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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 and welcome to middle episode one, I'm going to say, David.
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This is an exciting new... We tried the Christmas special. It was a great success.
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As we've just established before coming on air, we've got enough listeners to fill Roker Park, which will mean something to some listeners.
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The baseball ground, maybe. I don't like middle episode one. I think that's an awful...
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How about midweek mayhem? Can we call it midweek mayhem? Yeah, I mean, that sounds a bit zany to me.
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Mayhem. There was a time where, you know, everyone would say, oh, Max is a bit wacky.
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And I'd be like, oh, I just don't want wacky in there. Or, you know, mad cap.
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No, but the exciting thing is, is that this is series two, and for series two, we're going to do two episodes a week.
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So for series three, we'll do three episodes a week. By series seven. Imagine series eight, where we have to, we have to do more than one episode.
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It's one day where we have to do a matinee. Double session. Double session on a Tuesday.
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I'm up for it. So look, we've got lots of feedback to get through from the Christmas special, from Dara's episode, and of course, the Nish Kumar episode, which I believe, which is where the feedback will begin, David.
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And we start with this from Jinky, who says, it was regarding your accident when you mixed white wine and protein shakes.
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Yeah. He said, David's observations that it makes its own little shelf followed by this again almost gave me a coronary, I laughed so much, in public, and then had to fend off inquiries of what it was that had made me convulse so spectacularly.
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Well, I did say it was an absolutely brilliant description of shitting yourself. Of an older person shitting herself.
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Yeah. So well done. Yeah, I do. I stand by what I said in that episode, which was, it was very good of Nish to do.
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That was our first ever one that we recorded. But also, he knows where all my bodies are buried.
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He knows way too, because I've lived with him in Edinburgh for years and years.
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See, any time I accused him of shitting or whatever, he would just come up with another, he probably had another five stories of me doing awful things ready to go.
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Funny thing is that that episode was actually more scatological than I remember. I was listening going, I bet it's not got that much, and it just kept coming back to it.
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Just for the listeners, so that was the first one we recorded. You did say on Parenting Hell it was going to be episode one.
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And then it was decided by all of us that it would just set the ship off in the wrong direction.
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Is that fair to say? I think that's fair to say. And a couple of people did get in touch to say, I really love the episode.
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Had it been the first, I probably wouldn't have persevered. With this podcast. Paul says, regarding the Nish episode, if you haven't listened to it yet, he says, please listen with caution if driving.
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An excellent episode, but I nearly veered off the road laughing when Nish mentioned that him cleaning his teeth in his previous activity were not connected.
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Well worth the wait. Liam says, Max and David, I thoroughly enjoyed your series. The Nish Kumar episode did not disappoint.
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I was literally crying with laughter. For context, it was 7 a.m. And my wife came running in to see if I was okay, given the laugh.
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Snort strangling like noises I was apparently making. And this was the opening 10 minutes. Thank you.
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Laughter is a wonderful therapy. Do you know, because my fear before we recorded that episode and before we started doing this, was that people would sort of trick up their days.
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They'd be like, oh, I'll be talking about this tomorrow. So they would say that they had done more glamorous or exciting things than they actually had.
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But in fairness to the Nish episode, even though it didn't go out first, it really set the tone for, some of the most boring days that people have explained to us in sensational detail.
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Damien says, as you've been trailing the Nish Kumar episode as a shit show, I was sideswiped by Max's record contract anecdote.
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While the death of the music industry for all but the 1% of top artists has been well documented and the reasons well argued, pirates, decline on CDs, Spotify, et cetera, I don't think any industry that was throwing five grand at Soccer AM's fifth best presenter for unwritten clarinet bangers,
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signal the status quo that just could not be maintained. You did say you had written some songs for it, though.
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So those songs exist. Do you think there'll be a sort of Beatles anthology type thing in 20 years' time when they'll finally see the light of day?
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I think the tunes are okay, but the lyrics are, oh my God. You know, maybe at a live show, if we did do a live tour, maybe I would, maybe.
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Are you looking at love? Are you looking at the world? Yeah, I'm looking at the fact that Mrs. Rushden wouldn't go out with me and I was bored and sitting on my own in a flat.
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I think she once found the document on a laptop with the words and we don't talk about it.
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That's what I would say. They're really bad. They're not like poetic. They're just quite factual.
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Oh, God. That actually makes me. It makes me feel nervous talking about it because, you know, then people will want them.
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King Pearce says, regarding the Nish episode, the most incredible bit of foreshadowing where Max jokes about texting James Acaster saying, quote, he doesn't know who I am, confirmed by James' oft-discussed Googling,
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mind-blown by the quality of writing on show here. It is true. Yeah. That was before the James.
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This episode. And this is wonderful. You sent me this. Someone called Rona Dempsey was on Facebook saying it worked.
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Thank you for the highly effective Christmas gift. Connor Dolan, who I don't know if it's her partner or just a friend or whatever, he had made her a T-shirt that said,
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release the Nish Kumar tapes. That's merch. I mean, we should sue. We should sue Connor, shouldn't we?
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But, yeah, how wonderful is that? It worked as well. You could say that the T-shirt worked because the Kumar tapes were eventually released.
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And thank you to Nish for putting up with us trailing it for five months or something, the fact that it was coming.
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Now to some corrections for David O'Doherty. Oh, no. Good evening, says Ian. Yeah. Congratulations on the podcast.
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I've listened to every episode, even one with a guest I find annoying. But it doesn't say who.
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That's interesting. I enjoyed them a great deal. The last episode with Dara was definitely one of the best yet.
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At the end of that, David did ask for feedback. So I just wanted to suggest that some sort of real-time fact-checking of David would be helpful.
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It's like when Trump does a presidential debate, isn't it? And then there's two hours of CNN with David O'Doherty said this.
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He says, Ian carries on. In the last few weeks, David has suggested that Dancing in the Moonlight was by King Crimson, actually by King Harvest.
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Jesus. Along with quite a mixed-up account of the song itself. He also mixed up Chunky Rodents with Sexy Dance Fighting.
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We have been through that. And asserted that the Fighting Temeraire was painted by Constable, actually Turner.
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You seem so wise. I don't know about any of these things. I'm just nodding along.
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It seemed churlish to point this out. But given the explicit request for feedback, I thought I may as well send this in.
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I'm a big fan of the show. Max is very funny and has a lovely voice.
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It's always fun to be reminded how many bikes David owns. One day I'll be 20 and I will hear that and for a brief moment rejoice for him.
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Keep up the excellent work. Hope that everyone working on the show is keeping well.
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Many thanks. Ian Dorr. I've got to call out the haters here. Because the hater has missed the most glaring mistake, which is from the Nish Kumar episode.
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And this was pointed out to me by four different people. I state Duff McKeegan was the rhythm guitarist.
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Yes, I was getting to this. I'm sorry. With Guns N' Roses. Duff, who famously loves Pret-a-Manger whenever he's in London, he goes straight there because it's healthy salads and a variety of sandwiches.
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But I stated he was rhythm guitarist. He is, in fact, sorry, Max, he's a bass player.
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He is. The big advantage you have, what has clearly been, and I do think this sometimes as a 45-year-old, I think reasonably well-educated man, I appear to know absolutely nothing.
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So you can say anything. And I can't contest it because for some reason, my brain is empty.
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So, like, carry on. You can just say whoever painted this, painted that, and I just don't know.
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And I've, like, I've been to the galleries and museums. You know, I've sort of done, you know, I'll go to the Uffizi, I'll do this, I'll, you know, I'll go to the Louvre or whatever.
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But for some reason, none of it stays in my mind. So are you not a good pub quiz man then?
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I think I'm quite good at pub quizzes, but that is, that's the limit, do you know what I mean?
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I'm good at 10 questions on each subject and that's it. So I can get lucky.
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You did also say that you would read the recipe, how to bread a ling.
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You would bread the ling and immediately forget how to bread a ling. It's so true.
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In fact, the number of times, right, that I have Googled how long to boil an egg for to get the perfect, like, jammy egg.
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It's embarrassing. Like, I know now, but it's taken me, it took me 45 years to know, put it in boiling water for seven and a half minutes, put it straight in a bowl of icy water.
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What? And that is the perfect jammy egg. Wow. Now, here's some feedback from me.
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And I owe you an apology, David. This is from my friend, Ollie, regarding the Christmas special.
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Listened, brackets, and enjoyed, close brackets, your Christmas special, Max, on my run this morning.
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Nice idea doing it on Boxing Day so you can cover Christmas. But a few notes from me.
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Perhaps three separate rants about the poor waitress who didn't get your coffee order perfectly correct while working on Christmas Day morning.
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Not ideal way to show you're a man of the people. What was the issue?
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Sorry, she had slightly filled the mug too much. Because you were like, I pointed at the spot on the mug that I wanted the frothy milk to go up to,
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and there was an extra centimeter of milk in it. Next bit of feedback. Ditto the comments on moving to drinking champagne all the time.
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But here's the one that really cuts deep. You didn't ask poor David a single question about his day.
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He'd asked you lots to you, and when you tried to interrupt him mid-flow, he asked you to wait and write down your questions.
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Were you in a hurry? Is there a secret feud? Lovely to hear a fun Christmas Day in Australia, though.
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Grandpa making the kids cry with the super soaker, and you being in bed by 7.45pm both made me laugh out loud while running up a hill.
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Poor David mentioned he'd given lots of thought to the gifts he'd bought, and he was also in charge of the cheese board, both topics that warranted further investigation.
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Obviously, this set the WhatsApp group got busy with this. Clive then said, Sounds out of character for you, Max.
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It seems unlikely to make things about you. That was deep. And Matt said, Classic shit sandwich structure for the feedback there, Ollie.
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As it started, well, deliver what he wanted to say in the middle. So I am sorry, David.
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Maybe it was late. Maybe I was in a hurry. But, you know, I'd like to know more about the cheese board.
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And I genuinely would. Like, had that been a normal episode, I'd have drilled straight into the cheese board.
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And I just let it go. And I'm sorry. I think because we were taking a step into the unknown by doing a waffle pod with no guest.
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I think originally there was a discussion that it would be about 20 minutes long. And I think by the time I talked about my cheese board, we were around 50.
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And this was the day after Christmas for all of us, including the poor Mars bar who has, to edit this as well.
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And so I think maybe, you know, I don't think that you're not in double negative in my business, but I think you probably just looked at the clock and you're like, okay, great.
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On we go. Can you talk quicker, David? I look at the clock more than you do on this podcast.
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Of that, there is no doubt, but I would like to know, and I'm not just asking this out of courtesy.
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I'm not asking this out of guilt. I'd like to know the cheese board. And our listeners would like to know.
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Ollie would like to know. I'll tell you what, if some listeners get in touch and they would really like to know the cheese board, maybe I could go through it on the next one of these pods that we do.
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Is the cheese board the next niche? Is that what you're saying? Keep them wanting more.
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Someone's going to make a t-shirt, a scarf saying, of all the cheeses, go, were these the cheeses?
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People will be guessing the cheeses. Do you ever play Mastermind? Not the TV show but the one where you put the pegs in a board and the other person has to guess the five pegs you have put down.
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So there are five cheeses, okay? Okay. It's going to go on forever. We do cheeses have an order.
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We do one guess a week. Yeah. And you say if they're in the right place or if they're right but not in the right place.
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Exactly, yeah. Okay, I'm in for this. The cheese board will be revealed over the course of, I'd say, about five years.
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But one guess a week, with the cheese board. I can't tell you how invested I am with this.
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I cannot tell you how excited I am. We take the first guess each week.
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Is it the first email? I think it should be the first email we get guessing the five cheeses, which is whatdidyou doyesterdaypod at gmail.com.
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And over once a week, we will do a mastermind reveal for cheeses. Do you know what?
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Here's what I'm going to do. A cheese is close to one of the cheeses.
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I will use the terminology from battleships, where I'll go splash. Oh, okay, yeah, okay.
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It's manchego. You're close to the frigate. You're close to the gowder. That's what you are.
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That's our first feature. I'm happy to make a proper jingle for this as well.
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Oh, wow. Wow, the disembodied. A jingle for cheese board mastermind. Absolutely sensational. Look, there is more feedback, but I'm just conscious that we need to get onto what we did yesterday.
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Just a couple of very quick ones. Sean on Blue Sky said, morning, I was just on a Caribbean cruise, and I paid 24 pounds for Wi-Fi, so I could find out what Kerry Godliman did yesterday.
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No regrets. And Heavyweight Devotee says, was scrubbing my kid's spit residue and husband's beard trimmings off the bathroom sink.
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When Max reclassified everything as showbiz. It's this sort of reframing of my life, which deserves the full five stars.
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A brilliant podcast, which makes you feel less guilty for watching four episodes of Married at First Sight.
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Thank you, boys. Yes, remember, everything is showbiz. There's one piece of feedback that I would just like to cover.
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I don't go hunting for feedback. No, no, no. Sometimes our previous guests contact me, because they've listened to a later episode.
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They know who you are. They don't contact me. They've never met me. The ever-diminishing pool of friends, because I've hassled them so much to come on this podcast.
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So in the Dara O'Briain episode, I mentioned how my mother had rented what I thought was The Empire Strikes Back, but was actually the making of The Empire Strikes Back.
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And I watched it believing that the second... This meta... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really good.
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And Celia AB got in touch with me, and she is an even... Even better one.
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She said, I watched the bloopers of the Twin Peaks movie instead of the Twin Peaks movie.
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And she says, this is in caps, in full, and realized weeks later, I just thought David Lynch was being freaky again and repeating scenes over and over and over again.
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So that is even better. Okay, so let's go. We're going to rattle through each of our yesterdays, which is sort of what we do on this...
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The midweek... What did I call it? The middle... The shittest name for anything. Midweek mayhem.
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Here we go, David. Hit me with what you did yesterday and I'll take some notes and I will have questions.
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If I don't, forgive me. I'll go through it fairly quickly. I mean, the first thing you will notice is that it's basically a different guy sitting in front of you right now.
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Wow, okay. You know, resolutions to me imply... Just a change in the focus on the photograph, the pixels.
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Whereas what I've done, I've actually changed the guy being here. So yeah, I got up at eight o'clock and made breakfast for the Helen Copter.
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Now the difficulty here is... So one of my resolutions is to improve my sleeping positions.
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I've got into a habit of shoving my arms under the pillow. Do they wake up numb?
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Yes, I wake up sometimes with another man's hand. Yeah, I did this for a while.
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Of the pillow. And it's easy enough to get over this, but it does take a few nights of forcing yourself to keep them down by your sides.
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Apparently, the internet said get pillows to stop them spontaneously rising up during the night, your arms, and slotting under the pillow.
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Like a zombie, sort of up like that. Yes. I hadn't necessarily had the greatest night of sleep ever, but that's fine.
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Got up and sent Helen off to work. Fine. A bit of healthy breakfast there.
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Immediately cycle. Now, the weather in Dublin has been orange weather warning, but in Dublin, it's been not too bad.
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And oh boy, you never regret a cycle. Max, I know you regret cycles quite a lot because whenever you go for a cycle, a wheel falls off or your saddle explodes or something.
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I cycled to the Phoenix Park, which is my favorite place to cycle in the center of Dublin, and saw all of the deer.
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Like the deer were all just there. Oh, how lovely. As if Santa had, you know, given them the month off after Christmas.
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I deserve it. A very beautiful thing. And then on the way back, I was asked by my friend who lives outside of Dublin to pick up a mug that she had painted at one of those paint some pottery classes.
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Funny deal. Oh yeah, I was initially, I wouldn't say annoyed by this, but I was just like, why would you possibly want me to do this?
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This is stupid. And then I got there and they gave me the mug and oh my goodness, her partner was unwell there for a while.
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So she on the mug has drawn, drawn their two pets and then inside that you would see when you'd finished the tea, it says, we love you to him.
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I mean, I know genuinely moved by a piece of shitty Pompeii paints, pottery or whatever it's called.
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And then we could make, we could make a mug for Nish and when he's finished it, just inside just would be just a little, a little poo.
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I mean, knowing the amount of coffee he drinks, I would imagine he doesn't need to be reminded to go and have one straight after.
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What a lovely gift. Whatever the coffee is. And then got back here, had no Coke Zero.
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That's another of my resolutions. Oh God. Yeah. I've taken to buying a pack of Coke Zero once a week.
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This is, the difficulty here is when you go on tour and you're gigging because your body is just like, I need treats, I need treats right now with this gig ain't happening.
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But I am going to silence them those voices as well. In addition to the voices on my arms, I had no treats whatsoever.
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I had lunch and I had it slowly. That's my third resolution. I had it as slowly as my other resolutions.
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I have to offload three of the 19 bikes because it's officially, I have to, Max, it's too many.
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Some of them aren't getting ridden. And that's the, that's the biggest sin of all.
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That is a tragedy. Yeah. And then I kind of went back to work yesterday afternoon which involved tidying my desk and then replying.
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Watching revision plan. Writing many emails back to people. I've got the texts on the laptop thing.
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So I did go back into the texts that people hadn't got back to over Christmas.
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Got back to all of them and then made dinner then. I decided as part of this health kick, it's not a huge, I'm just, it's very simple stuff that I'm trying to do.
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I'm not starving myself or anything. I just got into. I was worried. I was worried you've just sort of gone.
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So we haven't been together for like two weeks and you've gone high performance. You're just eating supplements and you're going to say, I got up at 5 a.m.
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and I did 3,000 chin-ups and then I just filled myself with creatine. I made a chicken, cold chicken noodles little salad, which just involves you get everything in winter.
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You get everything in the fridge and you cut it up really small and sort of matchstick size.
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That's what takes so long. And that was delicious. That was available when Helen got home from work.
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And then that evening, yesterday evening, we watched a documentary on Irish television about a solicitor who defrauded thousands of people.
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And then, we obviously did some crosswords and went to sleep. Okay. So my questions are as follows.
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Yeah. What did you make for breakfast? Because you made breakfast for Helen, but you didn't tell us what.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got a bagel and you put peanut butter on it, but you put the fancy peanut butter from the cafe around the corner.
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I don't know what they do, but it's better than any other. Apparently, the peanut butter in the Fumbally Cafe, the one, the one that I like, was invented, they would make their own normal peanut butter and then one day they came in and someone,
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maybe an intern, had dumped a load of sunflower seeds into the giant drum that the normal peanut butter is made in and they were like, oh, this is all ruined and someone tasted it.
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I mean, this is in the great tradition of so many of the things we love and they said, let's put this out as a limited edition and they flew off the shelves and by that,
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I mean, I like it. Yeah, because I'm always surprised, by all the peanut butters, they say ingredients, 100% peanuts, all of them and nothing else and they all taste different.
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You're like, what's happening there? It's a conspiracy. Okay, I'm pleased because bagels and peanut butter is not so healthy that I was starting to get worried about, you know, it was the wrong time in terms of this podcast for you to become incredibly boring
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because it's really a terrible time. How long was your cycle ride, please, in kilometers?
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25, but some of it was off-road. So let's tack on another five. So the bikes that I love, particularly for the winter, are cyclocross bikes or gravel bikes, as they're known.
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So they're racers with knobbly tires on them. So you can kind of ride them.
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I wouldn't ride it up a mountain, but I would ride it across a grass and along muddy tracks and did that.
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Really good. You never regret it, Max. You never regret it. How long did your slow lunch take?
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Like, how consciously were you slowly chewing? And did you put your knife and fork down?
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Because, I mean, I chow in. I'm like Lou Sanders on heat. You know, I eat so quickly.
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It's embarrassing. I don't have a valve and I don't stop. I just keep eating dinner.
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Whatever I'm given, I'll just keep. I mean, I do occasionally make it myself. That sounded like I just sit there and whatever I'm given in my 1970s household.
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Interesting. So the lunch was a reheat of the previous night's dinner, which, was smashed up sweet potato with some onion in it and some chicken with it just sitting on top of it.
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It's sort of like it's a tray, a one tray meal. And so the problem with the sweet potato is you can't really chew that.
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It's almost like it's a meal for old people who have no teeth. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But you sort of sucked it down very slowly. You're saying. I resisted. I resisted the urge to eat it over the sink, which is where I normally eat all my lunches.
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So I sat down. We had a dog years ago that came from animal rescue and it had obviously lived on a puppy farm where 12 dogs would just go for the same dinner bowl.
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So it would eat so fast that its back end would kind of be going into spasm and that it would immediately run down behind the shed, barf it up and then eat it back at its leisure.
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So I'm trying to not be like that anymore. And what crossword? Are you doing cryptic or quick crosswords?
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I'm following a man on Instagram who is teaching me how to do cryptic. There's an Aussie guy called, I don't know, one word cryptic or something.
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And so while I am learning how to do cryptic, so my dad is a cryptic man and he will say to you the simplex or whatever the other ones are,
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are much harder because that's just like a quiz. Whereas the cryptic one, once you learn the tricks, then you can just sort of work it out.
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But no, I'm still just doing the idiot. We do it together. The Irish Times crossword, which would be, I'd say of a similar standard to the Guardian one in the UK.
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The problem with it is because it is effectively a quiz, some of them, if you don't know what tort is or something like that, there's no way you're going to guess it.
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So sometimes it's just you check the answers, there's one you didn't get and you're like, to be honest, we were never going to get that.
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Do you want my Guardian crossword anecdote? Please. Okay. So me and Mrs. Rushden used to do the Guardian crossword every morning in the cafe.
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This was before I worked for the Guardian as well, actually. Max, is this just after you'd shouted at the person who'd made your coffee?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, absolutely, yeah. And so I didn't know how I was, I'd got the engagement ring to propose to Mrs. Rushden.
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Wow. But I wasn't sure how to propose. And so I messaged, I sent a DM to the editor of the Guardian because I'd done the occasional bit and I said, look,
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I don't know if this is going to work or not, but like, could you, could I propose through the Guardian crossword?
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That's a good idea, right? And she was like, oh, yeah, that sounds like a nice idea.
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Here's the man who makes the crossword, a guy called Hugh, right? So I emailed Hugh at the Guardian crossword.
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I said, look, I'd quite like to propose to my wife. Her name's Jamie, J-A-I-M-E.
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And, you know, I just like, could you just put, you know, will you marry me in like, in the clue sometime?
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And then he replied going, oh yeah, that'll be fine. So then I didn't hear anything, right?
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So I heard absolutely nothing, right, at all. I just didn't, and I was like, I don't know how long you know, I don't know when, you know, I was just like,
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that's weird. So anyway, then about three months later. So hang on, you have to have the ring basically on your person then every time you do the...
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Well, well, you know, so I was expecting, I didn't know, but like, I got an email from Hugh going on like the Thursday saying, ah, it'll be on, yes, it's on Saturday,
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right? And he was like, and this is what it is. The word, words down the left of the crossword, the start of each letter will be the first letters of her name,
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right? What? Jamie. And then there's a clue, will you marry me? In, within the crossword, right?
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So then I was like, then I was like two days, like three days before, I was like, ah, shit, I've got to, I've got to propose on Saturday.
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Like I hadn't like, so it wasn't up to me. It was like, this is now.
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And then sometimes we do the crossword in bed. Sometimes we do it in a cafe, whatever.
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And I was like, that morning I was like, oh shit, I'll get the paper and I'll make a cup of tea and we'll do it in bed.
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And she wanted to read the food magazine. And I was like, should we do the crossword now?
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She's like, no, just like whatever. And eventually she did the crossword and she was like doing all the clues around.
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And I, but the thing is, I had to get the crossword, right? And then look at the clues so I could get them before she, so I could get those answers because otherwise we'd be stuck because we're not very good.
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I don't know anything as we've established. And then anyway, in the, in the clues, there's like, one of the clues is like a penis, phallic.
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And one is about electrocution and it wasn't normally, I was like, is this a, why is he put these things and this is, this is going to be on our wall forever.
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And eventually like it's spelled her name. She was like, oh yeah, that's, that's cool, isn't it?
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Look, it spells your name. And then it was like, will you marry them? I said, look, will you marry me?
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And there it was. And that was how I proposed. And, and so, and so anybody can do that crossword.
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It's like, I should know, it'd be good if I knew what the number of the crossword was now, but if you went Guardian
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you could do that crossword. So what I liked is that loads of people around the world were doing that crossword, but would have absolutely no idea.
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And that was the question. And she said, okay. So like, that's positive in a way.
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Imagine if she had said, I'm not in the mood for the crossword. Like, let's never do the crossword ever again.
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You would have had to force. No, I insist that we do the crossword. So, will you marry me was obviously four, three.
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Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. And the clue for that was a question you ask from the ground.
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That was the clue. Oh, wow. And did, I mean, obviously she was delighted and overwhelmed by the proposal, but do you think she appreciated the effort that you'd gone to or did she think it was a fluke?
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I think she, I think she was a bit confused for a bit and then I think she did appreciate we're still happily married.
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So like, you know, but she wasn't bouncing off the walls at the time. That's a beautiful, I'm taken aback by that.
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Sometimes I think I've heard all your anecdotes. You know, I've heard Trevor Nelson on the microwave.
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The escalator you trailed, but you've never told us what the escalator anecdote is. And then that, which is so much better than any of your classic ones.
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Yeah, it sounds a bit show-offy when you say that. I wouldn't have brought it up if you hadn't brought up the crosswords.
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I mean, I have tweeted the whole story once, so I suppose I'm not totally ashamed of it, you know?
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Max Rushden, what did you do yesterday? So I woke up at 5 a.m. because that's when young Ian wakes up.
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Yeah. But I'd done the radio the night before, which was half midnight. And so Mrs. Rushden very kindly said, you can stay in bed till half six.
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That was massive. So I went from the day bed, which is where I end up most nights, went back to mum and dad a bed, which was my own bed,
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and I slept till 6.30. Then I got up and then I did general... 6.30 was good.
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And then like 6.30 is a lion, mate. And then general parenting, eating breakfast, that kind of stuff.
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No, I didn't have breakfast at home. Then Jamie drove Rudy to the cafe and I cycled there because she was in a rush.
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She had to drive down to see one of her best friends. And so I got to the cafe.
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We got to the cafe at the same time, but using different modes of transport.
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And she went off and then I sat with young Ian and there's a record player in the cafe because it's a really cool cafe.
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So we looked at the record player because it goes round and round and he likes things that go round and round.
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I ordered some toast. We shared the toast. He had plain toast, no crusts. I had toast with jam.
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No butter, no crusts. I then put him on the, it then just started to rain.
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So I put him in his raincoat. I got in my raincoat and I cycled him to childcare and I dropped him off and he was a happy, it was a happy drop off.
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Nothing better than that. Great. I then had a half hour cycle in the absolute pissing rain to South Yarra.
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But I'd thought carefully. So I had a plastic bag for my rucksack and then I put that in the baby seat.
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So I don't have that on my back. I've got my raincoat on and I cycled to South Yarra.
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It's a half an hour. There's one big hill. Otherwise it's nice. And then I arrived to host the A-League show, the A-League download available on the A-League's YouTube channel.
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So I did that show, which is really fun because everyone's nice and we've sort of talked about this before, but if the vibe is good, everything's good and it's a really good fun show.
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But it was so wet that I decided not to cycle home. I walked to a cafe and then I watched Match of the Day 2, which I love doing and also it's work.
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So I watched Match of the Day 2 and I had some chili eggs, but I get the chili on the side because I don't really like it too spicy, but a little bit spicy.
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They always make it too spicy. They got the flat white, perfect size in the cafe, worth pointing out.
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So then it was still raining, but there was nothing I could do. So I got my bike and I cycled home.
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I was all wet, got in and had a shower and that was nice. And then the best bit of the day.
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You always have the shittest bicycle tales. I'm here trying to do some PR for cycling generally.
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Even though you're in a tropical climate. Oh, come on. I cycled in the rain because I tell you what, because cycling is so much more pleasurable than sitting in a taxi and Jamie had the car.
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Okay, fine. So I still enjoyed it and I felt alive as the rain hit my face.
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The best part of the day? Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Well, no, the best part of that is coming up.
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So then me and Jamie watched an episode of Bad Sisters, which we're getting through.
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It's really good. They live in some nice old houses there, the people. We all do.
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Jamie wanted to know where is that set and is it a nice place to visit?
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That was her question. And then it was 2 p.m. So then I went to bed till half past three and that was absolutely sensational.
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Then I got up and I felt like I'd been shot in the face. I felt absolutely terrible.
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So I made another coffee and then Jamie picked up young Ian from childcare and then I did some a marble run.
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This is a bit of guesswork here. Some blobby sand, which is magic sand, which is not like real, it's not real sand.
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It's sand that flows through your hands like a sort of, it's really beautiful. But Ian had filled it, put it in the paddling pool so it's soaking wet.
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It's fucking everywhere. What is it? Is it magnetic? Sorry, I just need a clarification on this.
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Yeah, it's got a bit of glue in it or something, but it really, before you saturate it, it's really lovely and it doesn't stick to you like sand.
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It doesn't get everywhere. Is it like Flubber, the movie, from the movie Flubber? Oh, I don't recall the movie Flubber.
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Continue, don't worry about it. The listeners will fill you in. These aren't your three questions.
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Um, so then at the moment, Ian refuses to, ah, I went into, it was nearly bedtime for him and he was doing what he calls Bubba tricks where he climbs over his bed and jumps on the bed.
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And the last one he did, he head butted the side of the bed and he always knocks himself out with me there.
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It's like always. And Jamie looks at me disappointedly. But anyway, he got over that and he was fine.
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And then he refuses to let me put him to bed. So Jamie had to do that again.
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Sort of, she's had one night off doing that in about four months. Which is shit.
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Yeah, that's shit. And then for dinner, then while she was doing that, I did the exercises I have to do every day for my tendinopathy in my left sort of groin thigh area because I want to be fit for the football season.
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So lots of squats and lunges that I did. And then I had dinner. What did I have for dinner?
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Oh, I had a chili. I had a bowl of chili reheated from the day before with some nachos, sour cream, avocado.
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Great. And I wasn't going to drink, but then I had a beer with that and then another beer.
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Then I recorded Guardian Football Weekly. Oh, can you get away with that? Do you not?
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Does the giveaway not where you're like, hello, where it's just a little bit, a little bit of that after two beers?
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No, no, no. I think I'm okay. I think I'm okay. I mean, the listeners will have to judge.
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Completists can go back to listen to Monday's Guardian Football Weekly. And yeah, the most drunk I've been is with you when I said that everything is show business.
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Yeah, yeah. In fairness, that was at the very end of an episode. It was a long episode.
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It was a long record. And so then it must have been nine o'clock and I would have done the wordle, maybe started the squaredle.
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I'd have logged into squaredle and if it had said any more than 25 words, I'd be like, oh, fuck this.
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I can't do that. And then I would have gone to sleep. Okay. My questions are, is the cafe that features twice in this day the cafe from the boxing slash St. Stephen's Day Massacre?
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Have you made peace with them? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Because the Boxing Day Massacre is a cafe we wouldn't normally go to because it's not on our rotation.
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But we had, it was slim pickings on Christmas Day. Yeah. So the first one was a relatively new one.
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And the second one where I had the chili eggs was a long way away from where I live.
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Okay. The rain, the rain, of course, it was a lovely one. It was nice.
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Okay. Well, that concludes, my examination of your day. Wonderful. That concludes, that concludes the whole show.
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Except we got this feedback from Kenny Kench. Two stars, lost its shine, funny for a couple of episodes, comedians are pretty dull.
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So, you know, that keeps us grounded, David, doesn't it? Thanks, Kenny. Kenny, I don't think, if listening back to this one, we'll be the one that adds those three extra stars to it.
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But I've had a nice time and that's all that matters. And let's not forget, Cheese Mastermind begins next week.
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That's huge. The email address is whatdidyou doyesterdaypod at gmail.com. We love hearing from you.
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And now, because we're doing this episode, we need to hear from you. Yeah, we need it.
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Thanks, David. And then new episode out on Sunday. And I don't know who it's with yet. That's very honest. Thanks, Max. Yeah, bye.