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00:01Hi, you're gonna ask me if she's got a risk?
00:05Oh my god, she'll get me in trouble.
00:08What can possibly go wrong with you?
00:14PHONE RINGS
00:15She's up for your session.
00:22Hiya.
00:23Nicola. Hi.
00:24Hello, Nicola.
00:25That's my name, Nicola. Are you Nicola as well?
00:27Yeah, I'm going to miss Kate.
00:28Kate.
00:29Lovely to meet you, Kate.
00:30I love your nails.
00:31Look, nail twins.
00:32Hello.
00:32Hi, my name is Timmy.
00:34Timmy.
00:34Lovely to meet you.
00:35I'm Takara.
00:36Takara, that's a beautiful name.
00:37My name is Julia.
00:38Lovely to meet you.
00:39My name is Caroline.
00:41Caroline, lovely to meet you.
00:42Marcus.
00:43Yeah.
00:43Lovely to meet you.
00:44What's your name?
00:45Timmy.
00:46Timmy, yeah, you told me that, yeah.
00:49Hot seat.
00:50Is this the hot seat?
00:52Spicy as well.
00:53Spicy hot seat.
01:01Are you nervous?
01:03No, no, no, no.
01:04What have I got to be nervous about?
01:06Everything.
01:11I think she's warmed up now.
01:13You are, are you like the Piers Morgan of this?
01:17LAUGHTER
01:19I'm just trying to suss out who I've got to be most.
01:21Or maybe I'm just being my cheeky self.
01:23I don't know.
01:23Worried about it.
01:24Okay, Nicola, would you like to introduce us?
01:28Hello, Nicola, how are you?
01:31I'm good, thank you, Nicola.
01:33Welcome to the assembly.
01:36Our collective of autistic neurodivergent and learning disabled interviewers.
01:45No subject is out of bounds.
01:48No question is off the table and all might happen.
01:53Please tell us who you are.
01:56My name is Nicola Sturgeon.
01:58Yeah.
01:59I am a politician.
02:01Mm-hmm.
02:02I used to be the first minister of Scotland.
02:04And I'm, I think, really happy to be here.
02:09Okay.
02:10Lovely.
02:12Wow, by the way.
02:14I'm going to start with a question for Mikey.
02:16Mikey, hi.
02:20How does it feel being divorced?
02:22Oh.
02:24Oh.
02:26Oh.
02:26Oh.
02:27Oh.
02:29Oh.
02:30So I'm not actually divorced yet, but I'm separated from my husband.
02:36Oh, what happened?
02:37We, like, shit happened.
02:41What?
02:42Shit happened.
02:44Shit happened.
02:45Sorry.
02:45What was the main reason why you chose to separate?
02:52Um, I mean, there's been a lot of public coverage of my husband's being accused of crime and stuff.
02:57Yeah.
02:58So that, that is what everybody thinks it will be.
03:01And I'm not saying that's not a factor, because that when you're faced with something like that, it kind of
03:06completely blows your...
03:08Entire life up.
03:09...your world.
03:09But I think, if I'm being honest, I think it was probably more than that.
03:16I've been this very career-focused politician all my life, and now I'm going into a phase of life where
03:23I want to find out a bit more about who I am as a person, not just as a politician.
03:27And so, yeah, it's, you change, and I think sometimes, although the change is really hard, you will be happier
03:37because you go through that change, and you would be if you just stayed where you were.
03:42Have you had any secret rendezvous recently?
03:50I'm just asking because I want to know.
03:56This is the only time I hope in this whole recording that I'm going to do a politician answer, which
04:03is, maybe.
04:07You can, this is one of these moments where you're going to have to judge from my body language and
04:14read between the lines.
04:15Yeah.
04:16Okay?
04:18Great questions, Mikey, great questions.
04:22Are you all relaxed now?
04:23I am relaxed now.
04:24Until...
04:25Until Piers here gets going.
04:29Julis, you're up.
04:31Hi, Nicola, lovely to meet you.
04:33What politician do you like the least?
04:36Ooh!
04:37Right in.
04:40Right now, that's quite a hard one to choose, so I'm going to go for Nigel Farage.
04:46He's not who he pretends to be.
04:48I think he's got some really dodgy views.
04:50Mm-hm.
04:51I think he's only interested in himself, and...
04:54Yeah, I don't really like him.
04:56Sorry.
04:57Sorry, Nigel.
04:59But, I mean, you know...
05:01I don't like him.
05:03Yeah.
05:03I hate him.
05:04If I see him on the street now, I don't know what I'm going to do to you.
05:06Yeah, we're going to go on fine.
05:09Takara.
05:10When I'm sad, I drink wine.
05:13What do you do?
05:14I drink wine.
05:19What kind of wine do you like?
05:21I like red wine.
05:23I like Prosecco.
05:25I mean, I wouldn't turn down a glass of Prosecco, but I prefer red wine.
05:29Or a cheeky wee gin and tonic.
05:32I have a horrible feeling that this might make the situation even more worse, in my opinion.
05:38You're a lot more sensible than me, I think.
05:41Yeah.
05:43Now we're going to come to Jason.
05:46Hello, Nicola.
05:47Hiya.
05:48Nice to meet you.
05:49You too.
05:50When you were arrested, did you have to do stuff like getting your fingerprint taken,
05:57get put in a cell, or did you get special treatment?
06:06I...
06:07So I didn't do any of that, but I don't think that was special treatment,
06:10because I wasn't charged with any offence.
06:13It was in Scotland when you're interviewed under caution about something,
06:16you're arrested as part of that.
06:18But I don't think anybody would have had any of those things in my circumstances.
06:22OK.
06:22So it wasn't that bad?
06:25No, it was...
06:26It was a horrible thing, yeah.
06:28OK, good.
06:29I mean, no, it wasn't good.
06:30No, it was not good.
06:32Sorry.
06:32I would not recommend it.
06:34No, no, of course, yeah.
06:35No-one would.
06:35It was horrible, yeah.
06:36I think I sort of put myself into some kind of, you know, shutdown state,
06:41and since then I've just tried to sort of blank it out of my head.
06:44I'm guessing that's to do with the trauma of it all.
06:46Yeah, yeah, probably, yeah.
06:48Sorry you went through that.
06:49No, it's all right.
06:50Yeah.
06:50All right.
06:53Our next question is from Karen.
06:57I'm trying so hard not to do my Scottish accent.
07:01That was, do it again!
07:02Do you drink Buckfast?
07:03Buckfast?
07:04No, I don't.
07:05You know I love Scotland.
07:07That's a brilliant...
07:08Are you actually Scottish?
07:08No, I'm from Birmingham.
07:10Right.
07:11I love that Scottish accent.
07:13I love the Scots.
07:13There's all these kind of, like, myths about Scotland that we all drink Buckfast,
07:17we all eat deep-fried Mars bars.
07:20Yes!
07:21I have never had a deep-fried Mars bar.
07:23Is it nice?
07:24I've never had one.
07:25Yeah.
07:26That might be the most controversial thing I've ever said.
07:29OK, next we're going to hear from Kate.
07:37Hello, Nicola.
07:37Hi, Kate.
07:38I'm Kate.
07:39Can you tell us why you've thought about fostering?
07:44Oh, that's a good question.
07:48Erm...
07:48So, I don't have children of my own.
07:52Erm...
07:53Erm...
07:54I...
07:54I had a miscarriage when I was...
07:5740.
07:59Erm...
08:00So, that was...
08:01Erm...
08:03Erm...
08:03Yeah.
08:04I'm sorry.
08:05No, thank you.
08:07Erm...
08:07Anyway, that's not why I thought about fostering.
08:10When I was First Minister, I did and still do a lot of work with young people who've grown up
08:16in care.
08:17Mm.
08:18Because, you know, we don't look after young people in care as well as we should.
08:23And I saw first-hand, like, how much a good foster carer can change somebody's life.
08:31And so that made me think, you know, maybe one day when I'm not in politics anymore, I would like
08:37to foster.
08:38But maybe it wouldn't be fair because my life is still a bit too, you know...
08:43Thank you very much.
08:49We're going to come to Marcus next.
08:52Oh, no.
08:54LAUGHTER
08:58So, cos you talked about, er, foster care, I paid a poem cos I was in foster care myself.
09:06Oh, no.
09:08Erm...
09:09And stuff like that, so...
09:11I'm going to tell you it.
09:18It was a good family, but times grew hard.
09:22I had to move away to Adil Kudrinette, who was nice to me.
09:25This song is from my family and my friends.
09:32Sorry, I got stuck, sorry.
09:35Yeah.
09:40For my family and friends.
09:50Sorry, I'm nervous.
09:51Listen, you did great.
09:53You did amazing.
09:54You can do this one.
09:55You can do this one.
09:56I can't block it.
09:57Take your time.
10:01OK, let's do this.
10:05It was a good family, but times grew hard.
10:08I had to move away to Adil Kudrinette, who was nicer than me.
10:12This is from my family and friends, who cared for me.
10:17And I hope you'll stay to support and care for my needs.
10:20Anthony came on a bright sunny day.
10:23Tell me about opportunities.
10:24I can give your life my way.
10:27You tell me about this place called your lighthouse
10:29so I can beat my insecurities and be safe in this place called your lighthouse.
10:46Thank you very much.
10:53Well done, Marcus.
10:54Thank you very much.
10:56Congratulations, Marcus.
10:56Well done.
11:09Do you get Botox?
11:10I've never had Botox.
11:12I mean, I'm not ruling out getting it in the future.
11:15Right, Jamal, you're up.
11:17Hey, you all right?
11:18Yeah.
11:19When you were younger, was there anybody that you met
11:23and you admired a certain aspect within their personality
11:26and thought to yourself,
11:28oh, I want to have a piece of that when I get older?
11:32I mean, the people in politics that I learned most from,
11:38the guy who was first minister before me,
11:41a guy called Alex Salmond, who I later had a bit of a...
11:44Affair?
11:45No, I did not have an affair!
11:49LAUGHTER
11:58Alex Salmond is no longer with us.
11:59He died just over a year ago.
12:01Wasn't he your mentor?
12:03He was my mentor, yeah, and then we fell out over certain things.
12:06How did you feel when you weren't invited to his funeral?
12:11Oh.
12:14Yeah, erm...
12:15I mean, things had gone horribly wrong between us
12:17and we weren't speaking any more
12:18and even although we were on really bad terms,
12:21because he'd been such an important person in my life,
12:24I felt really, really sad
12:26and I had this real sense of grief
12:29and that was worse because I knew there was no way
12:33I could go to his funeral
12:34because his family wouldn't have wanted me to be there.
12:37Yeah.
12:37And so it just complicates that feeling of grief.
12:41Do you feel like there was things left unsaid
12:43that you wish you could have said?
12:45Yeah.
12:46The thing I wished, which I...
12:48I think I also knew would never, ever happen,
12:51is that he would say to me,
12:54yeah, it wasn't your fault what happened.
12:58You know, even if he wasn't going to admit that it was his fault,
13:00that he would say,
13:01look, I know it wasn't you that did this to me
13:04and I'm sorry for suggesting that it was
13:08and I think I would have loved at some point
13:10for him to say that,
13:12but I knew he wasn't the type of person that would ever do that.
13:16Yeah, I understand.
13:19And now we're going to come to Adam.
13:22OK.
13:23Hi Adam.
13:24Hi Nicola.
13:25How are you?
13:26I'm good.
13:27Adam, good Scottish name.
13:28Yep, it is.
13:30You're friends with Bond.
13:32James Bond.
13:33W7.
13:34Oh, Sean Connery.
13:36Yeah, Sean Connery.
13:37He was cool to me.
13:38Yeah.
13:39Do you like him?
13:40Yeah, I do.
13:41He was the first.
13:42And best, I think, yeah.
13:44He was very cool.
13:46He gave me a lesson in how to deepen my voice.
13:51He made me put a little bit of paper between my teeth
13:53and then just walk around speaking
13:56and it deepened your voice.
13:58I think that's a quite cool thing to say.
14:00I had a voice coaching lesson from Sean Connery.
14:03Well, it's good to have you.
14:05You hang us.
14:11Elijah.
14:12Hi.
14:18You have had the same hairstyle for many years.
14:22Yeah.
14:24Have you ever considered getting another one?
14:26Yes, I have.
14:27Look, I've got sort of really, really difficult hair.
14:30It's really thick.
14:32You can't do anything with it.
14:33I hate my hair, right?
14:35But I am thinking of doing something quite radically different
14:39to Mark Levin politics.
14:41I'm not quite sure what yet.
14:43Like bleaching it or something like that.
14:46Your face and your hair looks a bit like Mrs Doubtfire.
14:49Yeah.
14:50Oh!
14:53Oh!
14:54Oh!
14:55Do you like that movie?
14:56That'll be hot!
14:58Do you know what?
14:59Until about 30 seconds ago, I really liked you.
15:03It's an okay movie.
15:06Yeah.
15:07No, no, no.
15:08Of course I'm not.
15:09Of course I'm not.
15:10I'm only joking.
15:11I'm only joking.
15:12Yeah.
15:13I do like Mrs Doubtfire.
15:14It's a great film.
15:15Yeah.
15:16It's a great film.
15:19And we're going to come to Cameron next.
15:24Hi.
15:25Hiya.
15:28When you miscarried with Isla Margaret, what do you wish people said to you?
15:43I think, sorry, the mention of her name has just got to me.
15:49No, I think at the time, I didn't want people to say anything to me.
15:55Right.
15:56Understandable.
15:56Because I didn't really know how I, sorry, how I felt about it.
16:06But the thing I felt most was guilt, because at first I hadn't been sure that I wanted to have
16:15the baby.
16:16And I was really worried that it would, you know, get in the way of my career and everything.
16:21And so then when I lost her, I don't know if she was a girl, I always decided, I always
16:27thought she was a girl.
16:30And so when I lost the baby, I just had this overwhelming feeling of it was my fault because I
16:35hadn't wanted her enough.
16:37And so I think I didn't want people to say anything to me.
16:41I just needed to sort of do what I have usually done when I've gone through difficult things.
16:47I just throw myself into work and stuff.
16:51Yeah.
16:53And it's the kind of thing you think you've got over.
16:56And then suddenly, sitting on television, somebody mentions her name and you realise deep down inside you kind of haven't.
17:04Would you like a hug?
17:05I would love a hug.
17:12I probably also need a tissue.
17:18Now we're going to hear from Sean.
17:21Is my mascara on?
17:22No, it's fine.
17:25Hello, Nicola.
17:26Hi.
17:27How are you?
17:29I am OK.
17:30All right.
17:31What would you tell your younger self?
17:38Um, that's a great question.
17:40And I've thought a lot about this over the years.
17:45What would I tell my younger self?
17:48Lighting up a bit.
17:50And yeah, while you're, you know, trying so hard to be this top politician, don't forget to have a little
17:55bit of fun along the way.
17:57My younger self, though, was quite stroppy, so she would probably say to me, fuck off, I don't want your
18:01advice.
18:02LAUGHTER
18:03You know what?
18:06We're going to move on to setting up for something for you.
18:13I've had a bit in her foot.
18:14No, but do you know what?
18:15It's so emotional, and it comes from the heart, so you're always going to be a bit nervous.
18:19But you absolutely smashed it.
18:21It was about a year.
18:22It was about a year.
18:24It was about a year.
18:25I'll try it.
18:26It's just yet.
18:32There's a man I meet, folks up our street.
18:38Can we hit that one more time?
18:39One more time, do you mind?
18:41This is one of my favourite songs.
18:44Ah, OK.
18:44Three, five, four, three.
18:49There's a man I meet, walks up our street.
18:55He's a worker for the council, has been for 20 years.
19:01And he takes no lip off nobody and litter off the gutter.
19:07Puts it in a bag and never thinks to matter.
19:13And he packs his lunch in a summer's bag.
19:16Oh, the children caught him milky.
19:19He never lets on.
19:22But I know, cause he once told me.
19:25He let me know a secret about the money in his kitty.
19:30He's gonna buy a thingy.
19:34He's gonna call her dignity.
19:37I'll be happy.
19:48And I'm telling this story in a faraway seed.
19:53Sipping down right here.
19:55And really making our key.
19:57And I'm thinking about hope and all that that means
20:02And a face in the winter morning
20:16I'll send her off the west coast for the villages and towns
20:21I'll be on my holidays, they'll be on the ground
20:25They'll ask me where I got her, I say
20:28I see my money
20:30They'll say isn't she pretty
20:32That she caught me in the sea
20:46Set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up
20:50Set it up again, set it up again, set it up again, set it up again
20:54And I'm thinking about hope
21:03And I've been thinking
21:05How will it be
21:08You need something
21:12On the street called Diggity
21:13On the street called Diggity
21:19Diggity
21:22Diggity
21:38Diggity
21:42That was an absolutely brilliant performance of it.
21:46You're amazing.
21:47You're all amazing, thank you.
21:50I think this is going to be one of the most special experiences of my life,
21:57being here today.
22:05That was the assembly.
22:07Thanks for you.
22:08Oh, wow, thank you.
22:10Am I allowed to open it?
22:11Yeah, but yes.
22:14Ah!
22:19I am going to drink my tea out of this.
22:23That's all right.
22:25I'll miss you again.
22:27I hope to see you again too.
22:28Lovely to meet you.
22:31Thank you for making my day.
22:32Oh, thank you for making mine.
22:34Yeah, it's so lovely.
22:35I was only describing about your...
22:37Listen, don't you worry.
22:38It was really funny.
22:39Yeah, you liked it.
22:40I loved it.
22:41Oh, that's what I thought as well.
22:42I'm telling my friends about this.
22:44That's going to be my funniest moment.
22:46Renee
23:04Because I'm held for the time,
23:05maybe you bet.
23:05I miss you.
23:05The story.
23:05You had that story,
23:09or the way I remember.
23:10But, wow.
23:12Everybody, were friends.
23:13Yes, it was easy for if you remember.
23:14Because I was great for more people or not.
23:14Be sure of all the story,
23:15that's the story here about this take a mess.
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