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Mark Downie

Mark Downie

Sep 21, 2026

1:04
So how influential was he actually growing up and how did you navigate the early years having such a bad loss so young? So my dad,
1:13
so basically...
1:14
when I was six or seven, so my dad was a road service contractor, right? Wasn't a gypsy, but he was a road service contractor, right? And he's owned businesses before I was born.
1:22
So my dad's got a family previously and cut a long story short, that place had rolled down, my sisters moved to America.
1:30
He lost them for 25 years and eventually came back, luckily before he died.
1:34
But then before he died, sorry, when I was eight, spoke to him and he came in one night he's like just so I know I'm going back myself because the business just before I was born it folded he'd done a big more away job done a big job it was too big for him didn't want to do it he'd done it and they didn't pay him in the right time so when I was eight he came in the door and he said just so I know I'm going more again my mum's sitting doing dinner table mum's like do you mean you're going your own again? She went, I've given them 12 years.
2:05
I shouldn't have done it.

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16:42
that was

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