Speaker 1: Oh, beat force. If it doesn't work, you're just not
Speaker 1: using enough. You're listening to Software Upradio, Special Operations, military
Speaker 1: news and straight talk with the guys and the community. Okay,
Speaker 1: welcome to software Radio with Big Field Campion from across
Speaker 1: the pond. Don't forget. We're on time and we're on
Speaker 1: target at software dot Com. Okay, will I help for
Speaker 1: you this week? Well, I'm going to talk a big
Speaker 1: metal I'm also going to talk about the possibilities of
Speaker 1: a military coup about that. I'm also going to talk
Speaker 1: about my dog and my choice of dog and why
Speaker 1: I chose my dog. And I think we're gonna do
Speaker 1: a little feature every now and again about dogs in particular,
Speaker 1: because they are such a great animal and they are
Speaker 1: more and more widely spread being used by the military
Speaker 1: for a number of different purposes search, attack, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: In fact, special forces are using them all over the
Speaker 1: place now, which is really good news if you're a dog.
Speaker 1: Of course, right, where are we going to start? Then
Speaker 1: let's start with Nairobi. Man. This story broke January time Nairobi.
Speaker 1: Pictures started emerging of a guy in dreams body armor
Speaker 1: armed to the teeth marauding around a Kenyan shopping well,
Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff going on inside, bangs, pops, whistles,
Speaker 1: you name it, great gaggle of of National soldiers following
Speaker 1: him and all sorts of stuff being declared. It turns
Speaker 1: out that the press reported on this almost straight away.
Speaker 1: And although it's reported that it was my old unit,
Speaker 1: the s A s. Of course, I wouldn't know anything
Speaker 1: about it, and I wouldn't be allowed to talk if
Speaker 1: I did. But all I can do is sort of
Speaker 1: like analyze what the press have said and say, maybe
Speaker 1: perhaps or could be where I might know something. You
Speaker 1: had to read between the lines a little bit on
Speaker 1: this one, because I'm sailing close to the wind, as
Speaker 1: it were. So let's just suppose. Let's just suppose that
Speaker 1: there was a training task out in there in Kenya.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't be unrealistic to believe that somebody would be out
Speaker 1: there doing some sort of training activity with local special forces.
Speaker 1: And I think there's a big case of somebody being
Speaker 1: in the right place at the right time here because
Speaker 1: obviously the guy, the guy was off duty. You can
Speaker 1: quite clearly see he's not in fatigued, ready to go.
Speaker 1: He's he's been caught on the hop with his gear
Speaker 1: in his car more or less, and he stuck it
Speaker 1: straight on and he's got involved from wherever he came,
Speaker 1: you know, there's all sorts of rumors he was shop
Speaker 1: and he was doing this, he was doing that, he
Speaker 1: was doing the other wherever he's came from. He's managed
Speaker 1: to get his kid into his car and get himself
Speaker 1: down their best speed. When he gets there, he finds
Speaker 1: out that there are terrorists active shooter in the building,
Speaker 1: and Kenyan's obviously trying to formulate a plan to get
Speaker 1: in there and flush his people out. It turns out
Speaker 1: that he goes in more than once. He does get
Speaker 1: involved in firefight himself, allegedly obviously you know money going
Speaker 1: by what I've heard, he gets involved in a bit
Speaker 1: of a firefight himself, flat packs a few of them.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't imagine. He then helps to evacuate the few
Speaker 1: people he's seen evacuating people. There's all sorts of pictures
Speaker 1: of him coming and going, coming and going, coming and
Speaker 1: going more than once from more than one entry, all
Speaker 1: sorts of stuff being heard inside, and it's quite clear
Speaker 1: that he's done an absolutely superb job. So he's led
Speaker 1: the whole thing. You see him briefing Kenyan soldiers, you know,
Speaker 1: at the back of the way. Again, there's all sorts
Speaker 1: of footage of them outside. Until the proper cordon was established,
Speaker 1: there was pressed all over this one. So there's all
Speaker 1: sorts of footage been leaked, luckily and quite respectively. So
Speaker 1: they haven't put his face out public, which has been
Speaker 1: a bit of a blessing weirdly, because I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: from from from what I hear, you know he's still
Speaker 1: got a bit of he's still got a bit of
Speaker 1: life left in the tank because it were doesn't want
Speaker 1: to be getting out straight away. So the last one
Speaker 1: you wanted your face splattered all over the press. If
Speaker 1: you're still serving, that's for sure. So anyway, as with everything,
Speaker 1: the passing line from the Ministry of Defense isn't either
Speaker 1: confirmed nor didn't. I this is a special forces thing.
Speaker 1: They never will, they never ever will. Still don't quite
Speaker 1: agree with the policy myself. I think sometimes there should
Speaker 1: be a time when you should say yes, that was
Speaker 1: ours without a doubt, because it's blade in the obvious
Speaker 1: that stairs when the face doesn't I mean, look at
Speaker 1: the Iranian embassy, that was blakely the S A S.
Speaker 1: But in this case, again, like they say, they will
Speaker 1: neither confirm nor deny the or get nothing out of
Speaker 1: the MD on this one. However, now it's time for
Speaker 1: the guy obviously to be awarded a medal for his bravery.
Speaker 1: And he you know, you can't deny a guy, don't,
Speaker 1: no matter what units he's from. So he will be
Speaker 1: awarded a medal. The medal that he's going to get,
Speaker 1: it's called a Conspicuous Gallantry Cross. The c g C
Speaker 1: is second only to the Victoria Cross, and that's for
Speaker 1: battlefield heroism a case. So I would imagine the enly
Speaker 1: reason it didn't get a VC for this Victoria Cross
Speaker 1: is because technically this wasn't a battlefield. It was an extreme,
Speaker 1: extreme act of bravery. However, because it's not a battlefield technically,
Speaker 1: and this this has happened before, because one of our
Speaker 1: guys got awarded a c g C in c E leone,
Speaker 1: which again was a hostage type situation. Because it wasn't
Speaker 1: actually a war, it can't be warded award of the
Speaker 1: Victoria Cross. This medal of the CDC. It was created
Speaker 1: in and the first recipient was a Corporal Wayne Mills
Speaker 1: of the first Batalian, Duke of Wellington's Regiment for his
Speaker 1: actions in Bosnia. And I think the first time the
Speaker 1: s A S one one was in Sierra Leone a
Speaker 1: few years later. Like I say, it is a huge,
Speaker 1: huge medal, this one second to the Victoria Cross. It's
Speaker 1: up there, and like I said, I genuinely believe the
Speaker 1: only reason he didn't get the Victoria Cross for this
Speaker 1: was purely and solely because it wasn't a battlefield action.
Speaker 1: So a great medal. The medal features are silver cross
Speaker 1: and a laurel reef and it's mounted on a white
Speaker 1: ribbon with a blue and red crimson stripe. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna know when you say that one in there.
Speaker 1: You're gonna know when you say that one in the
Speaker 1: bad square that he's done something extremely brave it and
Speaker 1: fair plate to him. So, like I said, the Ministry
Speaker 1: of Defense have not commented on the Special Forces again,
Speaker 1: but the press is saying the medal is among others
Speaker 1: in an up kind of operationals honors list, which is
Speaker 1: expected to be published at the end of this month.
Speaker 1: They used a bit earlier, but this year because of Brexit,
Speaker 1: these awards are being done slightly later than normal, and
Speaker 1: of course they're all claiming, They've got their own sources
Speaker 1: who are claiming it's an says guy that's won this medal, well,
Speaker 1: wherever it is or isn't, and I'm not going to
Speaker 1: tell you it is a great, great, great achievement by
Speaker 1: this individual, and one that will that picture, I mean
Speaker 1: that picture of him going through the door, ready for anything,
Speaker 1: with his body armorous genes, and that picture will be iconic,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, that picture will be one of the
Speaker 1: most iconic pictures I would have said, militarily of this decade,
Speaker 1: without a doubt that is that. That is a huge picture.
Speaker 1: I've actually already made a T shirt with this one.
Speaker 1: It was a very good seller, and to be honest,
Speaker 1: so it is an iconic, iconic picture of that guy,
Speaker 1: you know, with with his head wrapped in a shamaga
Speaker 1: whatever it was, with his weapon, his body armor and
Speaker 1: his jeans on bursting through a door and straight into action,
Speaker 1: straight into action, no hesitation, no messing about, no no
Speaker 1: war might go, I might not go. He went straight
Speaker 1: through that thought and straight into action. And that's you know.
Speaker 1: When you're in the UK now and you see these
Speaker 1: people moaning about soldiers and soldiers out and soldiers the
Speaker 1: other fully grasped the situation of what this man has
Speaker 1: just done. He's done something extremely brave. He could have
Speaker 1: hovered about outside. He could have taken on the command
Speaker 1: roll and said, right, you go in there, you do this,
Speaker 1: you do that, you do the other. You know, he
Speaker 1: didn't do that. He took the bull by the horns,
Speaker 1: he picked up his weapon, he picked and put on
Speaker 1: his own body armor and led the charge from the front.
Speaker 1: It don't get any braver than that, now, you know.
Speaker 1: I have spoken to other guys about this, and I said, well, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, right place at the right time. He might
Speaker 1: well have been the right place at the right time,
Speaker 1: and there might be people out of here, myself included,
Speaker 1: thinking of myself, well, you know, I would love to
Speaker 1: have been that man. I'd love to be in that
Speaker 1: place at that time. Wasn't he was, And he did
Speaker 1: extremely well. So I'm really really true to see the
Speaker 1: guy getting an absolute and absolute whopper of a medal,
Speaker 1: a massive medal for that man. And rightly, so, so
Speaker 1: there we go. I think we've just about covered the
Speaker 1: Nairobi man's c g C. The Conspicuous Gallantry Cross. What
Speaker 1: a thing, What a thing to have hanging on your chest.
Speaker 1: I wish I haven't, but there you go. I haven't,
Speaker 1: so not much I'm gonna do about. At the age
Speaker 1: of fifty, would have thought either, okay, where we're gonna
Speaker 1: go now, naim so in our news this week then
Speaker 1: obviously we've got the general elections coming up here and
Speaker 1: there's all sorts of hullabaloo about the Labor Party. So
Speaker 1: I'm not going to massively tell people they should be this,
Speaker 1: that or the other, all right. The Labor Party is
Speaker 1: what it is. The Labor Party has its policies, The
Speaker 1: Conservative Party has their policies, and there's lots of other
Speaker 1: little parties that do their own things bits and pieces,
Speaker 1: but they're not realistically going to get anything in the UK.
Speaker 1: It's going to be it's going to be one or
Speaker 1: the other. It's going to be the Conservative Party or
Speaker 1: it's going to be the Labor Party that win this election.
Speaker 1: That's without a doubt. There ain't nobody else at the
Speaker 1: moment big enough to step in and take even these
Speaker 1: two off. Now, the Labor Leader, the Labor Leader of
Speaker 1: the Leader of the Labor Party is at one times
Speaker 1: Jeremy Corbin. Okay, Now, Jeremy Corbyn doesn't gain any love
Speaker 1: or trust from any serviceman I've ever spoken to. He
Speaker 1: has refused repeatedly to denounce to a free terrorist organizations,
Speaker 1: including hamas, including the Irish Republican Army, of whom we've
Speaker 1: been pictured with, you know on many occasions, of Jerry
Speaker 1: Adams and Martin McGuinness, people that blatantly went up against
Speaker 1: British soldiers, people who blatantly you know, were behind many
Speaker 1: atrocities against British civilians on British soil. Okay, And Jeremy
Speaker 1: Corbyn has been in coops with these people for a
Speaker 1: very very long time and doesn't deny it. Even he
Speaker 1: doesn't deny it's out there. You can look online, you
Speaker 1: can go wherever you like, and you're going to see
Speaker 1: lots and lots and lots of evidence of here and
Speaker 1: schmoozing with people who we consider as terrorists, or certainly
Speaker 1: we did in the day. You know, the fact that
Speaker 1: somebody's people have amost been reprieved and are now calling
Speaker 1: themselves politicians doesn't hold a lot of weight with a
Speaker 1: lot of people who served at the time, especially when
Speaker 1: you look at the fact that we've got this historic
Speaker 1: allegation thing going on whereby our troops are being hauled
Speaker 1: over the coals and possibly facing prosecution, whilst the Irish
Speaker 1: Republican Army were given letters of comfort to ensure them
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't be dragged over the coals and wouldn't
Speaker 1: get in any further trouble even if it came to
Speaker 1: light that they had done something wrong. So it's it's
Speaker 1: all wrong, it's all it's all wrong. But at the
Speaker 1: top of this, at the top of this big picture
Speaker 1: sits Jeremy Corbyn. Now, whether you like this, like the
Speaker 1: policies of the Labor Party, it goes a bit deeper
Speaker 1: than that, I think for most people. A lot of
Speaker 1: people in this country are saying, you know, yeah, they
Speaker 1: like Labor, they like the Labor Party, that other policies.
Speaker 1: To me, I'm pretty indifferent. It doesn't when you make
Speaker 1: a lot of difference to most of stuff that I do.
Speaker 1: To be honest, their policies or not, and quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I think most of them, most of them are completely
Speaker 1: way off the mark. So it doesn't make a lot
Speaker 1: of difference to me. In that respect. However, with a
Speaker 1: man like Jeremy Corbyn, who is so blatantly against our
Speaker 1: armed forces, doesn't turn up to remembrance, praise and that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff where he can help it. And so
Speaker 1: I say he just was refusal to put down or
Speaker 1: condone what the ira A do is absolutely insanely mad
Speaker 1: for a lot of people. Now, so where am I
Speaker 1: going with this? Well, let's have our butchers. The Independent
Speaker 1: in the UK there reported the British Army and let
Speaker 1: me let me read this for you so we can
Speaker 1: get a British army could stage mutiny under Corpin, say
Speaker 1: the senior serving generals. Guys want to say, generals would
Speaker 1: not allow a prime minister to jeopardize the security of
Speaker 1: the UK. Now, it's well known that that Corbyn has
Speaker 1: rubbed shoulders of all these subversive organization and does almost
Speaker 1: support them in a way publicly, which is which is
Speaker 1: absolutely absurd. But his policies as regarding things like nuclear
Speaker 1: de tarrent, this is what these generals are saying. It's
Speaker 1: what this general particular is saying that if he started
Speaker 1: to do stuff which was going to undermine the security
Speaker 1: of this country, massive defense cuts, removal of a nuclear
Speaker 1: program and don't seeing different other things. You know, our
Speaker 1: military alliances could get damaged with with with various different
Speaker 1: agencies that we work with quite closely. Now, if he's
Speaker 1: going to do something that's going to jeopardize or lower
Speaker 1: the security of this country, then I think, I think
Speaker 1: what they're getting at, and rightly so, is that something
Speaker 1: quite drastic will have to be done. And although I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's a horrendous thing to be saying that
Speaker 1: there would be more or less. I mean, alright, they're
Speaker 1: saying new to me new And he's a strong word
Speaker 1: on in its own and carried a death sentence in
Speaker 1: many a campaign. Military coup is something that you would
Speaker 1: only really associate with small African countries that want to
Speaker 1: overthrow dictators, not a Western country, which is, to all
Speaker 1: intents and purposes, one of the world leaders. So a
Speaker 1: very very worrying statement should this, should this story turn
Speaker 1: out to be true, would I support a military coup? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, having served myself and having many friends who
Speaker 1: who are still serving, house served and want to serve
Speaker 1: even I would have to say that I feel exactly
Speaker 1: the same as this serving general in as far as
Speaker 1: I genuinely believe that if there was a government in
Speaker 1: place that did not support the will of the people
Speaker 1: in as far as the security of this country, all
Speaker 1: was going to undermine the security of this country, I
Speaker 1: would have to support any action taken by anyone who
Speaker 1: took it. If that shows about trying to sort of
Speaker 1: that'll sound like I'm declaring the military coup myself. I've
Speaker 1: got to say, if there was somebody, you know, detrimental
Speaker 1: to the well being of this country from a security angle,
Speaker 1: then I think I'd have to support them. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's one thing. You know, people are arguing about Brexit
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff. You know, you could
Speaker 1: argue that the people have voted, people have stopped it.
Speaker 1: It's a mess, But our security isn't the priest. We
Speaker 1: aren't staring down the barrel of being over runner and
Speaker 1: and aren't like that that And I just seriously, you know,
Speaker 1: this is quite a big story for me. So we're
Speaker 1: going to keep one are these elections very very closely
Speaker 1: because like I say, it could that could be a
Speaker 1: massive one. Can you imagine that a military coup in
Speaker 1: the UK doesn't even sound right, does it? That's insane?
Speaker 1: But I will say that's here and I'm mate. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Independent is a is a big paper in the UK,
Speaker 1: and that's what they're saying. A serving general, a serving
Speaker 1: senior general's basically saying that, you know, there's a possibility
Speaker 1: that should Jeremy Corbyn getting the army would have to mutiny. Well,
Speaker 1: that's that's outrageous. I mean, as general's supposed to serves
Speaker 1: in Northern Ireland during the troubles. Again, he goes on
Speaker 1: about saying he was sickened by Mr Corbyn's refusal to
Speaker 1: condemn the IRA, which killed seven thirty troops and injured
Speaker 1: seven thousand more during the conflict. That's a lot of people,
Speaker 1: the general said. He also said, let's let's have another thing.
Speaker 1: The general said many soldiers are disgusted by the comments
Speaker 1: of Corbyn and John McDowell about the IRA, many who
Speaker 1: have not only murdered British soldiers but also hundreds of
Speaker 1: members of their own community. Responding to the general suggestion
Speaker 1: of a potential mutineer among members of the armedforces, a
Speaker 1: senior Labor source told The Independent, it does seem like
Speaker 1: a quite extraordinary statement. Labor's newly appointed Shadow Secretary, Hillary
Speaker 1: Ben has said he does not believe Labor would back
Speaker 1: even nuclear disarment or withdrawal from military alliance. Mr Gorbyn
Speaker 1: had early announced he would be pulling out to stop
Speaker 1: the war coalitions andual conference due to a busy schedule.
Speaker 1: You go, speculation, speculation and what sales newspapers speculation. Of
Speaker 1: course it does. So that's the Independent making some massive
Speaker 1: waves in the UK leaning towards the military coup. Well,
Speaker 1: how just the thought if I'm even saying that is
Speaker 1: absolutely just for the record. Let's just make it clear
Speaker 1: I'm not endorsing one way or another or trying to
Speaker 1: encourage on one way over another a military coup. Alright,
Speaker 1: so it's nothing to do with me. And you were
Speaker 1: here first, right, so you go, I've only saying what
Speaker 1: a story on the Independent, and like I say, they
Speaker 1: have not stuck anybod her names to the face. So
Speaker 1: when somebody comes out of a story and says a
Speaker 1: serving general but doesn't give his name, well maybe the
Speaker 1: red flags are up already on this one. Let's just
Speaker 1: see which way it goes and who wins. That's my
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Speaker 1: It's my dog. Now. I like dogs. Their man's best friend.
Speaker 1: Everyone says their man's best friend, and they are, without
Speaker 1: a doubt man's best friend. And a lot of people
Speaker 1: will say, you know, there's a lot of different breeds
Speaker 1: out there, and a lot of choice, and a lot
Speaker 1: of reasons why you would want a dog. You might
Speaker 1: just want to dog for company. You might want to
Speaker 1: do to but take your house. You might want a
Speaker 1: dog to keep another dog company. All right, there's a
Speaker 1: hundred reasons why you never dog. I have a dog
Speaker 1: personally because I love dogs and I always like another
Speaker 1: dog I've had. I've had Scottish Terriers. Okay, my choice
Speaker 1: of dog is scott Terrier. My topic and my choice
Speaker 1: of dog this week is the Scottish Terrier, right, the
Speaker 1: little Scotty, the black little Scotties right, the ones not
Speaker 1: don't get them refused to the West Highland Terriers, right,
Speaker 1: because that really gets that really gets me down. A
Speaker 1: Scottish Terrier or Aberdeen Terrier, as as as they have
Speaker 1: been known before, is the black one, the one that
Speaker 1: looks like the monopoly dock. All right, let's have a
Speaker 1: cook chat about them. Then where do they come from? Where?
Speaker 1: They are predominantly a Scottish Terrier from Norfolk the border,
Speaker 1: but they've been bred in the UK for quite some time.
Speaker 1: I mean they're you know, they first started to appear
Speaker 1: early hundreds older fought and then they they bread them in.
Speaker 1: Some people say it's one of these dogs has been
Speaker 1: overbread They are susceptible to councer and that sort of
Speaker 1: stuff that you can't get a few health issues with them.
Speaker 1: Why do I love my Scottish Terrier? I'll tell you
Speaker 1: why I love my Scottish Terrier because militarily, if you
Speaker 1: look back at Scottish history, there was a guy then
Speaker 1: I'm going to get his name right now, and he
Speaker 1: basically there were lots of stories about these dogs. They
Speaker 1: actually call them die hards, okay, and the Royal Scots
Speaker 1: and I think it was the the fourth some some
Speaker 1: earl or jew or something. Anyway, someone high up in
Speaker 1: the Royal Scots are in the late eighteen under and
Speaker 1: took over. The Royal Scots were reported to have a
Speaker 1: pack of these dogs, and they took him everywhere and
Speaker 1: they fought absolutely ferociously and they were the loyal dogs.
Speaker 1: Now I can tell him now that Andrew, my Scottish terrier,
Speaker 1: Andrew being a scott Whish name, Okay, is an extremely,
Speaker 1: extremely loyal dog. He doesn't straight from us. He will
Speaker 1: sit at your feet all day if somebody comes in.
Speaker 1: He's not nutter. He's not a nutter. He doesn't go
Speaker 1: banging and barking on. But I tell him know, if
Speaker 1: he went went after it, he probably he probably has
Speaker 1: something to say about it. Okay. I call him the
Speaker 1: double Dial because he's got massive, massive teeth, all right.
Speaker 1: He looks like a little teddy bear. He looks all
Speaker 1: cute and cudding. But when you lift up his jowl
Speaker 1: and I have a look inside his teeth, Wow, they
Speaker 1: are big, all right. So the way he was designing,
Speaker 1: the way he's been bred then, was to send him
Speaker 1: into holes for things like badgers and rats. So he's
Speaker 1: a ratter essentially. But they bread them. They bread them
Speaker 1: quite powerful, so that they could send them down a
Speaker 1: hole with his big teeth ripping and tearing and pull
Speaker 1: a badger out. Okay. Now, badgers are quite a quite
Speaker 1: a fierce animal in the UK. Have a look at badger.
Speaker 1: Google badger if you're from the States. If you're not
Speaker 1: familiar with them over there. I'm not sure if you
Speaker 1: have them or not. But the badger is quite a
Speaker 1: fierce animal. He's descended dog in after a badger. He's
Speaker 1: got to be a fearless dog, all right, So you
Speaker 1: get down there. He sink his teeth into his badger
Speaker 1: all right. Now, the tails in a Scottish terrier extremely thick.
Speaker 1: If you hold them, they feel like a piece of rope,
Speaker 1: a thick piece of rope, and they've actually been bread
Speaker 1: says that you can pull the tails. So you pull dog,
Speaker 1: badger and anything else that's attached out of the hole,
Speaker 1: all right. His back legs are quite big and strong,
Speaker 1: so he will be will be holding himself from being
Speaker 1: pulled into the hole, and you you hold onto his
Speaker 1: tail and pull him out with the badger. So that's
Speaker 1: the way that they are a hardy dog. They are
Speaker 1: very very hardy dog. I'm gonna say that the Royal
Speaker 1: Scots actually used to take them into battle and they
Speaker 1: fought extremely hard. These doctored so for me straightaway, just
Speaker 1: looking at the type of breeding type of dog at us,
Speaker 1: all right. He's not a guard dog in particular, but
Speaker 1: he's a lovely little dog, and I live in a
Speaker 1: small flat in London, so I can't really ever have
Speaker 1: a bruising, great big thing. Right, when did they first
Speaker 1: come over to America. They came over to America again
Speaker 1: late eighteen hundreds, it must have been. I think they
Speaker 1: were the first reported in America. And it's the only dog,
Speaker 1: as is only two types of dogs that have ever
Speaker 1: frequented the White House three times, and Alsatians have lived
Speaker 1: in there three times. The Scottish terriers have also lived
Speaker 1: in the White House three towns and one time is
Speaker 1: Franklin Roosevelt. He had a Scottish terrier and there's actually
Speaker 1: on his on his statue he's got a Scottish Terrier
Speaker 1: with him, which is which is quite a cool. George
Speaker 1: Bush he had seven of them. He had a pack
Speaker 1: of Scottish terriers, which is quite cool. Like they say,
Speaker 1: they are an extremely cool animal. Like to say, the
Speaker 1: history of them a bread, bread, bread and bread them
Speaker 1: down and did you look this is this is a
Speaker 1: strange thing about dogs. Actually it takes ninety years, ninety
Speaker 1: odd years, and that is something like six to eight
Speaker 1: generations of dog to create a breed. And then obviously
Speaker 1: they fine tune it. If you over breed it, obviously
Speaker 1: you've start geting a few problems. But the Scotty, like
Speaker 1: I say, has come from back Haunds nicknamed a die
Speaker 1: hard from its days where it used to go in
Speaker 1: the battle. The Royal Scots, and I think that's the
Speaker 1: Royal Scots are actually known as the die hard Scots
Speaker 1: or something like that. Though they really do have this.
Speaker 1: This dog has made a lasting impact on quite a
Speaker 1: fine old regiment of Scottish regiment okay, known as the
Speaker 1: die Hards. So the dog was actually nicknamed a die
Speaker 1: hard for a bit as well. So they really have
Speaker 1: got a punchy, little punching attitude of these dogs. And
Speaker 1: and that's why I like him, because he punches well
Speaker 1: above his weight. That's young Andrew. He's a lovely little dog.
Speaker 1: So that's my choice of dog. And I thought it
Speaker 1: would be it'd be nice to cover dogs. So don't
Speaker 1: forget on social media. I'm a big field campaign on Instagram,
Speaker 1: I'm a big field camping on Twitter and on Facebook.
Speaker 1: Everything's that big field camping. If you want, if you
Speaker 1: want to feature your dog, or you want me to
Speaker 1: talk about your dog in particular, I'll feature your dog
Speaker 1: on here and let me know what your dog is.
Speaker 1: I'll talk about it. I'm gonna I'm gonna cover two three.
Speaker 1: I've actually got a dog expert, a friend of Minael,
Speaker 1: Danny Lions. He trains dogs. He did all the dogs
Speaker 1: for the Olympics, search dogs, sniffer dogs, this dog, that dog.
Speaker 1: But his main thing at the moment he does the
Speaker 1: tak dogs. And they are absolutely superb dogs. What a
Speaker 1: creature that watched working and working dogs with a different
Speaker 1: kale offish altogether? All right, Andrew is a lovely dog.
Speaker 1: Scotty's aren't really working dogs, to be honest anymore. I
Speaker 1: suppose nobody's really taking them into battle impacts. You know,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't. They would last five minutes anymore. But I
Speaker 1: love to say there plenty dogs are the malon Wis
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff, and I'll get I
Speaker 1: think I will get Danny in one week and we'll
Speaker 1: have a good chat with Danny all about dogs and
Speaker 1: all about the sort of stuff that they do, because
Speaker 1: dogs are such cool animals. And like to say, the
Speaker 1: man's best friends and my best friend too. So I say,
Speaker 1: this week we've covered Scotty's, which is my choice of dog,
Speaker 1: and I love my dog very dearly. So there we go.
Speaker 1: Don't forget get yourself online. Have a look at Greig
Speaker 1: Club and see what they're up to do. Plenty of
Speaker 1: cool stuff all coming out. Still keep going on about
Speaker 1: the Craig Club Academy. That was such a cool, a
Speaker 1: cool weekend for me. It was a great chance to
Speaker 1: come over to America and see the lads. But a
Speaker 1: great weekend and some of the stuff we did. There
Speaker 1: was a little trailer online if you look online at
Speaker 1: the moment showing some of the stuff that we did.
Speaker 1: Awesome stuff with some awesome guys. All right. Also, don't
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Speaker 1: My live shows on three times a week. At the moment,
Speaker 1: I'm just working out which are the best nights to
Speaker 1: do my show. And as soon as I've worked out,
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be a regular feature on soft Rep.
Speaker 1: What I am now? So I've got me radio, I've
Speaker 1: got me radio thing going twice a month. I'll be
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Speaker 1: what I've got time for this week. It's been fun.
Speaker 1: I'm never going to go and take my dog for
Speaker 1: a walk. I've had a long week. I'll just come
Speaker 1: back from Bulgaria. Actually, so I was at in Bulgaria.
Speaker 1: But I'll be posting some stuff on my own Facebook
Speaker 1: page and I'll probably manage to get some stuff on
Speaker 1: the Software dot com as well with some of the
Speaker 1: stuff I've been doing in bulk area. Extremely cool place
Speaker 1: to go if you're in Europe, because it's one of
Speaker 1: the only places where you can do the stuff that
Speaker 1: I want to do on the Rangers, and that is
Speaker 1: have proper movement boxes and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: So you'll see some pretty cool stuff appearing on my
Speaker 1: on my solcial movie it and on here from Bulgaria. Look,
Speaker 1: I say I should be featuring some more dogs further
Speaker 1: on down the line. My Robie Man's got his medal,
Speaker 1: and at the moment, we don't know who's going to
Speaker 1: win the election, and we don't know what will happen
Speaker 1: if they do win the election, So let's just keep
Speaker 1: and peeled and see what happens until next time. Stay safe,
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