Live QnA - Scots Language

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:14]Right. Good morning.

[00:00:17]Good morning everybody. Or good evening.

[00:00:21]It feels like good morning for me cuz I've just woken up. So I did say 900 p.m. I think it's a little bit delay now. Not too delayed. I'm hoping, but I don't really know why I'm even trying to justify it. I was asleep. My phone was downstairs, so my alarm wasn't really any good.

[00:00:48]But I'm here now. Hello and welcome.

[00:00:52]It's good to see some guests flooding in. Just shot two videos today up on the hill uh with both some nice fresh views hopefully for your eyes to enjoy feing those in tomorrow and the day after when I post those videos. I'm going to try and get some more tomorrow potentially actually as well because I've been really trying to get more of what's here and my experiences over to you so that you can have that personally with you. Good morning, Aya Fay. How are you doing today? Good to see some people coming in.

[00:01:37]You may have not just woken up. Here's Saladdin. How are you doing, man? It's been a minute. By the way, I didn't make it to Morocco on my road trip, in case you were wondering why I'm in Scotland right now and not in Morocco.

[00:01:54]That's just the way things go sometimes.

[00:01:56]The car broke down. But I'm very glad to be home to be honest. I mean, not going to start railing against Morocco, but being in Scotland is very, very good for me and I'm very glad to be here.

[00:02:10]Uh, and and I'd always planned to be back by uh Monday anyway. So, I'm pretty much fully caught up now with my schedule.

[00:02:22]I've been using my time back here to do much more computer work. Yes, I was coming by car. I was doing a a road trip through Scotland, England, France, Andor, Spain, and then eventually Morocco.

[00:02:42]Quite ambitious in a P38, Land Rover, but it was a lot of fun. So, I had a really good time with I was with and obviously our entire group was three of us were stuck in Spain. I say stuck, I mean, we're in a really, really beautiful location and we had a really, really wonderful time. So, I'm not going to complain about that at all. There's no there's no complaints to be had there.

[00:03:08]What ended up happening was I basically met some people who I have enormous amounts of respect for, and I just spent my my last public video just railing on about how much of a positive experience it was. You met your Portuguese friends and you had some good times in Marrakesh. Good stuff, man. Glad to hear you are having a good time and you explored some percussion instruments.

[00:03:38]I just spent Yeah. So, the last two videos I did were sort of explaining a couple of viral videos that I've had that people ask me questions about a lot to try and answer a lot of the things that people are really dying to find out. And then what ended up happening is I found myself going towards subjects relating to unionism and nationalism and talking about the upcoming election a little bit. If you don't know, there's an election coming up in Scotland right now. People are preparing themselves for that quite a bit. So, my plan tomorrow is I'm leaving around 10:30. I shouldn't say that cuz it's 10:27, but uh I'm leaving tomorrow morning. I'm going to go and head up to the Central Belt and I'm hoping that while I'm up there, I'll be able to meet some people and I can ask them questions. I'm curious to get especially the perspectives of immigrants on the election because I think it's something I don't really know about. So maybe you guys are more interested in the tradition bearers perspective so I could get that too. But for me I don't really know what immigrants in Scotland are going to be thinking about the election. It's a little bit of a mystery to me and I'm quite curious to find out especially on the the big question that I proposed at the end of the video which is are they going to be unionists or are they going to be nationalists or separatists?

[00:05:12]So I'm quite quite looking forward to finding that out.

[00:05:33]All right.

[00:05:40]Been a while. How are you doing, Robert Mure?

[00:05:43]Has been a good minute, hasn't it? I've been doing lots of admin work being on a computer the whole time. Is that a tweed blazer? Yeah, it's kind of an oversized oversized tweed blazer. Yeah. But usually what I I wear this when I'm wearing like lots of hoodies and waterproof jackets and stuff like that and it goes on top of a lot of stuff because it it's very big. It allows for lots of space. Maybe if I get really fat one day, I'll wear this all the time. Do I think Scotland can survive another four years of the SNP? Uh, that's an interesting question. I have a cold. No, I don't have a cold. Um, it's uh, it's called chronic rhitis.

[00:06:28]Uh, yeah, it's chronic.

[00:06:31]So, I think we can survive another four years of the SNP. Survive. I mean, come on. But this country survived a lot worse than uh than the SNP for a while.

[00:06:46]I [ __ ] no SMPP. What do you think is going to happen? You think the country is going to go up in flames? We'll see. I mean, it's possible, but I don't I don't I don't think that's going to happen. Uh no, I think we'll survive.

[00:07:03]It's a question of, you know, how much more socialist policies are going to make the economy weaker. Uh um we're tough people. We can survive all sorts. I don't really I I know it's kind of a a sort of slightly satirical jokey language. I'm not totally sure that it's necessary to go that far.

[00:07:32]If you took up bag pipes today, how long would it take before you could earn cash busking on the Royal Mile? Um, I mean, if you grabbed a set of bag pipes right now and squeezed them and made a bunch of horrible noises, you could probably make money doing that tomorrow to be honest.

[00:07:49]Um, cuz even at a very be early stage, you have the diminishing return, right? So, being able to just squeeze it at all and get a reaction cuz I've seen some awful awful backpipers. There's a homeless lady who was playing on Princess Street the other day who was who was terrible.

[00:08:06]Um I've seen children play who are terrible. You get some really really awful bag pipers there. So I I I would say like the initial standard is diminishing return.

[00:08:20]Let me show you what I mean. Do you know I mean do you know what I mean by diminishing return or is that uh Let's see. Very nice little graph for you. Seeing as I've got a pen and paper.

[00:08:40]So, I'll do that and that.

[00:08:43]All right. So, this is one year, five years, 10 years. So 10 years is probably a good amount of time to sound pretty decent on the bag pipes, but so how good you are.

[00:09:21]There we go.

[00:09:24]a nice big curvy graph. So that's how good you are against how long you've been learning for. So you can see at the start it goes up a lot faster and then over time it goes a lot slower in terms of like how much people can recognize what your improvements are. So the first day that you're going to make way more difference from not being able to play to being able to at least play a scale and enchanter and then your first two years you'll probably be able to play a tune on the pipes and you'll be able to almost tune your drones a little bit even and then you know the next 10 15 years are going to be when you actually smoothe it out to be a nice player to listen to. you know, maybe in 10 years time, I would say around about that point, not necessarily 10, it could be five, but between five and I suppose 15 years, you're going to sound decent enough to listen to. And then mastery happens once you've been playing for 20 or so years, you then you start to head towards mastery. And that's just approximate. Obviously, a lot of people never ever head to that level. I like to think I won't, but there's a lot of people I know who would definitely say I don't personally have a chance of of getting there. So, those levels ribb on. Obviously, I've been the fact I've been learning for 10 years, which is a very very long time and I am where I am as a player suggests it's it's quite unlikely that I will reach a high level of mastery. Somebody said, "One hour with packing pipes. Tuning the drones takes a while."

[00:11:17]Yeah. So, so learning to tune the drones is just one of these fine tuning things that takes a good period. So, um yeah, it's it's it's something you just you can't really rush getting good at just having a sense for what's happening there. If you do learn fast, and a lot of people do learn the bag pipes very fast and the tuning less fast is something if you're learning at home, you can have a parent be there to help you tune while you're playing or at pipe bands. Like there's a lot of people at pipe bands who are really bad at tuning their bag pipes, but they're fairly decent at the actual technique, which is an okay place to be because they obviously get help from their teachers. It's not very good for practice. And if you want to do something like busking, you definitely need to be able to tune yourself.

[00:12:08]So I I would say before you go out busking, if you're pretty a pretty diligent learner, you're very disciplined, you stick to what your teacher tells you, and you have a good teacher, you can probably be out there in about 5 years.

[00:12:24]Robert Mir jumping in to remind us all that the SNP are done. Well, the question is who's going to take over?

[00:12:31]Who what government are we going to be looking at?

[00:12:35]Because the SNP might have dropped in popularity, but the Greens have surged in popularity and then you're looking at the Lib Dems surging in popularity.

[00:12:49]Then Labor are probably going to tank a little bit from the last election.

[00:12:57]always listen and I don't means tune your drones. But uh but yeah, also you've got the case where reform is going to take a huge chunk of the vote away from the Tories and that's a sort of decision they they've made that in the short term they want to prove that they have as many votes as they can possibly prove that they do have. So they're going to get them really spread out as well. They're not doing what the Greens do. So, the Greens are very smart and intentional with how they get the votes. So, they get usually less overall votes than a lot of similar tier small parties, but they target them really carefully. So, they campaign in really specific areas and they focus on just getting the vote in those places.

[00:13:49]for for reform. Their tactic is just to try and get as much overall vote as possible. So, there's going to be a lot of them in different places.

[00:14:04]It takes a lot of puff to play the bag pipes. You need good lungs. Sorry, Robin. You have had a couple of beers.

[00:14:09]People I was speaking to my grandma about this um a few days ago. A lot a lot of people were saying this to me and they have been saying it for the last 10 years that I've been playing the bag pipes.

[00:14:25]They say ah it takes a lot of puff to play. You get to have good lungs. I think if you're looking at somebody's inherent genetic competency to play the bag pipes, how good their set of lungs is is irrelevant.

[00:14:42]Like it's just not a thing. I would say if you're trying to look at how good they're going to be at the bag pipes, there's probably some markers that you can look at. I would say how patient they are and how disciplined they are are probably the most important things.

[00:14:58]But you're never going to have somebody walk up to a bag piper. You won't have somebody who doesn't play the bag pipe certainly walk up to a bag piper and say, "Wow, you sounded fantastic.

[00:15:09]You're so p you must be so patient and disciplined."

[00:15:13]doesn't really come through very often.

[00:15:16]It's like, "Oh, you must have a good set of lungs on you, son.

[00:15:23]That's why I always hear you're going to vote for reform this time, then then hopefully restore next time." Um, yeah. Yeah, I mean restore is not really an option in a lot of these places and they're going to split the vote from reform just when just about when reform have a chance of taking it from the Tories. Restore are probably going to start taking a chunk out of reform slow breath.

[00:15:58]They have a lot of the same policies to be honest. Uh reform and the Tories in this country in Scotland in in England obviously reform has power over their sovereignty. So they have the ability to control the borders. in Scotland like trying to piece together what they're saying that's actually that different. It is nitpicking.

[00:16:28]It is nitpicking.

[00:16:30]Uh I I think the one thing Malcolm offer is proposing is a slightly different approach to uh housing migrants in Glasgow. And besides from that, I mean, it's almost the exact same thing. It's a very very very slim difference.

[00:16:47]Do bag pipes always play at maximum volume?

[00:16:52]So when you're playing, you don't have control over making the volume go up and down like this. Bag wipes are pretty much three levels of volume.

[00:17:04]No sound, just drones, drones, and chancer.

[00:17:10]And each of those thresholds has to be fairly constant. Actually the no sound doesn't but the the drones have to be fairly constant and when you have the chanter has to be very very constant and it's very very strict about that. So it's it's very key that you stay on that persistent level and if you try and vary the pitch then it's going to sound quite quite unpleasant.

[00:17:36]What that results in is bag pipes leaning themselves to players who prioritize precision and it's less like an instrument like the how could you say yeah you could say maybe the violin where it's or vocals would probably be a better example where it's a lot more about the emotion. When you look at um music in general, you can maybe have sort of jazz improvisational music over here. Maybe jazz is a bad idea. Jazz has very high technical competence. But if you take impro improvisational I don't know samba drum and digu over here completely from the heart quite low skill but all about the emotion that you put into it. Then you have bagpipe music is all the way over here in the opposite side of the spectrum for the highest level of technical demand for much lower level of emotional input. And in the middle you probably got classical music where you just got a combination of being very delicate and and very demanding on the technique.

[00:18:43]How much stuff that is used today has been discovered and created by a Scottish person? Um, it's a good question, Robert. There's a lot a lot of things I could try and quiz myself and see how many Scottish inventions I can name cuz obviously in school we we were taught all these things from a young age. So we were taught about Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

[00:19:06]We've got John Loy Bears invented television.

[00:19:11]We've got a gentleman whose name I can't remember right now who invented penicellin.

[00:19:16]Um we invented roads. We invented modern economics.

[00:19:21]Um, so Taradam invented roads. Adam Smith is the father of economics. He wrote the wealth of nations. You've got really important philosophers like David Hume.

[00:19:34]Um, Scotland's it got quite a long list of of inventions that we managed to put together for the public.

[00:19:44]What's that say? Fleming. Fleming the guy that pallet penicellin.

[00:19:50]Um, no, there's a lot a lot of there's a lot a lot of things Scotland's invented and they're all coming to mind right now, but we're quite we're quite useful. So, if you look at during the industrial revolution, Scotland was the most inventive nation in the world per capita.

[00:20:09]So, per each person, we had far more inventions than anybody else. I think we had something like 10 times second place which was in England and England had the greatest quantity overall. I was talking about this recently in my my other video about sort of Scotland versus England.

[00:20:29]Uh it started off talking about my why I played bags in a trade video. It just went on to me talking about Scotland versus England and unionism and nationalism and separatism and all this sort of stuff.

[00:20:48]as it does as it does. But it showed me that's clearly what I'm thinking about and focused on right now. And it showed me that when I go to the States, that is definitely what I want to make. And well, also when I go to the States, but certainly tomorrow when I go up to the central belt, that's what I want to be focusing on.

[00:21:34]Sorry about that, guys.

[00:21:36]Just need to get a little bit a little bit of it out out of me.

[00:21:49]A little bit peckish.

[00:21:51]It's almost 1000 p.m. here.

[00:21:54]Going to eat some food as soon as this live stream finishes. I think over in Morocco, I used to just stream while eating, stream while doing anything.

[00:22:06]I I just streamed the whole day. I was trying to speedrun my way to completing the watch time limits, but it was not the best approach.

[00:22:16]That's you lad. You're hungry.

[00:22:20]You're also um you're not very sober. So, we're in slightly different categories.

[00:22:30]Do you did any of you guys watch my my really long live stream while I was in Morocco? Well, the interesting thing was that when I do these really long live streams is the average viewership is pretty much constant, doesn't I mean it it it goes like that, but whether it's a really long live stream or it's a really short live stream, the average viewership stays something around three, something like that. It's a similar kind of average.

[00:22:58]and it didn't really go up the whole time I was out there. I think at the start there was maybe a little bit more interest just because it was my first time doing the streams and then people went, "Oh, he's just live streaming all the time now. I think I'm very used to it." Yeah. Yeah. Hello, Maria Elizabeth.

[00:23:13]How you doing today?

[00:23:17]I'm just talking about my my past time doing live streams. Yep, exactly. Oh, welcome. Welcome to the chat here.

[00:23:30]You're nice and new. I'm doing very well. Thank you very much.

[00:23:34]So, I I I really like the notion of live streams. I really like the notion of testing ultra transparency and seeing where that can take me. But I've also found lately having not been live streamed every single day, day in day out, it's been very very useful for me because I've been able to do a lot of boring work on my computer that I just I just wouldn't want to show it to you.

[00:24:09]And obviously when you're in a privileged position where you can get somebody else to do that type of work for you, that's when you can live stream all the time. But for me right now, that that wouldn't be a very useful approach. I mean, I I need to spend that time doing that sort of stuff. and having the limited amount of time I had per day at the time, which was often as short as 20 minutes to myself, that wasn't really a possibility cuz I was doing I was doing streams for about 15 hours.

[00:24:45]So, I would spend a lot a lot of time just being there with the camera directly engaging while I was eating, while I was marching around, while I was speaking to people. All my interviews would be live streamed first and then posted onto Tik Tok in shorter form or YouTube later on.

[00:25:08]First first they were live streamed.

[00:25:13]Now I get a little bit more freedom and control over it. But I what I'm trying to figure out is exactly where I do want to try and live stream in the future.

[00:25:23]One of the the times that that I would want to stream would be during the creative process. So if I was making something like a film or an event, if I'm dressing a set, working with people people in that sense, that's the type of time I would want to be live streaming because that time I have a product that you're eventually going to be able to access, whether that's a film or an event, and a process behind that which you can experience. I would want to take you along on that experience.

[00:26:05]I make films. Amazing. Um, I mean, I haven't really made a proper film in a while. I did shoot a documentary while I was in Morocco. I forgot about that.

[00:26:16]Yeah, I shot a documentary while I was in Morocco. Um, but it it's not really complete. I'd like to post it though.

[00:26:28]But I did I did grow up uh really focused on films and now I'm thinking more along the lines of how I could take a film and make it into an immersive event, which is something I'd prefer to do. And that's probably what's going to be available to my audience is that maybe I I create a film and post it on the YouTube and it's fully free and accessible for everybody, but then there's an event at the end of it which they can come along and attend in Scotland and that's a way they can actually support the tradition bearsers and take part in it in that sense. How you doing on the loots? We've got some OGs here who were from the the time when I used to live stream ridiculous amounts of hours per day, a slightly different time. Uh I didn't earn as much from that as I was as I was hoping I would, but um I had a very very fantastically committed audience. You're good. Thanks. It's nice to see me active. Well, active is one thing. I just thought, you know, I want to come on here and actually communicate with you and give you a little bit of clarity around what's been happening. But most of my days have been like this, you know. I mean, there's no 15-hour live stream in this. I've just been inside spending time on my computer doing work.

[00:28:01]Uh, not very interesting work. I've been going on some nice walks, you know, but I wouldn't want to be walking around my hometown live streaming while I'm on a walk.

[00:28:14]Yeah. Oh my Oh my god, look at this tree.

[00:28:20]And then, you know, my old school teachers are going by thinking, what is this crazy boy up to?

[00:28:27]Uh, what do I do on my computer? What work?

[00:28:31]So that's a good question.

[00:28:34]Not enough. No, I've been So I've been forming I've formed a limited company for doing immersive events.

[00:28:45]So I've had lots of admin work to do uh just for setting up taxes and banking and then basically how I'm how I'm how I'm doing the these events.

[00:29:01]Why you have an American shirt on? This is not an American shirt. Excuse me.

[00:29:07]Can you read this? It's not American.

[00:29:14]Um, but yeah. So, what was I saying? Uh, I I've been working on setting up my company, but then also I've got this spreadsheet of contacts for events.

[00:29:34]And my goal is to work through all these contacts and fill out as much information as possible, build as strong a personal connection with all the contacts on this list, and create events with them.

[00:29:50]You cleaned your room finally.

[00:29:54]Um, I don't think I cleaned it. I just organized. I clean my room all the time.

[00:30:00]But this is a bunch of boxes and things.

[00:30:03]There's all my things uh that I'm not really using at the moment. I don't have storage space for it. So, I've just organized a little bit.

[00:30:16]Great to hear. Making business moves.

[00:30:20]That reminds me of something a guy said uh that I knew when I was in Australia.

[00:30:25]Say that business moves.

[00:30:30]Uh okay. Looked a bit like Trump. What do you mean Trump is always wearing a shirt and a red tie?

[00:30:37]I I don't think I've ever seen Trump wear a black t-shirt. I've maybe seen him occasionally wear a t-shirt while he's playing golf. I don't know how you mean this looks like Trump. You You have lost me there.

[00:30:54]Oh, so you're the guy who plays bag pipes. How old are you? I'm 20 years old.

[00:30:59]You thought it was some sus dirty work.

[00:31:03]Um, no, it was not sus dirty work on my computer. Networking. Yeah, sort of networking. You could describe it like that.

[00:31:12]He's good at golf, is he? I actually don't know. I don't know anything about golf. I've never played golf. I don't even heard uh I've never even held a golf club, but uh I might play in the future sometime. I'm not sure if it's something you can really get good at if once you're an adult already.

[00:31:41]Have I kept up with the pull-ups, bro?

[00:31:43]You were doing them in Morocco.

[00:31:46]Um, yeah, but I've lost a lot of weight recently.

[00:31:54]Uh, it's just it's uh yeah, it's tough to try and keep up a diet where I don't lose weight.

[00:32:06]And it's weird because I've never been like super lean, but to keep on muscle, I need to eat a lot a lot of food. And um I've not been eating enough lately.

[00:32:23]Are you training for UFC?

[00:32:28]If only, man. If only. Keep up the protein intake. Protein intake is not hard cuz I eat lots and lots of meat. I eat a mostly meat diet with lots of liver and mints and stuff like that. The hard thing is getting in just overall enough mass.

[00:32:48]It's expensive. Um, what's expensive?

[00:32:56]You animal. You animal. Don't call me an animal.

[00:33:02]Sounds like you're calling me rabbid, but for what you training?

[00:33:08]Um, I'm not training for anything in specific. I'm I'm literally just training to try and put on mass. I want to be healthier. I want to be uh not a skinny little runt. So, don't know if you can see the size of me right now. Maybe this is disguising it a little bit, but I'm not exactly massive and I want to be much stronger. I want to be able to, you know, do more things.

[00:33:41]I think if you look at most of my lifts, I sit just around average.

[00:33:50]You pretty fine. Oh, well, thank you very much, Nazeri. Haha. That's very kind of for you to say. But uh you need to be much stronger um to do a lot of things. So I think yeah, if you look at most of my lifts, what I'm lifting is just a little bit over average, but most people when they look at me, they wouldn't expect that.

[00:34:15]From my appearance, I look probably significantly below average. Um, and I'm I'm also leaner than I look like. You know, my uh hipbones are really poking through the skin like big.

[00:34:34]I don't know if you can like that. That kind of shape for the girls, of course. Um, hopefully not for the girls. Hopefully just for one girl. Um, I think it's one of those things.

[00:34:50]It's a weird type of paradox. I think I I don't I don't know how much stronger I'm going to get and how much of an influence it would actually make over the taking market. I think it's probably slightly more of a personal thing. Um, of course, it's for the girls. It's the only reason he could want to get muscle.

[00:35:14]Do you have a girlfriend then? No, I don't have a girlfriend. Still hunting.

[00:35:18]You know, if you're gonna help me find one, I appreciate it. But but no, I uh no, I've not got a girlfriend at the moment. I'd like to try and I mean, it's it's not that I'm opposed to it. I'm sure I could find a way to organize around it if that happens. But generally speaking right now, it's not a high priority for me.

[00:35:54]And I'm definitely not putting out there in the way that I I could be. You know, I'm not in in many broad social environments.

[00:36:06]Most of my time is spent focused on, how can I say? I'm either spending time usually by myself or in work situations with people or with old men. When I was on the dating market and spending time with women, I was in much larger group settings. You know, I was going out to bars regularly and spending time in those types of environments were just somewhere I've not been in a while. He's a good Oh my god.

[00:36:44]He's not a gunner. He's not a good. He's very sensible. He has, he being me, he has restraint. All right.

[00:36:56]So, um, let's see.

[00:37:03]Oh, you've written lots of stuff here.

[00:37:05]It's the only reason I feel like we could get Rick Roll any moment now.

[00:37:10]Yeah, I do. I do look a bit like Rick ass at the moment. Is the hair as well doesn't help. Hunt a good one. Oh my god. Hunt. But I do want to get married while I'm young. I want to get married uh probably when I'm uh 25 or something like that. Like mid20ies and have a big family. You might bump into one vlogging pro while I'm vlogging. Um I don't think I'm going to be vlogging to be honest.

[00:37:37]Avoid that.

[00:37:41]Uh, what do you [ __ ] sakes. Why does this chat keep scrolling? What' you write there? Let's see.

[00:37:54]What do you mean no girlfriend? What about the getting married plan? No, I'm I'm going to get You don't need to have a girlfriend four years in advance of getting married.

[00:38:04]Um, exactly. Socialism, bro. What, Maria? What does socialism have to do with anything right now? S, are you the only girl in the chat? Uh, no. I don't think you are. Maria is a girl. I I've got lots of MIL fans, you know. Bro spends his time fighting for our culture and heritage and way of life. Yeah, exactly. Thank you. There. That's That's the I'm going to shout that at anybody who asks me. Why don't you have a girlfriend? Because I'm fighting for your culture and your heritage and your way of life.

[00:38:40]I'm a bob bag mess a blobag wilds. Go forth and procreate. Enrich the culture.

[00:38:48]You look 29. I'm not 29. I'm 20. Why are you telling to get out sir?

[00:38:55]Don't know what you're saying there.

[00:38:57]It's ginger piper. What's your age? 20.

[00:39:01]You look Irish. Aren't there Irish protests right now? No, I'm not Irish and no, I don't know if there's Irish protests right now.

[00:39:12]You seen the video of me on my on my back and thought I had to be AI on my back? What do you mean? I'm not a turtle. I'm capable of standing up, you know.

[00:39:33]What TFA you mean where? I am from the freezing Galloway. Rupert low turtle. Yeah, I don't know what you mean. On your back. You saw a video of me on my back.

[00:39:54]Can I not get up?

[00:40:07]Hey, Robin. Scots speaker here in America. You're a Scots speaker. Good for you, man. Uh, I don't really I try and avoid speaking Scots to be honest. It's something that I grew up with and now now I try and be understood to foreign nationals. So, it's something I I I've intentionally weeded out just about every Scots word out of my language. You busking recently? Yes, I have been busking.

[00:40:35]Actually, I've been I've been doing live streams on here. You can look at my busking live streams. You would happily and willingly follow me into battle, sir. Thank you very much, Mr. Liberty Prime Online. Maybe one day when Scotland is conscripting, I'll convince you to come along and join the forces.

[00:40:56]But right now, I'm not even in the forces, so I'm not going to be going into battle anytime soon.

[00:41:02]Give us some Scottish slang, bro. You'll understand.

[00:41:07]Well, as I said, I've intentionally looked uh weeded all slang out of my language.

[00:41:17]If Robin was playing the pipes next to you, you'd be like Rambo.

[00:41:22]I'd like to think so, you know. Um, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I thought about joining the army, you know. Why don't you start your army? My own army. Um, maybe I should. Honestly, I think my Instagram would be better for trying to convince people to join the army than it would be for anything else.

[00:41:48]You can't read it. I see.

[00:41:53]I I can read Scots. I can read Scots poetry from Robert Burns and the like, but I can't I I mean, it's just not something I I I speak regularly. And I don't think there's much point in speaking Scots to be honest. I think the kind of the focus on the Scots revival is a bit silly. I think you should just learn GA to be honest. I think it's for for mostly for people who want to learn a Scottish language but they don't really want to commit all the way to actually learning a language properly.

[00:42:29]I really could become the new king of Scotland. We believe in you. Um I don't think Scotland's going to have a king anytime soon, but I'm sure I'd be a fantastic candidate if we were looking for one. I would say generally um yeah, if I was trying to use my Instagram for anything, the demographic of my Instagram audience is probably ideal for signing up. If I was to try and convince especially a lot of English young men that they should move to Scotland and sign up for the Scottish army, my Instagram would probably be ideal for that.

[00:43:05]Scots is a Celtic, but it has a weeno gaelic words. Yeah, but I think if you just learn GA then that that is Celtic that is connecting you with Scots history. It is an important sort of distinct language that you're maintaining. If you're learning Scots, it's just English spoken in a Scottish way.

[00:43:37]You look like you're in Hushel.

[00:43:43]You are right. What were you right about?

[00:44:02]Wow, these arms are really short.

[00:44:04]Look how short these arms are.

[00:44:09]Such a huge big jacket.

[00:44:12]It's like Celtic. You told him. What do you mean it's like Celtic?

[00:44:18]Um, Burns wasn't a braid Scottish. I don't think they say braid, but okay. Come on. Let's do a war, guys. You know, I'm not keen to do a war anytime soon.

[00:44:35]Uh, are you all friends? No, not really.

[00:44:37]We're just uh I don't really know these guys.

[00:44:42]What would be the point of learning Celtic? What do you mean Celtic? You mean you mean GIC?

[00:44:48]That's cool, Robin. Other than the fact that two million speak it and we do in Olster, you speak Scots in Olster.

[00:44:58]I mean, yeah, good stuff. Uh, I I think it depends on your environment, I suppose, for for your honest sy faces.

[00:45:13]Let's see. We also have Irish Gaic as well. There are tons of GIC influences Scot or Gaelic influences on Scots.

[00:45:27]Yeah. Yeah, I mean I I don't speak either.

[00:45:32]Ken, [ __ ] all. Uh, so you're a poser?

[00:45:36]No, I don't think it's about being a poser. I think I mean I I I don't I don't speak either. I grew up speaking Scots. That's just the default.

[00:45:47]And I spoke Scots poetry. I don't think it's the case of being a poser. I think it's a case of what environment you're in. And the environment I'm mostly in now is corporate, international.

[00:46:08]Ga has nothing to do with your folk, but well, yeah, historically it does.

[00:46:17]Historically people did speak. your ancestors would have spoken Gaic, but in the modern day not all Scots were Gaic. So G was spoken in Galloway. So if you're from this area, GA would have been spoken here. And in most of the borders, GA would have been spoken as well because it was the default language in this country. If you wanted to speak to other people, you would have to speak Galla. Uh it depends obviously what time in history because a certain time in history they would have spoken English.

[00:46:55]If you're going back about 1500 years ago um they would have spoken a language much more closely resembling Welsh which is the ancient Britannic language the languages of the picss would have been most similar to Welsh.

[00:47:12]So you know this version of Scots which is just Scots dialect of English comes from English.

[00:47:23]So I'm not saying that it is English but it is a dialect of English and it comes to this it came to this country because of English influence.

[00:47:34]So you're admitting English influence to this country by speaking the language.

[00:47:40]You can't even read. Not sure what you're saying.

[00:47:49]I quit with the midass interrogation, you stickler. Uh, all right. Who did Scotland even?

[00:48:00]Wait, never forget true religions of our people, BC.

[00:48:06]I mean, you're talking about historic traditionalism.

[00:48:12]You you seriously don't speak don't know Jack. You don't speak Gaic either. Yeah, I don't speak Gaic.

[00:48:19]I know lots of people that do speak Gaic. I think whether you speak Gaic is not a necessary part of identity for this country fortunately right now.

[00:48:31]But it is potentially something that in the future we could see a significant revival of. I hope that my children will speak Gaik. I don't really care whether my children speak Scots or not. I I mean, there's just not much point in it.

[00:48:47]I I think if we're going to intentionally put an effort to bring something back, we should bring back GI.

[00:48:54]The reality is if they want to blend in in in this area where I am right now, speaking Scots could be useful.

[00:49:05]But other than that, I I mean, there's not much point in me putting an effort into encouraging them to learn Scots. It wouldn't really connect them to their ancestors. It wouldn't really connect them to their history. It would just get them, you know, maybe an understanding of burns and and and a few aspects of recent Scottish history.

[00:49:36]Say you talk English, but you didn't talk GI or Scots language. I don't speak either. You're an American who speaks English, Scots, and Gaelic and Gaic and Spanish. Good for you, man.

[00:49:51]You're going to choose your major for uni this year. Do you think studying old English language literature is a good idea? You're Italian.

[00:49:59]Why don't you study old GA literature?

[00:50:04]Um, old English is is uh one thing I suppose you can study. It's not something I take interest in and I'm not the person to ask about that either.

[00:50:21]Um, why do you study at all? All right, these are just guys, can we can you not allow people to live their lives?

[00:50:30]I mean, if somebody wants to study ancient English, they can do. It's a perfectly reasonable major to have.

[00:50:38]Which uni has that major? I actually don't really know. I don't know why. You can probably Google it. I don't know very much about this. I would imagine Edinburgh University, St. Andrew University, Glasgow University would be the most likely places that you could go and take a look for those things. Um, but who's to say?

[00:51:07]Um, you're saying no, GA was not spoken.

[00:51:10]It might not have been the first language of people in the border regions, but GIC was definitely spoken in those places uh consistently throughout history because people from the highlands would go to those places and it would be necessary to be able to speak to them and people who would come to Scotland to trade would do so on the east coast speaking in GA.

[00:51:38]The International University of Singapore teaches it. Really? The Universal University of Singapore?

[00:51:50]Really, this guy saying Scots is not dialect of English. I mean, people are fighting on whether it's its own language now or not. The reality is that the reason you speak Scots is because of English influence from angles, not the English. English is a modern way to say the angles. Um, obviously they came from sort of Denmark, Germany region. There are German Germanic tribes. Um, you could argue that that it's from them and not from England.

[00:52:35]still, you know, whether it comes from Anglo-Saxons or it comes from modern Anglo-Saxons, which are the people of England, cuz the English people are Anglo-Saxons.

[00:52:49]They form the majority of the English population. I think it's um very similar case.

[00:52:58]AAA lives in his nan's shed. All right, calm down, man. I mean, at least he's made an effort to learn GA.

[00:53:06]The Scottish Kirk is Presbyterian period. Well, you're only looking at very recent history then because Presbyterianism only came about after um when did Presbyterianism come about?

[00:53:21]After John Knox anyway and uh Martin Luther and Henry VII and all these people.

[00:53:30]So it's not it's not a very ancient practice by any means. And actually Presbyterianism was used by the English to split up Scotland. So it was used in very anti- Scottish interests and when you look historically the Catholic Church stood up very strongly for Scotland.

[00:53:56]So that they played a very very important historic role in defending Scottish sovereignty and trying to allow us that you can say it was because of their own Machavelian interests but uh yeah I mean I mean it's the case.

[00:54:15]Hey dumb [ __ ] bro. I don't know why you're getting so angry.

[00:54:19]We're on the same side here. We're both trying to stand up for Scottish culture.

[00:54:23]You're in GA, Nova Scotia, too. Not gonna happen. It's not going to come back just like you didn't bother learning it.

[00:54:33]Um, I mean, it wasn't in my environment naturally growing up. G speaking numbers are going up significantly and it is going to increase. The number of jobs around GI have gone up enormously.

[00:54:52]I'm full of [ __ ] Not all Scots were gays.

[00:54:57]You're full of it, bro. Why is this guy getting so mad? What did I say to make him so angry? Um, speaking nothing but Scots English. Scottish English.

[00:55:09]Okay.

[00:55:10]Um, Scotland is a unique country with a unique culture.

[00:55:21]The modern culture is much more integrated with the international community and the extent to which we have sovereignty over our culture can be decided by us. I think we there's no reason why we can't bring back GIC.

[00:55:43]You're right. Aa is definitely being rude right now, but I think he's also got a little bit upset. Uh, he might upset him. Speak some garlic. I don't speak GI. Sorry, Damian.

[00:55:57]Sorry, Damian. I don't speak garlic, but it is something that I hope we can bring back.

[00:56:07]North Umbrean is where Scots comes from, but you have to have the Scottish War of Independence first. Alba was not Scotland poser.

[00:56:19]Uh, all right, man. I mean, we can get into nitpicking. Historically speaking, North Umbrea has been, you know, fairly separate from Scotland. There's always been quite a distinct culture. One of the good examples of that is you can look at the patterns in the clothing that we had in Scotland. We had uh sort of a a different type of check historically.

[00:56:46]700 years old and isn't English didn't come from and isn't SSE or modern English. That's true. Yeah. Um, I mean this is just historical nitpicking, but obviously SSSE is very much the modern way to speak it. And most Scots is basically just the way that people speak Scots now is an impersonation of 19th or 18th century Scots.

[00:57:16]So, you know, the the way you speak Scots is definitely not how it was spoken 700 years ago, just as the way people speak modern English is not how modern English was, not how English was spoken 700 years ago.

[00:57:32]18th century Scots as people speak it now is more similar to 18th century English than it is to SSSE.

[00:57:49]Irish is the real GA.

[00:57:52]I mean this is just this is just nitpicking guys. I I mean Irish is the real GA is just such a the the I mean the thing is the the modernday Scots Gaic is somewhat of a construct. You could definitely argue uh compared to the old Gaic. In Ireland, Gaelic was maintained much better because there's areas of uh Ireland where they actually maintain their language much better. Whereas Scotland, it was only in the islands.

[00:58:25]So, we've actually lost a lot of mainland GA. And if you look at what people consider mainland GA now, it comes from this construct.

[00:58:37]You're saying Irish is real GIC? I mean, not not googling. You're a teacher of the Scots language. Nice. But if you're a teacher, I don't know why you're being so um acting so immature to be honest right now. The way you're typing is very strange.

[00:58:56]Teach you teach anybody anything. Good stuff. Up the Kelts.

[00:59:01]All right. I mean, I don't think this is a healthy way to to talk about discussion about history and culture.

[00:59:09]It's like, well, there's there's different periods where people spoke different things in different places.

[00:59:13]Scots is what I grew up speaking. I don't know if this what you grew up speaking. I it seems to me it's something that you've learned.

[00:59:23]You're just joking, Rob. You're Irish, but you love the Scots. Good stuff, man.

[00:59:27]Good stuff, Damian. Well, your second name is Gervin as well, which is a place quite near to where I am right now. So, uh, welcome back home, my friend.

[00:59:41]TripleA just wants to argue. Yeah. Yeah, that's the case.

[00:59:45]But look, look, I I don't really want to end on this note. We're going to cut it off around about an hour. Um, I think what is positive and what is constructive going forward is to have discussions about what Scotland can be and getting too rooted in the real way to speak within our history is is not really that important a focus to me. I think we can talk about reviving Gaic and reviving aspects of c our culture that has strength in its history. But we can also take a lot of what we have that has been a result of continual progression over periods and some degeneration but overall continual progression and we can pursue something that's rather than a purist idea of what Scottish culture could be which could eventually head us towards a position of trying to freeze in a certain idea of what it means to be Scottish but instead could be pushing to continually improve our culture in a very distinctly Scottish way and that's something I think is is a much much more positive approach to our country and further years into the future. I am absolutely pro technological advancement and I want to see the continually development the continual development and prosperity of this nation. I see no reason we would be uh one of the wealthiest nations per capita in the world through our combination of our whiskey industry and our oil reserves. I see no reason why we couldn't be on that standard as a very very successful nation. We have very very smart people who have enormous amount to contribute to the world. We have very very creative people and one of the few things in the way of us having this is our sovereignty.

[01:01:50]What you don't have oil Arabs are they riches?

[01:01:56]I'm not sure what you're saying. If you want to look at the enormous scale of our oil reserves compared to our tiny population, you will be uh amazed. Yes, we do have a very very large amount of oil in the North Sea which does belong to Scotland.

[01:02:16]So I look forward towards a prosperous future. Tomorrow I'm going to be speaking to some immigrants and trying to discuss this topic a lot more.

[01:02:28]You don't come on, bro. Arab are the richest. I don't know what you're trying to say here. Arabs have a lot of oil. We have a lot of oil. Um, I don't know if you Nazeri has is very firm about saying uh that we don't have oil. I'm not sure what geological awareness he has, but it's not really true. Uh, Arabs have good kebab shops in Glasgow.

[01:02:55]Um, no, but they have the most.

[01:03:01]What are you talking about, man? They are rich. They are rich because they have lots of oil. We also have lots of oil.

[01:03:10]I don't know where you're trying to go with this. Um, and good vape shops.

[01:03:15]Terrible vape shops, mate. They're literally setting our buildings on fire.

[01:03:18]Yeah, exactly. Remember the fire? Yeah, they're they're terrible.

[01:03:25]Uh, wait a minute. Believed in divine monarch that supported Stewart's James.

[01:03:32]Yeah, that's true. The Catholics were more Jacabian.

[01:03:37]Yes, that's true. I think he's just spilling historical facts now to prove that he's a teacher. But he's not showing any maturity to prove that he's a teacher. This is just not the way that I would get engage in discussion with any reasonably civilized person. I promote and teach the GI Irish and Scottish varieties. All right, man.

[01:03:58]Okay. You love the Scottish and the Irish forget religion. Um I don't know if forgetting religion is the necessary approach going forwards.

[01:04:07]I think religion has a very important place in our history. Um but it's good to have unity despite our religion for sure.

[01:04:17]Uh Scotland was historically Catholic for a very very long time and we had our own Celtic Christian beliefs for a long time. Presbyterianism came along and it divided up our country and it made a significant portion of our country be more pro- unionist. It was a force against Scottish so sovereignty for a very long time. Somebody guys just came here and written in I think it's Portuguese.

[01:04:46]Uh I don't speak Portuguese so I don't know what you've written. Argue about Protestants and Catholic. No, I mean I'm not saying that we should argue about Protestants and Catholic. I'm just saying that we shouldn't like uh my view is definitely that we we shouldn't ignore religion. I think it's good to be able to look past it and have your attitude as you're saying we can see each other as brothers despite having different religion.

[01:05:11]Uh but uh Calvinism is not Christian. I don't really know anything about Calvinism. So you can educate me on that subject.

[01:05:21]You're saying there was no Scotland in the fifth century. Um well there was the Scotty people as analyzed by the Romans.

[01:05:30]So you can say that we did have a Scotland. Obviously we were slightly more split up at that time because we had the picss in the east and we had more Viking influence. There was also Anglo-Saxons in Scotland at that time in the in the more southeast regions.

[01:05:50]So saying Israel is a nice country. You think so? I was in Israel. Israel is a fascinating, fascinating place and it's a good time to go to Israel right now because the tourist locations, you love Israel. Oh, really? Are you Jewish? Why do you love it so much? But uh no, it's a very interesting place especially for somebody who is interested in Christian history. It's a very very interesting place to go to right now. If you were to go there any other time in history, you have to wait about six hours to see Jesus's tomb. And if you go right there right now, you'll have no troubles. Nice women.

[01:06:32]He's converted because of the nice women.

[01:06:36]Well, um, you know, you think very tactically and very practically. I'll say that. I'll say that their position in in geopolitics right now is being heavily questioned, but I think it takes a lot of bravery, I suppose, to to speak on behalf of them. You're Catholic, but the country is fascinating. Yeah, it is a fascinating country.

[01:06:59]I mean, I had a very good time there. I was shown enormous, enormous amounts of generosity by the people of Israel uh for an extensive period. I don't think I've seen that amount of generosity from any other nation. I didn't pay for a single night in accommodation while I was there. I didn't pay for a single meal while I was there. I I just had a wonderful wonderful time. Miss is only thinking about the women. I know. I can see I can see this what he's thinking.

[01:07:28]You know, Scotland has very beautiful women as well. Um, when I was in Israel, I think probably the reason the women in Israel are so beautiful is because they're so healthy there. Like, I just didn't see fat Jews. Uh, there really wasn't very many there. Brother, the best women are there in Israel.

[01:07:47]Listen to this guy. Um, I don't know if that's the case. I think the best women I've seen uh most attracted to me have mostly been Irish.

[01:07:58]Yeah, I think I think the most attractive women I've seen have almost all been Irish, but there's a lot of beautiful women in Scotland.

[01:08:08]Uh, this this AAA guy has just been spamming stuff for a while now. I don't know how I got you so upset that you could come to such a high degree of no lack of unprofessionalism.

[01:08:23]The best women are from Olter. Really?

[01:08:25]Is that is that true? A mix of Scotland and Ireland, I suppose. Come on. You are in Dublin. No compare.

[01:08:34]Um.

[01:08:38]All right. Okay. Let's just see your perspective. Uh I don't know if it was when I was in Ireland that I saw them, but the Irish women that I've met in my life have probably been the most beautiful women I've seen.

[01:08:50]Um, like I mean I'm talking about the people that are the the very very very very very very very top. I think I think the most beautiful women I've seen in my entire life was an Irish fiddle player.

[01:09:04]Just somebody who are just like blown away by their appearance. But overall, I mean, most countries, most European countries generally uh have very contendable 1%, very contendable 10%. You know, it's not something you can Okay, who was it? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I couldn't necessarily place exactly who it was.

[01:09:26]You're so handsome. You're sure you're going to have a beautiful girlfriend?

[01:09:29]Thank you very much, uh, Mrs. Sud or Sudi. I'm not sure how to say your name.

[01:09:34]It's a very kind thing for you to say.

[01:09:36]Um, I'll eat my dinner with a little smile on my face. Remembering that you said that, you know, I appreciate it.

[01:09:42]Uh, people are very, very, very, very kind here and I appreciate your contributions.

[01:09:50]I don't think Scotland will forget how kind the world has been to it. The world has always been very kind and very generous to Scotland. I think as a nation, uh, we respect that a lot and we we're very very thankful for that. The important thing is what what do we do with that? How do we actually achieve our sovereignty and how do we actually go ahead and achieve uh decent level of prosperity for our nation? And that's what I'm focused on.

[01:10:19]That's what I want to be concentrated on. The most beautiful woman you ever saw in Ireland was a Campbell. Really?

[01:10:27]That's controversial. That's interesting. A Campbell. Um there you go.

[01:10:34]Yafani.

[01:10:35]Who's just written Yafani? I mean, I don't know what this conversation's trying to lead to. I never trusted Campbell.

[01:10:43]That's what they say.

[01:10:46]That's what they say. But there's a lot of people. There's a lot of people with Campbell history.

[01:10:57]What is a Campbell? It's a distinct clan within Scotland. The poor girl died. The Campbell girl. No way. What? The most beautiful girl you've ever seen in your life. And she died. That's tragic.

[01:11:16]I'm Scottish. Nor are you. I'm born and and raised in America.

[01:11:22]Bro, this guy's going mental, man. Wait till you hear his old Yankee accent.

[01:11:28]Hey, hello there, sir. I'm more Scottish than you are.

[01:11:36]I'm more Scottish than you are. I can speak Gaic.

[01:11:41]Yeah, your best friend. Shut up. Tragic.

[01:11:45]She was your best friend. Oh, sorry, man. I'm sorry to hear that, bro. Sorry.

[01:11:48]I shouldn't have been laughing about it, but um that I'm I'm actually really sorry to hear that, man.

[01:11:54]Your best Wow, your best friend passed away. I'm I'm really sorry. Should have been laughing about it.

[01:12:02]All right. I don't know what this guy this triple AAA guy is going to be. He's kind of rage paying himself, I think, right now at this point. He's just writing stuff to make himself more angry. Um, but yeah, sorry I was laughing there. I didn't mean to talk about it in that extent. Um, look, it's been wonderful coming on here and speaking to all of you. I think I can sort of see how the issue with live streaming. We Robin is still trying to find himself. great guy, intelligent, but still a bit to learn. What have I got to learn? Um, well, educate me. You know, I'm happy to listen and hear what you think I've got to learn. Uh, I have obviously got a lot of things I'm trying to learn. I think this kind of internalized conversation isn't very useful though because I prefer to I prefer to spend time with people who are having conversations that are pursuing the prosperity and future advancement of the nation than talking about things that are too logged in the past. But I'm glad to, you know, people are having these discussions and you you love my channel.

[01:13:08]Thank you very much, Mr. user CK.

[01:13:13]I appreciate your support. Your support.

[01:13:16]Robin is a mighty hero. Well, thank you very much. I don't think I don't think I'm really a mighty hero. That's a very very kind thing to say. I I wish I could say that about myself. I wish I could say uh confidently that I was a mighty hero. I don't think I've done anything to that extent to consider myself worthy of such a statement. But I work hard on doing what I can to change things. On your bike, Fanny Boss.

[01:13:43]I'm a hero of yours. Well, thank you very much, Damian. That's a very very kind thing to say, and I really appreciate your your support in in all these senses.

[01:13:52]Uh, no, it's been it's been nice getting a chance to speak to you and I'm going to head off and try and get some stuff done. Hopefully, we can have I want to have an event planned and arranged in the next week and then I'll look at inviting people to those events once we can have basically I've got pricing sorted for the event itself, but I haven't got pricing sorted for the artwork and other things that people are going to have included in it.

[01:14:22]So, I need to figure that out and figure out the sort of time scale uh which we're going to look at for how long it's going to take for people to prepare this work. You play the pipes over the morning prayer. I did and I've just done a video on why I did that as well. So, I've lent into that a little bit.

[01:14:40]Well, thank you very much for coming on here speaking to me. I look forward to discussions on all these topics furthering themselves in the future. and a lot of them are internal philosophical debates that we could take on for thousands of years. Um, it's been wonderful getting to speak to you and I will see you all in the future. I'll see you all I mean next week, let's say. I'll see you all in my videos actually. Scottish were always on the front line in battle.

[01:15:16]Uh, so they say so they say, but I've never been on front line in battle.

[01:15:21]Thanks to you, Robin. I have your respects. Thank you very much, everybody.

[01:15:25]See you in my video. I'll post a video tonight and I can see you all in that video. Goodbye.