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I'm very well, nice sunny day here after the record break and rainfall.
On Tuesday, this was pretty bad.
Pretty bad.
It was pretty bad.
I was in the supermarket yesterday and there was about an energy in the supermarket and
you know like if you're on a pub and it kind of feels like it's going to kick off.
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It was a similar kind of vibe and it could be my finger on it.
It was quite early in the morning but it was quite busy.
I was supposed to play tennis just in the morning and think it's seven o'clock and where
I played tennis was inaccessible so I had to turn around and come back.
So I just stopped in the supermarket and the way back and I was driving home and I was
thinking what when are we picking that tension up from and I spent the whole day sort of
(01:12):
coming up with a theory, which didn't you hear my hearing?
Yeah, I'd love to hear your theory.
So you lived in Dubai, you were very much a trailblazer in your family I suppose back in
your family in the early 2000s and yourself in this late 2000s.
Now for me there's a spectrum of people who live in Dubai, right?
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There's people like me who don't really like living here but it's a means to an end.
You know and can usually make the best of it.
Then there's the people who don't really want to be here but don't have any choice.
They're the people that can allore pay the expats that come from India, Philippines,
stuff like that but you know they're here because this is where the opportunity is.
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And then there's people who are usually on Sad to say usually from the UK tend to be English
and you know, no offense to anybody from England, it just happens that these people tend
to be English and they love to sort of gloat about how great life is in Dubai.
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You know they, I think the sort of British sort of satire industry referred to these people
as Dubai Wankers, right? Yes. I'm very familiar with them.
So on Tuesday we had the record break in rainfall.
Supposedly the pie is meant to rainfall for 75 years in the region, right?
Well in Dubai. I wasn't here, I was in Q8 which didn't go down well because my family
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was here but you know my crystal ball evidently wasn't working before the storm.
So you know, but it's made like international news this weather because it's fairly unprecedented
and the airport went completely tits up and is just starting to recover now.
And so these Dubai Wankers, quite a few of them have been affected quite severely because
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in certain parts of Dubai the water was this sort of way steep and the houses here aren't
built particularly well. So you know the water just sort of has poured in and people have lost
stuff and that's all terrible. We wouldn't wish that on anybody.
But the reason I think there was that vibe in spinnies is because the Dubai Wankers don't
really have anything to gloat about at the moment. You know what I mean?
(03:27):
Oh you should come and live in Dubai. Oh it's wonderful. It gets sunny every day. It's
a bit hot in the summer but it's spiked sunny every day and they live near the beach and
we've got a community pool and blah blah blah blah. Yeah I think I saw Dubai in the news.
Recently they went some people's light, didn't some people lose everything in their
brain? Not a lot to go about there. So I think that's what I was picking that bit of energy
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up from just the in spinnies. Some of that energy to when it's all going to kick off in the
pub. A lot of angry shopping going on you know and a bit of, kind of couples tension,
watching them pushing their trolley through the supermarket and stuff. A few couples
that didn't seem to be too impressed with each other. So yeah, that's been my week. That's
who I spent. That's who I spent my day yesterday. I see so it didn't go down well the
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fact that you weren't there. No picking up on that. Well it could be helped. It couldn't
be helped. No of course not. You weren't to know. Yeah I'm very familiar with those types
of people. That's one of the reasons I'm probably lefty-boy because of those arseholes and
yeah I think it's just the way. It is. You just have those certain people but yeah. What have
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you been up to? I'm an up to a huge amount to be on the Skrig. I've had a bit of busy
what I'm like. I very rarely binge watch a show. It has to be something like, there are certain
shows like when Cobra Kai comes out I will sit and watch the entire series in a day because
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I just fucking love it so much. But there's not many other shows that I will just absolutely
binge but yeah I spent the last two days binging Baby Raindier which I think will cover
at some point in the future. Absolutely epic. Yeah it's very rare. Yeah it's fantastic.
Is it set in Scotland? I know they one of the protagonists. No it's set in London. Both the
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main characters are Scottish. There is a part towards the end. There are a few scenes
in Scotland but no it's set in London for the most part but yeah it's a true story as well.
Oh really? Yeah completely true. And the guy that it happened to is the guy starring in it.
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Right. And it's a true story that happened to him. He turned it into a stand-up show and
used to talk about it and stand up and then Netflix somehow got made into a TV series.
Yeah highly recommended it. It's fantastic. That's pretty much all I've been doing. I was binging
that. Watch the Aberdeen get robbed in the Scotch Cup semi-final yesterday.
Nevermind and yeah that's about it. So and of course been watching the party's just beginning
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ready to talk about that later on. But I've also been scouting the newspapers for some news.
Well in that case, cue the jingle.
Hello this is the Outdoor Heavilys Broadcasting Corporation and here is what's been going on in the new.
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Oh okay Greg, what have you seen in the news in the last couple of weeks in Scotland that's caught your eye
and you'd like to share with me and our lovely listers.
Well just picking up on what you said a moment ago about watching Aberdeen get robbed in the Scotch Cup semi-final yesterday.
I watched the last. I watched all the extra time and maybe like the that. The penalty is obviously in the last.
Maybe 15 minutes of the actual 90 minutes. I thought Aberdeen were very unlucky.
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But anyway this is, sorry go on. What are you going to say? I said yes sorry.
So yes so this article is from the daily record on the 18th of April.
A bit too early days ago now and it sort of ties in nicely with the game yesterday.
The headline meets Scotch football fans. This should car crash warning over emotional driving as the season draws to a close.
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Supporters are being urged to take caution after matches due to how your emotional state can affect your driving and also the pre-match pints in the pub.
Scotch football fans 90 minutes isn't long enough to sober up from the five pints of Lager.
Scotch football fans should delay driving home from football matches but whether they're over the moon or gutted by the result as their ten times more like they crash motoring experts have warned.
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As the country's competition is short to a close some clubs are chasing glory while others are fighting for their lives and some are left with nothing to play for.
An expert sort of urgent supporters to take care on their trips home in case their clubs performance in the pitch or results elsewhere affect how they drive.
In the Scottish Premier ship Celtic and the Rangers are chasing glory. I don't think they're chasing glory anymore.
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I think they're only three points behind you. I think it will probably come down to the last old firm match.
Sorry, I can't believe I just said that. It'll come down to the last Celtic and the Rangers match.
The New York Front don't exist anymore. Rangers died. Jesus, that's an odd slip-up from you there.
Another helicopter Sunday. In the Scottish Premier ship Celtic and Rangers are chasing glory while Livingston looks certain for the drop, sitting twelve points adrift with 15 to play for.
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And Hibbs Aberdeen, Mille Wellenstein, Johnson and Ross County could all end up in the relegation playoffs.
Dundee United and Wathrovers could still win the championship. United are still six points ahead with nine up for grabs and our growth are already relegated.
Rangers mean every other team in the division, Partick, Air, Dreith and Firmland, Air, Greenick Morton, Inverness, Calais and Queen's Park could find themselves in a playoffs, with one promoted to the Premier ship and another relegated to League 1.
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Aberdeen, Celtic, Ranging Hearts are also still in with a chance of lifting the Scottish Cup. Well, this is obviously before the game yesterday, as a semi-finals take place this weekend.
But if you end up plagued by your team falling short, your glum mental state could make you a real danger on the roads.
Grain Conway, Managing Director at Select, Car Leasing, Warns, Driving Well, Highly Emotional, Can Increase Your Crash Risk, Kindfold.
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He said, "As football fans, we can let our emotions get the better of us, but there have been many scientific studies examining the impact of negative emotions on our driving behaviors."
And they all say the same thing. If you get behind the wheel, wow. Visibly sad.
Visibly sad, angry or agitated, you become a risk to yourself or other road users.
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What if your sad, angry or agitated, but you're just like pushing it down inside before you get in the car?
That's not healthy though. You need to let your emotions out, Greg.
But does that push it down? Does that make you like the less of a risk? You just push it down for the hell of a take-shake at home?
I don't know, maybe more of a risk as well because you're liable to, let's say, someone cuts you off or something, then that rage is going to explode a rut because you've pushed it down.
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Whereas if you get out your system before you get in the car, everything's fine.
Well, Grain continues, "I'd argue that this advice is important for sports fans in the coming weeks.
If your favourite team has just missed out on the title or automatic promotion, if they've slipped out of the playoff places or if you're worrying about impending medication,
take time to cool off and regain your senses after the match before you were thinking about, or even thinking about reaching for the car keys."
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I don't know many people who leave the ground and step right in at the car anyway. Usually it takes about, "Well, if you stay until the end,
you're looking at at least 20 minutes or something to file out, 15-20 minutes, then you've got to walk to where your car's parked and all that.
Yeah, that's a cooldown time. A study in 2016 by the Transportation Institute for Genia Tech University in the US revealed how drivers increased their crash risk by 9.8 times when they get behind the wheel, whilst emotionally agitated.
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Researchers came to the conclusion after studying the results of an extensive second strategic highway research programme at Naturalistic Driving Study.
A study saw more than 3.5,000 real-life motors monitored using an advanced suite, an advanced suite of radars, sensors and cameras, and more than 900 high-savidity crashes, involving injury-appropriated damage were recorded.
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The emotional drivers, those angrier upset, when around 5 times as likely a crash as those who were chatting on their mobile phone, and overall those overwhelmed by their emotions were 9.8 times as likely to have an accident as model motorists.
But it doesn't just spell danger for the fans of the teams who goes out and glory, a separate Chinese study in 2020, especially had time to be doing studies in 2020.
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So, they developed more pressing concerns in their hands, found that being especially happy behind the wheel could be just as dangerous as being angry.
A group of 35 motorists were monitored for their driving performance and risk perception after being provoked into different emotions.
The results showed that the drivers in an angry or happy emotional state tended to maintain less time to collision and take a longer time to break while following a lead vehicle than the drivers under the natural condition.
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They then call me "finishes" by saying it's clear here that being turbulent after your side triumphant wind could also lead to poor driving behaviors.
So, there you go, have you ever gotten the car after a frustrating, daunting performance?
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I really get angry, like even yesterday it's like well to be expected, which is quite sad that it comes to that, but no.
So, you just meant to be in a neutral state when you're driving, but absolutely, you have to feel like the terminator has no emotions.
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I can completely understand it, there are probably a lot of times people leave the ground and they're angry and upset and then get into their car and I guess it would make you maybe a bit more of an aggressive driver in that way.
But yeah, I've never... I can't think of anything, but again it's saying that if your team wins and it's a great performance then you shouldn't get in the car and drive either because you'll be happy.
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Yeah, you have to take time to come to terms with your team's victory.
I think it's... You should probably just leave the ground, go for a quick pint, calm down, get in the car, get behind the wheel and try to phone.
I mean that would be the underlying subtext to what they're saying here.
All right, so we all need to get in a neutral state. Maybe that was the tension you picked up on today in the supermarket, or yesterday.
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Maybe it was people frustrated and angry at having to drive through the water to get to the supermarket and...
Possibly, possibly, was that tension.
I think my theory better, but yeah, but you're probably right. Anyway, so yeah, the football season is coming to an end.
Scotland and then a little bit later in England. By football, I mean soccer, if you're overseas, but football.
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So yeah, just think on before you get behind the wheel, think on.
Anyway, that's my first story this week, which yours...
I've also got a soccer related story this week, Greg, football, as we'll call it.
So this is from the Scottish some this week, and the headline is, "JAM KAYVE."
When a man has license to create his own man cave, the possibilities are endless.
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The Rumiko would become a collector's haven, his own personal sports bar, or perhaps a shrine to his own club.
Now combine all three of those and spread it round the whole house.
And finally then, will you have what John Kram has.
A hearts van, John, has turned his home into his very own jam-tarts paradise.
I walk around his abode and you'll find a pool table with maroon rather than green-felt.
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A jambobar and a whole wall dedicated to just one game in the club's history.
And that's just the start.
Among other items, John has hearts-themed books, footballs, watches, whiskies, and a collection of medals too.
And in his loft, he stores the things he doesn't have space to display, including flags, a lamp, and his old programs.
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Elsewhere, John's dining room is solely decorated in commemoration of the day his team beat Archrival's Hibs 5-1 in the Scottish Cup final.
His obsession with collecting began as a youngster when he attended Hearts matches with his dad.
John's father always picked up a program and John followed suit and started amassing his own stack of them.
The dream would be enabled to have my own place and display all my stuff, he soon realised.
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John said of his hobby, "I can't help myself. I'm impulsive. I could wake up in the morning and by the end of the day I'll have seven items getting delivered."
John has two suites inside his house.
One named after his favourite player and another in an honour of McCraze Battalion.
The famous group of volunteers made up a predominantly of Hearts players and fans who enlisted in the First World War.
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The McCraze Suite and the Robertson Suite both several shirts and other pieces of memorabilia from Time Castle.
Needless to say, the Robertson Suite is a tribute to former Jambos striker John Robertson.
Signed prints and photographs dominate the room, but there's also space for a boot from when the four words best goal-scoring gear.
Stickers and playing cards plus a pendant from his testimonial match and other trinkets.
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Robo is my favourite player.
I grew up watching him and I followed his career, everywhere he went, said John.
The room is full of pictures. It'd be unreal to have Robertson in Yarkhus, going into a room that's all about him.
I'm getting Alan Partridge for years here from this.
It would probably freak you out a bit, to be honest.
The latest addition to his tiny temple is a picture of Lawrence Shankland's now famous Pie in the Sky moment.
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Jambos A Shankland had a pie thrown at him by a hymn supporter during the February derby, just after he scored a penalty.
The striker caught the pie, took a bite and threw it back.
And the scene has since gone down in folklore.
With 56 games to his name in Maroon so far, could Shankland soon have a room of his own at John's place?
Well, have you signed a contract extension that's got to be a Shankland room?
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Definitely. I know what you're going to be doing in the Shankland room.
It'd probably freak out as well if you came here by Robertson.
I saw the pick online, so I got it framed and put it straight up.
John also has a unique prize possession from the club's history in his house.
In one room is a huge patterned rug, which is the same piece of carpet that used to sit in the Tine Castle boardroom.
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John revealed, "I spoke to someone at heart, so I was willing to pay whatever they wanted."
And that was that.
In terms of his future plans for the collection, John hopes that his grandsons take it on and make it their own.
He said, "I've got two grandsons who've started their own collection, but what I want is when I'm not here.
I can pass this on to them."
But before then, what about turning it into a museum?
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"I'd love to. I've got every single top presented somewhere, in all my pictures," he said.
"If I could, I'd open it somewhere and have a free for all. Every heart supporter could come in and take a look.
It'll never be complete though. I'm just always looking for other quirky wee items that no one else has,
because no matter what, there's always another game on us, sadly."
So that is John's house, and there's lots of photos of his houses to say he's got the pool table, he's got the whiskies.
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In one room, he's got loads of hearts.
He's got loads of hearts.
And it's almost like it's a, like, a kit room.
You know, the way he's got them hung up and, like, going round the room, you know, like you would see him in a locker room or a kit room.
And to say he's got a, he's specifically asked for a maroon billiard table, not a green one, but you do see a lot of maroon tables, so I don't think it's that special.
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But, I mean, his bedroom is dedicated to John Robertson, and it's just photos of John Robertson everywhere.
I'd been more worried about bringing a woman back rather than actual John Robertson seeing that house, but I guess he's maybe not interested in, eh, getting a woman back.
We've just given up, baby.
Um, have we?
He's got two grandkids, though, so he must have been married at some point, not necessarily, but have we, have we heard from John Robertson recently?
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Is he maybe, like, chained up in a little secret park on the house, perhaps?
I don't know.
I don't know which art Robertson's up to at the moment.
But yeah, it's given me massive Alan Partridge, Jed, vibes.
But, yeah, I've got this tattoo.
I fainted for a time.
I mean, I think I am envious of people who, like, men, especially, who have got their own little room where they can indulge their hobbies and have whatever they want in the walls, etc.
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It's something that has been denied me in my 18 years of marriage so far.
If you could, what would you, let's just say it was just a room rather than a whole house, like John has.
Sure.
A room all to yourself that you could, let's say, it's your own little man cave, but you only allowed one kind of theme.
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Right.
If you know what I mean, what would it be?
Like, because you could fill it with lots of different things, but if you had, like, a theme like "Harts" fan, John, would you, what would you have?
Well, I've not given it a lot of thought, but brackets I've given it a lot of thought.
I would have framed movie posters of my favourite films, so I would have "Gregany's Girl".
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There's a "Gregany's Girl".
There's a few "Gregany's Girl" film posters, because usually different markets have different posters, but there's one in particular that I would have "Cycle".
What is "D-wallis" in our football?
"D-wallis" is going up for the header. "Gregany" writ large behind there.
I would have the sort of classic "Cycle" film poster with this, the way out of the house, and Janet Lee and all the guys there.
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All the guys there.
Just forgot everybody else, every other...
Forget any part of "Grenny's Inferno Might".
Forget everybody else.
Every other actor's name.
Yeah, so that would be an example. So classic film posters in nice frames up in the walls.
Nice comfortable chair.
Good tally. Like a good tally up in the wall. Maybe a small fridge to keep special beers that wouldn't necessarily crack out when we have company, but just nice beers for me to sit and enjoy.
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That's probably all that I need.
That's a simple person, I don't need a lot.
Yeah, that sounds good.
Yeah, that sounds nice, yeah.
To work on that though.
Yeah, nice little room storage.
Yeah, that sounds lovely.
Yeah, it's something to aspire to.
Yeah.
Oh, you effectively live in your man cave.
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So you've got all...
I'm recording of that right now, but it's not themed in any way, obviously it's got...
Well, I've got my cabinet of wrestling figures, so I'd be torn as to whether it's a wrestling themed.
I think I'd probably go ghostbusters themed though.
I'd have just got a couple of canvases off, there's nothing, and I could shit.
It's not really...
I thought all over the top, but could have a fridge, but it's built into the wall, so it's like a containment unit, but it's actually a beer fridge.
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Oh, yeah, that's a good idea, yeah.
Pretty cool.
And then I'd get a stripper pull put in as well, so that looks like it's a fireman's pull, right?
And practice on that, if any ladies come round, you just like to have a good one.
Do I slide my fireman's pull?
Do I slide down my pull?
You could ask them.
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And yeah, maybe you have the lockers, you know, with Venkman stands, said more spengler kind of on there and that on there.
And yeah, I've like all my ghostbusters figures and stuff up, and maybe the ghost sign.
Yeah, like the entrance and stuff, yeah.
I think we'd like that, that's good.
I actually watched the new ghostbusters film the other day, Frozen Empire.
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What did you say?
I'm pretty happy I'm gonna have to watch it again, because I did nod off for about 25, I suspect quite crucial minutes.
But the rest of them I might have bought it, but it didn't make me happy, I've got to be honest.
I wasn't like...
Yeah, I mean, that's been a point.
But I watch it again, you know, I'll give it another, I'll give it another go.
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Not to stay away.
Yeah, I need to watch it again.
I went to the cinema to see the date came out and I have to admit I was a little bit disappointed.
But I think I need to watch it again, but the more I thought about it afterwards, the more I'm like,
"Actually, was it that, was it actually quite good?"
So I need to see it again to make my mind up.
But yeah, I think I was, I think I did myself in because like the week before going to see it, I did watch ghostbusters, ghostbusters too and after life.
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Yeah.
Before, so I was, you know, heavily in there.
Ghostbusters, yeah.
Yeah, I had watched the first one.
It was on a telly one night, but I think it was about 20 minutes and no, yeah, about 20 minutes.
I know, I've had more than that, they were just arriving at the hotel.
And I thought, "Okay, I'll just watch the hotel sequence, then I'll go to bed, stand up watching all the rest of the film, could help it."
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Yeah, dangerous.
Yeah, anyway.
And just when that happens, I'm like, "Anyway, okay, what else have you seen this week, Rick?"
Well, you know, very occasionally, we drift away from news stories about masterbating food delivery men and be actually talking a little bit about Scottish culture.
And this article is a little bit about Scottish culture.
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It's Taylor Swift, who is...
Oh, now we're talking.
Oh, I'm changing, actually, I don't want to ghostbusters scene dream, I want to tell her something.
Taylor Swift, who is just released her new album, although I've got to be honest, I don't know when she's had time to record it because she seems like the busiest performer ever.
But she's released her new album last week.
And then the album, she opens up about the Glasgow band that always makes her cry.
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She claims in the song on the album that every time she listens to Blue Niles haunting 1989 song "Down Town Lights", she has a little cry.
So Taylor Swift has paid tribute to a little known, little known, fuck off day, the record, little known Scottish music act.
On her eagerly anticipated new album, "The Tortured Souls Department", the breakup song "Guilty is Sin" recalls being given a song by the Glasgow trio "The Blue Nile" by an ex-boyfriend, believed to be either the 1975's "Matter Healy" or British actor, Joel Owlin.
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She claims in the song that every time she listens to Blue Niles haunting 1989 song "Down Town Lights" still makes her cry.
The lyrics which were leaked online begin and end, drowning in the Blue Nile, he sent me "Down Town Lights".
I hadn't heard it in a while.
My boredom's bone deep, the cage was once just fine, am I allowed to cry.
Swift broke up with Owlin in April of last year before a controversial fling with Healy the following month. Many music fans believe the Blue Nile to have been the best Scottish group of all time, though their commercial success was limited.
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The song "Down Town Lights" featured under 1989 album "Hats".
The group "Polby Cannon", Robert Bell and Paul Joseph Moore were active from 2001, S.I. from 1981 to 2004, and released a single on the RSO label before their debut album "A Walk Across the Rooftops" was released in 1984 on the Lin label.
It's white, the hailed as a classic, and featured the mournful single "Town Town in the Rain", which is my favourite Blue Nile song by the way, which reached
I'm very well, nice sunny day here after the record break and rainfall.
On Tuesday, this was pretty bad.
Pretty bad.
It was pretty bad.
I was in the supermarket yesterday and there was about an energy in the supermarket and
you know like if you're on a pub and it kind of feels like it's going to kick off.
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It was a similar kind of vibe and it could be my finger on it.
It was quite early in the morning but it was quite busy.
I was supposed to play tennis just in the morning and think it's seven o'clock and where
I played tennis was inaccessible so I had to turn around and come back.
So I just stopped in the supermarket and the way back and I was driving home and I was
thinking what when are we picking that tension up from and I spent the whole day sort of
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coming up with a theory, which didn't you hear my hearing?
Yeah, I'd love to hear your theory.
So you lived in Dubai, you were very much a trailblazer in your family I suppose back in
your family in the early 2000s and yourself in this late 2000s.
Now for me there's a spectrum of people who live in Dubai, right?
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There's people like me who don't really like living here but it's a means to an end.
You know and can usually make the best of it.
Then there's the people who don't really want to be here but don't have any choice.
They're the people that can allore pay the expats that come from India, Philippines,
stuff like that but you know they're here because this is where the opportunity is.
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And then there's people who are usually on Sad to say usually from the UK tend to be English
and you know, no offense to anybody from England, it just happens that these people tend
to be English and they love to sort of gloat about how great life is in Dubai.
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You know they, I think the sort of British sort of satire industry referred to these people
as Dubai Wankers, right? Yes. I'm very familiar with them.
So on Tuesday we had the record break in rainfall.
Supposedly the pie is meant to rainfall for 75 years in the region, right?
Well in Dubai. I wasn't here, I was in Q8 which didn't go down well because my family
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was here but you know my crystal ball evidently wasn't working before the storm.
So you know, but it's made like international news this weather because it's fairly unprecedented
and the airport went completely tits up and is just starting to recover now.
And so these Dubai Wankers, quite a few of them have been affected quite severely because
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in certain parts of Dubai the water was this sort of way steep and the houses here aren't
built particularly well. So you know the water just sort of has poured in and people have lost
stuff and that's all terrible. We wouldn't wish that on anybody.
But the reason I think there was that vibe in spinnies is because the Dubai Wankers don't
really have anything to gloat about at the moment. You know what I mean?
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Oh you should come and live in Dubai. Oh it's wonderful. It gets sunny every day. It's
a bit hot in the summer but it's spiked sunny every day and they live near the beach and
we've got a community pool and blah blah blah blah. Yeah I think I saw Dubai in the news.
Recently they went some people's light, didn't some people lose everything in their
brain? Not a lot to go about there. So I think that's what I was picking that bit of energy
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up from just the in spinnies. Some of that energy to when it's all going to kick off in the
pub. A lot of angry shopping going on you know and a bit of, kind of couples tension,
watching them pushing their trolley through the supermarket and stuff. A few couples
that didn't seem to be too impressed with each other. So yeah, that's been my week. That's
who I spent. That's who I spent my day yesterday. I see so it didn't go down well the
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fact that you weren't there. No picking up on that. Well it could be helped. It couldn't
be helped. No of course not. You weren't to know. Yeah I'm very familiar with those types
of people. That's one of the reasons I'm probably lefty-boy because of those arseholes and
yeah I think it's just the way. It is. You just have those certain people but yeah. What have
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you been up to? I'm an up to a huge amount to be on the Skrig. I've had a bit of busy
what I'm like. I very rarely binge watch a show. It has to be something like, there are certain
shows like when Cobra Kai comes out I will sit and watch the entire series in a day because
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I just fucking love it so much. But there's not many other shows that I will just absolutely
binge but yeah I spent the last two days binging Baby Raindier which I think will cover
at some point in the future. Absolutely epic. Yeah it's very rare. Yeah it's fantastic.
Is it set in Scotland? I know they one of the protagonists. No it's set in London. Both the
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main characters are Scottish. There is a part towards the end. There are a few scenes
in Scotland but no it's set in London for the most part but yeah it's a true story as well.
Oh really? Yeah completely true. And the guy that it happened to is the guy starring in it.
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Right. And it's a true story that happened to him. He turned it into a stand-up show and
used to talk about it and stand up and then Netflix somehow got made into a TV series.
Yeah highly recommended it. It's fantastic. That's pretty much all I've been doing. I was binging
that. Watch the Aberdeen get robbed in the Scotch Cup semi-final yesterday.
Nevermind and yeah that's about it. So and of course been watching the party's just beginning
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ready to talk about that later on. But I've also been scouting the newspapers for some news.
Well in that case, cue the jingle.
Hello this is the Outdoor Heavilys Broadcasting Corporation and here is what's been going on in the new.
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Oh okay Greg, what have you seen in the news in the last couple of weeks in Scotland that's caught your eye
and you'd like to share with me and our lovely listers.
Well just picking up on what you said a moment ago about watching Aberdeen get robbed in the Scotch Cup semi-final yesterday.
I watched the last. I watched all the extra time and maybe like the that. The penalty is obviously in the last.
Maybe 15 minutes of the actual 90 minutes. I thought Aberdeen were very unlucky.
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But anyway this is, sorry go on. What are you going to say? I said yes sorry.
So yes so this article is from the daily record on the 18th of April.
A bit too early days ago now and it sort of ties in nicely with the game yesterday.
The headline meets Scotch football fans. This should car crash warning over emotional driving as the season draws to a close.
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Supporters are being urged to take caution after matches due to how your emotional state can affect your driving and also the pre-match pints in the pub.
Scotch football fans 90 minutes isn't long enough to sober up from the five pints of Lager.
Scotch football fans should delay driving home from football matches but whether they're over the moon or gutted by the result as their ten times more like they crash motoring experts have warned.
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As the country's competition is short to a close some clubs are chasing glory while others are fighting for their lives and some are left with nothing to play for.
An expert sort of urgent supporters to take care on their trips home in case their clubs performance in the pitch or results elsewhere affect how they drive.
In the Scottish Premier ship Celtic and the Rangers are chasing glory. I don't think they're chasing glory anymore.
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I think they're only three points behind you. I think it will probably come down to the last old firm match.
Sorry, I can't believe I just said that. It'll come down to the last Celtic and the Rangers match.
The New York Front don't exist anymore. Rangers died. Jesus, that's an odd slip-up from you there.
Another helicopter Sunday. In the Scottish Premier ship Celtic and Rangers are chasing glory while Livingston looks certain for the drop, sitting twelve points adrift with 15 to play for.
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And Hibbs Aberdeen, Mille Wellenstein, Johnson and Ross County could all end up in the relegation playoffs.
Dundee United and Wathrovers could still win the championship. United are still six points ahead with nine up for grabs and our growth are already relegated.
Rangers mean every other team in the division, Partick, Air, Dreith and Firmland, Air, Greenick Morton, Inverness, Calais and Queen's Park could find themselves in a playoffs, with one promoted to the Premier ship and another relegated to League 1.
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Aberdeen, Celtic, Ranging Hearts are also still in with a chance of lifting the Scottish Cup. Well, this is obviously before the game yesterday, as a semi-finals take place this weekend.
But if you end up plagued by your team falling short, your glum mental state could make you a real danger on the roads.
Grain Conway, Managing Director at Select, Car Leasing, Warns, Driving Well, Highly Emotional, Can Increase Your Crash Risk, Kindfold.
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He said, "As football fans, we can let our emotions get the better of us, but there have been many scientific studies examining the impact of negative emotions on our driving behaviors."
And they all say the same thing. If you get behind the wheel, wow. Visibly sad.
Visibly sad, angry or agitated, you become a risk to yourself or other road users.
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What if your sad, angry or agitated, but you're just like pushing it down inside before you get in the car?
That's not healthy though. You need to let your emotions out, Greg.
But does that push it down? Does that make you like the less of a risk? You just push it down for the hell of a take-shake at home?
I don't know, maybe more of a risk as well because you're liable to, let's say, someone cuts you off or something, then that rage is going to explode a rut because you've pushed it down.
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Whereas if you get out your system before you get in the car, everything's fine.
Well, Grain continues, "I'd argue that this advice is important for sports fans in the coming weeks.
If your favourite team has just missed out on the title or automatic promotion, if they've slipped out of the playoff places or if you're worrying about impending medication,
take time to cool off and regain your senses after the match before you were thinking about, or even thinking about reaching for the car keys."
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I don't know many people who leave the ground and step right in at the car anyway. Usually it takes about, "Well, if you stay until the end,
you're looking at at least 20 minutes or something to file out, 15-20 minutes, then you've got to walk to where your car's parked and all that.
Yeah, that's a cooldown time. A study in 2016 by the Transportation Institute for Genia Tech University in the US revealed how drivers increased their crash risk by 9.8 times when they get behind the wheel, whilst emotionally agitated.
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Researchers came to the conclusion after studying the results of an extensive second strategic highway research programme at Naturalistic Driving Study.
A study saw more than 3.5,000 real-life motors monitored using an advanced suite, an advanced suite of radars, sensors and cameras, and more than 900 high-savidity crashes, involving injury-appropriated damage were recorded.
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The emotional drivers, those angrier upset, when around 5 times as likely a crash as those who were chatting on their mobile phone, and overall those overwhelmed by their emotions were 9.8 times as likely to have an accident as model motorists.
But it doesn't just spell danger for the fans of the teams who goes out and glory, a separate Chinese study in 2020, especially had time to be doing studies in 2020.
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So, they developed more pressing concerns in their hands, found that being especially happy behind the wheel could be just as dangerous as being angry.
A group of 35 motorists were monitored for their driving performance and risk perception after being provoked into different emotions.
The results showed that the drivers in an angry or happy emotional state tended to maintain less time to collision and take a longer time to break while following a lead vehicle than the drivers under the natural condition.
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They then call me "finishes" by saying it's clear here that being turbulent after your side triumphant wind could also lead to poor driving behaviors.
So, there you go, have you ever gotten the car after a frustrating, daunting performance?
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I really get angry, like even yesterday it's like well to be expected, which is quite sad that it comes to that, but no.
So, you just meant to be in a neutral state when you're driving, but absolutely, you have to feel like the terminator has no emotions.
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I can completely understand it, there are probably a lot of times people leave the ground and they're angry and upset and then get into their car and I guess it would make you maybe a bit more of an aggressive driver in that way.
But yeah, I've never... I can't think of anything, but again it's saying that if your team wins and it's a great performance then you shouldn't get in the car and drive either because you'll be happy.
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Yeah, you have to take time to come to terms with your team's victory.
I think it's... You should probably just leave the ground, go for a quick pint, calm down, get in the car, get behind the wheel and try to phone.
I mean that would be the underlying subtext to what they're saying here.
All right, so we all need to get in a neutral state. Maybe that was the tension you picked up on today in the supermarket, or yesterday.
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Maybe it was people frustrated and angry at having to drive through the water to get to the supermarket and...
Possibly, possibly, was that tension.
I think my theory better, but yeah, but you're probably right. Anyway, so yeah, the football season is coming to an end.
Scotland and then a little bit later in England. By football, I mean soccer, if you're overseas, but football.
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So yeah, just think on before you get behind the wheel, think on.
Anyway, that's my first story this week, which yours...
I've also got a soccer related story this week, Greg, football, as we'll call it.
So this is from the Scottish some this week, and the headline is, "JAM KAYVE."
When a man has license to create his own man cave, the possibilities are endless.
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The Rumiko would become a collector's haven, his own personal sports bar, or perhaps a shrine to his own club.
Now combine all three of those and spread it round the whole house.
And finally then, will you have what John Kram has.
A hearts van, John, has turned his home into his very own jam-tarts paradise.
I walk around his abode and you'll find a pool table with maroon rather than green-felt.
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A jambobar and a whole wall dedicated to just one game in the club's history.
And that's just the start.
Among other items, John has hearts-themed books, footballs, watches, whiskies, and a collection of medals too.
And in his loft, he stores the things he doesn't have space to display, including flags, a lamp, and his old programs.
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Elsewhere, John's dining room is solely decorated in commemoration of the day his team beat Archrival's Hibs 5-1 in the Scottish Cup final.
His obsession with collecting began as a youngster when he attended Hearts matches with his dad.
John's father always picked up a program and John followed suit and started amassing his own stack of them.
The dream would be enabled to have my own place and display all my stuff, he soon realised.
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John said of his hobby, "I can't help myself. I'm impulsive. I could wake up in the morning and by the end of the day I'll have seven items getting delivered."
John has two suites inside his house.
One named after his favourite player and another in an honour of McCraze Battalion.
The famous group of volunteers made up a predominantly of Hearts players and fans who enlisted in the First World War.
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The McCraze Suite and the Robertson Suite both several shirts and other pieces of memorabilia from Time Castle.
Needless to say, the Robertson Suite is a tribute to former Jambos striker John Robertson.
Signed prints and photographs dominate the room, but there's also space for a boot from when the four words best goal-scoring gear.
Stickers and playing cards plus a pendant from his testimonial match and other trinkets.
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Robo is my favourite player.
I grew up watching him and I followed his career, everywhere he went, said John.
The room is full of pictures. It'd be unreal to have Robertson in Yarkhus, going into a room that's all about him.
I'm getting Alan Partridge for years here from this.
It would probably freak you out a bit, to be honest.
The latest addition to his tiny temple is a picture of Lawrence Shankland's now famous Pie in the Sky moment.
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Jambos A Shankland had a pie thrown at him by a hymn supporter during the February derby, just after he scored a penalty.
The striker caught the pie, took a bite and threw it back.
And the scene has since gone down in folklore.
With 56 games to his name in Maroon so far, could Shankland soon have a room of his own at John's place?
Well, have you signed a contract extension that's got to be a Shankland room?
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Definitely. I know what you're going to be doing in the Shankland room.
It'd probably freak out as well if you came here by Robertson.
I saw the pick online, so I got it framed and put it straight up.
John also has a unique prize possession from the club's history in his house.
In one room is a huge patterned rug, which is the same piece of carpet that used to sit in the Tine Castle boardroom.
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John revealed, "I spoke to someone at heart, so I was willing to pay whatever they wanted."
And that was that.
In terms of his future plans for the collection, John hopes that his grandsons take it on and make it their own.
He said, "I've got two grandsons who've started their own collection, but what I want is when I'm not here.
I can pass this on to them."
But before then, what about turning it into a museum?
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"I'd love to. I've got every single top presented somewhere, in all my pictures," he said.
"If I could, I'd open it somewhere and have a free for all. Every heart supporter could come in and take a look.
It'll never be complete though. I'm just always looking for other quirky wee items that no one else has,
because no matter what, there's always another game on us, sadly."
So that is John's house, and there's lots of photos of his houses to say he's got the pool table, he's got the whiskies.
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In one room, he's got loads of hearts.
He's got loads of hearts.
And it's almost like it's a, like, a kit room.
You know, the way he's got them hung up and, like, going round the room, you know, like you would see him in a locker room or a kit room.
And to say he's got a, he's specifically asked for a maroon billiard table, not a green one, but you do see a lot of maroon tables, so I don't think it's that special.
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But, I mean, his bedroom is dedicated to John Robertson, and it's just photos of John Robertson everywhere.
I'd been more worried about bringing a woman back rather than actual John Robertson seeing that house, but I guess he's maybe not interested in, eh, getting a woman back.
We've just given up, baby.
Um, have we?
He's got two grandkids, though, so he must have been married at some point, not necessarily, but have we, have we heard from John Robertson recently?
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Is he maybe, like, chained up in a little secret park on the house, perhaps?
I don't know.
I don't know which art Robertson's up to at the moment.
But yeah, it's given me massive Alan Partridge, Jed, vibes.
But, yeah, I've got this tattoo.
I fainted for a time.
I mean, I think I am envious of people who, like, men, especially, who have got their own little room where they can indulge their hobbies and have whatever they want in the walls, etc.
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It's something that has been denied me in my 18 years of marriage so far.
If you could, what would you, let's just say it was just a room rather than a whole house, like John has.
Sure.
A room all to yourself that you could, let's say, it's your own little man cave, but you only allowed one kind of theme.
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Right.
If you know what I mean, what would it be?
Like, because you could fill it with lots of different things, but if you had, like, a theme like "Harts" fan, John, would you, what would you have?
Well, I've not given it a lot of thought, but brackets I've given it a lot of thought.
I would have framed movie posters of my favourite films, so I would have "Gregany's Girl".
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There's a "Gregany's Girl".
There's a few "Gregany's Girl" film posters, because usually different markets have different posters, but there's one in particular that I would have "Cycle".
What is "D-wallis" in our football?
"D-wallis" is going up for the header. "Gregany" writ large behind there.
I would have the sort of classic "Cycle" film poster with this, the way out of the house, and Janet Lee and all the guys there.
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All the guys there.
Just forgot everybody else, every other...
Forget any part of "Grenny's Inferno Might".
Forget everybody else.
Every other actor's name.
Yeah, so that would be an example. So classic film posters in nice frames up in the walls.
Nice comfortable chair.
Good tally. Like a good tally up in the wall. Maybe a small fridge to keep special beers that wouldn't necessarily crack out when we have company, but just nice beers for me to sit and enjoy.
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That's probably all that I need.
That's a simple person, I don't need a lot.
Yeah, that sounds good.
Yeah, that sounds nice, yeah.
To work on that though.
Yeah, nice little room storage.
Yeah, that sounds lovely.
Yeah, it's something to aspire to.
Yeah.
Oh, you effectively live in your man cave.
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So you've got all...
I'm recording of that right now, but it's not themed in any way, obviously it's got...
Well, I've got my cabinet of wrestling figures, so I'd be torn as to whether it's a wrestling themed.
I think I'd probably go ghostbusters themed though.
I'd have just got a couple of canvases off, there's nothing, and I could shit.
It's not really...
I thought all over the top, but could have a fridge, but it's built into the wall, so it's like a containment unit, but it's actually a beer fridge.
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Oh, yeah, that's a good idea, yeah.
Pretty cool.
And then I'd get a stripper pull put in as well, so that looks like it's a fireman's pull, right?
And practice on that, if any ladies come round, you just like to have a good one.
Do I slide my fireman's pull?
Do I slide down my pull?
You could ask them.
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And yeah, maybe you have the lockers, you know, with Venkman stands, said more spengler kind of on there and that on there.
And yeah, I've like all my ghostbusters figures and stuff up, and maybe the ghost sign.
Yeah, like the entrance and stuff, yeah.
I think we'd like that, that's good.
I actually watched the new ghostbusters film the other day, Frozen Empire.
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What did you say?
I'm pretty happy I'm gonna have to watch it again, because I did nod off for about 25, I suspect quite crucial minutes.
But the rest of them I might have bought it, but it didn't make me happy, I've got to be honest.
I wasn't like...
Yeah, I mean, that's been a point.
But I watch it again, you know, I'll give it another, I'll give it another go.
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Not to stay away.
Yeah, I need to watch it again.
I went to the cinema to see the date came out and I have to admit I was a little bit disappointed.
But I think I need to watch it again, but the more I thought about it afterwards, the more I'm like,
"Actually, was it that, was it actually quite good?"
So I need to see it again to make my mind up.
But yeah, I think I was, I think I did myself in because like the week before going to see it, I did watch ghostbusters, ghostbusters too and after life.
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Yeah.
Before, so I was, you know, heavily in there.
Ghostbusters, yeah.
Yeah, I had watched the first one.
It was on a telly one night, but I think it was about 20 minutes and no, yeah, about 20 minutes.
I know, I've had more than that, they were just arriving at the hotel.
And I thought, "Okay, I'll just watch the hotel sequence, then I'll go to bed, stand up watching all the rest of the film, could help it."
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Yeah, dangerous.
Yeah, anyway.
And just when that happens, I'm like, "Anyway, okay, what else have you seen this week, Rick?"
Well, you know, very occasionally, we drift away from news stories about masterbating food delivery men and be actually talking a little bit about Scottish culture.
And this article is a little bit about Scottish culture.
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It's Taylor Swift, who is...
Oh, now we're talking.
Oh, I'm changing, actually, I don't want to ghostbusters scene dream, I want to tell her something.
Taylor Swift, who is just released her new album, although I've got to be honest, I don't know when she's had time to record it because she seems like the busiest performer ever.
But she's released her new album last week.
And then the album, she opens up about the Glasgow band that always makes her cry.
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She claims in the song on the album that every time she listens to Blue Niles haunting 1989 song "Down Town Lights", she has a little cry.
So Taylor Swift has paid tribute to a little known, little known, fuck off day, the record, little known Scottish music act.
On her eagerly anticipated new album, "The Tortured Souls Department", the breakup song "Guilty is Sin" recalls being given a song by the Glasgow trio "The Blue Nile" by an ex-boyfriend, believed to be either the 1975's "Matter Healy" or British actor, Joel Owlin.
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She claims in the song that every time she listens to Blue Niles haunting 1989 song "Down Town Lights" still makes her cry.
The lyrics which were leaked online begin and end, drowning in the Blue Nile, he sent me "Down Town Lights".
I hadn't heard it in a while.
My boredom's bone deep, the cage was once just fine, am I allowed to cry.
Swift broke up with Owlin in April of last year before a controversial fling with Healy the following month. Many music fans believe the Blue Nile to have been the best Scottish group of all time, though their commercial success was limited.
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The song "Down Town Lights" featured under 1989 album "Hats".
The group "Polby Cannon", Robert Bell and Paul Joseph Moore were active from 2001, S.I. from 1981 to 2004, and released a single on the RSO label before their debut album "A Walk Across the Rooftops" was released in 1984 on the Lin label.
It's white, the hailed as a classic, and featured the mournful single "Town Town in the Rain", which is my favourite Blue Nile song by the way, which reached
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