty good actor so now Drew McIntyre is
getting in on the act as it were the 6-foot 5-inch 2-time WWE Champion from air will start as the

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brother of main character Connor played by Henry Cavill in the remake of the 80s fantasy movie.
Drew's real name Andrew Galloway the 40-year-old who kicked off his WWE Wrestling career in 2007
also made his film debut in the 2024 thriller The Killer's Game never heard of it sorry Drew

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however McIntyre who moved to the US the further his wrestling career and became a US citizen
2023 admitted that he miss his home. Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mail he said it's a great
story I am working with a talented cast and I get to film in Scotland there is nothing about this
role that isn't perfect I enjoy living in the US but of course I'm a scholar proud to be

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Scottish in any time anyone asked me a question about Scotland I was happy to answer and that the
rest of the world know what an amazing country it is. McIntyre joins fellow actor and ex WWE
wrestler and Marvel star Dave Batista Drew's ring mentor who is playing a mortal
curgan in the reboot of the 1986 classic. The original film starred a French actor Christoph Lambert

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as 16th century clansman McLeod and Sean Connery that says Egyptian mentor Remirez
Inverness born Karen Gillan who found fame on Doctor Who was also set to play Heather the wife
of Henry's character. A film of the remake was due to begin in the Highlands later this year but
it's been delayed due to cavill in journey's leg so I guess we probably won't get to see Highlander

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until maybe the tail end of next year or maybe even to act by seven. But I look forward to it.
And of course this we forgot to mention in the last episode because of course this does stick with
a bit of tradition because in I wonder if we know obviously what Batista and McIntyre are going
to be doing but I wonder if there will be any additional wrestlers in it because of course there

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are quite a few wrestlers in the original Highlander. We have Michael Hayes is in the wrestling match at
the star and I think Sam Fatu as well who choose the uncle of the Usos and I think he's Rikishi's
brother so somehow related to the rock. But yeah but I mean Michael Hayes is kind of the big one

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is in the start of Highlander. Fabulous freebirds. Yeah that could be a good way to get some extra
talent into the film although I wonder if there'll be a wrestling match at the start or if it'll be
something else, if it'll be UFC or something nowadays. Yeah I'm not sure. I mean it would be good if
they paid a bit of homage to the original with the they you know McLeod hyperventilating in Madison

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Square Garden as the freebirds like touch their nipples and they pelvic thrust before they start
before they start wrestling and he's the key starts thinking about what battles between Clans back in
the 17th century. I think Michael Hayes might be a bit old nowadays to be touching his nipples on
screen but you never know you never know maybe maybe we could see this. Yeah I saw my I watched the

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documentary about the behind the scenes of WWE on Netflix the one that I've covered it's called.
I think you told me about it when it's like truly behind the scenes like perhaps never before
and obviously Michael Hayes is quite senior guy and that program isn't in terms of the story
telling and the like kind of thing. Yeah. No he's a very well respected individual I think very

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well respected and very he has a good brain so yeah but I don't think you're going to want to see
him touching his nipples. No I'm sure not. Anyway that's my second story which your next story
this week. My next story is from Aberdeen Live this week Greg and it enraged me and
spoiled my piss as to why is this in news and this is nothing new why are you giving this

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publicity. So from Aberdeen Live this week Peter Head family leaves shoppers in stitches after
sticking googly eyes on Aldi products. A mischievous family has left fellow shoppers in stitches Greg
after they sneakily stuck googly eyes on various products around a Peter Head Aldi store.

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Moll of two Laura got the idea to stick the comedy eyes on unsuspecting items after spotting them
at a local arts and craft store. No you fucking didn't Laura this has been around for years and
years you've seen this somewhere else. And while attempting to bring some fun to a mundane Sunday
afternoon you haven't brought any fun to my Sunday afternoon Laura. Laura who runs the northeast

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coin page on Facebook visited her local Aldi where her husband John and their two children.
And aside from just doing their shopping the family had much bigger plans to attend to.
As they headed round the store they picked out products with various faces carefully deciding whether
a small googly eye would be suitable or if a larger googly eye was better placed each in term

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of comedic value. In the hilarious clip which is now been viewed over 300 000 times Jesus
whipped. Laura can be heard saying what a laugh we just had in Peter Head Aldi the record reports.
As the video continues the family can be heard giggling as they place the novelty eyes on a number
of products including the Magi-Lagger man. The Biamorette man, dog food, cat food, a large potato,

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a buttered squash, nape's and our personal favourite some golden yolk free range eggs.
The family can be heard in hysterics as they somehow manage to carry out the high jinks without being
caught by staff. Speaking to the record Laura said which is the dip for a laugh. I was in Hobie
Crafty the other day with my friend and I said to how funny would it be to do it so I picked up a bag

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of small eyes and a big bag of big eyes. My daughter's eight and my son's 14. It's just so hard to find
fun things to do with the, they both hate shopping so it was just a fun way to get them to have a laugh
together. We all go involved putting the eyes on and the funniest part was that other customers see
this deal and a few of my followers recognised us. Seeing them giggling out what we were doing was still

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funny as well. Laura said she regularly shops at the Aldi store. I hope they fucking ban you now
for doing this because you've been contaminating products Laura and was inspired by the supermarket
giant's own cheeky social media posts. She continued, "I don't think any stuff staff saw us
but it definitely brought out the teenager in me and John." I hope Aldi think it's funny. I'm always

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up for a laugh and I shop in Aldi every week. I love their funny posts on social media. If any super
market would find this kind of thing funny it would definitely be them and that's why we chose to go
there. No you didn't you just said you go there every week Laura you're not choose to go there.
Social media users were in stitches as they headed to the comments. David Shahn said, "Ha ha,

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love it. I'd be a nots if I bought that box of eggs when I opened the lid." David Kirkham laughed,
folk all over Peterhead checking their cupboards they know and Amanda Davidson says, "Imagine peeking
in the egg box and they were looking back at you." So yeah they are going round sticking
gougly eyes on products in supermarket. This is just tampering with goods to me. This isn't funny

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and it's nothing new either. Why is this news? It's just attention seeking isn't it? I think
I mean it is just I mean I mean I mean I'm saying the guy who records a podcast with these
me every two weeks is accusing somebody of attention seeking, right? But I don't I like to think of this
as a sort of civic duty because it still astonishes me that there isn't a dedicated I've well certainly

(30:21):
have not come across a dedicated Scottish film and television podcast which I find really surprising
so it's not a case of attention seeking it's a case of responsibility to the artists that have
gone before. This what these are souls are doing is just attention seeking. They're addicted to likes

(30:44):
on their TikTok. "If you were in the supermarket and you opened a box of eggs and had gougly eyes on
it would you laugh or would you just think of a fuck sake, put the eggs back and get another box?"
I'd probably put the eggs back and get another box. I mean I would probably be kind of amused for
a second. Like, "ah, haha, it's funny." But then I put them back because I don't know, I don't know

(31:07):
what I take. Home eggs that somebody's stuck gougly eyes on to. Yeah it's just the contaminating
of products. I know it's on the packages but there is a butter not squashed and yes you could argue
you don't eat skin of that so there is a thing of okay they're not contaminating anything that
anyone's eating. "Why am I being so sensible here?" But I don't know, it just annoyed me, I think that's
why I'm being sensible. If I hadn't annoyed me I'd be like "ah, it's a good laugh, it's all fine,

(31:31):
you know, doing them." But for some reason it just got to me a little bit. Yeah, I mean I suppose
you might say, "Well, it's harmless really but..." It's just, it's just, the thing that's annoying about
it is just the reason why they're doing it. You know what I mean? It's because they found it difficult
to find entertaining things to do with their kids. I know, I mean that's a lot of pish anyway and I'm

(31:54):
sure like, well, how was the Sun 14? Yeah, 1814. I'm sure it doesn't want to hang out with these
fucking mum in the supermarket anyway, but it wants to be at least pals. Yeah, a Sunday afternoon,
going to Aldi where your mum and dad and little sister, that's not an exciting time when you're 14.
I mean you're wanting them to go out so you've got the house to yourself so you can just go and rip the

(32:14):
heat off it. Yes, exactly. What was all on a Sunday afternoon that was good for that? I don't think
there was a lot of you were young on a Sunday. I mean you had saturday, you had bay watch. Yeah,
yeah, but I mean nowadays Greg, we live in the time that, you know, yes, we had to resort to
whanke into little house in the prairie back in the day or land of the giants, but nowadays,

(32:38):
all the old Somnibus. Yes, all the old Somnibus. Whereas nowadays, obviously, with lots of streaming
services, so they'd be able to pick anything or if they bought other dad's credit card, they could
access porn. I remember Ben Elton had a theory that the reason bay watch was on at that time,

(32:59):
on a Saturday afternoon is because the TV controllers knew that the good chance that
the ads would be in the house by themselves because mums would be out shopping and kids would be out
playing when the ads would be in by themselves and that was why. Exactly. That is quite a very good
observation to be figured out. I think that maybe could be a good reason why. Makes sense, really,

(33:23):
yeah. Yes, that would. I wonder if bay watch holds up. I mean, did it hold up at the time though? I
never. I watched it, but I don't remember. I remember enjoying bay watch on different levels.
Maybe obviously I was 15, 14, 15 minutes on, so I was literally just a throbbing collection of
hormones, so I enjoyed it for those reasons. But it was also pretty good as well. You know,

(33:48):
Pazelhoff was, I was a fan of his from his nightrider days, so you know, I quite like Billy Warlock
as well. He thought he was quite cool. And of course, all the, the Pamela Anderson's, and all the
lovely, lovely, lovely young ladies that were in it, back then. That was the first Skuttmag I ever owned.

(34:10):
Was it wasn't Pamela Anderson? It was Donna D'Enrico. And Playboy? Or Donna D'Enrico, I think her name
was, yeah, Donna D'Enrico, yeah, that was in Baywatch. Yes, Playboy. Yeah, that was the first Skuttmag I
ever owned by a school friend whose name I can't remember now. He stole it for me from the John

(34:36):
Menzies at the top of Union Street. Really? Yeah, because he'd stolen one for himself and we were looking
at it and I was like, oh, I'd like one of those and he stole it for me. Well, good friend.
Oh, yeah. One of the first ones that I had, I mean, passed around a bit, was,
was Drew Barrymore's Playboy. Oh, okay. I should dead when she was, I don't think she was fully

(35:01):
off the rails. I think she was maybe like on one rail. You know what I mean? Up on two wheels. So not
quite completely off the rails. I think she was in the process of getting back on. And obviously
I thought the best things you should do is a naked Playboy spread. Did you like that? Because you're
such a big fan of her in ET or, um, I don't know because I should have think what I would have seen

(35:21):
Drew Barrymore in before that. It might have been, I might have owned the ever seen her in ET because
this is a pre-wedding singer and it would have been them believe I, I, I'm not speaking for you,
but just from my personal experience of taped off the telly and worn out a bit. Would it maybe
have been the film Poison Ivy? Was that the one with the getaway of Rosanna that's in the Big

(35:45):
Barrett, it's the Big Bang Theory as well. Was she a cool start in that? Yes, that might have been
probably was. I think that's exactly it. Yeah, say to Gilbert. Yeah, yeah, I think it's her dad,
doesn't it? That Drew Barrymore's character kind of stuces. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

(36:06):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So, yeah, so 14-year-old boy should be walking off to that and not
sticking Google EIs on products in Aldi, but never mind as long as the family had fun, then that's okay,
but yeah, for some reason it just annoyed me slightly. Anyway, to calm down a little bit, have you

(36:27):
seen anything else this week, Greg? No, that's all. Okay, right, well, before we go on to what we're
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the boy center, Sackie Hall Street. Okay, Greg, so it was your choice on this episode of the podcast,
so why do you tell us what we're going to be talking about today? So this week, we're going back
to 1949, the oldest thing that we've reviewed on the culture swell, and been going for nearly five

(37:12):
years at this point, and it's a true classic, whiskey galore, the Ealing comedy classic, so when
wartime rationing causes the fictional Scots Island of Tudey to run out of whiskey, the islanders
are bereft, that is until a shipwrecks just off the coast, carrying 50,000 cases of this stuff.
The islanders make plans to requisition it while staying out of the way of the home guard,

(37:37):
Captain Wagger, so a huge cast in whiskey galore, huge, huge cast, no only person that I really
recognised in there is the professionals Gordon Jackson, but one hour or 22 minutes,
sort of gentle-ish, knock about comedy, classic, classic film based on a true event,

(38:00):
and the book by Compton McKenzie, who writes the screenplay along with a frequent Hitchhawk
collaborator, Angus McPhale, and Compton McKenzie also managed to get myself a part in the film
as the captain of the ship, the cabinet, what's it called? The cabinet minister, the rex of the
coast of the island with all the whiskey on it, the true event was the running aground of the

(38:24):
SS politician, so yeah, I remember watching this from my granny when it was all in one saturday or
Sunday afternoon, probably a saturday, as we've litigated at length, the tv was absolutely fucking
shite on a sunday in the 1980s, so much that it was a saturday, but this was the first time I've
come back to watch it in a really long time, no but you. Exactly the same as you may, I mean I

(38:48):
I'd seen it many many many years ago, I don't know when, but it would have been a saturday or
Sunday afternoon on BBC or something, but a very long time since I revisited, so yeah, but it was
a real treat to revisit this, it's exactly as you said, it's just a knock about comedy, it's fun,
it's short, it's not a huge story, I mean there's not a lot of upbeat movies about drinking,

(39:10):
this is definitely one of them and of course it's Scottish, or is this a harrowing drama about
Scottish islanders reliance on alcohol, but I don't know which way you put it, but no it's a fun film,
it's about alcohol, it's about whiskey, it's a fun premise, I'm a tell my girl friend, a premise of
the film and she thought it was hilarious, and especially when you know it is based on a true story,

(39:34):
talking about the actual true story, the SS politician, it did indeed crash and it was two islands
were effectively trying to get this, the whiskey, but one island was Catholic and one was
Calvinist, so the Calvinists were allowed to work on the Sabbath, but the Catholics weren't,

(39:56):
so the Calvinists managed to lead to most of the whiskey before the Catholics were able to get to it,
and that's why the Sabbath is such a big thing in the book and in the film, but yeah it's amazing
that it's based on a true story, it's a wonderful little film in terms of it sets up, I mean it's
pretty quick that it gets into the kind of color of it, sets up this lovely little island of Toddy,

(40:20):
and you know you kind of get the feeling the war hasn't really hit the people on the island
particularly, but then when the whiskey runs out that is the worst thing that could possibly
happen, and the way that it's presented with such object horror and terror is brilliant,
it's so well done that you're kind of feeling sorry for these islanders, but it's so hilariously

(40:42):
done as well. Yeah, I mean the book also has the two islands set up only rather than being Protestant,
the Calvinist island is rather being Calvinist rather than the other islands Protestant,
and apparently McKenzie wasn't that happy that they had sort of condensed it into one island,

(41:03):
say you know, but I'm sure I'm sure you got over it when you got these feet, but it is him,
it's a gentle bite of day standards, it's really gentle sort of situational comedic movie,
and the studio ealing that made it are they famous for that type of film, and there's maybe about

(41:26):
half a dozen very very famous British films that are in the top 100 British films, which
that the BFI put together about 20 years ago, but movies like Count Hearts and Coronets,
The Lavender Hill Mob, The Man in the White Suit, The Lady Killers, probably they're probably the four

(41:46):
that are the best known, there's another one set in Scotland called The Maggi, which maybe we'll do
one of these fine days, it's got it's got um shades of local hero in it I think, yeah, but yeah,
so the the movie is filmed, it's supposed to be a kind of outer hybridian island, so that's why

(42:08):
they all have that sort of island accent when they go up a couple of octaves toward the end of a
sentence, but it was actually filmed in Barra, and a lot of Scottish actors in there, but most of the
sort of principle actors are English, doing Scottish accents, varying degrees of success,
I would say from sort of middle into poor, being the scale, yeah, I mean genuinely there were times

(42:35):
where I I thought that Joan Greenwood who played Peggy, I mean, welcome to her, that length later on.
Yeah, there were a few times where I was like is she meant to be Welsh, but yeah, so the accents
can be a little bit all over the place at times, I would agree with you. Yeah, yeah, I mean, Gordon Jackson
is from Glasgow, and you know, he kind of made these living as, we have got a kind of Scottish

(43:01):
character actor, I think he's in the prime of Miss Jean Brody as well with what's her name,
Hurrof Harry Potter, Maggie Smith, I shouldn't say Hurrof Harry Potter because actually a very
distinguished actress, Dame Maggie Smith, Hurrof Harry Potter, we've spoken on this podcast about
how pissed off we get that people will always think of Robby Coltrane as Hagrid, and just referred

(43:25):
to Dame Maggie Smith as Hurrof Harry Potter. Yeah, sorry, the late Dame Maggie Smith, I do apologise,
I do apologise, obviously, I will have any very accomplished theatre and film actress or actor,
and a lot more in her quiver than just McGonagall of Harry Potter. But yeah, Joan Greenwood,

(43:47):
so the way that she talks really quite slowly and drawn out, but apparently that is the way that
she spoke, she's just doing it with a bit of a sort of weird Celtic accent. Just because she's a
saucy temptress, is that why? I mean, but she's an absolute smoke show, but in this sort of,
and I've quite a modern way, she doesn't look like a 1940s starlet, she looks more like a sort of

(44:14):
24th century actress, you know, gorgeous actress. I mean, if they remade this for an American
audience, and I mean they did remake this, we'll come back to that later, but if they remade this
for an American audience now, I mean, it would be Sydney Sweeney that would be playing her
like the character. That's the best way you can describe, but yeah, she's an absolutely beautiful

(44:37):
smoke show, is the perfect description, but I mean, our sister's not bad either,
come back to them, because I have got some questions about the set up there and what's going on there,
it's a very thing. But yeah, the accents are a bit strange, but yeah, it's a very gentle film,
and it's such a simple premise, as islands run out of whiskey. I did love the, effectively,

(45:00):
they're told that there's no whiskey left, and a man is told there's no whiskey, he staggers
home, takes to his bed and then dies. It dies, don't you know where it dies? Yeah, I think he dies,
doesn't he? I'm pretty certainly dies. I mean, we don't see him again, so maybe we're so,
that I think it was, yeah, he's died because there's no whiskey, although it is, because they say it's
the water of life, yeah, he's just, as he's died, as he's blind in his bed in the middle of the day,

(45:27):
the scene in it that I really liked was the scene with Dr. McClaren and the old, and the old fella
in bed, and he's like, oh, you've got to have your, I mean, it just goes to show how much of
it's time the film is. The guy is supposed to have some sort of chronic or potentially even terminal
health condition, it's not really touching upon, and the doctor prescribes, tobacco and gives him

(45:52):
his spare pipe, and then starts giving a whiskey when they get older, the whiskey, it's got
it, he's got his water bottle, and it revives him enough that he's able to get out of bed
in one of the phone box, so warn them about the customer's guys coming in. Dr, Dr says to him,
we can't have you giving up smoking as well, like, Dr's orders, you're like, what the fuck is going on

(46:19):
here? This is mental, but yeah, I'd have taken your drum if we had, but no, you're right, and then he's
got it in his hot water bottle later on. Yeah, wonderful, it truly is the, the water life, and
smoking's fine as well. Yeah, I did love that scene, it's great. We can't tell you giving up smoking
as well as everything else. Here's a pipe of mine. I couldn't be robbing you of your own pipe, Dr.

(46:44):
your two kind hearty other. Dr's orders, they've another one. And then when they, when they finally
get holds of the whiskey off the shit, then they're celebrating, and they've got like,
massive drums, but one in each hand, you know what I mean? It's just, it's very much,

(47:07):
it's very much of its time, you know? Well, I mean, that's the way that the island of Tody is portrayed,
like there's a little to-do except work, chat, and have a drink in the pub. Yeah.
Like, it seems like a fucking great place. Yeah, it just seems like a wonderful place, simple place,
locals are self-sufficient, happy people with few and simple pleasures. It sounds like absolute bliss.

(47:29):
It's like a hundred miles away from the need of cinema and stuff, and it's, oh, it just sounds
like wonderful little self-sufficient, you just get on with things, you know everyone, you just have
a drum in the evening, oh, lovely, go and see Peggy and our sister and have a little flart, go home,
knock one out to them, and that's perfect. It's perfect. It's got a beach. It's got a beach. Nice caves,

(47:54):
it's, oh, it's just, it's like a wonderful place to live, lovely. It's, I mean, the whole, the,
the movie didn't, the producers didn't think when they saw the cut, the sort of final cut that it
was very good, and they were thinking about maybe putting it on to like a double feature, like the

(48:15):
used to have back then, or, you know, they had to film a few more scenes in the studios in London,
to kind of flesh it out, and they weren't even going to put any market in behind it, because the head
of Ewan Studios, a guy called Michael Bauchon, thought that the film was rubbish and people wouldn't
like it, and blah, blah, blah, and it was only really, because some members of the press went to

(48:38):
see the film, you know, they didn't even do like a press screening, but they went to see it, and they
wrote about it, and it was kind of forced to market it, because it was getting such favorable
write-ups in the news that it was forced to market it, and it was, it was the studio's biggest
success in the US, up until that point as well, and it's, and it's kind of funny, because the models of

(49:02):
the film, you know, the people, the sort of authority figures like Captain Paul and the guy that owns
the bar, and the police, the policeman, they're kind of, you know, they're sort of ridicule, whereas
the cheeky islanders who are committing like, see a serious crime, a serious fucking crime,

(49:26):
micking, well, they're supposed to have got like 200 cases, I think, of the whiskey of the bowl
or something, I mean, those boats, those rowing boats are dangerously overloaded, I don't know
if they don't think, and you know, there's the biffa, or biffa, it's going to, him and these two
pals are planning to sneak up on Sergeant Odd in the restraining, so they, so he doesn't

(49:50):
raise the alarm until they realize that he's, he's one of them, and he doesn't, he's not going to,
he's not going to do that, you know, but it even like, fucking throw a big roller, barbed wire in front
Captain wagrits, car and bursty tires, yeah, I mean, it's, it's, it's, it, there is, there is a little bit of a

(50:10):
sting in the tail, suppose at the very, very end, you know, when they're talking about how, about the,
the whiskey running out again, and, you know, they're back to being bereft, and we see that,
that little montage of the wee boy looking at the windows, the rains coming down, and the spinning
wheel broken, and, like, all that kind of thing is, I think, a plague is just coming to town, but, yeah,

(50:32):
morally, to be especially for the 1940s, when I guess, well, the, the world was a bit more of a
straight peg. I did read that the, the last part of the film that they put on that little bit at
the end, that was put in to get it distributed in America. Right, because they had to show that
alcohol is nasty stuff, that it can bring on happiness. It was essentially the 1940s version of

(50:55):
drink responsibly. Yeah. But it was, yeah, apparently that was why they had to put it in, which is a bit
of a shame, really, because it does kind of like, oh, okay, you know, everyone lived on happily, apart
from Peggy and Sargent Oods, because they weren't whiskey drinkers. Yeah. Okay, that's a bit of a strange
thing. You're right, though, the, you're right, all the locals who are committing a serious crime

(51:18):
are kind of like, ah, it's all a bit of fun. And that was a bit of debate, I think, during the
filming, the director was on the side of Wagon. Yeah. Everyone else, but the producers were like, no,
no, no, no, it's the Islanders that are the, the heroes of this film. Yeah. And you're right, like,
well, you mentioned a few people there. Wagon obviously is, you know, broom up his arse type,

(51:39):
okay? I mean, he, he must be the basis of Captain Manorant from Dad's Army. Yeah.
Has to be because he is like a bit of a hapless, you know, even as superiors, obviously,
think he's a fucking idiot. Yeah. Even his, even his wife thinks he's a fucking idiot.
She's, she's sound, she's wanting the Islanders to get the whiskey, because she says that at one
point. And then at the end, when he's effectively failed, and I mean, the assumption at the end is he's,

(52:05):
the, the six bottles of whiskey have been put back in the ammo containers that he had put back.
Now, we see that happening. We know that wasn't him, obviously, did it? But yeah, he's about, he's
effectively about to probably take the rap for this. And his wife basically just laughs in his face.
She's obviously delighted that he's possibly about to go to jail or something or get into

(52:30):
serious trouble. Yeah. A very bizarre character, but obviously not a likable kind of character, but,
he does brilliantly in terms of play by Basil Radford, of course. He's, he's great as a, as a character and
his foil. Yeah. The one that you mentioned that I was a little bit like, fucking grass is the,
obviously, the guy that owns the pub. Yeah. Cause he grasses them up because he's got his four bottles

(52:56):
of whiskey in all the boat, and nobody's buying it. That four bottles of whiskey won't last one night.
I don't know if everyone's tanning as much as they are. Yeah. But with his water and it,
down though, because he was said that then soft and A and he was, I was maybe stretching it out a
bit, perhaps. I just imagine he probably was a little bit, but yeah, that kind of boiled my piss

(53:18):
that he was a grass. And then he happily admits to everyone that he was the one that grass them up.
I mean, if he wasn't the owner of the only bar, people would be boy-caughting him after that.
Yeah. For sure. Well, until their whiskey ran out. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. And I guess, I mean,
the other villain that you have is George's mum, played wonderfully. So Mrs Campbell is the

(53:43):
character's name George's mum, played wonderfully by Jean Cadel. Yeah. And again, she is this sort of
holy god-bothering woman who is very straight-laced. Nothing amuses her. She's very, you know, the phone
can't be used on the Sabbath. She sends George to his room to, with his Bible to bread and water

(54:04):
because it's punishment. And she's really straight-laced, but then she does attend the shindig to
celebrate their engagement. Yeah. And she's very sour-faced, but then she has a drum and she's
fucking smiling and enjoying herself. Like, that's the model. Yeah. Yeah. The model is chill the
fuck out and have a drink, basically, right? Bruce Setton. So I was watching him today,

(54:32):
I was up when I watched this earlier on. Now, from a certain angle, he looks a bit like me.
And I was trying to get just, yeah, because he's got the same paper, he's got the same
headline and all that. And I thought, just from certain angles, I thought he remains to be
myself. It's really weird. Are you trying to convince yourself you could pull a peggy?
Yeah. I could definitely pull a peggy. I don't know if I could pull that peggy.

(54:53):
Yeah. Well, he's the English, so a proper soldier, right? Who's been sent to work with the home guard.
They're kind of put these islanders into soldiers. But he's, you know, he's very much on the side of

(55:14):
the islanders. He's obviously, whether that's because he's trying to persuade a lovely peggy to
marry him or it's, you know, it's through a genuine desire to be a good guy. It's never really clear.
But, um, but yeah, that guy Bruce Setton is actually a royal connection. Oh, really? Yeah, he's like,

(55:35):
he's, yeah, he's, um, what was his title? Sir, is the 11th baronet Sir Bruce love at the setting?
Yeah. Now, see, I thought, because he's been away for two years, three months.
He's come back. He's obviously once peggy. He asks her to marry him. She's not too keen, but she kind of says,
yes, then he asks her dad. I do love that scene when her dad's basically just like, oh, can we discuss

(56:03):
this tomorrow? Like, yeah, it just, he cannot be asked. He's just wanting to go to his bed because he
knows he wants to get up and go and get that whiskey. So it's just like, we'll discuss this tomorrow,
it's just tomorrow, then you're right, of course, in terms of wag it comes round and then old and wag
it or having a chat about whiskey. And then the guy comes back down effectively saying, you know,

(56:24):
it's blackmail. Like, you need whiskey in order to have this sort of engagement part, a celebration,
the region, the region. I think that switches odds standing. Like, I think he was going to go along
with in terms of protecting it because that's orders effectively. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I think he's
like, well, it's the only way I can get into Peggy's heart and undergarments, probably because he does

(56:49):
say they haven't made love yet. So I presume that's what sways him in terms of being a good guy and
helping out. Yeah, I guess so. I guess so. I mean, I think it's like there's so many characters in
this, you know, it's difficult really to ascertain who the lead actor, who the lead character is in it.

(57:11):
You know, in terms of the islanders, Gordon Jackson's got quite a lot of story, you know,
situation with his mother. He's supposed to be T total until they get older, the whiskey and the
whiskey gives him the courage to stand up to his dominating mother after four or five drums.
And, but the rest of them, you know, they're just sort of there for they biffer is quite a funny

(57:34):
character because he's the one that that finds out about the whiskey when he rules out to help
the guys after the ships ran on the rocks and he's asked what the cargo is and when, well, it turns out
to be Captain Mackenzie, I found out after I've seen the film tells them he falls back in the boat,
blown away by the fact that there's all these drums just within touch and distance.

(57:55):
And then the montage of him running round the island telling every, and everyone excited.
One of my favorite parts, I think biffer is my favorite character. He's such a cool character.
And, but that scene of him running round and it's so well done. I mean, it looks bit
now in some points that he's just standing there running in the spot at one point, but it still

(58:17):
looked pretty cool and running, telling everyone. And then I guess he has the kind of the one of the
the mild pedal moments when you know the boat, see on the whiskey and he's effectively the boats
about to sink and he's still on it. Again, the whiskey him and George, but then of course,
you know it's all going to be fine and they're going to get away. It's going to be okay.
Yeah, they could they could they could they could they kill biffer.

(58:39):
Fucking hell. No, no, but I agree with you. I think that you know, it's only 82 minutes long, but it
does feel like there are too many characters in this film. I would have perhaps liked to have seen
a few of the core characters expanded a bit like, you know, maybe a bit more about George and his mom.
A bit more about biffer. Yeah, more of more of Peggy, but you know, a little bit rather than

(59:02):
introducing you characters and it does seem a little bit too much in this short, small film,
like to follow you're right in terms of this. There's too many people.
I guess that's that, you know, that's sort of the formula for these even comities,
the right it's you want to have the big, the big, the kind of big ensemble pieces. I think it is the

(59:23):
the lady killers that's got like, Alex Guinness, Peter Sellers, you know, like I saw it. They got
these guys in it. You know, Alex Guinness is I guess he's got the kind of head, but they could
have sort of headlight in it, but you know, it's very much in it and ensemble, but you see, he's probably
just got the headlight because he's the most well known at the time. So yeah, I get, you know, a bit like,

(59:47):
I don't know. I mean, it's maybe that's maybe I'd be happy. It's not often that I watch movies in the
1940s. I can't even tell you maybe the 39 steps, like one of the versions of this, been about four or
five different versions of the 39 steps, I think, over the years. Maybe that's the last one,
but that's very much got like a main protagonist in it, you know, so yeah, you're right. If I think

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about, I mean, the only time I've watched probably films from the 40s or so would have been on a Sunday
afternoon, when it's fuck all else on TV and lost in space is finished, you're flicking channels and
oh great, it's fucking seven brides for seven brothers is on BBC two. Oh great, I'll go and play with my

(01:00:31):
Lego and watch this pitch. So I think, yeah, it probably is a case that was like larger casts in terms of
being able to get thing in, but yeah, I think maybe the way that it was done back then, I can say,
I can agree with you on that. Yeah. I think one thing they do very well in this film though is the
heist itself, like it's really well done because it's quick. Yeah, it's not drawn out. It's over pretty

(01:00:56):
fast. We bad pedal when I think Biffin and George might be in danger, but otherwise it's not
like a huge set piece as such in terms of a big part of the film. It's quite a quick part really
that the actual heist in itself. Yeah, I mean, I remember it as being as the heist been a bit earlier
in the film and the sort of customs guys and Captain Wackett trying to find the whiskey. You know,

(01:01:24):
be it, for some reason, I had it in my head that that was more of the sort of thought back to the film
was because after they've got the whiskeys, I mean, it's for some reason about 25 minutes, I'm
saying to the film, I think, it's almost a no-one ever done before they get it. And then that brilliant
scene where they're hiding it, you know, in other different places that they're hiding it, they
have laughed out loud when they put the two bottles in the baby's crib and then put a cushion,

(01:01:49):
put the baby on top of the top of it. It just really made me chuckle. I feel like that scene has
been paraded, yeah, a lot over the years. Yeah, and I think it was quite inventive of, I mean,
the baby made me laugh and then they're putting it in a pie and covering it with a pastry. They're
putting it in the gutters of the house. Yeah, finding all these inventive places to hide these

(01:02:14):
bottles of whiskey. I also like the fact that when you get the whiskey and you see them drinking it,
there's just all these open bottles, but they're not sticking with one. Like, they're not drinking
it. There's bottles like Valentine's, there's bottles are cutty sorry. Yeah, there's bottles like all
the whiskey's open. They're not like just, we'll open this box and then this box and then this box
no, they're tearing into everything that they can get their hands on at that moment. Well, apparently

(01:02:40):
united the stillers who were like when they had, when the big whiskey, we just had a time,
um, held a special dinner for the casting crew and everybody got a lot of the whiskey because
they, to your point, it was essentially ad-advert for the brad for their whiskeys for their brands.
You know, and I think someone, I think one of the less favourable reviews the film got,

(01:03:05):
like that point was made. This is basically just an advert for whiskey, like, but they got 80
minute advert for whiskey. And there's nothing wrong with that at all. Like, it didn't
discriminate as such in terms of especially nowadays when everything's just fucking shoved
down your throats and drinks and branding and marketing. But this was, um, yeah, I thought very
well done in terms of if one has the different choice, there's no discrimination, all the whiskey,

(01:03:28):
so equal, everything's fine. Coming back to Peggy and Katrina, they win the first entries,
the first entry just Peggy's smoking a fag and Katrina's putting lipstick on. Yeah, sorry,
Katrina's smoking a fag and Peggy's, Peggy's putting lipstick on in the shop when the dad comes in,
Mr McRoon comes in and he says, oh, he says one with stick lip, which I don't know if that was a

(01:03:55):
mistake or that was supposed to be like that. And once smoking. And then when he, uh, when Sergeant
Odds comes back on the boat and um, he sees, he sees Mr McRoon, he asks them how Peggy and Katrina are
doing and he tells them, he says, oh, you know, both way to make up and smoking and he's like, oh,
good for them. It's a good interest. Everybody's just a big fan of they smoking. Yeah, both smoking

(01:04:21):
like chimneys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, smoking, that's what he says, smoking like a pair of chimneys. Yeah,
doctors orders, you know, in some places on the island, so it has to, it definitely has to be done.
I did have to rewind one part where um, George is speaking to his mum and because George has

(01:04:42):
proposed to Katrina, although you kind of get the impression that Katrina is going to force this
upon him, but who cares? I mean, Katrina, if Katrina was to force me in a manage, I would
think, thinking, I Peggy, but Katrina is nice enough. They are having a bit of an argument. He says
a teacher in a, you know, and she's comes in and she's having a go at him and she's going on about

(01:05:04):
spare the rod and spoil the child. And I did have to rewind it because I thought at one point she
said, how often did I catch you in the black cunts? And, but she says black cunts. Yeah, but the way she
says it, I really had to pause that and check. Yeah, it's a bit of a weird one. It's sort of like,
kind of carry vibes between, uh, between George and his mum, isn't it? It's very strange, especially

(01:05:28):
the scene where there are an argument and she says, that'll be it. No church for you today. You're like,
well, it's not really a punishment, is it? No, it's just a nice sense in to his room. And then he's
got to sneak out of his room to go into the heist. I know. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, he looks, he looks
about 35 years old. I do not approve of the use of that instrument on this day. Oh, but mother, we,

(01:05:51):
we must move with the time. Satan has made you very glib, my son. What times will there be
to move with the internity? No, you're being ridiculous. Don't you ridiculous me? Now look, mother,
go to your room, George Campbell. There'll be no church for you and nothing to do. But she's a real foil,
in terms of for the, the captain. She's a, she's a real foil for captain Wagget because she's not

(01:06:18):
taken any of his shit when she when he's phoning that he turns off and so she's the perfect kind of
them foil for him. Yeah, yeah, she is. Yeah, it's a bit weird, but that whole kind of dynamic is a
little hard to perhaps get in bored with because he's, he's like twice her size, clearly far too old to
be living at home. He's just like, I'm not sure that he would put up with this kind of thing for

(01:06:41):
me's mother. But then I suppose it sets up the yet another amazing purpose of whiskey and that it
can help you stand up to your mum, he had taught me to do mother and it can help you get better when
you're bed ridden with the chronic illness, all these kind of things. There's, there's a bit of a
chat, there's a bit of a talk about Gallic, isn't it? In the, in the film, and this, this

(01:07:03):
sergeant ought not use a bit of Gallic when he's talking to Peggy because she's teasing him, she says,
well, he has to be in Gallic, they know, but think about it. Yes, he does. Yeah, she's, she's,
she wants to speak the Gallic and she's obviously a bit, I think it's after she's proposed and she's
kind of like, well, no, I want to speak Gallic and he's, I guess, learned a couple of phrases or
words and she's kind of saying, oh, well, you know, if you're using Gallic on me. So yeah, there is a

(01:07:28):
little bit of mention of that, I guess, to maybe that was shoehorned in to show in terms of the,
the islands, do you speak, you know, the most speaking English, or a bit of authenticity, perhaps.
Yeah, I think so, possibly, yeah, possibly could be. Well, you know, Mary, me, Peggy. Oh,
she's a foolishness. Anybody else? Anybody else? Where? Oh, anybody else wants to marry you?

(01:07:50):
If you want to be cheeky, Mr. cheeky in the Gallic. You mean if I was a Satan, Gallic, you'd give me an answer?
Perhaps I would, but you cannot be saying it, can you?
I'll go back and post. Dan pose to me. Daning the Gallic just to take the ice out of me,
it would be a shame to be so deceitful. Well, what about it? And of course, you know, all the build-up

(01:08:17):
is of the Sabbath. And it is a hilarious part, where as soon as the clock strikes midnight, they may
just all shuffle away, disappointed of like, what we can't do anything, it's Sunday. So they have to
go to church and then you see them just staring at the boat, willing it to be midnight. As soon as
that clock strikes midnight, it's a great scene where they all just come scutting out. And they're all,

(01:08:38):
like, okay, okay, we can do it now, we can do it. It's over, you know, Sunday's over, we can get on
with things, but yeah, I thought that was very well done in terms of that, like, oh, it's a whole
day we've got to wait before we can do this. Yeah. And the thing is as well, when we see
caps in, we're turning in and it's midnight, right? When he's getting into single bed and he's

(01:08:59):
wife getting ready for, to get our single bed, because I don't think they were allowed to show
couples in bed together, back then, I think it was part of the film code. And it's midnight, and he's,
he goes to bed happy because he knows that he's put Sergeant Od on gargity. But then the next morning,
it goes to get odd and odd tells him, he finds him tied up and he tells him that he's been tied up

(01:09:22):
there for the last four hours. And you know, well, then, whack it must be, he must be running on three and a
half hours sweep. And that's the case. Yeah, because, well, that's the thing because he does say you take
from midnight and I'll relieve you at four o'clock. Yeah. And then, but when he comes at four, it does seem
like it is a bit like daylight, as you say. Yeah. So, yeah, you're right. He's running on very little sleep.

(01:09:48):
And yeah, this are, yeah, situation. I don't know. The timing was a little bit off, I think. I mean,
even at midnight, it still looks light when everyone's coming out, but yeah, assume that's obviously,
you can film in the pitch black because you wouldn't be able to see them. But it did seem a little bit off
in terms of that situation. Yeah, I mean, it's probably why he's so fucking, he's so tightly wound, right?

(01:10:12):
Yeah. So, um, do you have anything else? I'm gonna go lower that we haven't mentioned.
I mean, the only thing to mention really, because I feel we've done it a disservice by not speaking too
much, but it is a very short film. It's a very simple premise. Yeah. That's great if you haven't seen it.
They did remake this in 2016, um, starring Eddie Azard. Yeah. James Cosmo. Greg Arfischer, Brian

(01:10:34):
Petterfair and paid a cheeky scamp's in Robertson and Kevin Guthrie. I don't know if the remake was
was that well received. I think it was very much based on Azard playing Waggett. And I don't know.
I mean, I've never seen it. I don't know if I want to see it. Maybe we'll pick it at one point to kind of

(01:10:54):
compare. But I've got a funny feeling that film is going to go into a lot more detail and I did
watch the trailer and it does seem it kind of goes into like Peggy and Ords relationship a lot more.
So I think there's, I've got a funny thing in that film probably cuts down the number of characters,
but builds up the characters that it actually has. But I don't know. I haven't, um, haven't seen it

(01:11:14):
and no real desire to either. I mean, it has, uh, it's credentials are good. I mean, it's directed by
Gilles McKennan, who directed Small Faces. It's written by Peter McDougall, the screen plays by
Peter McDougall. I didn't realize that. I did read the review of it and it's the last bit of the
review said that the gentle 1940s comedy of the original is kept intact. Okay. So I think it, I mean,

(01:11:41):
it's, it's only got 42% on what it's a matter was. So, you know, I think there's probably a bit of,
um, well, what's the point? You know, why would you remake this film? Sort of thing that these
remakes often get. I think somebody an empire said it was too restrained and polite to really
grip the attention. So it's probably because it's tried to stay true to the sort of gentle comedy

(01:12:02):
of the original, maybe like the sort of modern audience, or a bit kind of, uh, yeah, we want to see
Peggy take a close off or something like that, you know, and you want to see George like smothery's
mother with a pillow or something like that. Mind you, George George is played by Kevin Guthrie,
so, you know, yeah, anything could happen there, right? Yeah, let's say about that the better,

(01:12:24):
I would say definitely. Um, there was a sequel to this made way of that. Rock and rock of or, yeah.
Yeah, we're the islanders of totally mobilized against a missile site being built there.
Fail to capture the, the charm of whiskey glow apparently. Now, I did think does
local hero, oh, quite a lot to whiskey galore in a way. I think so, I think that local hero feels like

(01:12:50):
it's sort of a sort of a spiritual kind of, I don't know, not sequel, but, you know, it feels like
it could be part of the same universe to use modern parlance, you know what I mean? Um, the whiskey
cinematic universe. Well, like, you know, I tend to think that Bill Forsyth is probably quite influenced
by the even movies because yeah, you know, all his films are like fairly gentle humor, you know,

(01:13:16):
albeit, obviously, in a more modern environment. It does lose his way a little bit with
Gregory's two girls, unfortunately. Um, maybe that's why he's not made a film since, but, um,
but, you know, stuff like Gregory's girl, that's in-confiling, uh, local heroes who mentioned comfort
and joy, they're all, they're all, you know, there's a lot of similar themes, you know,

(01:13:37):
kind of community and the tend to be, the tends to be, they can ensemble of quite memorable characters
in each of them, isn't there? Yeah, and I, I do think there are things in this that I could see in
a Bill Forsyth film like the when Sergeant Odds boat comes in and you see all of the local men

(01:13:57):
standing there like zombies, yeah, weighing and then when they get the no, there's no whiskey,
they all kind of like, oh, okay, well, I wasn't expecting anything anyway and shuffle off. I could see
that in a Bill Forsyth film and a lot of the little kind of a sides and little funny things that
happen definitely. Yeah, you could see that. So yeah, I can see a little bit of, yeah, homage taken

(01:14:20):
from that, yeah. Yeah. Okey-dokey. Um, so shall we put whiskey go lower through culture slowly
awards? Let's do it Greg. What have we got first? So the pub, the Bobby the Barman award for the best
pub, there's only one, only one pub on the island, but it looks like a delta. We're quite happy spending
an evening or two in their imagined, by a, yeah, by the fireside, shooting the breeze. Although,

(01:14:43):
did you get the name of the pub? Um, I didn't actually know it, I didn't know it. I don't know if
it was actually mentioned, was it? I don't think it was. Okay, our next, next award then is the James
Cosmo award for being everything Scottish. I went with Gordon Jackson. I hope so. Surely because
I recognized him, I looked him up, and I looked up a few of the actors and did see what they'd been in

(01:15:05):
and there's a few contenders, but yeah, Gordon Jackson, like I, I recognized him and obviously
it's probably from the great escape. Yeah. But he reminded me quite a lot of, uh, the actor Douglas
Russell in a way who's in, like, let us pray and, um, I think he's in Ned's, he was in, he's in department

(01:15:29):
queue. Yeah, he's, yeah, he's, yeah, he's, he's reminded me of a little bit of him. Um, but yeah, he
did. Yeah, I can see where you're coming from there. I, but I had Gordon Jackson too because I just
remember him from watching the professionals on a Friday night, you know, when I was, when I was
we, um, and then watching the professionals on a Monday afternoon when I was an adult.

(01:15:55):
No, when I was off work. Okay, next, that was all it is, I may, where I mentioned it as a gentle
comedy, but our next award would usually be the Jake McQuillan, your tease-out award, closest thing
I could get to is when, um, Aud puts the boy in his arse when he sticks up behind them. That is
exactly what I have, Greg, because that's the only thing I could really find that was a little bit of

(01:16:17):
violence and yeah, that's exactly what I put. There's, there's nothing else really. I mean, you could say
maybe the barbed wire around the car. Um, no one really gets hurt as such, but I, I guess, yeah,
it's easy. That's the only thing I could think of. Yeah. Uh, so the next two awards are a bit redundant
for this episode. It would usually be the Francis Beckley Award for Retro-Tissueering or the

(01:16:40):
Eumigregan Award for Retro-Tissueurity. Uh, nobody takes her clothes off in this. Although it does
look like Captain Wackett's wife is just about to before the camera. Do you get pansy-lays?
The, um, it does say a lot, the worst suiting that I could write down that I heard was I do believe
Sergeant Aud at one point says, well, stone the cross. Yeah, it does. And that was the, that's the worst

(01:17:04):
language in the film. Yeah, that's crazy. I know. It's just, I mean, they, obviously, we mentioned Bruce
Seton comes, he's about a blue blood comes from a kind of royal way and everything. And this was
obviously his, what he thought, common folk spoke like, wait, what he thought, Jesus spoke like,
right, um, sound the crowd. Um, but, uh, yeah, okay. So that takes us on then to archetypal Scottish moments.

(01:17:30):
You do have the point. I mean, obviously the whole film is going to stay at your
chemical. You could talk about whiskey, talk about the distrust. I mean, let's go with what we
don't offer go with, which was distrust of English, but there is the wonderful point when the
doctor does call wagg it a stupid stuffed up sassana, which is what I've got with, basically. Yeah,

(01:17:52):
for my, yeah, actually, was Scottish moment. I've got whiskey is the cause of and the solution
to all of life's problems. Wonderful. Yeah, happily go with that. That's wonderful. Yeah, I would say so.
And then the winner, the big time award who wins the, who wins whiskey, go lower?
Well, Joan Greenwood stole my heart. Yeah. But I would say for me, honestly, it's,

(01:18:18):
well, Biffers great, but it's, it's Jean Cadill is Mrs Campbell. She steals it for me. She's such a,
a great character. I mean, you could say it's a smaller part, but technically in this film,
all the parts are small. I think this, you know, Captain Wagget is probably the biggest
part. Yeah. But yeah, what about you? Who did you go for? I had, um, but, uh, what was his name?

(01:18:40):
I get his name right. I had, um, Worland Green who plays the Biffer, the Biffer.
Hmm. Okay. I mean, I never get to know what his actual name is. I just really liked him.
But yeah, I suppose the real winner of this movie is the Scottish whiskey in the shade.
To be quite honest. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. I think it probably is. You're very right there,

(01:19:00):
actually. Yeah. Nothing but positivity, um, towards the great dram. So if you want to watch
number 67 in the 100 greatest British films of all time, you can rent it off, uh, Apple. It's on
movie. If you remember a movie, you can stream it on there. Uh, I do recommend giving it a watch.
Have you ever seen it before? Because it's, uh, so that will heart warmer. Yeah. It's lovely. It's

(01:19:23):
a lovely film. Very gentle, very nice. No bad language, no nudity, no violence, as such. It's a
lovely little film. So yeah, I would definitely recommend checking it out. Anyway, so it was my choice
this week. What are we watching for the next episode? Well, Greg, the next episode will be out
on the 30th of October, the day before Halloween. So it's time for a suhalle, spooktacular. Uh,

(01:19:48):
so this year, I am going to take our love of anthology series. Okay. And do an episode of one
rather than a horror film, but it's a core curve. And I, I can't remember. I think you've seen it. I
don't know if you have. I think you have, but if not, we'll speak about it anyway. Um, so from 2023,

(01:20:10):
I want to take a look at the second episode of the sixth series of Black Mirror. And it's the
episode titled Loch Henry. Oh, yes. Oh, you have seen Loch Henry. So when a young couple travel to
a sleepy Scottish town to start work on, uh, documentary, but find themselves drawn to a juicy local

(01:20:30):
story involving shocking events from the past available on Netflix, Loch Henry, that's Black
Mirror, CD6 episode two on the next episode of the culture as well. So you have seen it before.
I have seen it. I watched it when it was not on the after it was released. I've not watched very many
of the Black Mirror's. I don't know why because it's the sort of thing that's right up my street. But,

(01:20:52):
I did watch that one. I think a mutual friend recommended it. And, uh, I did, I did think,
well, I wonder if we'll end up doing this in the culture as well. That's some point. And two,
three, four years later, we're doing it. I thought it was a good time for it. And, you know,
and it's only an hour long. So it's perfect. Um, right, wonderful. Okay, Loch Henry on the next episode.

(01:21:15):
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(01:21:36):
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There's an article all about the influence of Scottish folklore on movies, Hollywood movies,

(01:21:58):
etc. So, I'll give that a read if you've got time. And, yeah, that's it. That's all that's going on.
I'll maybe I'll have to get a round of date in the, I'll have to get a round of date in the website.
It's been a few weeks. I'll do it. Maybe this week. Fantastic. Wonderful. Well, Greg, we've been
recording this. I've Aberdeen, you know, we haven't scored a goal in six games in the league this season.

(01:22:20):
I haven't won a game. We've been recording this while we've been playing. We're currently being
Dundee 4-0. What? I hope you're happy. I've missed that to record this. So, never mind. I'll watch
the highlights later, but yeah. So, are you up to anything exciting this Sunday evening, Greg?
No, it's quarter to eight here. So, I shall be getting ready for the week, making myself

(01:22:43):
for some lunches for the next couple of days and going to bed. That is exciting as it gets me.
What about you? Wonderful. Nothing too exciting. I'll finish this. I'll probably go and make some
dinner. And then who knows? Might watch this week's bake off. So, it's very exciting as well, Greg.
So, actually, an exciting day of football because both Rangers and Celtic are drawing.

(01:23:07):
Hmm, so that could be at Solharts, place at the top of the table, looks secured. And, yeah,
who are you closest? Who's closest to you and the league? I don't know. I mean, we're bottom and
we'll still be bottom after this game. Dundee are closest to us and Falkirk, but I'd rather they
drew with Rangers and we'll catch them eventually. It's fine. I mean, we're bottom of the league,

(01:23:30):
but technically, if we win our next game, we'd go up to like eight or something, so...
If you win today, that'll put you up on seven points, right? So, you'll be ninth.
No, that league table's live. We've only got one point. Oh, right, I see. So, we'll be on four.
Yeah, that's not right ahead of ourselves, maybe.

(01:23:52):
Okay, right. Well, wonderful. Well, I hope you have a lovely evening. And until next time.
Until next time. There are more people in Snorvik, but they are not so nice as the people of Karibu.
Because they are so stuck up, the island queen is a beautiful boat, but there was no whiskey this week.

(01:24:14):
And when there is no whiskey, we are all very sad.
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