Summary
The tech entrepreneur talks to us about moving people away from university and his dad's tech skills. It's also the sad day the UK went over 100,000 Covid deaths; Adam, Laura and Fergus process the moment with psychotherapist Julia Samuel.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Alix Pickles, Daniel Wittenberg, Ben Weisz Senior Producer: Rick Kelsey Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | So we're joined on the podcast today by Ewan Blair. |
| 0:06.8 | Hello, Ewan. |
| 0:08.0 | What we're doing now is exactly what we did when your dad came on in the summer. |
| 0:12.0 | Is that true? Yes Yes and we had about 15 |
| 0:14.0 | minutes where he and your mom tried to work out how to get the air pods working. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm going to say he is not nearly as on top of technology as I am so I got I got that impression and you do work in the tech sphere now so |
| 0:30.2 | Give me one second like father son, you get Tony Blair on, you have to sort out the headphones, you get |
| 0:37.2 | you and Blair on, yeah. |
| 0:38.2 | Okay, quite a Humm in the background. |
| 0:41.0 | We're going to try a couple of options. |
| 0:42.2 | Oh, is that hum right now? |
| 0:43.0 | Can I see that this is less stressful doing this with you than it is with an ex-prime minister? |
| 0:48.0 | I can tell you that. |
| 0:49.0 | What was he like on that? |
| 0:51.0 | Well, he was, well, obviously he was completely bamboozled by the technology and at first I thought, oh who's that with him? |
| 0:57.5 | Is that his press officer or his assistant? And I was like, no, it's it's Shire shirey player yeah that's not right good thank you I'm |
| 1:05.9 | gonna tell him you set that next time when we have a rematch anyway you're here |
| 1:09.6 | obviously because you're now a very successful entrepreneur and you're helping people get |
| 1:14.6 | apprenticeships and building up their skills and so there's lots that we can talk |
| 1:18.7 | to you about. Yeah excited looking forward to it. Yeah but bear with us because we've got some of the days |
| 1:23.3 | news to get through first and some of it is a bit sad because we hit quite a bad |
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