I'm Gordon Smart, welcome to the Restless Netters podcast. The music you are hearing is not the right music. It's a pale imitation of what we had planned and I'm raging about it. But more on that later because I'm joined by my friend, co-conspirator,

part-time surrogate child, good friend and lover, Martin Comsteck.

How you doing, Bill?

All right, brother, I'm all right, brother.

Restless natives was a cult Scottish film from 1985 featuring two scallywags,

two rascals, if you will, the clown and the wolfman.

It's iconic.

If you've never seen it, you need to watch it immediately.

Maybe even pause the podcast and have a little squint at it.

Then come back and you'll understand where we're coming from.

Martin, I sent you a wee message recently and said,

look, just before we start off on this mad, restless natives carry on,

can you just make sure you've watched the film properly?

Well, I'd seen it like years ago in Hangs, but I'd watching it again,

because we're talking about, I mean, it will probably change about who's the clown and who's

the wolfman, and then, because you're saying, once you watch a film, and yeah, the wee short-arse,

angry, ambitious one one was probably me i don't know why you

immediately came to mind when that wee short-ass guy in the joke in the joke shop who was selling fake

plastic boobs to wee boys come on Jesus is this how we're starting this thing is how we're starting this

thing but restless night was when i was a wee boy, I remember watching it with my brother,

and there's this brilliant scene where they're on the motorbike,

driving through Edinburgh, down Prince's Street,

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