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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.
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Nothing more. Day before yesterday, Max? Nope. The greatest and most interesting day of your life?
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Unless it was yesterday, we don't want to know about it. I'm Max Rushden. And I'm David O'Doherty.
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Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Here we go, everybody. Season two. I don't know what.
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It's midday. Midday? Midweek? I'm almost tempted, David, to start again. Give it up. I just, I really thought just from the pre-chart that you were really going to hit us.
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I was going to be like, I'm in the presence of a great broadcaster. Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday?
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A midweek show, everyone. Yeah. Midweek. Wait. No, because quite often, like the start of anything, you just, you fumble a word and you go, let's start again.
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But like, this podcast to me is so honest, David, because a lot of broadcasting is not honest.
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This one is so honest that I want it to stay in. And that is how limply I began.
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That is how limply I began this episode. Hey, do you want some stats on the Tom Rosenthal episode from Producer Mars Bar?
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Well, I'll just give a tiny bit of background. I mean, would you say there are some ultras that have now moved away from listening?
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Listening to the actual, what did you do yesterday's and just listen to this, the one where we discuss basically what, what happened and what's happened in our lives.
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I mean, I hope so, but I sort of feel if you're not listening to the actual episodes, like you're missing something, but you know, it's a possibility.
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If you haven't listened to the Tom Rosenthal episode, it comes with a downloadable. I said it was a 20 page PDF and one of our listeners picked me up.
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You're underselling it. It's a 23 page PDF where he chronicles everything. He didn't, he, he seemed to be saying he didn't trust himself that it was going to be interesting enough if he didn't write down a lot of information and it's now been downloaded.
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How many times? Uh, 1,972 people have the time in the current state of the world to download a PDF of Tom Rosenthal's day.
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That gives me. It gives me so much joy. Um, Zelensky's downloaded it. He's actually downloaded it a bunch of times.
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He can't get a print to it that works. He was like, he was trying to hand it out to the people in the Oval Office, wasn't he?
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And that's why they got annoyed. Cause they were like, we've got serious things to do.
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My takeaway from it, cause they did go back and read the PDF then afterwards.
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And I, I, in a way hoped that I wouldn't ever have to confront this.
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It was when I mixed up the name. Of his dog and his daughter. And I thought he just dewormed his, his 17 day old daughter.
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But I, do you know what? Like if I hadn't had kids and someone said 17 days in, you have to deworm them.
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I'd have gone, fair enough. I had, I had worms once. I went to Zanzibar and I got worms in my feet.
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And when I came back, I had all these trails going up my feet. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It was sort of quite, yeah, there was something quite mesmerizing about them. They were frightfully itchy.
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And I went to the doctor and then they went, I'll go to the, you know, go to the, you know, the tropical disease place.
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It was such an, it was such a perfect illustration of worms that the doctor called all the doctors.
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So literally like thousands of student doctors. And they took photos of my feet. That is disgusting.
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That's a nightmare. That is amazing. It's an absolute, certain things I thought would play a bigger role in my life when I was younger.
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And one of them was certainly in my late teens, there was a lot of chat about never pee into a river because a tiny fish will swim up your pee and lodge itself in your, in your wang.
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And that, that's yet to definitely, definitely weed in rivers. It hasn't stopped. I've been constantly in rivers since then.
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You've never accidentally, you've just seen a tour book coming up towards you going, well, it's started now.
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So let's hope, let's hope that he doesn't have the strength to get up there.
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Andrew says the additional effort to download a tracking app, then produce a PDF of his day is the chocolate teapot of podcasting.
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Now, okay. I get that. I think he means that as not a compliment, but is there not something kind of delicious?
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In the concept of a chocolate teapot, you know, especially with Easter coming up soon and eggs and all the rest of us.
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I think it would be delicious. Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. I think it would be delicious.
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Let me read you this. Ollie, I'm just reading this at the same time as the listeners are getting it.
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Hi, guys. In relation to Tom Rosenthal's episode, which I listened to yesterday, I'd like to thank Tom for telling us about pissing in a bottle whilst on his way to Geisele.
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As a Geisele resident, I've often... I've often been embarrassed about the town's association with bottles of piss.
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In 2022, a fan of the local football team, Geisele AFC, pissed in the bottle of Warrington Town's goalkeeper, Tony Thompson, an excellent non-league footballer name.
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Tony then drank from the bottle, not knowing the contents, before launching the bottle at the Geisele fans and receiving one of the most unjustified red cards in football history.
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So, Max Haggard, how did he do it? Like, do you think he crept out of the terrace into the back of the net?
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Maybe. To pee in the bottle. It's possible. That is harsh to be sent off for that.
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It's harsh. Anyway, my hope, says Ollie, is the unprecedented popularity of this podcast will flood the internet with an alternative Geisele piss story.
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And will eventually fill the results page of the search term Geisele piss in bottle.
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Thus confining this unsavoury note in my town's history to the annals of time. I'm looking forward to the...
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The future of yesterday. Cheers, Ollie. Thank you, Ollie. That's a brilliant email. Wow. So it's like Boris Johnson when he wanted people to stop talking about the I'll give 300 million to the NHS bus.
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Yeah. He then did some other bizarre interview where he talked about how he liked to make wooden model buses.
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Yeah. He hoodwinked me. I was like, I was all over Twitter talking about him talking about making buses.
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Absolutely. He did me like a kipper. Andy and Max the dog, a.k.a.
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Maxwell B. Collie, says, hi, chaps. Just finished listening to the Joanne McNally episode. And we had lots of questions and emails on this bit.
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This one from Andy sums up nicely. For completeness, this was whilst walking my dog, who has an excellent recall, similar to Dara Ibrahim's dog, though I didn't send him to a wellness retreat for dogs to accomplish this.
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Anyway, I was so disappointed in the lack of questions about the eggs. I mean, I feel we asked a lot of questions about the eggs.
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I feel we did about half an hour on the eggs, but we continued. She had six eggs, but only two yolks.
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Obvious question. What happens to the remaining four yolks? Do they pile up in a bowl in the fridge?
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Does she sell them to a custard factory? Have I just totally misunderstood her breakfast?
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We may never know, says Andy. Keep up the good work. Yeah, I felt we let ourselves down here a tiny bit.
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You know, while we did, we got a lot of mileage out of the idea that she'd had six eggs.
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I never asked the question, what exactly? Like, it seemed like it was just a scrambler.
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Then I think I asked this question. I said, did you do you just like tip it into the pan?
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So there's like two yolks floating about or do you scramble it? And I think she if I recall, she said she normally does give it a bit of a stir.
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Yeah, I think. Yeah. But we didn't say where did the four eggs go? I presume she pours them, you know, I know you hate waste, but I think she probably pours them down the sink.
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You know this. I mean, I can tell you one of my showbiz tales now when I did bake off, I made a meringue tribute to Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Voyage.
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We've all done it. A giant flat meringue and it had like 20 eggs in it or something.
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And the the yolks were were not needed. OK, so I had a technique where I was firing them into the sink with a spoon.
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I thought this is a good technique and it'll make great television. And someone ran.
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Ran over and was like, no, we can't be seen to do this. They can't be seen to waste any food on bake off.
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Yes, we will use your yolks for something else. Actually, sorry, Max, just I don't want to take you out of your great rhythm here.
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No, that's OK. You know, you have four good anecdotes. Is that the total? I think so.
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Although I would say this podcast is, you know, I've I've dug a little deeper and actually I think there's a few more.
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But yeah, I've traded for maybe 20 years of three to four anecdotes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like worm worm feet disturbing as it was.
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I feel we could workshop that a little bit more to make it less awful, maybe.
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OK. Yeah, we can work on it. I am just back from Milton Keynes where I performed last night, which is the home of I would say my single greatest anecdote ever.
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Ah, OK. Did a gig, checked in after the show, checked into the hotel after the show.
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So you get the night porter tends to be a little looser maybe than the day porter.
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And I get room 303 and I open the door. So the TV is on in the room, which is not that uncommon in the chain hotels, I guess is to welcome you.
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But I am on the TV. Oh, wow. OK. OK, so it's me on. I don't know, Apollo or something like that.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of these programs, as you would say. And so there's a moment where, oh, wow, this is like, you know, I'm in another country and I'm on the TV.
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What a nice. And I sort of sashay into the room down the corridor past the loo.
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And there is a fully naked man lying on the bed. OK. And he is watching me on the TV.
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And he looks up to see me. And do you know what I say just before I leave the room?
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I say, that's me. And then just walk out. It's my, yeah, it's my best story ever.
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That is exactly. That's an amazing. It's amazing if a hotel offered that service. You could, if you lay naked on the bed and then you put on the Golden Girls, you know Columbo, that person would just, he must tell that story.
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I mean, he must. The, yeah, I'd love to hear it from his point of view.
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It's like we need to find him. Once again, I was naked watching David Lodati on TV and then David Lodati walked into the room and said, that's me.
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You played it perfectly. I've got to say. Like, did you lock eyes? Was it very obvious you locked eyes and he would have been like, okay, that's David Lodati.
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I think in the dramatized version of it in my mind now, we both sort of double, triple take, you know, where cartoon style, we both look at the TV, then back into each other's eyes, then back at the TV.
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I'm maybe in the dramatized version, miming along with the routine that I'm doing. You know what I mean?
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For, uh, I'll just, I better get out of here. Whereas, no, I think it was more of a, cause you know, I think we've all been given a hotel room at some point that someone else is in, you know, and it's, uh, let's get out of here quick.
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The next half hour for him would have been a real head fuck. He'd be like, oh, what's this?
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What's happened there? Um, Claire says, hello, lads. Big fan. Just wanted to write for the first time to say.
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I absolutely loved the last two episodes. I'll be forever grateful to Joanne McNally for calling out the absolutely revolting ruddy wet eggs that are served up by cafes, hotels, and restaurants with a heavy portion of food snobbery on the side.
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If you suggest you'd rather have them, you know, cooked also the genuine shock and horror in David's voice when he said six eggs still makes me laugh whenever I think about it.
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Um, on that note, Jamie, Mrs. Rushden loves it when you just say they're just normal cheeses.
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What can I say about Tom Rosenthal? I'm almost tempted to suggest you should retire the pod now as I'm not sure how that can be bettered.
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What an interesting and hilarious glimpse into another person's world and how generous of him to open up himself like that actually felt like a cultural moment that people will study.
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Thank you for everything you do. Um, so after the gig in Milton Keynes last night in the, in the stables, I was waiting for the taxi man who had turned out only took cash.
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Oh, okay. Tricky. Well, so no, he said he could send me a link that I could then pay off my phone to download to, to print out a cash machine with a 3d printer, but cause I had an Irish phone.
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It didn't, well, yeah, it was a real mess. We had to go to the ATM.
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I haven't gone to the, been driven to the ATM for years with him staring at me in case I've just got a bolt.
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One of the three miles straight line streets of Milton Keynes. And as I was standing outside, uh, Roy listener to the podcast was, was standing there and he did bring up the cheeses in a way.
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I don't want to say that Roy was trying to tap me up, but you know what I mean?
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He's, there was definitely a vibe from Roy, which is Dave, which way, which way are we, which way are you leaning on the cheese?
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Come on, Roy. You know, you can't, if you see us in, in the wild, you cannot ask us about, you can ask us anything else, but not about the cheese.
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Um, should we play the cheese game since we're here? Uh, ladies and gentlemen, it's time for curdle.
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Uh, what did you fondue yesterday? Master rind, uh, who wants to breed a millionaire?
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Uh, do you want to do the bazoon? I'm going to leave it a week.
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Okay, fine. I understand. I understand. It also, it takes a lot out of my voice as well.
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I imagine I'll get another message going. I can't do any earlier. I'm a wreck.
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I did the catchphrase buzzer. You're like someone who fought in the first world war.
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Just your useless son in the 1930s, all these cabarets. Oh, so many cabarets to go to.
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I think no one's ever been as tired as me. One, two, three, four, three, two, one.
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I've got cheese. This is cheese. Grim and come and bear it. Really nice. And then he says, new cheese game suggestion.
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Dale or no Dale. Admittedly, this only works if you know Dale is a type of cheddar.
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But yeah, Dale or no Dale. Reminds me of during the Soccer AM Glory Years.
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One of my ideas that got through was teal or no teal. Sean Teal, the former Aston Villa.
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We got a giant, massive red box and we put Sean Teal in it. And we didn't really think through the sketch at all.
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We didn't really think through the sketch at all. We didn't really think through the sketch at all.
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But we just had someone dressed as Noel Edmonds going teal or no teal. And someone saying teal.
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And then we opened the box and Sean Teal jumped out. It's great. Do you like that?
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So my greatest ever pun is a comedy pun. So Tim Minchin and Simon Munnery live in a flat together.
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But Tim Minchin has to pay for everything. Right, okay. And the song he writes about it is called Munnery's Too Tight Tim Minchin.
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Really nice. Yeah. Oh, that is good. Yeah, that's your one. Right, I thought, okay, so I'm with you.
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Yeah, I came up with that. But it was another one of those classic Max reactions where I was watching your face as I said it.
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Well, I was so desperate to understand it. I was like, what if I don't get it?
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A weird tragedy. It's a Simply Red song. Come on. That's up your street. I got it completely.
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I got it totally. But, like, it's 8.05 a.m. I'm in my shed. I'm not at the gig, right?
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So just, you know, yes. Very well done. It's like, that's high praise. Anyway, he says, Matty says, I knew Obelix fell into the vat.
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I've not had a vasectomy. Chelsea legend Terry Phelan once stole my freshly poured and paid for pint of off the bar at Vault's nightclub in Kingston-upon-Thames in the late 90s.
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Keep up the acceptable level of efforts. Here are my guesses. Here we go. One, Cashel Blue.
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Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Manchego. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Here we go.
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Edam. Boursin. Giant Babybel. Imagine that for Christmas. Where are the O'Doherty's? They're easy cheeses.
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Please, cheeses. They're just normal cheeses. Okay, I will allow... Mrs. Rushden to have a guess if she wants.
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We'll do it the next time. I'm saying if she wants to, we could do an additional round.
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No, only if she... Only if she... Leaves a five-star review. I think that might be the bleakest thing that's ever happened on this podcast.
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Anyway, should we do yesterday? I've just remembered something that happened yesterday. Should we do my yesterday?
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It's my yesterday, which is interesting. Because I... We're recording on my Tuesday morning, your Monday evening.
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So my yesterday is your currently happening today. Oh, wow. That is pretty extraordinary. So you...
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It'll be interesting if you came back from Milton Keynes. Well, I began the day walking into a room where there was a man lying naked on a bed watching Soccer AM from 2011.
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Okay, so look, I woke up. I can't really remember because it just... It's the age of, you know, early parenthood.
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It's all a bit of a blur. But I'd say it might have been six.
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Well, does the big lad still ask you what time it is? Because he knows nothing before six o'clock.
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Yeah, and that's just a big part of the day. What time is it is a big part of today.
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And we'll find out very soon why. So he's up. I've had absolute maximum for five hours, probably four hours sleep.
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So I'm not... Not good enough for me. So I go and get Ian, the big lad.
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And because it's past six o'clock, he gets what he calls a deprise, a surprise.
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And we're still going with this, but we're thinking he's going to get a surprise every day of his life.
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Are we spoiling him? Hot wheels? Is it still hot wheels? No, there's no hot wheels.
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Jamie the other day went to like a reject shop and bought a load of junk.
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And the thing that he picks out of the bag is a small, his very own little clock.
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I don't know why we're feeding the beast, but you feed the beast. So it's a tiny clock.
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And so I flick it on, but the second hand doesn't start going around. He's just discovered second hands because the clocks in our house don't have them.
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And he's mesmerized by the fact that it goes so quickly. And this has a second hand.
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It doesn't work. Then I realized it needs a battery. So we go and get the batteries.
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It's amazing how you don't buy batteries ever until we have kids. And now like, and you don't, you forget how prohibitively expensive like a packet of double A's is.
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It's like, it's like basically it's a racket. If you were, if I was to do my life again, I'd just make batteries because you make an absolute, I bet they cost nothing to make.
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And it's just a racket. I remember hearing a, I don't know if it's conspiracy theory, but I bet it's true, which is that at some point the battery manufacturers were like, guys,
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let's not make these batteries much better than they are now. No one's ever going to buy our, our batteries.
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Yep. Okay. So, he's got his clock. Yeah. Stick the battery in. The second hand doesn't go around.
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It's a broken clock. Oh, this is annoying. So then I just sort of say, look, it's a, you've got to think in your feet here.
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It's a show clock. It's not like a clock that works. He can move the hands around and that's fine.
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So he loves his clock and he keeps asking what the time is and he keeps moving the time around.
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It's right twice a day, Max. It's right twice a day. Unless he's moving it into a different place at that time.
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So like in many ways, this clock is, it's very hard to know how many times it's right because sometimes he moves it to the right time.
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Sometimes he doesn't. Anyway, so we did that. I did a big hour. Jamie's in bed and I'm mainly saying this for her benefit.
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I did all the bins. I did the dishwasher, did the washing machine. I was like, I'm really proud of myself.
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I've done so much here. Good husband. And I don't want to shout about it to her in the house to say, you know, like these things are things you should do anyway.
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It's bin day. It's bin day. So we're waiting for the trash truck because Ian loves it when the trash doesn't come.
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I want to bring an international perspective on waste. To the podcast where in Dublin, it's a stupid system where Dublin city council stopped doing the bin.
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So gave it out to various private sector companies that are now putting their prices up and just don't give a shit really, you know, like the foxes knock over a bin and eat it.
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They're like, well, it's not our, it's not our fault in Edinburgh. That's my favorite bins place because there's just a big giant black bin on the street and beside it is a smaller brown bin.
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So giant black bin is for landfill. Small brown bin is you scrape it in the pasta into us.
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Yeah. And then there's the recycling one next to it. And then addition to that, you can just leave out furniture and stuff beside it.
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Now I think the drawback of it. So where's that? That's everywhere in Edinburgh. That can't be everywhere.
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That's in Edinburgh. Yeah. And there's no bin lorries. Well, the big bin lorry comes and picks up the giant containers, but you bring your stuff out every time your bin is full.
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That can't be suburban Edinburgh though. That can't be like, you know, when you're out sort of just out of the centre, right out of the centre.
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Yeah. Well, here we come to another problem, which is although I've done the Edinburgh Fringe over 20 times, I've never left a square mile part of the centre of Edinburgh that probably most people from Edinburgh have never been into.
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Well, I used to live on a, you know, by the Barbican and there was a food market there.
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And so you could put your bin out any day. And actually what I loved about that is, or what I didn't realise about that was it made you feel so free.
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Whereas bin day, it's such a moment in every week where you realise the passage of time and you see everyone putting the bins out and you're like, okay, we've just done another week.
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But also I, our bin is a bit full because we've got a newborn and so it's full.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So I had to go around, I had to put some bags in other bins during this hour.
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And that is about as risky as my life gets. That's a crime. Yeah. It's not a crime.
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It's like their bins weren't full. I just popped in there. The bin man's, you know, no one's getting out of bed at six to put more rubbish in their bin.
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Yeah. I don't know. Listeners, how do you feel about that? It's a, it's definitely a crime of sorts.
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Although the judge would probably be fairly lenient with it. 25 years. So we cycled to kinder.
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Ian has the clock in a small Ziploc bag because if he drops the clock, the hands will go, but he's excited about clock in a bag.
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Like Flavor Flav from Public Enemy. Yeah, exactly. And he sort of bases a lot of his life on that.
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So we, we get to kinder. We, we've got a babysitter. I'm trying to tap up one of the kinder teachers to, to look after Ian sometimes at the weekends.
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Great. And cause our babysitter is going away for two months. And I thought that the main bosses wouldn't like this.
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So I've, I've been really trying to sort of whisper it on the download and then it turns out they were totally fine with it.
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And I could have just emailed. And so that was fun. So I was trying to be like, I was trying to be a bit cool about it.
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Didn't matter. I then cycled to South Yarra as I do on a Monday to do my A-League show.
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A-League podcast. Yeah. With Archie Thompson and Thomas Sorensen. Yes. Third greatest ever goalkeeper. Exactly right.
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Did the show. Then I discovered as I was getting on my bike that I had permanently deleted the Google doc, which has all the passwords that I have for everything in my life.
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And I don't know how I've done it. So I cycle home going, well, I'm sure I can recover this.
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I get home. I open my laptop. I cannot recover the Google doc that has all the passwords for everything.
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Now, but, but hang on. Did you not at some point just have a word, which was your password for everything.
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Then at some point you had to capitalize that word. Yeah. Yeah. And then you, they said, give us a number.
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And then, so you put a one at the end of it. Yeah. And then they said, give us some more numbers.
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So you put your, uh, maybe your pin code. And then finally you add an exclamation mark.
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Now is that not? I've done all. Yeah, of course. But the thing is, what you don't know is which one is, what era did you save that thing?
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So like, is this the 2021 version or the 2023 version? Is it a one exclamation mark?
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Is it a two exclamation mark? I was the best man at a wedding once.
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And I'd done a PowerPoint for my friend, uh, John and the laptop was, uh, sort of up on a mezzanine.
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And I was there on the stage. And when I clicked, you know, like here's the PowerPoint, the, this, it was back to the password screen.
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And so my mate Jeff had to run upstairs and I just had to tell everybody in the room, my password, which was my password for my internet banking, like literally everything.
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Capital U. Yeah. Three exclamation mark. Yeah. Perfect. So I've lost this document. Anyway, I get home.
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Also when I get home, uh, the cleaner is in the house and, uh, Elizabeth comes, I'd say once every three to four weeks.
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We're not like we should, we should be, but obviously because she's there, Jamie can't leave the bedroom.
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She's, she's confined to the bedroom and she wants, uh, she wants to get on with her day, but she can't.
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But we've, you know, we've asked somebody to come and clean the house, which is very nice of them.
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And so Jamie is sad in the bedroom. You're paying her. I mean, let's just, this is confusing for the list.
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You haven't just, you've got out of the street with someone. Is this how friendly Melbourne is?
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Could you clean me, clean my house? We're all going to hide in this city group.
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Look, I just, I just had some middle-class guilt, didn't I? Obviously. I know what was going on there.
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But anyway, so Jamie's confined to the bedroom. Then I get in the bedroom, we whisper away.
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And then as Elizabeth is done and she gets on with her day, Jamie makes me some eggs, same number of whites and yolks, two eggs.
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We're on a bagel with some fried tomatoes, salt and pepper, chili flakes. It's really good.
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Okay. So I have those eggs, sit in the garden for a bit, do the pod script, watch 24 minutes, cut downs of Man United, Fulham, and Newcastle Brighton in the FA Cup fifth round.
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Jamie's meeting a friend with a young Willie Rushden. So I go to bed at 2.30.
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I'm getting up at, the aim is to get up at three and go for a run.
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I don't get up at three. The aim then is to get up at 3.30 to make the dinner.
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Oh no. That doesn't happen. It's 3.45. It's 3.45. So are we sad? Is it classic sad Rush to know?
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Do you know what? I don't have time to be sad because I've got to pick up I've got to pick up Ian at four and get him to the library.
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And I've got 15 minutes to do our quite like meal, which is, I'll tell you what it is.
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Cause they come on a Monday. We don't always cook from this packet. I know you hate them.
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I know how, I know how down you are, but I have 15 minutes to prepare the barramundi with curry butter and warm tomato salad.
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Yep. So this is a race against, I feel like I'm on a cooking show because it is a race against time because Ian knows that we pick him up at four o'clock now and he now knows what four o'clock is.
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And so if we are not there at four o'clock, he's a bit disappointed about it.
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And it's two minutes past four and I've got the tomatoes in the fish sauce with the echelon.
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I'm making the curry butter. And then look, you, I know you look down on these things, but I wouldn't have made this otherwise.
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Anyway, get all that done. Get Ian, take him to the library. Still got his clock.
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Still got his clock. Yeah. Yeah. He drops it on the way. So then I have to put it in my pocket and he seems cool with that.
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We get to the library. He gets two new books. Jamie's friend Maliki is there.
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He makes an obstacle course with Maliki in the kind of kids bits, got cushions.
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I am not allowed on the obstacle course. Let's be clear about this. I try and jump on a cushion and he is like, no, this is for me and Maliki in many ways.
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I'm quite happy about that. Cool library with an obstacle course. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good, it is.
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Yeah. Fitzroy North library. It's a good, it's a good one. Max, I hope it is an obstacle course and he's not just sprinting around the early printed book section as scholars are trying to read 15th century Bibles.
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Yeah. It's like the Bodleian in Oxford. Yeah. It's got first editions of, you know, Copernicus's maps of, you know, I don't know the Southern hemisphere and yeah.
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And he's just literally just running around, you know, ripping them up. And we've got Willie Russians being sick on them as well.
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So that happens. I cycle him home. We stick on some sort of, YouTube for him so that he can sit there.
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He gets a very rude, he gets some pancakes made by Mrs. Rushden, which are nice.
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And then a few breadsticks, a bit of avocado, a light dinner for him. I make the fish.
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Well, I've got Willie attached to me. Make the fish. I've got Willie attached to me.
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And so I'm sort of cooking fish with a baby here. And then me and Jamie are sort of trying to work out the tactics of when are we going to eat this fish?
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And it ends up with Jamie eating it while Ian's in the bath and she's in the bath with him sort of near the bath.
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And I've got a small baby attached to me, Willie, and I'm eating it sort of, I'm sort of eating the fish and curry sauce.
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And there's such a small amount of space between his head and my chin. And I'm conscious that it's not a very hot dinner, but I think if you're, I don't know how old he's maybe a month old.
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I don't think you want to be covered in barramundi. That's what I think. And so I'm trying, it's not the most relaxing way of eating barramundi.
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I mean, in fairness to you, you are, even though it's from a box, you've curried a barramundi as opposed to the Rosenthal technique, which is just to buy weird packets of things.
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Yeah. Or just eat whatever's lying about. Yes. That is true. So that's done. Then we must be approaching football weekly time.
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I think Ian won't let me put him to bed. So Jamie has to put him to bed.
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I take Willie out for a walk. I buy a Kit Kat chunky and a twirl breakaway.
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This is Rushden. Safe in the knowledge that one of them will end up for me.
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A question. Get home. Question here. I just need to. What's a twirl breakaway? I mean, Australia does strike me as they love messing with classics.
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You know what I mean? There'll be something, there's nothing wrong with this. And then you get to Australia and they've got chutney flavored polo mints or something.
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I know what you mean. It is, they have messed with greatness because the twirl is great.
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And the breakaway is great itself, which is a kind of just a sort of wafery.
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It's like a dairy milk, but you know, it's got wafer inside it, but it's a twirl with a wafer inside it.
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It really works. That's the trick. So I have that with a peppermint tea and I record the Guardian Football Weekly.
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By that time it is around 9pm. And I think I should shower because I haven't showered all day and I've done two quite long cycle rides, but I can't be bothered.
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And so I, and then I've got a choice of, do I try and get into bed with, uh, Willie Rushden and Jamie, or do I go to the daybed to begin my night at 9pm?
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So I begin my night in the daybed. It's a great place to be because you're all alone.
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That's it. Then I went to sleep. I mean, obviously I woke up like an hour later I'm up, but I don't, I think that's where the line is drawn.
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I don't know. That's definitely where the line is. Do you pop on a podcast to get to sleep or anything?
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I mean, that would be, that's busman's holiday stuff, isn't it? Yeah. There isn't one that I don't host.
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So like I can't do that self indulgent. Um, no, I do, uh, I do the squared or yeah.
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Okay. And I don't get through it all. Right. Just like to find a bit.
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I find the word anticlimactically and I'm happy with that. Cause that's really funny. You go all the way around like a big snake and it goes 68 points.
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Okay. And then I'm like, okay, that's good. I can't look for all the four letter words.
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So just that I probably check social media for a little bit, but not a lot.
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Yeah. That's yeah. I like what you did there with that one. I mean, it does, it strikes me.
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It doesn't have the pure chaos. Of the Rosenthal day, but that's, that is the 17th day of the life of their first child.
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Yours is more organized. It all comes together, Max. Yeah. Me and Jamie spend a lot of time saying to each other, I think we're doing okay.
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And I think it's kind of reverse gaslighting when in reality, we know in both it's absolutely terrible.
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But if we keep telling each other we're doing okay, then I think we're doing okay.
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I, you know, I am aware that, you know, I've had this Monday, before on this podcast, like, like these Mondays, I don't know.
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I don't know how we get around this, but like, I am going to cycle to South Dara a lot in the course of our lifetime or until this contract goes.
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And then I won't. Yeah. So, you know, what I foresee with this podcast is, you know, when we happen to be recording one and you're looking back in this day,
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the, maybe the listeners could get together, like the way people watch the Rocky horror picture show or that talking heads documentary where they, I dress up as bits of my day.
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Thomas Sorenson. I've come as Thomas Sorenson. I will say that on the cycles, I did listen to a lot of, you know, what's happening in the world type, you know,
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I listened to all of those with, you know, slight trepidation as to where we're heading.
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I did wonder, is there an effect on our podcast when the, when world war three is about to start?
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Do you think more people come to us for escapism or people go, I've got, I've got an hour.
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Should I find out what, you know, is going to happen with Ukraine or should I listen to whether, you know, uh, Joe McNally had four or six.
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Interesting. Yeah. I would also wonder what effect did it have on the Australian a league football podcast?
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You know, I feel with ours, we can bring in more human emotions to it.
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Whereas if you're just wondering if the port Perry koalas beat the, uh, a wall of Maloo Raiders, which did he grabs?
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Yeah. It's harder to bring that sort of angst. Whereas I think this can be more of an outlet for us.
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Yeah. Maybe I'm no, I like hearing about your day, Max. There's something nicely familiar, even the way I snap back at your meals.
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I also, when we've done this day in the past, I do also enjoy the idea of you going to do the guardian.
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Cause that always takes me by surprise. The fact that you laid on, in my opinion, you're barely hanging in there.
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You then highly competently host one of the world's most popular podcasts. But I do like to imagine you hosting it while wearing a tiny baby with a fish curry on its head.
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I have done bits of it with wearing the baby. It's funny. I was doing, I was wearing the baby while I did the handover on Saturday breakfast on talk sport with Natalie Sawyer and Ireland's finest,
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Tony Cascarino. And they, and it's on, they can see me on YouTube. So I've got the baby, we carry it.
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And they're like, Oh, you're such a modern man. And I was thinking, well, I'll take this.
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But you know, every evening I hand all the children to my wife and go into my shed and talk about football.
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Like that is not, it's literally like you to describe 1970s man. That's, I guess it's, I guess I'm doing it for a living, but still it does feel like, it does feel like if I'm,
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if I'm being, you know, praised for being the modern man, I'm not sure. I'm not sure I can really accept it.
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Anyway, I've sent in a WhatsApp group, the barramundi curry with butter and warm tomato salad.
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And presumably Mars Bar, I'll put a PDF, download it from this one. On the subject of the PDFs, the fact that our last guest did the PDF, I do notice because I'm trying to book a few people at the moment and it has
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sent shockwaves through the potential guests. The idea that this is now what you have to do, you know, this used to be a, just a gentle waffle pod, but now the stakes have been raised so,
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so high. The bar is high. Well, don't let anyone, you know, don't be put off.
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A-listers who are listening to this bit, you know, the A-listers, don't be put off.
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You don't have to do a PDF. Right. I'm off to get some breakfast. Wow.
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And if you didn't, please don't. I like the piano music for this bit. So there we are.
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What a day. What a midweek mayhem. Thank you. What an image of a naked man watching you and watching you watching you.
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Have a great week, Max. I'll talk to you soon. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.