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Stephen Bell

Managing Director & Co-Founder of Bell Lane Coffee, an award-winning specialty coffee roastery in Mullingar, Ireland.

Sep 2, 2026

88:49
Jesus Christ.
88:51
Yeah.
88:51
There is a whole pile of wrecked, I even found, you know, a couple of 1960 Mercedes-Benz.
88:59
Wow.
88:59
Just sitting with about six inches of dirt, dust over them.
89:03
Wow.
89:04
Right through them, through the insides.

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115:54
Okay.
51:03
It would have been dusty, yeah.
51:04
And here they are marching with these turned up pointed shoes with these, you know, those long, you know, three-quarter length coats.
51:14
But with, they were white and they had gold braid across their chest.
51:20
Oh, wow.
51:20
Wow.
51:21
It looked like ancient Sinbad's.
51:24
Yeah, yeah.

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64:18
what?
3:25
Yeah, I was just going to say that there was definitely an ambition there to move forward.
3:30
I suppose your career path nowadays, anyone doing their leaving cert knows where they're going to go for that third level, what they're going to do.
3:37
I knew I wasn't going to go third level.
3:39
So the only job I had was the one I had.
3:40
And if you bought my pocket and it went on, that was it.
3:43
So did those few bits and then I got to probably above At the age I was in, I had very little experience in sales and I was in a sales element of selling cars to corporate businesses.
3:54
So it was a leasing company and we were doing lease hire to corporate companies.

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42:58
How do you cope with that? making sure that your pricing is aligned to your customer's expectations while protecting your margin and also protecting your supplier, because you've got very vulnerable suppliers, I understand it, or certainly the countries that your supply comes from are quite
4:57
What is the year period? What year are we talking about?
5:00
So, uh...
5:04
ITV started airing the wrestling in 1955 and it ran all the way to 1988 as a time slot.
5:13
Moved around a little bit, but essentially it was there.
5:17
Now, its first wave of popularity during the 60s came in the form of its two main stars being Mr. TV, Jackie Palo and Mick McManus.
5:29
they had a similar long running feud and a couple of their singles matches were where the audience really popped its figures and its numbers boomed once they were edging out they were sort of been and gone Mick McManus held around for a little bit but Max Crabtree needed two new stars to replicate that level of interest to be his true headliners.
5:57
So he turned to his brother, who was in the very latter stages of his career, his brother Shirley Crabtree.

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26:29
After the finale, after this big Wembley Arena standoff, so to speak, what happened to these two gentlemen? What happened to these guys, Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks?
79:57
There
79:58
are blokes up there in towers with guns.
80:00
Yeah.
80:00
So I'm not walking over there.
80:02
No. No.
80:05
So anyway, he came back and then he said, Bakshish, Bakshish.
80:12
And I said, I'm not Bakshish.

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94:56
Oh, really?

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