It was Kickabout Out n About special this week as Mickey Weir, Joe Tortolano and myself went to Scotland’s only Vibrating Gym. – Studio Eh1. We had a go on the £7,000, state of the art vibrating machines, which the likes of Chelsea and Man Utd have at their training camps, before scoffing the millionaire shortcake and downing multiple cups of tea. We had a chat (as you do in podcasts) to Fiona the trainer and Helen and Ian the owners who got the idea and the business model from friend, Peter Nicol (world champion squash player). However, we managed to find a space in the gym to talk football - the opening weekend to the season is discussed and I counted every goal in the English Premiership and every goal and bookings in all the 4 divisions in Scotland. I'm not proud of it, but I did. Also, we chatted about Usain Bolt’s World record, and Rob Shoebridge’s goal that-should-have been. Our face-off this week was the Fatties v the Fitties of British football. We also headed down to the Unathletic Arms for a pub quiz and some inane chat you only get down a boozer. Could it be the world’s first vibrating radio podcast? It’s a football show Jim – but not as you know it!

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Also, a Boot Room Special with Smeato and Arnold Brown (language warning!)
Recorded at the Assembly Rooms after the fringe show, An Audience with John Smeaton – this recording unfortunately sounds a bit odd as it was done on Gordon Dallas’s dictaphone - the stupid plonker had left his recording equipment at home. However with the The Sun photographers and Miss Scotland looking on, Mickey and Gordon make a good fist of it, trying to record the hero of the Glasgow Airport Terrorist attacks at 1.15 am in the bar at the Assembly Rooms after a bit of grog has been consumed. So be warned - there is a fair amount of bad language. It also features, Perrier Award winner, Arnold Brown (the man who supported Sinatra), who hardly touches a drop but due to the quality of recording sounds absolutely hammered. Unintentionally hilarious, a bit offensive and very very ropey in quality – exactly what the fringe should be...none of this corporate takeover stuff. It’s a cracking Boot Room, enjoy and apologies for the bad language!

week 23

been ages since I blogged about the worlds best podcast...in my opinion..that is but just finished week 23, recorded at the royal ettrick in edinburgh..here's a flavour

Madonna does it every year. Scooby Doo has done it, so has Noddy and even The Mr Men – we’re talking about re-inventing yourself. So welcome to the all new Kickabout where we have decided to pull the resources of all 3 shows and put them into 1! Do you remember when we all used to take 3 bottles into the shower? Well it’s the same with us. For the next ‘wee while’ as we market and push the show all over the place as the new season gets underway, we’ve decided to have one big super duper show with Pub Chat and The Boot Room and the Kickabout all in one.
So this week, on the new and improved Kickabout we visit the pub and also speak to Dave McParland in our interview section. The sensible subjects range from Barry Ferguson and his SFA comments via Livingstone’s troubles, Celtic v Arsenal and back via Norwich’s 7-1 hammering. Indeed the theme of the show is Bad Opening days..Mickey’s got a Not So Tall Tale about getting thumped 5-0 while Joe talks about his first day in civvy street – it wasn’t a good start. Our other theme is Unbelievable sporting moments - the pub section features a cracking question about Man Utd and Barca with the pub chat centering on which dad would you like (Michael Jackson’s daughter has ‘Oliver’ as possibly her new dad).
It was always crammed with features but now prepare for an aural assault as we fling virtually everything at you in a one hour show more packed than Cristiano Ronaldo’s speedos
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