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So, Ian, welcome to Birmingham.

You've made it.

All right.

You know, funnily enough, just before you connected with me, having safely come from Scotland to Birmingham, I was listening, not our choice, but I was listening to the 1975 Paul Gambuccini thing. And I just got to Jasper Carrot and funky moped. Do you remember that track?

The Paul Gambuccini thing? What are you talking about? No, you know on radio two, Paul Gambuccini does a

chart show, pick of the pots. Oh, right, right.

And he picks a year, right?

Yeah.

So today he'd picked 1975 and I was listening to it and I had just got to that track.

I mean, how do things like that get in the charts?

Well, it was 1975.

Well, I'm a massive fan of Birmingham, but I'm not a massive fan of Jesper Carrot, I think it would be fair to say, and that's sort of slightly sacrilegious.

I quite like Jasper Carrot. He was the compere at one of slightly sacrilegious. I quite like Jasper Kara. He was the

compare at one of Lord Ashcross birthday parties that I went to and he was very, very good, yeah.

I actually have a couple of Jasper Kara LPs. You don't. I do where he's got his various sort of

routines on. His favorite routine of mine was the one way he talks about country music songs and how

they all feature one of five subjects and ideally all five at once.

So mothers, prisons, trains, I can't remember what the other, trucks.

Gambling? And then he goes, something like, well, since my trains, I can't remember what the other, trucks.

Gambling.

And he goes, something like, well, since my mama got out of prison,

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