#223 Ray Winstone - Sawn off Shotguns & Mountain Tops

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🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Acting Royalty Ray Winstone joins the pod this week and tells his story. An east end boy who was scared of the dark that ended up being one of the most recognisable faces on the planet. Hear his life story from boxing as a kid, getting kicked out of drama school and landing his big break in Scum on the same day, and how he overcame his fear of the dark.

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0:00.0	I'm Hello, welcome to pound for pound, the number one boxing podcast with me Jack Wood engine.
0:27.0	Mr Spencer Oliver.
0:29.0	Oh, you brooh!
0:30.0	I'm excited, I'm excited. We are excited. what's going on why why you're so I spent but you know why I'm excited mate you know you tell them you tell I've been excited all day for this
0:41.6	we've got probably one of the best actors in the world on the show this week Spencer Mr
0:46.7	Ray Winstone
0:47.7	a legend mate a living legend movie star phenomenon he He used to box, box for England. He's just had an amazing life and
0:56.2	we're lucky to know him to call him and mate, we love him. And listen, he's very kindly agreed to come on
1:02.2	the podcast. Five and a half years ago he did this
1:04.1	podcast Ben so it was a long time ago in it and yeah we'll just we'll catch out with him see what he's been up to and
1:09.6	he's out there in Sicily so he's there in Sicily when we've done it before wouldn't he that was that that was the mad thing we've done it before he was out in Sicily.
1:17.0	Yeah.
1:18.0	He's I think he sorted his Wi-Fi out since then but I think before when he was there because he lives up on top of the mountain,
1:24.3	didn't he and Sicily, didn't have any Wi-Fi. So the only place he could get a signal was right at the top.
1:29.1	So he had to go out there with his phone, didn't he? Because he's scared of the dark and all that, he had a shotgun with him, didn't he because he's scared of the dark and all that he had a shotgun with him didn't.
1:34.6	He did!
1:36.6	Oh good.
1:38.6	And yeah, if you haven't listened to that that was our fifth ever episode spent.
1:42.3	We were on 200 and odd now,
1:44.4	yeah we're a lot of episodes now we like five and a half years later but yeah
1:49.1	it was one of the first ever ones that was quite absolute quality but listen Ray's really generously agreed to come on again so yeah
1:57.2	you're gonna love listening to this episode it's all I know
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