How to Run a Scottish City
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
5 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Robert Aldridge is the 258th Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Scotland.
He previously served a Councilor in Edinburgh since 1984, focusing on city enviornment, recycling, refuse collection, street cleaning, parks, and homelessness. He is the former Chief Executive of the Scottish Council for Single Homeless and latterly Homeless Action Scotland.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host Andrew Heaton and today the last day of City Week I am very excited because I am |
| 0:19.1 | going to interview none other than the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| 0:24.0 | Eric, play some Scottish music in honor of our esteemed guest, something classy, like, |
| 0:32.0 | play a men's choir singing the Scottish National Anthem. |
| 0:35.5 | Hit it! When I wake up, |
| 0:45.0 | wake up, well I know I'm gonna be, |
| 0:48.0 | I'm gonna be the man who hears something next to you. |
| 0:51.0 | When I go up, yeah I know I'm going to be a |
| 0:55.6 | gonna be a man who goes along with you. |
| 0:58.7 | Today's episode is particularly exciting for me as I spend a lot of time in Edinburgh |
| 1:06.6 | and it's exciting for City Week because Edinburgh, Scotland and Austin, Texas are the two greatest cities in the history of mankind, as confirmed by |
| 1:17.4 | science and the Book of Leviticus. |
| 1:21.1 | It's just about the only two things they agree on and I am going to speak to |
| 1:24.4 | the leader of one of them today. |
| 1:26.6 | So, with this interview, I slightly beefed up my credentials and asked to interview the Lord Provost |
| 1:39.5 | who graciously agreed, and then I got invited to his office at the city chambers got to sit in a nice soft |
| 1:46.4 | leather couch in a really cool mahogany room with big clocks and stuff. |
| 1:52.0 | It was amazing. Afterwards he took a photo with me |
| 1:55.1 | wearing his official Lord medallion. I'm pretty sure my credit rating went up |
| 2:00.5 | by a solid 50 points just talking to that guy. |
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