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  • We just had the Winter Olympics.

  • You are one of the most famous Scotsman in the world.

  • I didn't see a lot of Scots in the Olympic.

  • I didn't I didn't see.

  • I watched.

  • And that's one thing I was thinking about today, pretty much everyone represented.

  • Um, I write about that.

  • No, no.

  • The British team had four Scottish guys.

  • The curling team, the curl, Oh, the curl.

  • I didn't watch the curl, the best sport in the world, the best sport in the world, sport in the world.

  • Really Last house work has become Olympic.

  • They took a common chore and they made it.

  • They were going to do it with vacuum cleaners, and they changed their mind.

  • It's extraordinary, but the trouble with it is that they have given it to young people, and they're all wearing spandex and nylon and all that curling is supposed to be played by drunk people wearing tweed.

  • Yes, it looks like that kind of silly hats, Willie hats and you should have had a few pints, and then you should go out drunk people on the ice.

  • I went to a meeting, a gathering called a Bond Spiel in 1979 was 700 colors on a lake.

  • It was bedlam.

  • The noise was shutting.

  • Believe so just I So I hadn't marked out the lanes and anything.

  • They just just people getting knocked over nine pens.

  • So they hadn't.

  • Actually, there was no, really.

  • You could even possibly play in those conditions.

  • Absolutely.

  • People singing, getting drunk.

  • It was wonderful.

  • That's what you think.

  • The Olympics should be called a sport sport.

  • Now, how come you can have Winter Olympics without a snowball fate?

  • You think that's how it should end?

  • Its the building of a snowman.

  • Good sports.

  • They should make it more fun like that.

  • Absolutely.

  • Should take the piss out of it a little bit.

  • Delusion.

  • Delusion.

  • Doubles was very interesting.

  • Did you like that?

  • People lying on top of each other.

  • I e You like that, huh?

  • You can't lift your head because you slow down, you guys Good.

  • What you doing a change in my pocket?

  • Yeah, right.

  • Uh, now it's being a drinking.

  • You've been sober for a while now.

  • What years?

  • How many years?

  • 30 30 years.

  • You've been sober Eyes on what has been held.

  • What is it that caused you.

  • What was the event that caused you?

  • If I'm not being too personal to stop drinking Well, there were many reasons, but the main one was that dawned on me.

  • That alcohol doesn't make you clever.

  • One night I was drinking with a friend of mine, Peter McDougall, a writer.

  • And I left his house blitzed, right.

  • Andi, I went to phone home to my wife and I get into one of those British telephone boxes.

  • You know, the red ones would hurt us.

  • And I made my phone.

  • Then I realized I couldn't get out.

  • You couldn't?

  • You couldn't figure out I couldn't figure it out.

  • You know, there's nothing wrong with the box.

  • The door was working fine, but I mean, the telephones on one of the wall that cuts it down to three.

  • Yeah.

  • Eyes hardly.

  • Hampton Court Maze.

  • Eso.

  • What did you do?

  • I found my manager on.

  • I ran out of money, Steve.

  • I'm stuck his well, I years and he found me.

  • He just went Hey, went and looked at every phone booth he defined.

  • Unless I was on a street called De Oh, hey.

  • Went to on my usual haunts and he found me and he just opened the door for you.

  • Smelling of urine.

  • I hadn't peed.

  • A lot of people pee in those boxes.

  • How it wasn't even your urine.

  • Oh, that's the worst.

  • Nothing worse than smelling of someone else.

  • Yes.

We just had the Winter Olympics.

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