Farewell to a legend: Tears, cheers and kirs
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🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea host a special episode to say goodbye to Stephen Bush.
Kir royales are sunk and Stephen takes an audio trip down memory lane, featuring a rendition of “American Pie”, this time about Scottish Labour, as well as his teenage Harry Potter fanfiction and his honest opinion on “Devil with the Devil”.
Then in You Ask Us, former hosts make a special appearance to ask Stephen some questions.
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| 0:33.0 | Hi, I'm Stephen. I'm Anish. And I'm Alva. And it's my last time on the New |
| 0:37.7 | Statement podcast, so in an incredibly self-indulgent trip down memory lane, |
| 0:41.4 | we look back on my highlights, a lot more low lights, and we have a very, very special you ask us. |
| 0:47.2 | So on today's New Statement podcast, it's our last with Stephen Bush. So we're not going to talk |
| 0:59.8 | about anything serious. If you're not a regular listener, maybe just give this one a miss. |
| 1:06.0 | This isn't going to be a good jumping on point. Unless you want to feel nostalgic for someone |
| 1:10.4 | you never knew. So Stephen, what knew from the Ukraine border? So before we go any further, |
| 1:18.4 | I think a thing that our listeners won't be aware of is that Stephen's a bit of a cocktail |
| 1:24.0 | themed. I mean, Anish has been joking that I've only got to know you, Stephen, in your sort of |
| 1:27.9 | bougie era for a few years. You two go way back. Yeah, because Alva was like, oh, you know, he'll |
| 1:32.6 | take us to a nice restaurant. I was like, that's not the Stephen that I really know. I know the Stephen |
| 1:38.0 | from the slot bucket is for the listeners of the New Statement podcast, who don't know, was |
| 1:42.8 | an office we used to have in Farringdon that was just sort of like a desert wasteland with no kitchen |
| 1:47.3 | facilities and just a bucket on the floor where we'd tip our dregs into. And then the poor cleaner |
| 1:52.0 | had to take out at the end of the day. I know Stephen from those years and the, you know, get a |
| 1:56.1 | baguette and a pot of hummus from Tesco for lunch type time. Yeah. Whereas I've had lots of long |
| 2:02.4 | decanent lunches with Stephen, the aficionado of the long west Winston lunch. And he's also |
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