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deep fried Mars Bars

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little ginger

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they all play the bagpipes

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some of them did in real life mean me

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yeah

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and that they're a lot of drunks a lot

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of jokes about to avoid people from

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Glasgow potentially when you first meet

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them they seem a bit grumpy or you feel

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like oh no if I said something but then

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you get chatting and it's like oh no

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they're lovely and they're good

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stereotypes is quite aggressive I had

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one guy holding me by my tie trying to

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throttle me when two of my mates came on

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and got rid of him I've always wanted to

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know what's under a kilt that's another

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story

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hiya welcome to a new episode of easy

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English so today I'm on Brighton Beach

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and I'm to know what the British people

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think of the Scots out to hear their

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first-hand experiences being in Scotland

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meeting Scottish people and also what

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stereotypes true or false that they've

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heard but first I wanted to play a game

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to see if the people of Brighton could

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guess these famous Scottish celebrities

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and see if they can figure out that it's

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their Scottish nationality that connects

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so she looks like she'd be an actress

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but I don't know who she is who is the

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first person on that

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she's a witch apparently

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who is that I think she's an actor I

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don't know who that is that one I think

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she's an actress

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that's the one until Swinton and who is

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Tilda Swinton she's an actress she's

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been in like a strange Curious Case of

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Benjamin Button yeah yeah

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um second pictures Lewis Capaldi he's a

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singer is he that singer he is a singer

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yeah Lewis Capaldi who's Capaldi yes

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Louis Capaldi okay and who is Louis

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Capaldi he's a singer okay he's just had

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a documentary come out that was very

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good that's Lewis Capaldi he's a singer

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yeah

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yeah

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the next one I think that's Lewis

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Capaldi yeah who's Lewis Capaldi he's a

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singer correct and a songwriter she was

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a Scottish Minister what's her name

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so she was the leader of the SNP okay

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rather in disgrace at the moment and

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what was the SNP the Scottish national

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party

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it is yes yes recently lead with the SMB

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and not anymore I'm just under arrest

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and not under arrest

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Nicholas sturgeon yeah I have no clue

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who this guy is

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oh you know who that is that's um what's

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his name comedian yeah Bill something

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this guy is called

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is he called Bill something Bill Billy

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Billy

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Billy Connolly yes Billy Connolly

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comedian yeah yes and then we have Billy

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colony who is a comedian writer

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no I do

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it's giving like football manager yeah

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yeah it is yeah

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oh he's a footballer

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no he's a manager

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gosh I'm terrible

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Alex Ferguson

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United oh my goodness

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I know yes yes come on you're doing so

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well what's his name Alex Ferguson

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this is about him

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I've got several children

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his mum's very good

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what's his name

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how stupid is this Scottish isn't he

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yeah yeah he is Scottish

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he did uh Andy Murray

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oh very good one Wimbledon okay and

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who's the next one Aldi Murray tennis

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player yeah Andy Murray yeah and I don't

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actually know who this guy is either no

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idea it's an old and gentleman

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um

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yeah yeah uh Scottish inventor

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okay there's all of them can you think

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what connects them or they'll have a

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connection you've mentioned it actually

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a couple of times famous

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I've not got bit no Nick is sturgeon

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imagine that was the connection

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they're all connected in uh Scottish

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they're all Scottish they're all

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Scottish people okay so tell me then

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it's pretty obvious I think you've got

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it a few times what connects all these

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people they're Scottish yeah they are

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all Scottish what is the big connection

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of all of them they all share one thing

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in common well I thought you were going

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to say they're Scottish they are all

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episode do you have any friends at

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Scottish do you know anyone Scottish I'm

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Scottish descent really yeah my mother

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was a McLeod

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they come from the um region Loch Lyman

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area

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not sure where that is have you been to

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Scotland sadly now I've been up there I

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worked up there for

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a couple of months Aberdeen

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and what how did what were the people

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like the Scottish people

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well back in the time when I went up

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there it was in the early 70s

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um men were men and women were kept it

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hidden right I see the other way around

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now

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if you went to a pub

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if you went to a pub like I did with

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with the guys I worked with

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um you didn't see women really no well I

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went on a holiday to Scotland so he was

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running up to um Abby Moore and nephew

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bridge and up in the highlands and loved

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all of that so I've got friends up in

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Scotland and um yeah good friends down

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here

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um

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June and Alec yeah yeah yeah yeah

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do you know any Scottish people have you

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been Scotland I've never been to

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Scotland I think I this there's one girl

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that was Scottish in my primary school

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that's about it and what what was she

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like she was

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quite a jolly girl yeah yeah yeah and do

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you have desires to go to Scotland at

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some point maybe I don't think so maybe

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we'll have to see oh they're friendly

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but also like potentially when you first

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meet them they seem a bit grumpy or you

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feel like oh I've never said something

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but then you get chatting and it's like

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oh no they're lovely and they're good

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fun you could crack what are your

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opinions on Scottish people do you know

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any Scottish people have you been to

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Scotland yes yes I've only been to

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Scotland once that was for a long

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weekend in Edinburgh okay I don't have

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let's go to friends who love friends

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when you make a friendship yeah yes I

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served in the raft with a lot of

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yeah so they're loyal maybe or something

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oh I was reliable reliable

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and I was there when you're in a pub

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I had one guy holding me by my tie

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trying to throttle be when two of my

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mates came on and got rid of him like I

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couldn't move and he was no in Bristol

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what stereotypes are there you that you

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know yeah yeah yeah deep deep fried Mars

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Bars

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it's the Celtic yeah it's Celtic culture

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yeah like kind of like Pride yeah yeah

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you've got a real Celtic Pride what

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stereotypes had you heard of before you

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went or what stereotypes are there now

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with true or untrue I guess

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of the Scots

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they're all Ginger they all play the

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bagpipes

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some of them did yeah

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um sometimes I feel like they're

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stereotyped is quite aggressive right

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yeah yeah firm tone of voice and

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um

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yeah just like passionate about things

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okay like they call a spade a spade kind

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of straight talking yeah what

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stereotypes do you know or had you heard

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of before you made friends from Scotland

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apartment

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and are they true untrue what ones do

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you get to hear from media

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and that there are a lot of drunks a lot

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of jokes about avoid people from Glasgow

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but that's that's not true either I've

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heard that one too the class goes rough

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but Billy Connolly's from Glasgow now

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yeah he's not rougher than anyone else

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on a Saturday night is there anything

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that's

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that's primarily Scottish that would

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improve English life English culture

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English people

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what would you take from Scottish

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tradition culture anything that you

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think would improve like England or

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English tradition English culture

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Kilts yeah it depends what's under them

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um I don't know if they're more

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family-minded than us I think the

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directness is a good thing right

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sometimes I think

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I mean The Stereotype of the English is

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that we don't really say what we think

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we're too polite and uh sometimes you

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just need to say how it is I love music

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so from a music point of view I think I

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love Celtic folk and all of that stuff

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so I think if that was more in England

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I'd love that that kind of like National

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Unity of like this is our music was I

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think England's good answer yeah just

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like culturally Blended which is amazing

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but it also means I don't know whether I

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could tell someone what our English kind

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of musical identity

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yeah that would probably be what I would

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say yeah but what you know what would

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you take from kind of Scottish culture

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tradition or character traits that would

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kind of improve English people or Welsh

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people maybe or Welsh tradition

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um something they were some of their

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writings is first class right that's a

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great answer yeah folk music from Burns

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I mean burns with poems and and whatever

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but so I mean some of the stories that

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have been told and you know definitely

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story you know literally literature on

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them that's great I like that answer a

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lot thanks for watching this week's

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episode let us know in the comments

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below your experience meeting Scottish

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people or being in Scotland and any

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stereotypes that you might have heard

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true or false and as always we'll see

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you next week

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Tara

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