Live at Edinburgh Fringe: Why is Trump talking about actress Sydney Sweeney?
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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Today, Newscast was recorded at the Edinburgh Fringe in front of a live audience.
Adam was joined by Americast’s Sarah Smith and friend of the podcast James Cook to discuss all things Trump. They chat about what it’s like being part of the President’s press pack, why Sydney Sweeney’s jeans are so controversial, plus what last week’s Truth Social posts about nuclear submarines were all about.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.2 | Hello, from the Edinburgh Fringe. And hello to the newscasters who've come to see us in the Edinburgh Fringe. |
| 0:10.6 | Hello. |
| 0:15.6 | So just a reminder that this week's newscast is going to sound a little bit different because, yeah, we a sort of theatrical venue we are at the edinburgh fringe i've got one of these handheld microphones |
| 0:23.9 | that sounds a bit kind of echoy and yeah we've got a very enthusiastic audience with us um i've just |
| 0:29.8 | realized who else is going to be on this stage at various points during the fringe for the next month |
| 0:34.4 | um any smack theony fans here? |
| 0:44.2 | Yes, a few. That's a very famous 90s and naughtyies sketch show. They're doing a reunion show here in a few weeks' time where they're going to be interviewed by Kirsty Wark. So that's |
| 0:49.1 | quite good. Yes, oh, Christy Wark's more famous than Smack the Pony. Let's not tell them. |
| 0:54.3 | I'll leave them a little note backstage. |
| 0:57.3 | Who else is here? |
| 1:00.1 | Kieran Hodgson from Two Doors Down. |
| 1:02.1 | He's doing a show. |
| 1:03.5 | Does everyone love Two Doors Down? |
| 1:05.3 | It's interesting. |
| 1:06.2 | A lot of my English friends have never heard of it. |
| 1:09.0 | And if you're listening to this and thinking, |
| 1:10.3 | what was he talking about? Two Doors Down is a Scottish sitcom about like some people living in a cul-de-sac. Apparently it's in Lensie. Does anyone know where Lensie is? Yeah. And yeah, I love it. It's very, very funny. And actually, you don't have to be Scottish to get the jokes. So Kieran's going to be here. And then, best of all, who remembers Michelle McManess from Pop Idol? Early days of Pop Idol. That was just when I started my career as a journalist actually on News Round. Michelle McManus was a big story for us. She's going to be here in a few weeks doing a show on this very stage. So I'm delighted to be sharing a stage, not necessarily right now, but through the next, |
| 1:46.2 | I've really mucked that up, haven't I? Because I'm not sharing the stage. It's like sort of time travel, |
| 1:50.0 | multiverse thing, isn't it? Anyway, right, shall we get on with this episode of newscast, which all week |
| 1:54.7 | is going to be introduced by some friends of the pod? It's the King's Singers Acapella Singing Group |
| 1:58.9 | who have recomposed our trademark theme tune. |
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