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MMA Conversation With Michael Blair Cage Warriors Lightweight Contender
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My guest on this episode is Baillestons own Michael Blair. This is one for the MMA fans, we have a good chat about Michaels career from his undefeated record in the amateurs into the professional ranks with Cage Warriors. We talk about his training, weight cutting, how he's improved as a fighter with experience and coaching. There's some chat at th…
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Zander Diamond: From Dumbarton - Aberdeen FC to Broomhill
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My guest on this episode is big Zander Diamond. Zander tells us about his footballing career from his boys club days at Dumbarton to Aberdeen. There's good humour shared throughout as Zander tells us why he chose to sign for Aberdeen over Celtic despite being a big fan of the club, a theme that comes up a few times during the course of our chat. He…
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Ross Greer MSP Scottish Greens Talks Politics & The Upcoming General Election
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Self confessed 'weirdo' Ross Greer from the Scottish Green party joins us today to talk about the curent political landscape as it relates to the greens, from the climate crisis, the ending of the bute house agreement to campaigning for the upcoming 2024 election.By caleycorner
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Liam McLaughlan SSP Candidate For Glasgow East Episode 16
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Episodes 16 guest is Liam McLaughlan who hails from Easterhouse in the east end of Glasgow. Liam is a trade unionist and is standing to be be elected as a member of parliament in the upcoming election for the Scottish Socialist Party. Liam takes us through his reasons for getting involved in politics mainly the 2014 Scotish referendum. From there w…
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Euro 2024 Preview 🏴 With Sean Kenney & Rob Kane
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The first two guests Rob Kane & Sean Kenney are back as we do a preview of the upcoming European championship. We delve into the the Scotland squad and speculate about who would get dropped from the initial 28 and who would get brought in. This was recorded post the Tommy Conway announcement but, pre Lewis Morgan inclusion, did the boys call this, …
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Scottish Women's Football: A Hidden History Revealed with Fiona Skillen
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My guest on this episode is the awesome Prof Fiona Skillen. Fiona is a sports Historian who works in the department of social sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University. Fiona gives us a detailed history and chronology of women in Scotland playing organised sport. We start off by discussing what perked her initial interest in sport, early encounters…
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Dr Matt Winning - Climate Change Comedian & Author of Hot Mess
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My guest on this episode is environmental scientist Dr Matt Winning he's also the author of Hot Mess which I’ve just finished reading and can highly recommend. In his day job he has worked on climate mitigation for 15 years in academia and consultancy, and he is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. Away fro…
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Raymond Mearns Comedian Actor Glesga Da Episode 12
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Raymond talks us through some of the big moments in his life with his trademark humour and wit. We start off talking about his early days at Glasgow Caledonian University and whether or, not he believes in fate. After that, we discuss how he got into stand up, his first gigs and he talks about his inspiration for being a comic, why he loves artists…
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Frank Gilfeather: 78-Year Old Scottish Boxing Internet Sensation &.Ex Sports Journalist on His Life
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My guest today is the viral and global boxing inspiration Frank Gilfeather. The 78-year-old former boxer is an Internet Sensation, beating influencers at their own game. Frank is a former journalist and television reporter and as my guest on Episode 11 of Caley Corner, we discuss his boxing and journalism career, his view on today's Scottish boxing…
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Daniel Downie Comedian and Scottish History fanatic
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My Guest on Episode 10 is the one and only Daniel Downie who's a comedian that doubles up as the host of Mountebank Scotland where he has the number one comedy walking tour of Edinburgh. He also has his own Youtube channel where he details and relays facts about Scottish History with his trademark humour. Daniel tells us a great story about Maggie …
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Iain Smith trauma informed criminal defence lawyer (previous winner of Lawyer of the year in Scotland)
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Something a bit different this week as Iain Smith a criminal defence lawyer from West Lothian joins us. We start off by hearing about Iains background and how the stress of struggling with undiagnosed dyslexia from school and beyond has contributed towards him thinking outside of the box with regards to his navigation through life both personally a…
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In Conversation with Tom Boyd Celtic legend and Scotland hall of famer Ep08
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Hear from the man himself as we start off by talking about Celtics victory this past weekend against Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup semi final. From there he takes us through every stage of his footballing career from the early days of winning player of the year and the Scottish Cup with Motherwell before, he went down to Chelsea, despite some intere…
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Midlothian to Iraq - Afghanistan - Hyrox to becoming a personal trainer with Alan Russell
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Hear Alans story as he talks about joining the army and his journey from there, into competing and training people for Hyrox fitness events. He recalls a vivid dream/nightmare on the eve of his first deployment to Iraq and what life was like for a working class soldier. He takes us from there to Afghanistan where a convoy he was part of went over a…
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Tommy Sheridan on Independence, Politics & Internationalism with some decent patter also
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Was a privilege to sit down and talk politics with a heavyweight from Scottish politics. Tommy's obviously a well known socialist and internationalist. There was good humor shared at times as well as more serious topics being discussed from Tommy's segway into Social Work, George Galloway getting elected, the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East an…
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In conversation with Clare Docherty Ayr Untited striker and league player of the year 2023
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Clare is also in charge of both the Woman's and Girls academy at Ayr United as well as being a prolific striker for the woman's team. She's very passionate about promoting the woman's game and this forms one of the main subjects of this chat. We talked about her early life when there was no real presence of teams for girls in Ayrshire and then move…
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A discussion about poverty and play for children in Scotland with Professor John Mckendrick from GCU
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John's primary research interests are on poverty (with a particular interest on how this impacts children) and children’s play. He told us about his own research when he was a student on lone parents within Strathclyde. John gave a good background about his work at the University for common good, his early years and how his experiences growing up i…
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Wrestling, Jiu Jitsu and MMA chat with Finn Marshall from the Scottish Hit Squad
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One for the MMA and wrestling fans out there. Finn is a catch wrestling World champion having recently won the belt down at the Snake Pit in Wigan. This seen him getting invited over to America to train with the legendary Josh Barnett the youngest ever UFC heavyweight champion and catch wrester aficionado. Finns also a BJJ purple belt with lots of …
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All things Junior football with Ardeer Thistle FC Manager Sean Kenney
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Don't listen - if you're not a football fan. Entertaining conversation with various tales from Seans world of both Scottish Junior (WOFSL) and amateur fitba. There's good humour shared throughout and the subject of mental health comes up again with a fateful story being told at the end of this weeks podcast. Sean also tells us a funny story about h…
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Rob Kane #Comedy, Trauma, Football and Near Misses Caley Corner #episode1
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Warning, whilst Rob is one of the funniest men in Scotland. There's a theme of trauma and mental health issues that are discussed at length throughout this conversation., that could be triggering for some, so please bear that in mind. Rob really opens up and there's loads of chat about a shared love of football, family & comedy. Robs a big Rangers …
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