This week Scott is joined by chef Steven Halcrow — a long-time friend from the early stand-up comedy circuit who took a very different path.

After leaving comedy behind, Steven travelled the world working in professional kitchens, including time in Michelin-star restaurants, before eventually building a food tour business in Cambodia.

In this episode we get into:

🍜 Life working in professional kitchens
🌏 Travelling the world as a chef
🇰🇭 The reality of living in Cambodia
🐸 Cambodian street food (including frogs and tarantulas)
🧠 Culture shock and language barriers
🍽 Running food tours for tourists
⭐ Working in Michelin restaurants
📱 The rise of food influencers and Instagram food culture

It’s a fascinating conversation about food, travel, culture, and the madness of the hospitality industry.

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🎙️ THE HASHTAG SHOW – New Episode

This week starts with Laura’s weave…
…and somehow ends with pensioner porn and Gordon Ramsay running a £25 million empire.

We cover:

• The truth about weaves 💇‍♀️
• Why every man should know how to tie a tie 👔
• School discipline then vs now
• “Is It Gay?” – Couples tattoos edition 🫣
• OnlyFans, rage bait & the madness of modern internet fame 💸
• Gordon Ramsay’s new documentary 🍽️
• And Stevie the Romanian rescue dog… who committed an unspeakable crime 🐶💀

Plus: king tattoos, daddy chat (absolutely not), and why ego only works if you’ve got talent.

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🎙️ THE HASHTAG SHOW – EPISODE 309Everyone’s welcome. No one is safe.This week starts with Friday the 13th… and somehow ends with Olympic doping, Eyes Wide Shut conspiracies, and the strangest celebrity sighting we’ve ever had in Braehead.We get into:• Is there actually a missing 13th month?• Valentine’s Day being a money-grab• “Are We Dating The Same Guy?” Facebook madness• The Open House yacht show (absolute chaos)• Eyes Wide Shut and Epstein conspiracies• Should Olympic medals be real gold?• Performance-enhancing drugs and “enhanced Olympics”• The “China-Maxxing” trend (and why it’s nonsense)• Why people don’t need every hobby to be a personalityPlus a shoutout to Southern River Band, who absolutely blew the roof off Oran Mor.This is the Council section.Heroes get the extended chaos behind the paywall.🦸 Become a HasHero: patreon.com/thehashtagshow👍 Like, subscribe, and share with someone who’s “in their Chinese era”Everyone’s welcome.No one is safe.www.thehashtagshow.co.ukwww.patreon.com/thehashtagshow

This week starts with Friday the 13th… and somehow ends with Olympic doping, Eyes Wide Shut conspiracies, and the strangest celebrity sighting we’ve ever had in Braehead.

We get into: • Is there actually a missing 13th month? • Valentine’s Day being a money-grab • “Are We Dating The Same Guy?” Facebook madness • The Open House yacht show (absolute chaos) • Eyes Wide Shut and Epstein conspiracies • Should Olympic medals be real gold? • Performance-enhancing drugs and “enhanced Olympics” • The “China-Maxxing” trend (and why it’s nonsense) • Why people don’t need every hobby to be a personality

Plus a shoutout to Southern River Band, who absolutely blew the roof off Oran Mor.

This is the Council section.

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Welcome back to THE HASHTAG SHOW — everyone’s welcome, no one’s safe.

This week Scott tries to take a break from the news… and lasts about ten minutes before being dragged back in by the UK’s latest madness (including a national radio debate that genuinely left him asking: are we in a parallel universe?).

From “Helmet-Gate” at the Winter Olympics to why Scotland is cursed to be brilliant at the sports nobody cares about, Scott lays out the only real solution: make the Olympics dangerous again — husky racing, ice fishing, penguin wrestling, and maybe a surprise bomb in curling for the viewers at home.

Then it’s onto the Epstein files — the drip-feed, the names, the ones missing, and the one question nobody seems to be asking loudly enough…

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🎙️ THE HAS#TAG SHOW Everyone’s welcome. No one’s safe.

This week I’m joined by my wife Laura for a proper couples episode 👩‍❤️‍👨 — and it goes exactly where you’d expect.

We get into:

📺 Why old reality TV was better (more bevvy, more riding, zero brand deals)

🏋️ Gym culture, Hyrox tribes & fitness becoming a personality

🗺️ Strava maps, validation addiction & why nobody cares about your PB

😂 Running routes shaped like boobs (the only acceptable upload)

🇮🇪 Dublin, accents & why Americans lose their minds over them

💬 Marriage, banter, disagreements & calling nonsense when we see it

This is the Council Section — public and free.

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• Supplements, nostalgia & obsessions

• Extra rants that absolutely shouldn’t be public

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THE HAS#TAG SHOW 🎙️

EPISODE 306 - Sauna Tangerines & Ai Music

This week starts with a technical shambles and quickly descends into a full-blown reality crisis 🤯🍄

We talk:

🎶 AI writing folk songs using my teenage poetry

🍺 The pub, poems, cringe, and creativity

🎬 Acting horror stories (Taggart, guillotines & fake hands)

🧠 Christopher Nolan, films that break your brain & why trailers ruin everything

🧖‍♂️ Saunas, tangerines, and being accepted by the elder men

🚿 Do men actually wash their legs? (and how often should you wash a towel?)

👣 Feet chat, masculinity, abuse-as-affection, and why men don’t talk like normal humans Somehow, it all makes sense by the end. Kind of.

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Welcome to THE HAS#TAG SHOW.

This week’s Council Section starts with studio chaos, new jingles and AI-made anthems… then slowly derails into:

• AI music, creativity & whether we’re settling for “that’ll do”

There’s chat about modern gym culture, matching outfits, farmer strength vs fitness competitions, Top Gun energy, and why helping on a farm might do more for you than any event ever will.

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Welcome back to THE HAS#TAG SHOW.

This week Gibbo returns from a “relaxing” overnight spa break with more questions than answers — including why married couples stop speaking to each other, how much bubble bath is too much bubble bath (introducing The Nessie Test), and why hot honey needs to be wiped from civilisation immediately.

There’s rage, rants, relationship truths, hotel décor crimes, merch announcements, cultural nonsense, and a brutally honest breakdown of modern manners, masculinity, marriage, and why silence at the dinner table should terrify you more than divorce.

We also get into:

Why people don’t actually listen — they just wait for buzzwords

The myth of the hot tub vs the glory of the jacuzzi bath

Marriage, effort, and why relationships die quietly

Restaurant etiquette young men were never taught

Hot honey, pulled pork, cyclists, and modern trend hysteria

Why doing what you’re told by the police might save your life

Global chaos, protests, power, and media spin

As always:

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The first solo episode of 2026 kicks off with a simple question: what if “better living” is just a glamorised junkie lifestyle?

From the weird timeless void between Christmas and New Year, to gyms, minimalism, foraging, self-improvement culture, and the myth of being “unique”, this episode spirals into an honest, funny, and uncomfortable rant about modern life, money, happiness, and why becoming a human slug might actually be the dream.

No resolutions.

No wellness BS.

Just observations from the void.

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