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Podcasts, there are millions of them. Some might say too many. I have one already.
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I don't have any, because there are enough. Politics, business, sport, you name it, there's a podcast about it, and they all ask the big questions and cover the hot topics of the day.
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But nobody is covering the most important topic of all. Why is that? Are they scared?
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Too afraid of being censored by the man? Possibly, but not us. We're here to ask the only question that matters.
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We try and say it at the same time, Max. What did you do yesterday?
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What did you do yesterday? That's it. All we're interested in is what the guests got up to yesterday, nothing more.
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Day before yesterday, Max? Nope. The greatest and most interesting day of your life? Unless it was yesterday, we don't want to know about it.
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I'm Max Rushden. And I'm David O'Doherty. Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Hello, everybody.
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Welcome to today's episode of What Did You Do Yesterday? Midweek Mayhem. David O'Doherty, welcome.
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Hello, the woke Jeremy Clarkson. Yeah. That's really stayed with me. It just... I'm not saying it works because there's a grade of truth to it, but just you firing coffees in people's faces.
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Do you think it makes me the bad guy, the coffee thing? Like, the more feedback I get, no one deals with it positively.
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Because, like, for me, I'm completely right. I'm spending $5 on this coffee. Like, I want the coffee that I've asked for.
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And yet, I've come across as, like, an entitled arsehole. And I just don't think that's me.
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It's just, if the coffee was a latte and you were, like, an experienced barista and you kept being like, this is not a latte, this is a flat white or whatever.
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But it's the fact that even you take about three, four paragraphs to describe the coffee you want and then get angry when people can't telepathically read what that is.
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Yeah, it makes you an awful guy. Well, listen, it's my day today. And I'm not going to say anything.
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But, you know, there may be some coffee news. We begin, David, with perhaps my favorite feedback so far in the journey that is What Did You Do Yesterday?
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And I know I've bigged that up, but I think you'll like it. So, hi, Max.
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I've been listening to What Did You Do Yesterday? And it's great. I have been sat on some information for a while, which I think you and David might be interested in.
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Wow, here we go. I am Nish Kumar's gastro. It's better than that. It's better than that.
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My dad invented the bejoying noise on catchphrase. He is a sound director and has worked on many light entertainment programs in the UK, including the first few series of catchphrase in the 80s.
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Given this didn't happen yesterday, you probably aren't interested. No, we aren't. But I understand he created the noise by winding a large reel of tape and gradually speeding it up.
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Please don't read my name out. Happy for you to refer to me as Mr. Chips.
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Obviously, if your dad is, you know, making these sort of things, your identity cannot be revealed.
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Side note, he said, he also did the sound for Premier League games on Sky for a number of years and introduced the whoosh noise for action replays in the early Premier League years.
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There we have it. We found the guy whose dad created Bajoying. Well, it's so interesting because we did speculate last week as to whether the written transcript that AI makes of,
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these episodes, made a stab at Bajoying. Oh, really lovely. You threw that in so early, I wasn't ready for it.
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I'm so happy about it. Okay. And then one week it had a go and it spelt it, which is a lovely way of spelling it.
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It's almost like the phonetic. If you were Susie Dent looking at the etymology of the word, buzzering is what like B-U-Z-Z-E, I think double or I-N-G.
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How would you spell it, listeners? Do you ever think on Countdown they'll go, and Tracy, I've got a nine.
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And what is it? Bajoying. And then they go, Michael, also Bajoying, hands over the piece of paper.
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I mean, there could be a real mix-up where if you said your word was Bajoying, you'd be like, can you stop pressing the buzzer and answer the question?
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Although I will say this, what I really liked is producer Mars Bart, who clearly has too much time on his hands, made an amazing Instagram reel of the Bajoying, putting in your Bajoying into the actual catchphrase,
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Roy Walker saying, just say what you see. You did say, I think he could have picked a better Bajoying.
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That is true, isn't it? I think he had about, I probably Bajoyed about eight times over the course of this.
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He picked, I'd say bottom division two. Really? Really? Lower mid table Bajoying. There we go.
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It's funny why exercise, you know, while the world is in flames and this is the thing.
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He could have put a better Bajoying on that Instagram reel. Damn it. Anyway, moving on.
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Adam says, just listen to the latest pod. Omid, great stuff. As a 44-year-old man who lives in Suffolk, this really ticked a lot of boxes.
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Ipswich Town, Christchurch Park, Waterfront, and inexplicably Rollerberry. Word of medical advice, however, I had an operation on my bowel.
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My surgeon told me you should not sit on the toilet any longer than is necessary to perform the evacuation.
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An hour watching YouTube seems, quote, longer than necessary. You haven't had that tea. Thanks, Adam.
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It's a good point, isn't it? It really lived up to our, someone once described this podcast as what did you poo yesterday?
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Yeah. Because of the, but people are being honest, Max. That's true. Just another note on that pod.
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I told my Taormina anecdote about Nicky Byrne from Westlife. I was with my friend Ian, and my friend Ian messaged to say he was listening, and as soon as he said, you know,
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he mentioned that I was shit-faced with him, his heart sank for a second. Then he realized he wasn't on that holiday.
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So I can't remember. It may have been Devo, my osteopath friend, but I'm not going to ask him.
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I'm just going to keep saying who I think it is, and by process of elimination, someone will eventually message me saying, yes, I was with you with Nicky Byrne from Westlife when he sent you off for banging his drum too loudly.
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Hi, guys, says Niamh. N-I-A-M-H, Niamh, correct? Yeah, surely that's not that difficult. That's not that.
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I just want it to be accurate. I know, but last week you struggled to say Emma because you thought it was too complex an Irish name.
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Guys, I'm writing to inform you both that the taste of Lilt is still discoverable.
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Marvellous. There we go. As a fellow Lilt lover, it too shocked me to the core when in early 2023 the mighty Coca-Cola announced it was being pulled from the shelves.
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Fortunately, if you still want the taste, you can find it in a can or bottle of Fanta pineapple and grapefruit.
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Although the excitement of that name versus Lilt is certainly less palatable, it must be said.
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P.S. If David wanted another method of getting into the bath, hold on to the sides and roly-poly in.
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That's entering head first rather than balls first. Yours sincerely, avid listener on the Water University, Neve.
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Thank you, Neve. So there we are. It's masquerading, Lilt, as Fanta pineapple and grapefruit.
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Yeah, that's interesting. I also like the idea of me sitting on the side of the bath, like the way a scuba diver gets into the sea from a boat where I just fall backwards head first in.
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There's also, you could go in sort of like, number two or three on the bobsleigh, you know?
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The sort of running alongside, running alongside the bath. And then hop in. And then you're sort of knees first, aren't you?
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Then you're sort of knees first, sit in. Maybe that's if four of you are trying to get into the bath at the same time.
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Yeah, that would be the best way if you, me, Mars Bar, and Amit Jalili all decided to have a bath together.
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We'd have to have a big discussion of those two. Look, there's two. There's two moments of tension in the bath.
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And I do love baths. I realize, I spoke to Dara in the bike shop yesterday.
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He said he had never had a bath in his whole life, which I find that hard to believe.
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Which is, so you're in the squat position, say, and you've dunked the lads. And then it's the point where you put your legs out straight.
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Okay, that's the first one where you're like, and remember, I'm running a very, very hot bath.
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I'm running a ramen noodle temperature bath. And if you like, in that metaphor, my legs are the ramen noodles.
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And in laying them out, they are starting to de-ossify or whatever noodles do. And then the second.
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Do they de, hang on, do they, I've never read a recipe when they say, and then de-ossify the noodles for three minutes in a jug of boiling water.
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And that's because any recipe you've ever read comes on an idiot card. And it's probably like a button, like a book for Ian Rushden, where it's like hit the kettle and wait for it to go.
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That's called boiling. My point is the second moment of tension in a bath is when you put your head back then.
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Oh yeah. Heat going up your back. Oh yeah. That's okay. John Powell says, Dear Max and David, on the recent episode with producer Michael, you asked for a list of proposal stories,
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so I offer you mine. I prepared diligently to propose to my wife at a Dire Straits concert during the song Romeo and Juliet.
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Oh yeah. The moment arrived in the song when the husky tones of Mark Knopfler sang You and me, babe, how about it?
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You and me, babe, how about it? So in your wheelhouse. However, as I blurted out my question, the music started up again sooner than I anticipated No, you're all right, thanks,
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came her reply through a loud blast of Knopfler's guitar chords. Bow wow wow, bow wow.
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Although initially shocked, luckily we quickly worked out that I hadn't asked her if she wanted a Murray Mint, as she thought.
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Wow. What a specific. You know, normally you'd have a beer or something like that at a concert.
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Yeah, I know, you're right. Not many people have a pack of Murray Mints. It's like a little tin, a little tin.
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Those old tins you got of the granite that granny and grandad had. A little tin of Murray Mints.
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In fact, I was asking whether she wanted to marry me. Nearly 40 years later, I still wonder if the top of the Empire State Building or somewhere equally exciting but more practical would have been better,
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but it wouldn't have allowed me to be on your marvellous podcast. Best wishes, John Powell.
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40 years married, John. Yeah. Well done. It's tough because so many Dire Straits songs really are quite dynamic.
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It would be hard. So take Money for Nothing, with the I want my MTV.
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You'd be like, and will you marry me? This is on Famous People Stealing Things.
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Hi, Max. Hi, David. On the subject of Famous People Stealing Things, I used to be a press officer for the Department of Health during the pandemic and was accompanying Matt Hancock on one of his morning media rounds.
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Well done to you. About five minutes before his last interview of the morning at Broadcasting House, he asked me if I could get him a coffee and a pain au raisin.
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Gina Coladangelo, unbeknownst to me, his secret lover yet to be exposed by the Red Tops, also asked for a coffee.
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Not only did he not reimburse me for this coffee, but his mistress coffee took me over the five pound limit that civil services expenses would allow, which meant that I'd basically just paid for the breakfast of Matt Hancock and his mistress.
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I was hoping some of his I'm a Celeb cash would find its way to me, but so far, no dice.
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Then he says, P.S. Loving the podcast, it's been getting me through my time trapped on a cattle station in Bedourie, far west Queensland, while I wait for the floodwaters to subside, Cav.
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So that is, just spending that much time with Matt Hancock will make you move to desolate Queensland, to a cattle station, just to get us far away from real life and into real, real life,
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as possible. Also, Bedourie does sound like another attempt of AI to spell. Cav lived in the small village of Bedouin when...
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Oh, dear. Is that somebody famous stealing from you? I mean, I like the story, but I don't feel it's that.
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You've bought him a pan of raisin You haven't bought a pan of raisin and then Matt Hancock or his mistress have wandered away.
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We just fell in love. What could I do? I love it. Also, the five pound, as the price of coffee rises, the five pound civil service limit to a snack.
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Like, what the heck is that? You're going to hit that limit very, very soon.
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You are. But look, if you want it to be bigger, you've got to raise taxes.
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Are you calling for that? Because you're not going to get back in power, David.
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That's the... That's the thing. And I would vote for you. I'm waiting for a politician to say, that's what we have to do if you want more stuff.
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I want Britain to be great again. Hooray! I vote for David, Prime Minister David O'Doherty.
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Now, do we have time to do world bin news, bins of the world, or do we need to move to the cheese game?
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That's my question. I think save it. Tease it. Save it, tease it. Listen to that.
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Wow. Think how many millions of people are going to listen next week to world bin news, bins of the world.
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But here we go. That's what's going to happen. I mean, bearing in mind we're still teasing detective agencies of the world from children.
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We're now teasing bin news from the world as we go into, I mean, this could be the last ever game of Curdle World.
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Yeah. Curdle World Mastermind. I mean, this is absolutely extraordinary. Now, there is a point of a contentious issue, David.
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Uh-oh. As the guesses have evolved we've had an increasing amount of feedback on David's catchphrase they're just normal cheeses and to which Mars Bar has written and the throne of lies on which he sits.
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Multiple emails and replies have been received pointing out that these are in fact not reflective of the normal cheese choices of the common man.
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The consensus is, he continues, in what kind of gilded palace filled with gold top hats does David exist?
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Does he spend his days laughing maniacally as he consumes increasingly niche dairy produce while his court of 18 bikes laughs sycophantically as his every word?
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These are not normal cheeses. Defend yourself. Comte is just fancy cheddar. That's all it is.
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Make a toasted sandwich with comte in it and you will tell me. Granted goat, are we calling goat a fancy cheese now?
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I mean, there's parts of the Swiss Alps that would want to speak to you then.
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Cashel Blue, fair enough. I'm from Ireland and Cashel Blue is very popular here as our go-to.
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It's the baby bell of cork, isn't it, Cashel Blue? This isn't my opinion, by the way.
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This is just a sort of collective view. But parts of the Swiss Alps as a defence for the common man is maybe not the strongest counter argument.
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Hey, I mean, I'm not here to defend David, but, you know, you get your average working man in the Swiss Alps as well.
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You know, it's not all chalets and apres-ski. There are people, working the land there, I presume.
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But hang on. What I am intrigued by then is what are these listeners, and I'm being derogatory there, referring to as normal cheeses?
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Is it just Babybel, Dairy Lee, Easy Singles, Tesco Cheddar? Is it mild cheddar, medium cheddar, mature cheddar, Cathedral City?
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That's what we're looking for. The full spectrum of cheddar. I mean, I love the full spectrum of cheddar.
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I love cheddar cheese. Mike says, Hi guys, about a month ago, someone guessed one of the cheeses as being chevre.
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This was marked wrong. This is literally goat's cheese. If you're going to do a cheese quiz spanning months, you've surely got to have a basic grasp of fine cheese.
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Oh, shit. Oh, no. You make a good point, Mike. Between the three of us, between the entire team on what did you do yesterday, none of us picked that up.
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It's not my fault. As we've established already, I'm an open book. I know nothing.
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But between Mars Bar and David, they should have got the fact that chevre is literally goat.
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It's literally the word for goat in French, isn't it? Isn't that what it is?
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Oh, no. This really is a throne of lies that I'm setting out there. Oh, God.
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Here we go. It's now a single, one cheese board. It is a one cheese board.
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We are in Zmark. Last week, guessed the first four cheeses. This week, it's the turn of Darren Kershaw.
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Hello, Darren. Hello, chaps. Really enjoying your persistence into the pedantic. Before I share my cheese guesses, is it just me or does everyone else have quite a visceral response to the Masterrind theme tune?
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I'm always appalled at how long and anticlimactic the tune is, but can't bring myself to fast forward out of respect for your commitment to the cause.
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No, I'm all here for a long time. I'm all here for a long jingle.
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You know, I would make them all as long as possible. Also, bear in mind, he could be about to kill it now.
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This could be the last time. You may never hear it again. And then the verb to be Darren Kershawed will be used for murders on the news, won't they?
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So here are the guesses. Castle Blue. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Manchego. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.
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Goat slash chevre. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Comta. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Here we go.
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Here we go. Could this be it? Could this be it? Gorgonzola. Oh, we're still alive for one more week.
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I've checked Gorgonzola in 436 languages. Okay, so here we are. Still the one she's bored.
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The pleasure it would give me if we didn't get it for a year. I cannot tell you.
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But listen, what did you do yesterday, pod at gmail.com or you can blue sky or X or Instagram, whatever.
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We're taking guesses from all over the place now. As regards the final one. No clues.
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They're just normal cheeses, but... Oh, no, no, that is a clue. Not interested. Just edit that, please, Mars Bar.
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Not interested. Not interested. They're just normal cheeses. T-J-N-C. Okay, here's the clue. No one has stopped me in the street and just gone T-J-N-C yet, but I'm waiting for that moment.
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No, no clues. I don't want clues. It's a very cryptic clue. Okay. And you may choose to edit this out if Mars Bar decides it's too much of a clue.
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But the clue is... Edit that out. Absolutely lose that. Just bleep it. I'm disgusted that you even thought that would pass through.
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It's not a good clue. It's really obvious. Okay, so look, it's my day. But before we get there, obviously we need to know about how the mushrooms are getting on.
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Wow. And Patricia Mars Bar says, I'll make a jingle if it's a new regular feature or if listeners want to submit their own jingles, please do.
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Wow. So actually what we're getting them to record stuff and send them to us.
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It's been a week now since you bought the Helen Copter, what will be a kilo of oyster mushrooms.
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They're in a cupboard and you're... You're spritzing them three times a day. How are we getting on?
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Okay. So the reason this can't really become a thing is because there's going to be two progress updates.
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This one and the next one because it's a two week process. And then they'd grown.
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Then they're done. Now, what you can do then is you can do that harvest.
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I mean, I'm just going on what the piece of paper says. And then you can do a second harvest where you'll get half a kilo of oyster mushrooms from it.
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Okay, right. So... So it looked like a bag of shit, as I've described before, slashed two slits in the top of it.
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And for the first... So we're a week in now. For the first four days, felt like an absolute idiot.
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Years ago, I once had to look after a stick insect. I was staying in a friend's house and there was a stick insect in a big glass.
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Now, I was scared of the stick insect because it was big. It was maybe four inches long.
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And it was the exact same thing where every day I had to go out, get leaves, a fresh branch, put them in, take out the old one and spritz, spritz, spritz.
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And I did it for 10 days. And the day before they were coming back, I happened to nudge the stick insect with the branch as I put it in.
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And the stick insect just cascaded to the bottom of the container, completely dead, like various six legs up in the air or however many legs.
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So it had been dead. I suspected it would have been dead the whole time, but I had been religiously spritzing and replacing branches.
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It was like the stick insect version of Weekend at Bernie's. Exactly. He was in a little golf, golf cart, the stick insects, having a while of a time.
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And you were like, I'm going to persevere with this. Okay. This was a similar, for the first four days, I just felt like an absolute patsy.
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Go me or the Helen Copter opening the cupboard with a little spritzy, saying hello to Mushy because it felt like we were just spraying water at a plastic bag.
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Then, three days ago. No way. What is this? There was initially... Can I ask a question?
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Did, when this you opened the cupboard, did that song start playing? Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
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You know that one on all nature documentaries. Do you know what I'm talking about?
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No, it sounded like Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys. No, no, no, no, no.
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It's like... It goes... Then it gets really big and that's when it sort of like pans out to the whole of the tundra and the polar bear is there.
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It's one of the most obscure references that you've ever done on the podcast. Lots of people will know it.
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Do you mean Sigur Rós? Yes, there we are. Good, I got it in one.
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Thank you so much, Mars Bar. Sigur Rós. It was obvious. I did it so well.
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It was basically like you were listening to Sigur Rós. That's what I'm saying.
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Thank you, Mars Bar. Your frame of reference... Okay, it's normally Top Loader, but now it extends into sort of post-rock from 2010 as well in the context of nature documentaries Yes.
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I'm not giving everything of myself. I'm just holding stuff back because we're in this for life, right?
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So I'm 45, you're... What are you, 49? 21. Okay. So we're definitely, you know, serious illness aside, we're in this for 40 years or something.
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I don't want to put it all out there straight away. You know? So it would not be inappropriate to invoke alien.
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With the... Are you serious? Ripping through the... Yeah, that's what we've got now. Over the last three days, it was initially the size of Action Man's head, but terrifyingly Action Man's head with tiny little plugs coming out of it.
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And now it's the size of a baby's head and the individual hairs, each of which I suspect will become a giant oyster mushroom.
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So I put it in a kitchen type cabinet on the bottom and tomorrow I suspect I'm going to have to take out the middle shelf.
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Sobbing. Yeah, because it's going to be like a foot high beast. Helen heard a noise the other day in the house.
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No, it's a mushroom. They're lying in bed together and she's like, they're coming to get us.
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Yeah, that's... This could all be a plan by the mushroom butcher. So that's where we're at at the moment.
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I'll put a photo of it online if people would like that. But it's pretty traumatic.
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Okay, so it's my yesterday. Producer Mars Bar does say a bit of a double standard to slam ready-made HelloFresh gusto quite like style food boxes when DOD is using the HelloFresh of mushroom farming rather than foraging in the woods for mushrooms as he should.
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Good point. Well made. Thank you, Mars Bar. Okay, so yesterday my day began at 5.30am So let me just state here we're not doing this on the day we normally do it.
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So it's not going to be just your incredibly repetitive Monday that we've all come to know and love with the point where David Squires the incredible cartoonist from The Guardian could ring you at any point in that day and know exactly what you're doing.
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I spent no time with Thomas Sorensen or any other Danes yesterday. No Danes! No Danes.
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It's a zero-Dane day. It's worth noting that down. You know how some people write down what they're grateful for?
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Each day I just write how many Danish people I've come across. And when Football Weekly toured Copenhagen that was a tough counting everyone's heart.
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5.30, Willie Rushden who is 10 weeks old woke up next to me. And with him was Aqua the band.
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I'll stop you right there. Danes. One, two, three, four. Okay, so Willie wakes me up at 5.30.
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I'm in the bed with him. Jamie is in bed with Ian because sometimes Ian wakes up in the night and one of us gets into bed with him.
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And it's probably something we want to nip in the bud but you're also like he's three and like soon he won't want to this won't be a thing you know when he's 26.
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And it's kind of sweet. But his bed is too small and so you wake up like an hour later going oh your whole body you just need like an osteopath or something.
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Anyway, Willie wakes up and he's crying because he's he's hungry and the only person that can feed him is Jamie.
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Jamie's in bed with Ian so Ian wakes up everybody wakes up. Oh no. It's 5.30am it's really sad because sometimes we're lucky it's 7.
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6.30 you'll take 6 o'clock you're like okay 5.30 desperately sad. So everyone is sad. Okay. Jamie comes into the bedroom Ian comes in he sits on the bed he sort of wants to hug Willie Rushden he sort of when every time he wants to hug him he's sort of like
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whacks him in the head and then we have to say be gentle but also what a great big brother you are right but it's 5.30 in the morning.
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What I love about this is have you seen those videos that have gone viral recently of CEO bro types doing their get up at 3 in the morning routines where they splash their face into ice and rub tangerines on their chests or whatever they do.
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I'd like to see a film of this just pure chaos. It's chaos and you know it's the start of the day and you know your day is going to be quite long and you're like okay
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let's just recalibrate and just go in with it. And so anyway at some point we decide that Jamie is going to take Ian into the living room to make him some porridge and you know watch some TV whatever and I'm going to stay in bed with Willie
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and try and keep him getting back to sleep whatever. He has made an interesting decision as a 10 week old to I would say vomit up almost all the milk that is given to him.
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Now it's not a big health concern he's doubled in weight he's a massive lump but the bed is covered in sick and he's sick all the time and like the sheet is covered in sick you're covered in sick there's wet wipes everywhere it's just a sort of
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sort of it's a milky vomity sort of mess that you're lying in but like the the you know of the two choices Morning has broken like the first morning of the two choices right
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if you manage to get Willy back down you can then go back down whereas if you go to the living room you are on and you're doing you know you're making play-doh or something and like all of these things are just a wonderful part of the journey
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of parenthood and I'll look back so fondly but you know that is not happening currently so anyway at some point we Willy is just not happy he's not going to go back to sleep I can't feed him so we all we all arrive in the living room and
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there's sort of general conversation about plans for the day and whatever we probably put a laundry on because our washing machine our washing machine must sit there and think I could have been bought by like a bachelor with like you know three pairs of trousers and I just
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have a really easy life and this we are absolutely killing this guy we are hammering him to death the poor bastard there is no moment where he's not on do you whisper into the door just before you shut it I'm so sorry and then
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I slam and put it on like the six hour eco clean I really should I really should the only time it stops is when Ian goes in and just turns it off same with the dishwasher and then he realised that you know it's just been off
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for three hours anyway I'm currently on a Weetabix journey or in Australia as they call it Weetbix what have you got today Weetbix interestingly which is what you would use for a Weetabix journey no I know but you were tricking you were putting like mayonnaise on it
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and stuff yeah I'm being facetious there so and I don't know if this is totally inspired by all your comedian friends who are having midlife crises about what they eat but I think if I start Weetbix that is good that's got good stuff in it
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I can put the flaxseed the yeah you know the hemp all the stuff we try and hide in Ian's porridge I put all that on a few blueberries bit of granola I'm using semi-skim milk now
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because I have high cholesterol so I get that down me interestingly the radiators are on and I'd say that's like first or second day of the year the house did not come with radiators it's an odd thing about Australia in the same way that the UK
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cannot handle the heat Australia is just not designed for the cold even though it gets quite cold so the radiators are on big moment but what's good about that is you can put your clothes on them and that is a lovely thing right
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there's no greater feeling than just laying out what you're going to wear and sticking them on interruption yeah I was once made a TV pilot with Phil Wang was in it Jess Knappert was in it yeah yeah okay
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alright the one where we were Antarctic explorers and one of the characters tried to make a lady out of snow okay and the props department wanted to know what this looked like they wanted to be sort of crude so the only material I could think to use was
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Weetabix okay so I bought a box of Weetabix and then soaked them and then in milk and then started crafting and made a very sort of does it hold firm I imagine you've got to get the right
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amount of milk haven't you yes not enough it's just not going to do what you want too much slop also starts to smell of milky vomit after a while as well
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sorry continue yeah yeah I know that feeling quite often we you know you take the sheet off and then you put the fan on the mattress which is now so kind of brownie it's like like it's so grim but obviously you can't get a new mattress
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until he's out of this phase because I won't buy one now because you know this is gonna so you're just like god we're sleeping on just slurry basically anyway real hello magazine lifestyles of the rich and famous here Max and Jamie invite you to their beautiful three bed
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detached house in Melbourne's inner north and this mattress is the most disgusting I don't think there's a worse mattress on earth anyway so Jamie takes Willie because he needs a nap about half seven she goes first right
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and we're gonna meet in a cafe but like I'm gonna bring Ian later Ian is watching Blippi who's a sort of quite energetic American there's like more than one Blippi it's like Lucy and Neighbours you don't know which one you're gonna get but they all have
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an orange bow tie and he dances around a lot and the first time you see him you think my life is over if I've got to watch this shit for the rest of my life but actually it's sort of like Stockholm Syndrome now I really like the guy
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and he's probably and like he is like a multi-gazillionaire because like every YouTube video he has a million billion trillion is he cartoon or is he live action no no no he's a live action real human I think there was one Blippi who then thought
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I've got so much money I don't want to be Blippi anymore cast someone else to be Blippi and then that guy someone else became Blippi this one we were on a construction site you know this is right
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in Ian's wheelhouse we're looking at diggers it's all great yeah he's dancing around a construction site Blippi does also sound like something you would use to describe if you'd had a heavy note before I'm a bit Blippi to the yeah I'm a bit Blippi today yeah although
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Blippi gives the impression that he is never working after a tough night out this guy has energy he has like more like there's more energy from you know like the heat a pinhead of the sun has more heat than the rest of the universe he has more energy
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in like his fingernail than me like it's incredible this guy anyway so Ian then does a poo and part of our relationship is he wants mama to do everything and she is not in the house so then he refuses to let me change his nappy
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and I have to chase him around the house it's sort of like Benny Hill sketch but just you're not chasing like a sort of 1970s lady with tassels on her nipples you're chasing a three-year-old with a shit in his pants okay
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and there's no musical soundtrack anyway I managed to get that done get him in the pram he sometimes says daddy go fast and so then I have to do like a basically shuttle run to the cafe so I'm sitting there thinking I'm not enjoying this but it's great
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incidental fitness you might not go out for a run this is good for the football season focus take these runs seriously he's really enjoying them and like this could be the only exercise I do today get to the cafe I have a long black and it's great
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oh wow I'd say you've a lot of space around you as the vomity man and the shitty boy come into the cafe it's not that busy at this time and we know that you know basically if you have two kids and you like you fill the cafe with
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your prams and all your bullshit and your covering pencils you've got to be good like we're nice the staff know us it's a lovely cafe and so that's really good now at the end of we've had a really lovely time obviously me and Jamie are exhausted but I
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Ian's pram is at the I've just put it right there we don't need it we might need willies because we might have to blime down but I put that at the end of the cafe because I'm thinking just keep it out the way so I say I'll just
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go and get Ian's pram and as I go there the toilet is there and I'm thinking I'm just about to take Willie for a pram nap so I just duck into the toilet but I don't tell Jay I'm going for a wee and when I come out
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she stood there in the intervening period Willie has vomited all over her and Ian has left the cafe so she's been left with this chaos and I've just gone for a piss and then
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she's like can you just tell me when you're going for a wee and 45 year old me is like I just don't want to ask permission to go for a wee and there are people around and we're sort of having a bit of an argument and I'm like can
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we just not do this in front of everybody and so we basically have a row right we have a row but not as serious as our rows get which is not that serious so
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what I want here is not Russell Howard to come in the fake Russell Howard so anyway we leave the cafe and we say I just didn't want you to like I just went for a wee like if it was the situation I just have dealt with the chaos
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I appreciate it was I should have said I might be a minute whatever so then we sort of a bit annoyed with each other and she's walking home I'm walking back I'm taking Willie for a pram nap so we're going the other way and then
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she has lost her keys about a week ago so she says I've you got any keys so I then have to come back even though we want to spend some time apart and I give her my keys and then
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we walk together for a bit anyway I then walk to the supermarket IGA which sort of it's one of the two markets which gives the impression of being friendly and
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local but just charges the fucking shit out of you for everything yeah Australia is weird IGA is international grocers association as well which sounds like it's a global body but I've never seen them anywhere except they're basically like a Tesco Express level you don't want to buy
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batteries in there for your novelty keyboard six before a gig you're so right if you just go to Bunnings you get so many batteries I've learned that I get peanut butter I buy Jamie a lint mint intense as a kind of I'm sorry that I was for my
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part in the row I buy a sort of ready-packed four slices of melon which is a grave disappointment and some cheese they're just normal cheeses some dorset cheddar and nostalgically I always try and
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buy cheddar that has been shipped from the UK because it makes me for some utterly stupid reason and some tomatoes so then I take those home and you know the mood is tense but
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we're all okay but like we play group is on at this church nearby you pay 50 bucks for the term and it's really nice it's got lots of different things different you know diggers and cars and
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train set and art and whatever and they feed you the feed you know they give a snack to the kids as a playground outside it's lovely and we're like okay so I get back at about 10 and that starts at 10 so
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we're sort of in a bit of a hurry to get out we don't know whether to feed Willie or not and it's all a bit like oh what should we do so I'm going right I'm packing the car I pack the car with everything the pram I put
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Willie in the baby seat whatever we're all really good to go Jamie needs to get wants to sort of be more presentable than she has been I think she looks great but
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she's decided she needs to change again so then as you shut the front door I just say I don't have my keys because she's got them and she shuts the front door okay
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now we're in business in terms of content for the podcast but we're in a very disappointing state of play for our real lives yeah okay so we're locked out now
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normally one of the windows is unlocked yeah so you just slide out of the window I'm climbing the window that's fine normally like of the two of us I think we should lock the door Jamie never wants to lock anything because she grew up in Australia neighbors everything
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is unlocked shit we left our back door unlocked once and some people came into the house when I guy Pierce and Clive the doctor yeah Dr. Clive Gibbons came in and
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they stole our car keep my wallet and the car and we never car for five weeks so in my mind I'm like we should probably lock the house because crime does happen in this area literally our house it happened in our house and we weren't insured the
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fact we found the Subaru was a massive surprise so anyway Jamie's annoyed with me because the house is locked I'm annoyed with her because she lost her keys a week ago and if she hadn't lost her keys she wouldn't have had my keys I'd have my keys
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but we're not neither of us are mentioning this okay we're just going how are we going to get in the house Ian thinks is the perfect time to run into the garden open a big pot of black paint and pour it all over himself
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so Ian is covered in black paint to the point where Jamie has to take his trousers off right they're covered in paint and then we explain to Ian that we're not going to go to play group and he no no he is so sad he is
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grieving like you know I can't think of a moment in a movie is it so bad that you consider smashing a small window we think about that but then what we do is we text the neighbor go have you got any trousers and you know just a
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normal text yeah they're just normal texts to be clear that's not just a neighbor with no children and we're going to use just an adult's trousers and you know our next neighbors have three young kids so we're like they'll probably have something Jamie then gets I think like
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I don't know if she's opened a paper clip but she's got like she's found some bit of metal and she is trying to unlock the back door like hot wiring a car and it looks cool right
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it looks like she's in the FBI and I'm like well this can't fail I've never seen this fail because I've only seen it in movies right so in movies and you just hear click in real life it's just it's just it doesn't work it's
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as you can't a locked door does not unlock with a paper clip this is what you do what you learn from in this direction it's a very famous saying so then
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there's one window where the latch is not that much on you know the sort of turning let's say you you close the window and you'd lock it just with a little latch that goes round in like a semicircle but one is not that much and every time I
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push it I think it's going around but it might be an optical illusion but I go okay I'm going to do this for 10 minutes just boom boom boom and just see and then within about two minutes it's just an optical illusion that is not open so then
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we're like okay fuck we're going to ring the locksmith and you know what they're like they're going to charge you the call-out fee is like oh the call-out fee is like $1.55 I ring one and I say yeah but how much it's just like a Yale
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lock it's not that how much and they went we just can't tell you and you're like okay so we're you know we're over a barrel here yeah I ring another one and
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they say the same thing I'm like okay fine so anyway they say what happens is our locksmith will ring you in five minutes so in five minutes a guy rings I say this is our address how much is it going to be he was like oh it
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depends on the space and between the pins and blah yeah you know we're like ah shit this is shit anyway while this is happening the council have come to there's lovely trees down both ends of our street but they middle with the electrical wires but
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anyway the tree surgeons have come to cut all the trees down and this Ian covered in black paint is mesmerized by the neighbors are all out the neighbors opposite Frank and
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Janet have bought arm chairs out and coffees and are just watching the beautiful scene they're just there we're just watching the trees be cut down it's really good fun anyway so like it's been 20 minutes the locksmith's going to be half an hour and I'm like oh I'm
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still annoyed that Jamie's lost her key she's still annoyed with me we're annoyed with the row about permission to we or not you know it's but it's fine like we're like okay we're not going to get a play group it's all okay I get in the car I
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look at because we I've already checked the car and the car keys and the house keys not in the car so I get in the car again and then Ian has a Lightning McQueen red rucksack yeah and so I pick it up and I just
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feel into the side pocket nothing I feel into the next side pocket jingle jangle keys what I cannot tell you the euphoria I feel the absolute I I don't I take them out of the pocket like they're sort of you know like the gold amulet for some
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Harry Potter but I'm looking at them and there's like a like sun shining around these keys I'm like this is just the greatest single moment of my life and so what I do is Jamie and Ian are in the garden Willie is must be
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there too I presume yeah so I just open the front door and I walk through and I stand at the back door and they look at me and they're like how did you get in the back door I'm like I found your keys it's amazing everyone's happy the
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world is great it's great do we think that Ian Rushden had stolen them or do you think Jamie had put Jamie put them in there yeah I think can I add can we all just bury keys somewhere in our gardens in the future so you go there
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but I was saying to Frank and Janet why don't we just leave some keys with Frank and Janet yeah they're very trustworthy people they are really honestly they're like surrogate grandparents they're wonderful people anyway sounded a bit like Donald Trump wonderful people great people ripping up the whole
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world wonderful people so anyway so this is great because but then I ring the locksmith saying look we don't need you anymore and he's like I'm five minutes away and then
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I just had this image of you know locksmiths are of like Batman aren't they they're just never needed and then when they get the call they're like I'm going to charge these guys eight hundred and fifty dollars and
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there's nothing I can do and I'm like oh and he's like I'm just five minutes away I'm like I'll pay you the call out fee so then he just texts me and for absolutely nothing I send a man twenty nine dollars because I just
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feel bad fair enough and he didn't do you know what like that's fair enough but he didn't even text back thank you I texted him the you know the bank transfer here's your twenty nine dollars locksmith with your bank transfer details not even a fucking thank you and
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I'm like there's a Larry David episode where it's like the commensurate apology or whatever and this is it it's fine that's fine he needed to say thanks you know I know he's annoyed he hasn't won his million dollars for breaking into my house I found my keys
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I can't just say oh do you know what I found my keys but you know sod it just break into my house anyway and charge me five thousand dollars I've given him thirty dollars for nothing he should at least say thanks yeah okay you don't agree you
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don't agree you're making me feel like the coffee thing again he's running his way to the next person he doesn't have time you know what I mean you don't spider man doesn't text you afterwards being like it was a pleasure to save your life as you fell
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from that skyscraper or whatever you know he's a locksmith driving to his neck he probably doesn't have a next job he's just annoyed because he it can't fleece me to get in my house that I've got in by myself wow everyone's not trying I want that to
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get the locksmith out and he arrived there was no I didn't have to offer any proof that this was my house he had a drill that was like a rifle that sat on his shoulder that obviously had a diamond tip because he was like
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is it this lock and I was like yes and it touched the edge of it basically the whole lock just melted and he went 200 euros please like it was very impressive okay yeah no no fair enough fair enough so okay so then
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Jamie and I agree to recalibrate recalibrate rescue the day right because we've not had a great day so far so we agreed to go to a cafe that we really like that we haven't been to it's just come back on our rotation but the chili
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eggs are great the coffee's great the avocado on toast is great Jay once again walks with Willie hoping that he'll sleep I am to cycle Ian on the back of my bike I as you know I own one bike and has a big seat on the end for
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Ian and Ian now wants to stay at home and so we come to an agreement where you know he's good at puzzles he's good at sort of a nine piece puzzle and the only way we agree to go is if I take with me the 150
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piece mr. chicken puzzle that goes in the bag he gets on the back of the bike we cycle to this really lovely cafe called Joan when I get there Jamie says Jamie apologizes to me for what happened in the morning that's this is that this
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is a really good this is a big moment because Jamie's not at best even if she's totally wrong at best we'll get to we're both sorry that's the best we'll get to so I say to Jamie are you apologizing because it's my day on what I asked
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my day on what did you do yesterday and she says yes yeah that's how deep this goes it was like a bonafide I'm sorry there was not like are you also sorry we normally do we're both sorry and
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then it's fine but this was just a bonafide I'm sorry because because Helen will listen to this occasionally but Helen's mother came over for dinner last night shout out to Aileen and she was like how are the mushrooms and Helen's like how the heck do you
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know about the mushrooms so we're not at the point yet where Helen is performatively acting I'm with you I can't remember if she said is it your day tomorrow or not I don't know anyway because I smell a rat it was just such an authentic beautiful
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apology I don't think I've ever had that in like we've been together for 12 years I don't think anyway anyway it's fine we're all good we're sat at the table Ian's got the puzzle out it's enormous it's bigger than the table I order a strong three quarter
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flat white my second coffee of the day yeah coffee comes three quarters yeah I just I just want to like this is like the second series of Big Brother whereas in the original series I think they thought no one was watching so they were just acting normally but
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as soon as it became the biggest TV show in Britain from series two onwards everyone knew millions of people were watching their every move and I just wonder if Mrs. Rushden has now reached series two of Big Brother it's like in The Apprentice they they used
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to start as sort of pretending to be business people now they just talk how people talk on The Apprentice yeah nobody talks in real life anyway I order a strong three quarter flat white a three quarter flat white arrives looks perfect I just say
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oh is this strong by any chance he goes oh no it's just got one shot and I go okay I just wanted it strong so he comes back he says okay well I'll just okay I'll just chuck another shot in I'm like okay so he comes back so
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obviously the other shot has now just made this a full strong flat white and I want to but the cups are quite small so I just go that's totally fine because I'm and I'm and just to be clear I'm happy with the coffee I'm not thinking I
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can't complain about another coffee it just made me laugh that it was not the coffee this coffee they've never messed up the order until the day before I'm doing this podcast every time they got it perfectly until now very funny you know people talk about the
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Goldilocks point which is but that implies Goldilocks and the three bears in order for you to find the coffee you have to it would have to be Goldilocks and the over a thousand bears where it's like this one's a little too hot this one's
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too cold this one is too hot but just has one shot at it this one when the second shot goes in the level is you know what I mean we do the puzzle we do we don't complete the puzzle we do a bit of
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puzzle the chili eggs are absolutely great so nice they've got whipped feta underneath them they've got like spring onions peanuts it's not the chili jam is so good the chili oil is not too spicy just a little bit really it's a great meal I'm totally delighted
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miss Australia we then go to a playground over the road and Ian is playing and here's interesting thing we have a we share a cookie we're all very happy he really is sort of sleeping not really sleeping whatever Ian is on a swing and on
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either side of him there are two brothers and there's a girl and they're chatting away they're about 11 or 12 they're just chatting they're really friendly really happy and then one of the brothers just says to this girl are you a boy or a girl and
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she says oh I don't know and in a kind of like genuinely sort of gender identity conversations that 11 12 13 year olds are having now yeah kind of like oh maybe I'm a non-binary I don't know and they're like all right
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that's fine and I just thought this is absolutely you know and I'm just pushing Ian yeah he's just going faster faster but I'm like how fast that is just a fascinating conversation that young people are having yeah you know and
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like they just go and then they wouldn't like none of it was like controversial sort of anything it was just really blasé oh I don't know maybe maybe not not sure whatever and they're like all right yeah fine and then they just carried on then saying if you
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could be an animal any animal what would it be and that was their conversation for the next like 45 minutes while I was putting you in on a swing a pigeon not a pigeon stupid what about a phantom that's not an animal blah blah blah that was a normal 11
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year old conversation but it was just a really interesting thing anyway a cycle home I cannot believe it's a cycle home it's only 220 in the afternoon I feel like I've been awake for the rest of my life I then get into bed with Willie in
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the aim of getting him down in the bed because then if he goes down I can go down right I can't I'm sad about that I realized that that is my for my moment to get a nap in it was then and
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I'm not going to get it Ian and Jamie are in the garden Ian is in a paddling pool demanding some biscuits it's my sister's birthday I remember I send her some flowers great to her house in Putney and
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yep my I then check my whatsapps and my dad messages to say don't forget your sister's birthday she's in Ibiza so my sister has some flowers dead completely wilted dead flowers on her doorstep when she comes back from her yoga retreat in Ibiza I give
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Willie a bath and he's like a big chunky baby so this creases everywhere and in every crease is just milky vomit I then take Willie for a 45 minute pram walk where I think I listen to the rest is politics Rory Stewart and
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Alistair McGowan that'll really cheer you cheer you up after this that will with having just washed puke out of your big fat baby's wrinkles tell you what I'll get to hear about those tariffs that's what will really lift me up now so anyway it's not
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Alistair McGowan is it it's Alistair Campbell would be you know as good as McGowan he could do it it's true anyway you just realize the world is bleak but I don't have time to think about it anyway dinner tonight is not a box it's Ian's best
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friend's birthday and we're going to 300 grams for burgers so I cycle 300 grams is the name of the place yeah it's really good the burger right okay I thought you were Phil wanging out the exact measurement of the burger you wanted I cycle up Jamie doesn't
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want to come really because she's exhausted but I wanted to come because I just do and so she brings Willie up I order some chips as soon as I get there so
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that they'll be cool by the time Ian wants to eat some and his best friend wants to eat some they arrive the burgers arrive they're really really good there's one high chair it's a small restaurant and both Ian and his best friend want
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to sit in the high chair so then we have to put a timer on for five minutes and every time it goes down one of them gets out and one of them gets in the high chair we get home the burger is really great it's nice time it's
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best when parents are nice this is lovely what do the lads do you know what do two three year olds like they're not having conversations about gender identity are they just driving trucks through chips driving trucks through chips his best friend eats the burger Ian is not just
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wants chips at this stage great get home I watch Mika who's kind of blippy's friend with Ian so this is his second bit of TV of the day I then
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swap with Jamie so then I'm trying to get Willie to sleep I get him to sleep I sleep for myself for about an hour oh yeah she's absolutely amazing that gets to us to about eight o'clock and then you've got football you have to talk
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about football now after all of this no I don't no no no I don't is there no well I don't talk about football but I do have to do the pod with you with a footballer but
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we don't know who that is yet so but it is my booking I've booked a footballer and here's the interesting thing so we do that podcast I see you I see Mars you know I don't see Mars but he doesn't show his face because
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of his veneers but we we do the podcast it's a good path it's a good episode like the thing this was going out before that was going out so we won't say who is the guest interestingly and I think you'll like this the football season starts in
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a week or so and I promised Jamie that I wouldn't play football for 12 weeks after Willie was born you know I'm not gonna bug her off for five hours on a Sunday but I have moaned to her every day about wanting to play football like a spoil and
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she's like I'm postpartum I've had a baby like shut up about football but I just can't help myself I love playing football you're just plumping across the tiles in your studs well just imagine it here so I have bought these I've bought some Puma Kings I wrote a
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column about these Puma Kings I know Puma Kings and they're made by Mundial magazine which is a great football magazine like reasons why you love football and I wrote this column and I was offered a free pair because I'd written a column I thought
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for integrity I have to buy them but there is wow here it is so while I recorded that I podcast yesterday I was wearing these in so I did the whole podcast in Puma Kings and not just because we were doing this episode because I've worn this for
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every podcast I've done since they arrived to to get them in so the listeners Puma Kings are the definitive boots of the 90s they have giant white fluffy tones that but the bounce up and
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down as you and your giant 90s polyester jersey run up the pitch and your hairy chest and your little belly so we finished the pod at what we finished recording it I don't know 10 10 30 p.m. we then talk for half an hour about life
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you me and Mars bar about quite how stratospheric this podcast is going and so we do that and then I say goodbye to you guys get into bed I'm a little bit wired because you know like it's quite hard to go to straight to bed after doing these
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podcasts so I lie in bed and everything is showbiz so I do Squardle I do work I think I've done word already today I do the Squardle great where that I want to be up at five o'clock the next morning to watch Arsenal play Real Madrid in the
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Champions League yeah so 1115 I just say I've got three words left of word or one of them turns out to be larynx couldn't get it Squardle so I just go to bed at 11 so I in the day bed I'm in the day bed the
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first bed you get to when you get back to work back in the house you don't want to go across the squeaky floorboards which would exactly and yeah so I'm in bed at 11 1115 I put the phone under my pillow and I'm like lights off great at
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1117 Ian wakes up and so he wakes up and my feeling is I'm gonna leave him for three minutes just see if he goes back down but he's awake so then I go and
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stand outside his door he's definitely awake so I get into bed with him and he's awake for about half an hour just jostling and being a dick and then and then he goes to sleep and then I think I go to sleep but I wake up
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I wake up again at 1116 yeah so I think then I go back into the day bit and I force it and like that wasn't my first trip in back in with Ian I'm thinking I'm back in again for an hour or so
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but I would say 1116 is when it all ends and so that is that's a 20 hour 20 hour day guys yeah it's funny because I just came to the hospital and to the podcast that we recorded yesterday said good morning to all the bikes spritz the mushrooms and I'm like
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here we go bit of fun now the podcast and I I don't think that you've just been through essentially the first world war convalescing by the time we sit down to do this podcast this is like war horse except where I meet the horse just back in
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Somerset in 1920 and I'm like been up to anything for the last few years but I didn't show I think you know like I love coming to my shed to do these things whenever I complain about work you know it is true that I really love doing it so
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it was a great pleasure well I'm happy to do it with you and also to be an active participant in your relationship now where you air your grievances I think she'd say I was I'd been reasonable I like it was I should have just said I'm gonna
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go for a wee because then she would have been able to plan for the chaos that happened while I was just on my phone really taking too long over a piss well yeah if you the listeners would like to send any covert messages to friends or partners
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than just the sum of our parts that's what me and you are David between you me and the listeners it's not just what did you do yesterday it's all life it's everything it's everything that brings you me and them together and between us, everything is showbiz. Jesus that mushroom is huge!