Was Barry Scott the first "Influencer"? 🧼

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Bargain, the Dutch is gone.
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>> So, it really is a sort of It's a double
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life you lead with Barry Scott. Does it
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Does it ever feel like you're becoming
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Barry Scott?
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>> Sometimes, yes. Yeah, I wear that blue
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shirt and chinos far more than I I'd
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like to.
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>> [laughter]
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>> I mean, we were saying that thing
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earlier about the unique power of
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broadcast back then, the sort of the the
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wild sort of 20 million audiences of
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being in the ad break for Coronation
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Street.
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>> Yeah. And it sort of reminds me a bit of
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of people who now become these kind of
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enormous influencers. Yeah. Is that kind
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of the idea now, sort of translating
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Barry Scott into the the social media
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influencer age?
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>> it's bigger than that. I think it's
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about making him a huge phenomenon.

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