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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? Hello, everybody. Welcome to a short series, episode two of two in the paternity leave, and I really hope last ever paternity leave I take.
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Oh, my goodness. Midweek mayhem. Yeah. Hey, David. It's interesting because we are, this is the only time to the listeners we've ever pre-recorded these, so we literally don't know when this is going out.
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Well, in a sense, all of these episodes have been pre-recorded. I hate to be a nerd about this.
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We haven't done any live yet. Oh, yeah. But the sphere in Las Vegas has been booked.
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That is true. Now, you had some feedback, and just before we came on air, I said I was going to throw you a curveball, but let's do some feedback.
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Just to put everyone in the picture, because people who listened to the last paternity leave midweek mayhem know that this episode is starting just after we finished that episode, so the listeners can tell if we've still got the vim to do another, like this is back to back.
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This is really, this is... What is this? This is the conveyor belt of podcasting now.
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This is, we're not doing this for pleasure, we're just churning this shit out. This is like when they do Lost Series, Lost Series 5, isn't it?
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Now, this is really... Do you think this is night 300 of our Las Vegas run?
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No, I'm still bouncing here. I have feedback from a friend of the pod, Michael, who I stayed with in Kerry, you'll remember.
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Ah, yeah, the big kitchen table. Yes, idyllic life down there, or his idyllic life.
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Him and Alva, his partner. Alva's incredible. Alva's one of the great TV writers of our nation, of this nation.
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She has written on Bad Sisters and stuff like that. Oh, cool. I enjoyed that.
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So, Michael writes, way back when they were expecting their first, myself and Alva were watching The Nun's Story, a film starring Audrey Hepburn.
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So, this is in the context, I think, of Celia A.B., who once watched a David Lynch blooper reel, believing it was the actual David Lynch movie.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I once watched the making of Empire Strikes Back, believing, because I was eight, that it was the actual Empire Strikes Back.
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So, I think this is in the context of that. The Nun's Story, they were watching, a film starring Audrey Hepburn, featuring existential doubt, colonialism, and tuberculosis, among other themes and storylines.
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It's a somber, serious flick. Alva fell asleep beside me, and I started changing channels.
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Coincidentally, the sound of music was starting on another channel. So, I started watching it.
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Alva woke up from a 10-minute doze and asked me what she'd missed. The two films were the same era, had a very similar look.
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And we're still in the early bit in the convent, so I played along and made something up.
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It was such a beautiful minute when all the nuns started singing. She had no idea what was going on, and I pretended to be as shocked as she was.
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So, yep, if the listeners have ever had a movie mix-up on that scale, that's a beaut.
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We've had lots on that subject. Colm says, Hi David and Max, when listening to an email from a listener describing how her mother watched 90 minutes of a DVD menu.
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It reminded me of a customer feedback in my old job. In college, I worked part-time in Extra Vision, an Irish blockbuster slash DVD rental shop, where over the course of my time there, it became clear a lot of people had still not
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mastered the DVD players they had bought a few years earlier. On politely asking one woman whether she'd enjoyed a film, she said she had, but did not enjoy the narrator.
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Having seen the film in question, I was surprised, as I hadn't remembered any narration.
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It then became clear the customer had watched... ...this entire film with the audio description turned on, believing a run-of-the-mill film to be some avant-garde piece of media.
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Another customer rang me irate that I'd rented her a film in French without warning.
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I had to assure her that George Clooney cannot speak French and that she just had to toggle the audio settings rather than come in for a different disc.
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All the best. Oh, Extra Vision. Rest in peace, Extra Vision. Damien says, one of you, David, I think, asks listeners, to let you know what we were doing while we were listening.
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Well, I was making 2.7-metre diameter central supports for bespoke wooden cable drums. None of this process is automated once the raw materials, lumber, nails and specs come to me because everything is non-standard sizes.
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I was doing this in Rihimaki in southern Finland. If you make me laugh too much, there's a slight chance that I will chop my fingers off with a bandsaw, but luckily this hasn't happened yet.
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What do we think cable drums are? Do we see them as percussive in a Sir Dion Dublin type way?
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Do you think this is how he invented the dube, maybe? That's a good question.
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I had them as some kind of large industrial thing. Yeah, maybe they are cable drums.
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I don't think you'd get a sound out of it. He says, it gives us his day.
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My alarm woke me at 4.50. I ate some oat bread with cheese and ginger jam and drank some black coffee before walking 3.46 kilometres to work at 7.
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I cycle. When there's no snow or ice, but it's winter. I did buy some spiked tyres so I could cycle all winter, but I ended up with stigmata when I fitted the front tyre,
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so I haven't got round to fitting the back tyre yet. This didn't happen yesterday.
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Technically, not fitting the rear tyre has happened every day since I got it. I enjoy your podcast.
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It does make me laugh a lot, just within safe margins. I hope it carries on for as long as the Guardian Football One has.
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Happy New Year. Thank you so much. That was lovely. That was a really good.
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Yeah, Claire has a… a bicycle question for you. Oh, yeah. Dear David and Max, I listened with concern to your most recent midweek mayhem episode where DOD mentioned his plan to get rid of three of his 19 bikes.
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I've been thinking that the podcast is lacking detail on David's bikes, but that it would only be a matter of time before this topic comes up.
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I now worry that with fewer bikes to discuss, maybe it'll never happen. David, please give the bike-loving people what they are, not more bikes.
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Loving people what they want. And tell us about your bikes. Do you have favourites?
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Do they have names? What's the split between road, mountain, gravel, and other bikes? Do you own a Brompton?
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My favourite type. How many hours per week do you spend maintaining your flock? Love the pod.
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I'd like more scatological talk, ideally. Claire. Wow. Well, Claire, I'll take you through some highlights of it.
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No Brompton. They're mostly racing bikes and old mountain bikes. Top of the pile is my lockdown project.
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Did we talk about this before, Max? Lockdown project was a part-for-part rebuild of Stephen Roche's 1987 Tour de France winning bike.
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You've told me about this either on the pod or in real life. Yeah. Okay.
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It involved 52 separate transactions with eBayers and Facebook marketplaces in Estonia and Italy and Chechia and Scandinavia.
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And yeah, and I managed to find an actual frame. From the 1987 Tour de France that a bike shop in South Africa had.
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And yeah, that was probably the highlight of the pre-Rum pandemic time. Apart from that, I like the steel bikes.
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I like the fact that these bikes will be around when carbon has biodegraded and aluminium has fatigued.
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That's basically all the bikes of the 2000s in 40 years time. These steel bikes will be.
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Exactly as perfect as they are today. So yeah, they're all a tiny bit different to each other.
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I have an interesting line. I try and tread is. I've started doing some admin.
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To the listeners, Max is pairing socks from a washing basket. No, I'm just trying to work out what.
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Yes, we should try and book for Saturday's talk sports show. Goodness. And just to bring it back to this, this is.
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Do you know any? Do you know any? My final paragraph. Yes, please. Sorry, I wasn't actually doing that.
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The bike that I really enjoy at the moment is. So there's a lot of bicycles being stolen in Dublin.
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It's a lot of bicycles being stolen everywhere. How far? But the thieves generally. Generally can't spot a good bike from a shiny bike.
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So the question is, how far can you push it before it becomes shiny? You know, you can put a lot of really good parts on a fairly wrecked frame.
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And right. Because that's your round town right about which I think it is important to have a nice one of those.
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So I have an absolute beaut of those moments that I have been tweaking a lot.
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I've been riding it now for four years and it hasn't been stolen. So, yeah, that's a that's a particular avenue that I enjoy.
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In addition to cyclocross and racing bikes and gravel bikes and then old 26 inch mountain bikes, which are which are where the best mountain bikes in the world up until about 2009.
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And they're available for really, really cheap now. So if anyone's saying they would like a fancy bike.
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Look at the old 26 inch mountain bike bill market. This is Claire's fault. Interestingly, on the shiny thing, this is why it's really dangerous to put Spokie Dokies like too many, because then that is a surefire way of your bicycle being stolen.
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It's how you know the Tour de France is passing your house because you just hear it.
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Hey, here's a really nice compliment from Katie. Hello there. Thank you for outstanding podcast.
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I look forward to listening each week, usually whilst I'm cleaning the bath, scraping old poo.
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Off the toilet or just pottering around the house, wondering why no one else is capable of putting their shit away.
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It's the perfect accompaniment to such tasks. I am really busy. I'm a primary school teacher, freelance writer.
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I've got two young boys, tutor evenings. I'm training for a marathon. Oh, my God.
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Wow. As I type this, I'm thinking of four things I was meant to do an hour ago.
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However, this email just could not wait. David's laugh is just exceptional. It's just the sweetest, most contagious laugh, and I can't believe it hasn't been discussed yet.
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Every time he laughs, I find myself smiling. Smiling like a proud mum watching their child's first school assembly.
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It's just lovely, like a velvet waterfall. It fills my heart with joy. Max, you also sound just the nicest person, and you also have a great laugh, but there's something about David's that particularly makes me smile.
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Please never stop the podcast. Can you please get Mel Gidroych on? As her episode of Off Menu is one of the funniest hours of all time.
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If you haven't listened to it, I promise you'll love it. Thank you for all you do.
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Life is hard sometimes, and I love listening to you both. Silliness is underrated in life.
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I do it with my own kids and the kids I teach at all times.
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And that is from Katie. That is so nice, Katie. I was. So I have done a podcast before, but it was on my own.
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So generally I didn't laugh very much on that. So I didn't realize that I had, but I have noticed that I have a certain laugh.
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I've thought it's quite annoying, to be honest, because it definitely is a bit dastardly and muttly.
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It's interesting you say that, because just for balance, there's a review from Mr. Pity Man, who's in the United States, whose title is a bar set so low it's invisible.
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The constant limbo, the constant heavily breathed guffawing of O'Doherty over every single comment is irritating enough.
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But when mixed with Rushden's constant search to be every man's middle of the road makes for some truly world shattering irritation and dullness.
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Rushden is usually an amiable presence. But here he seems to strive for nice bloke vulgarity, which is neither needed or enhancing.
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Do you want me to carry on? How many stars did he give us for this?
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He didn't give us many. O'Doherty is truly the man one never wants to be in an elevator with when it breaks down.
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Constant, full on and inescapable. The guests just talk about their children, which is pedestrian and predictable.
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It's a sad reflection of the need for podcast content that this idea ever made it to fruition.
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And the funny thing is, is I'm so used to this stuff that I find it hilarious.
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But I don't know if you, if you hear that louder than you hear Katie saying you have the nicest laugh on earth.
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I don't know. Maybe I've been slightly protected. Like there's a period in your comedy career at the start where no one really knows who you are and what you do.
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Where you do, especially if you're doing something a little bit odd. Where you do get a lot of walkouts.
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You get, you know, there was an Edinburgh, my first Edinburgh was in 2000. And there was one night there were five people in the audience and they all walked out together.
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Leaving me alone. How far in were you? Like 25 minutes, 30 minutes. Yeah, it's really. That's amazing.
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And the last guy said, you're shite and slammed the door. So I feel. Did you carry on the show?
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Did you like go? Come on. How sad would that be? Thinking what they might just come back at some point.
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I mean, there's no way it's not sad. Do you know what I mean? Like, it doesn't matter what you do.
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If you just pick up the piano and walk away. Like whatever you do, that's.
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Wow, that's so character building, isn't it? Yeah. Here's what happened. The tech. So I wasn't left alone in the room.
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There's just the tech who at this point has seen the show 15 times. And he just came down and gave me a hug and said the classic Scottish thing.
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He just went, big man, as he hugged me. And we went for two pints.
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That's what we did. And just when you had those two pints, did you like, was the conversation stilted?
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No, I mean, there is a beauty in pints in that they do take you elsewhere.
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They just change. They change the channel a little bit. Yeah, you're so right. And the thing about comedy is the horse, the next horse is right there.
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Like the next horse is tomorrow night or possibly the same horse again. Whatever that metaphor is, you have to get back on it.
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And generally a terrible gig is followed by quite a good gig. Or at least if it's not, then you probably stop doing comedy.
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The timing of your shite as the last one leaves the door is, that's amazing, isn't it?
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So I, yeah, I used to get, you're more exposed to people's opinion. Yeah, there's more arms folded in the audience and people looking at each other and shaking their heads and why did you take me here, et cetera.
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So that's probably the first five years. But after a while, I think you have a bit of a reputation for doing a certain thing.
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It's one of the great unfair things about standup comedy, Max, because standup comedy is hard at the start because the audience don't know who you are and you are no good as well.
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And then as you get better, the audiences themselves are like, oh, we love this guy.
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Like there's a palpable sense of excitement in the room when you come out. This is after five or six years.
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So I think there was a time when I was more used to getting absolutely blasted.
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Uh, but yeah, no, it's, it's good to hear. It's good to feel those feelings again, the odd times.
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So thank you very much. Listeners who've come from Football Weekly will, will know that, um, I get a lot, especially during the soccer game, Gloria has got a lot of abuse and I used to put it to song.
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So the horn section actually like helped me put together. I wrote a song of, uh, of some nasty tweets I've got.
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And the song is called In Your Back Garden and it comes from a tweet from someone called Big Dutty, who said on the 3rd of October, 2016, and the tweet says, shut your mouth
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scumbag Rushden, before you get fist in anus in your back garden, which there are so many questions here because obviously in your back garden does sound like a euphemism, but he's already, he's already got his fist in my anus.
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So like Wes. You can't then get it into my back garden. Big Dutty. Big Dutty.
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I think he did follow up with just sending me a photo of feces. And that was when I thought I don't need to engage.
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I don't need to engage with this, with this guy. But here's the curveball I wanted to throw at you, David.
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Great. Because we haven't done my yesterday yet, but I wondered, because it's quite late in today, could you just rattle through what did I do today?
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Or is that just so against the rules that I was thinking of what the internet meltdown would be like if you did, what did you do today?
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Yeah, well, where are I to do that? Because generally you record these in the evening and I record them first thing in the morning.
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So it would just be a discussion of me and the Helen Copter talking about you.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's like 10, 15 at night now. Nothing's going to happen in my day.
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I can't remember yesterday. So if we were to do what did I do today, I could probably.
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We could piece it together. And there's only one bit of there's only one bit of information from this day that I want to bring to you.
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But I just want to know your thoughts. That's the curveball that I'm offering. Yeah, I think because of the circumstances and the fact that this podcast is sort of out of time anyway, because it is Max's paternity leave special, then OK, yeah, yeah.
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For this once. Yeah, I allow it. Do you want me to do super quick fire or just normal pace?
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No, I. I think we can handle normal pace. I just like it because then I can cut across you and we can really get to the bottom of this.
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But I understand if listeners think they have, you know, they're so strict with their guests and yet here they are turning up paternity leave so many weeks ago and he's doing what he did today.
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And that's a totally different concept. But obviously last week we already heard what David did yesterday and it'll be the same yesterday.
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We'll be describing the same yesterday. So when David was sitting there in his meeting with the Helen Copter, about my terrible message, I would have to be saying I was fretting about that terrible message.
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We'd go, we'd go over old ground 5am Ian has slept through, but at 5am he wakes up because he's taken a shit and I, and, and Mrs.
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Rushden goes in and she clears it up, hands me the nappy. I put it in the bin.
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She gets into bed with him. He stays in there till she stays in there for like 40 minutes, comes back to bed 10 to six.
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He's just staring at the clock going, is it six o'clock? Yeah. Is it six o'clock?
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Is it six o'clock? Oh yeah. I know the six o'clock rule. Yeah. And, and I quite enjoy that because I go, no, no, I, I think, I think I've got a more,
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an infinite sort of threshold for this nonsense as you'll, as listeners will know by how long Masterrind goes on for, because it will be years.
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The, can I just say the best of them on this? Yes. An interesting thing that's come across from your yesterdays.
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It's not the similar to early in this podcast. We had it with Jen Brister.
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And Chloe, Jen's partner, whereby you just come away from it rooting for Jen's partner.
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Similarly, Mrs. Rushden is, she's literally cleaning up the mess. No, I know that. I know I do a lot of that, but the issue is in the night, if I go in, he's just like,
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right, all bets are off. Okay. So anyway, the thing is me and Mrs. Rushden just discussed actually that had he not had movement, we reckon he'd have got to six through the night.
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It would have been a massive breakthrough. Anyway, it's fine. I get up with him.
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We watch Tractor Ted. He's sitting in front of me. I'll send you a photo of this.
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He's got Tractor Ted on. I've got all the Champions League games on my laptop.
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He's eating some pancakes. I have three Weetabix. In Australia, they don't have the A.
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It's the biggest cultural difference. They're just called Weetabix. Yeah. Do Australians actually, or is it one of those things where they just sort of put it in?
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No. They say Weetabix. If you say Weetabix, they think you're completely insane. So what do you think it is, Max?
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Do you think it's the licensing was weird, so someone else, and it's similar to how in, is it Victoria?
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Someone got Burger King before Burger King came there, hence Hungry Jacks from Pulp Fiction.
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But is there a secondary Hungry Jacks in the Weetabix divide? One of the listeners will know.
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It's like a computer game where you can't have Nigel Mansell. So you have to call him Nigel Mansell.
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They don't have the rights to Weetabix, so they call it Weetabix. I had three Weetabix with a few raisins on the top.
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Then I've got to watch the football. That's work. So I get on my bike and I cycle to a cafe.
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I have a long black and a flat white. I watch all the football. Here's the thing, because you know I'm trying to book A-listers.
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Yeah. As I'm leaving the cafe, I hold the door open. I am 99% sure for Russell Howard, and we look at each other, and I think he's touring in Australia, and if he isn't, well, he isn't.
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But I was like, and I can't remember if he was on Soccer AM in the glorious, but he must have.
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It's just like there's just no way he wasn't. But I don't know, and then I'm like, so I stare at him.
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Wow, what a moment this is. And then I think he's obviously, it's a bit like every time I see Adam Hills, he can't remember who I am.
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So it takes me like 10 minutes of chat, and he's like, oh, yeah, okay. And I was like, he didn't look like he wanted to chat, Russell, or the man who looked like Russell Howard.
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And I've left the cafe, and now I'm thinking, oh, I could have booked a guest.
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I could have at least like, I could have at least got on that. I could have at least said, because you probably know him very well, David.
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You probably do. I don't know. And so I didn't. So then I cycled home, and I thought, oh, well, that is, I've missed, I've missed a moment.
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It would have been, because you could have laid up the basket before I slam dunked it.
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Exactly, exactly. But you could still, you could still, run with the ball. I've passed, I've passed you the ball in our own half.
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Have you? You've now got a job around everyone, am I saying? Is this? I think my colleague, Max, thinks he opened a door for you if you're in Australia.
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Do you want to come on? What did you do yesterday? More like, I have to inflate the basketball, go to the gym, apply for planning permission for a gym, build Madison Square Gardens or wherever the Knicks play.
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I get home. I take Ian to gymnastics. Yeah. What's he doing? What moves can he do?
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He does hang tough. He does hang tough. Yeah. Where he just hangs on a bar like a monkey and swings back and forth.
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In the class, on the way there, and already Mrs. Russians discussed to him that he has to listen to the teacher because in this class, there were three girls who are just, they're so fucking obedient, right?
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Oh, yeah, yeah. And they say jump like a star and they're all doing star out.
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First time we went when he was 18 months old and we sat there and they were like, time for the warmup.
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Let's start with working on your quads. And I was like looking around for someone else going, what are we doing here?
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He's 18 months. He's like, not even two. He doesn't know what I got. We haven't taught him what a quad is yet, for goodness sake.
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All the other kids are like over like bending, like they're doing a quad stretch.
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I'm like, oh, we're in trouble here. And then halfway through, we're like, now rock climbing.
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We're like, rock climbing? Yeah. The guys too. This is good. Yeah. So they're all doing that.
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They're all doing everything perfectly. And he is just running to the trampoline, honestly, like, and then they look at you, like you're this like, you know, they're looking at you going,
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your child probably has a problem. You probably should get him diagnosed or someone. And you're just going, someone help me out here.
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I'm not, I'm not like, and the teacher is, you know, she's like 19. She's lovely.
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But she's like, she says, you know, come on then Ian, why don't we try, you know, like climbing this ladder.
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And then he just looks at her and runs another way and rolls around on the floor.
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So anyway, we do that. It's fine. We go upstairs because there's toy cars and we're playing with the cars until he takes a car and pokes it through some railings onto like a roof,
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which means that car can never be used by anyone ever again. And I say, we've got to go.
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Said we're going. We get to the car. He then, I have no control. We get in the car.
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He gets in my, the driver's seat and just sits there. He just drives. He goes.
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He goes, Papa, we're going for a spin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So here was a fun bit.
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He starts beeping the horn. As he's beeping the horn, I'd say a 60-year-old lady is walking past and she looks at me like she makes this kind of like, oh my goodness, sort of like under her breath.
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And I'm quite tired and I'm not, you know me, I'm not like a confrontational person.
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But like she says it like three times as really, as Ian is like beeping the horn.
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And I just say, is everything okay? But clearly I've not said it like that, you know?
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And she says, I thought I was going to be run over. And I was like, I was like, the car isn't moving.
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He's two, like this. Anyway, we didn't, we weren't destined to be friends. Did you try and book her for the podcast then?
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Yeah, she's on tomorrow. Great. So we've got, do you think Ian Rushden is, senses that there could be a new kid in town?
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You know, the new Ian Rushden. Ian Rushden will be in town soon. So he's going to have to become the responsible grownup now.
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No, I just don't have the, I just don't, I just don't shout at him.
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And Mrs. Rushden is a teacher. So she's just, he prefers her. And she's better at all parts of parenting, I would say.
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Anyway, we get home. We have a bit of lunch. We're all exhausted. So at some point I go and lie down.
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Mrs. Rushden lies down. I lie down and we just listen. And in another room, Ian is playing with Lego for an hour.
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And we're like, this is really good stuff. He's playing on his own. It's an important skill.
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Then he said he wanted to go bowling. So we go bowling. Wow. Hang on.
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In Australia, there's two sorts of bowling. There is your classic. Oh, this is temping bowling.
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Temping bowling. I'm always surprised, Max, how in Australia, lawn bowls has a hipster following as well.
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Yeah. But it sort of has, I think it has a bit of those, you know, when like people go to Ascot and just like fornicate in the sheds, you know,
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like sometimes I think people go to do lawn bowls, but actually, you know, they're just getting wasted at one in the afternoon.
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It's like a legitimate way to just get shit faced. The only time I've ever done it was with one of the great comedians of our time, Hannah Gadsby, who was a child champion of lawn bowls.
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Wow. Yeah. I didn't know that. Hannah was a champion golfer when she was younger.
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She played with Adam Scott, who won the Masters a few years ago. Yeah. Unlike some Australian duo team.
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She's so sporty. And I, I've always fancied myself, you know, a sport that you've never done, but you think I'd be brilliant at that.
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And so the ball, the reason they make the ball, you know, in lawn bowls, the ball sort of, it moves across the line.
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Yeah. And that's because it has a weight in one side of the ball. And so I put the weight on the wrong side.
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And so the ball just headed left and straight across the games of maybe three other elderly couples who were doing lawn bowls.
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And with me just running after it, like, like the way that the pros do, you know, that sort of, you know, confident jog, maybe with a pipe in my mouth.
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It's called Tony Alcock. Tony Alcock. Destroy. Yeah. Is that really his name? Willie Woods.
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I think so. I think he used to be a bold guy as well. I used to remember Tony Alcock and they'd show up two little red lights and the crowd would go absolutely wild.
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So we went to Empin Bowling and Ian got little bowling shoes, which were incredibly cute.
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And we gave him a six kilo ball, which he could hold. He rolled it down towards the Skittles and then said he didn't want to play anymore.
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So we said to the group of, I'd say 25 year olds next to us, if they were in another game, they could have it.
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And we ordered some chips, did a photo booth of the family. And then he sat at a 1994 Sega driving game without money in it and drove it for maybe half an hour.
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We then drove to Coles Supermarket. Tesco of Australia. I'd say the Tesco of Australia.
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Mrs. Rushden did the shop and Ian and I sat in a toy bus with a steering wheel that he drove and I had to sit in the back, even though I couldn't really fit in the back because it's designed for two year olds.
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Wow. So we did that. Quite a sight. So much transport. You know, what I will say about Ian Rushden, we've had the car being fired onto the roof.
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We've had him beeping the horn at Hyacinth Bouquet and we have had the Sega and now this and with you in the back.
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Then we went home. I got out our second quite like meal of the week.
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If you remember from Midweek Mayhem some time ago, I made the beef koftas. This was a butter chicken.
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Absolutely. Really good. I listened to the Cambridge United podcast under the Abbey stand an hour and a half of analysing our 2-2 draw, heartbreak.
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We considered a last-minute equaliser away at Bolton. But I probably don't need to go into that in great detail for most of the audience.
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What's the nickname of the Cambridge United football team? The U's. The mighty U's. As in the U of United?
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Yeah, yeah. I thought not like a lady sheep. It's not like a lady sheep for a lady farmer.
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It's just a U. Great. With an apostrophe S. So I listened to that, made the butter chicken.
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Excellent. Max, my greatest ever Australian joke concerns because all their AFL teams have nicknames.
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You know, the bombers or whoever. Yes. And the Tigers. So when I used to go to those matches, I would just, you know, go for the team with the mascot that would win in a fight.
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You know, as in like a tiger will beat a kangaroo or whatever. But then, yeah, where it got tricky was I went to a match.
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And it was the Dockers against the Blues. And the punchline to the joke is, because people who work down the wharf are notoriously tough, but depression can defeat anyone.
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Yeah. Thank you. That's really good. Australian. So I react to all your jokes as my saying.
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Noted. I'm in the audience of your shows. I laugh. I doubt it. I very much doubt it.
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No, I really do. I laugh. I do all the right things. It just seems in a podcast environment, it just feels like, you know, if this is a joke I did,
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that feels more like official. I should just say dick. And then at five o'clock every day, Ian gets to watch a YouTube video of somebody taking toys out of a box and wheeling them around.
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I may have talked about it before, but we're all itching to get to five o'clock because that is 0% parenting.
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He is like, sat there eyes wide open, probably a terrible journey with taking him towards, you know, all right.
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YouTube. So is it just unboxing? Is that, is that what it is? Oh no, they do things that they, you know, there's like the, the, the tractor will pick up some hay.
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Actually, sometimes it's like, you know, a man is knocked off his bike and the toy ambulance comes like takes him to the hospital.
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But you know, they don't have, there's not like, it doesn't get to the stage where like, there's like a, you know, a family room and like, toy comes in and says i we take a seat you know like it doesn't doesn't get that it doesn't get
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that extreme it's a really catchy tune that like i now find myself singing along uh like wherever i am because i've heard it over and over again how does it go um
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yeah this is really nice yeah um this has had like 700 million views or something and you know it makes me think i just think i should get a cameraman around and just set up me pushing toy
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cars around yeah and i would never need to work again i i just don't know why i haven't got around to doing it i'm quite busy then um mrs russian takes ian to bed uh there's a bit of lego uh he's throwing the lego everywhere so
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it's just time you know just come on mate uh then i eat the butter chicken mrs russian goes for a walk and i eat the butter chicken and uh then i finish the butter chicken i record an episode
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of football weekly i record paternity leave part one of what did you do yesterday yeah i discover that i've sent such a horrible text message i'm to david that he's had to have an official meeting with his wife and i found out that he got drunk
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and he absolutely he turned one beautiful dinner into two into a terrible dinner by adding more things to it and now we're doing this um my main question is uh how's mrs Rushden doing is she
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doing okay i know this is your day so obviously you've been focusing on that but in the background is this uh nine months a pregnant person well as people are listening we're all just staring at a newborn baby
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saying hashtag blessed to each other great over and over again right now she's absolutely fed up with being pregnant yeah and there's a willie Rushden is like burrowing into her ribs yeah and
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she's with a 45 year old man who's complaining about being tired so you know she's had better she's had better times well um i i think you've really prepared ian Rushden he is excited he'll
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probably take over a lot of the work now as well it's a division of labor uh yeah i think so he'll just you'll just hand the newborn to the three-year-old i'll be like there he is now
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you guys just just have the crack on the 22nd of january which is today 2025 russell howard is playing bergen in the griegenhallen in norway so wow it was it whatever the opposite of a sliding doors moment is it was
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just an absolutely normal door moment where yeah it was just that man must have wondered why i stared at him for quite that long the grumpy man we also yeah do you know i did think russell howard's more aloof than i thought he would be
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yeah but the good news is we have we've we've we've done the paternity leave episodes now because you know now we can get off the we can get off the treadmill yeah you know we've served
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the people some slop and max it was funny because i genuinely thought while i was trying to give that motivational speech there about how ian Rushden was going to be the next president
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help with willie Rushden i just saw your eyes drooping and i was like wow what an ending this will be to the paternity leave special where max for the first time ever on a podcast fully
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falls asleep but in fact you were just checking russell howard's tour dates that's what was going on yeah i was but it felt it felt i just you know what i was totally convinced and the thing is i
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even checked his tour dates this morning and it said melbourne but i clearly wasn't paying any attention when i did that well i hope while people are listening to this your life is going great it's an exciting new period
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i can't wait to see you all again and i can't wait to uh meet willie Rushden so uh thanks for doing this at quite a stressful time max and i mean it's not stressful yet on behalf of all of
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the listeners we say congratulations thanks uh and i'll you know and then this paternity leave ends now so i'll be back no to the grindstone in a week or whenever we do the next i don't know what
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and everything mars bar yeah who yeah if you thought this episode is a funny love he reads a funny life doesn't he what had an odd energy just imagine the stuff that he has left out to get it to whatever state this was in thanks bar is bar uh bye max yeah bye david