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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 today's episode of Midweek Mayhem, brought to you by the good people of What Did You Do Yesterday?
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I'm Max Rushden. There's David O'Doherty. And whirring away behind me, like the last chopper out of Saigon, is Miel the cat who's on the bed.
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Just, this is all you hear, just very distant. Miel the frog. Now, for the tape, we've just had a sort of pep talk meeting, the three of us to say, come on, lads, let's keep it tight.
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And David was really insistent, keep it tight, nothing less than 50. And I tell you, we'll be at 59 minutes 32, and you'll be like, interruption.
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Just in our discussion of last week's episode, which I felt good about. Yeah, it was a good one.
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It was raised that maybe I'd gone too deeply into the inner workings of promoting jazz concerts.
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That's nicely specific. So I say more of that, Max. Yeah. Well, let's begin with some feedback.
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Mars Bar says, this topic has blown up the inbox in a way we haven't seen since David tried to scupper the podcast with his incorrect cheese categorization torpedo.
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We have, eh, had a lot of emails. And between you, me, and Tom Basden, we should be slightly ashamed regarding the maths involved in Brian Adams' alleged summer of 69.
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Oh, no. You're going to have to tell Basden. Trish, hi, guys. I'm sure you've got many emails about this, but Brian Adams' summer of 69 refers to the sexual position, not the year.
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Yeah. Brian Adams confirmed on The Early Show in 2008, listening from Juneau, Alaska, while I run, often laughing out loud as I trot through my neighborhood.
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I'm sure now the neighbors refer to me as the crazy running woman. I've become a sad, cautionary tale for their children.
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The jingle for They're Just Normal Countries is terrifying. It sounds like a recording that someone's claimed to have made by contacting the dead.
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So before we chat about it, yes, this one is D-A-I-T-I. Who's that? Dahi. It's David in Irish.
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David. Okay. Hi, Mars Bar and lads. I always thought Summer of 69 started with the lyrics, I got my first real sex dream in the summer of 69.
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I always found the lyrics to be a bit full on, but then thought it's Brian Adams, he can get away with it.
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It wasn't until many years later I was corrected by my girlfriend. She said, "what did you just sing?" and called me a pervert.
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The relationship ended two months later. I'm not saying they're connected, but I've always disliked Adams since.
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So the 69, it's pretty lame then. It's lame, isn't it? It's the summer of boob touching or something, you know?
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But also like a whole summer of it? I don't believe. No one's done that.
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You might be a rock star, Brian, but come on. Some days you're like, I'm just a bit tired.
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Can't we just watch Cheers? No, it's the summer of this. You said. Oh, God.
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It could have been the summer of 96 then as well. Yeah. Or it could have just been the summer of 11, where they just lay beside each other, just talking.
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Just talking. It's the summer of 66, just spooning. What's that one? 77. That's 77. Matt says you'll like this one.
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Hello, Default Man 3, DOD, and Mars Bar. I've just listened to the Tim Key episode, and his Hugh Laurie is 30% more talented than Nigel Haver's line really instantly reminded me of an old colleague.
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We were talking about Soccer AM, glory years, of course, and couldn't remember Max's name.
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We knew exactly who he was talking about, but played dumb to annoy him. As time went on and without access to his phone, he grew more and more frustrated.
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He then tried to describe Max to us, which led to the line, quote, you know, the guy who's like Dermot O'Leary, but 50% less handsome and 40% less personality.
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He is referring to Christian von Hugenholdt, the twin brother who is the consumer affairs person on BBC Breakfast.
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I think we can all agree. 50% less handsome, 40% less personality than Dermot O'Leary. At the time and since, I always thought it was a really odd way to describe someone, but after hearing Tim do the same,
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I'm wondering if I'm the odd one out. Keep up the great work. Love the pod.
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Everything is show business from Matt. You know, I take that. You know, O'Leary's a talented guy.
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Okay, I'll put this out there. I'm happy with 50% less handsome than Dermot. Yeah. But I think I matched Dermot on personality.
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Wow. Imagine if O'Leary and who's 50% more handsome and charismatic than me, Chris O'Dowd.
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Imagine if O'Leary and O'Dowd start doing one. Oh, then we'll be in a lot of trouble.
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Although, you know, O'Dowd, a listener to Football Weekly, I could text him, get him on.
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And, you know, I could try Dermot O'Leary. I think I DM'd him once in about 2014.
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So, you know, possible. Yeah. Now, on our unpaid Lululemon sponsorship odyssey, Lorna says, Dear David and Max, I saw these discarded men's Lululemon pants while on a hike in Werribee Gorge and have thought of you.
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It's a blue pair. It's a navy pair of Lululemons out in the wild, in the wilderness.
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It was not a toddler or newborn friendly trail. Otherwise, I would have wondered if Max had had some sort of mishap.
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Although I expect not, as that would have been a very on-brand anecdote, which surely would have been top of the list for discussion for the pod.
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Anyway, as an Irish person living in Melbourne, I particularly enjoy the combination of David and Max's yesterdays for Melburnian and Irish references.
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Having previously lived in Edinburgh for years, I'm really looking forward to David's August yesterdays to complete the trifecta from Lorna.
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Thank you for the picture of the discarded pants. I hope nobody saw you while you were taking that photo.
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The question is whether they're L, the classic Rushden size, or XL, the O'Doherty size then.
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Looking at the picture, which I have, I should have sent it to you. You can't see because the strap is...
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They're looking not in that bad nick. I reckon you can pick them up and give them a wash.
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I'd probably ignore the advice of Default Man 3 Van Tugendot and do a 60 degree wash specifically for these.
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They'd be good to go. Still on clothes. This is good. Do you remember on the Tom Basden ep, David, I was talking about how I used to get my friends to the pub and just give away clothes from somewhere.
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Well, my friend Fiona is married to my friend Nathan and Fiona sent me a picture of Nathan still wearing a Soccer AM giveaway jacket circa 2010, a green penguin zip up still there.
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They're still out there, guys. It's very exciting. Well, I'm imagining sort of an Oasis type vibe.
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You know what I mean? He's got like a can of beer held above his head and sunglasses on.
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He's shouting in this picture, you know? No, no. He's standing there looking just like, what are you doing, Fiona?
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I think that's sort of the general vibe. Well, here's my question to you. When you look at your wardrobe, what is the oldest piece, would you say, you have that's still in circulation?
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I have a jacket from school. Wow. Do you still wear it? I keep it now as a historical piece more than anything.
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But the collar is fully worn away. It's the original Chino jacket. But yeah, it's quite nice.
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I would have worn it still the odd time until recently. I mean, it's a good question and I've probably got some old T-shirt lying about from 10 years ago that I just haven't quite shifted yet.
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Not one for clothes posterity, I would suggest. You don't have a Shed 7 T-shirt that you got at a gig in 1996 or anything?
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I don't think I've been to a gig since. Oh, no, not this again. Me chasing a goose around.
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I'll tell you one funny gig. Once England got Kasabian to unveil their England kit ahead of a tour.
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It was a tournament in France, in Paris. And so I went with them on the Eurostar and was at the gig.
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Still not quite sure why. I played table tennis with them and then I went home.
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It was a very early social media days. Don't think I posted about it, but they thought it'd be good to have Max just coming on the Eurostar with Kasabian.
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Don't know if I travelled with them, but definitely played table tennis with them. And then they went and did the gig and I sat in the theatre.
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It's why people listen to this podcast, because we're still like last week during a snowstorm in Heathrow, you decide to hang out with the reigning US Open champion, Graham McDowell.
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And that was just a part of another anecdote about how you couldn't get to Australia to hang out with the now Mrs. Rushden.
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But you bury the lead a lot in your anecdotes where it's just some boring bullshit about going out to get cat food.
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And on the way, you know, you drove into Morrissey's transit van or something. I don't like to shout about my incredibly.
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Well, everything is showbiz, but the Eurostar to Kasabian, I guess, to play table tennis.
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Ostensibly, I went to play table tennis. They said we need someone. They couldn't find Desmond Douglas, so they got me.
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Now, I've just discovered people's comments on Spotify. This is a rich seam of content, David.
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Mark says, I would definitely listen to the spin-off pod hosted by Jamie and the Helen Copter, which is something we should do, isn't it?
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Cafe News. Mixon says, I'm furious that Max gave that cafe a five-star rating. Having worked in hospitality, I prided myself in giving excellent service, and that cafe owner angered me beyond belief.
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Max, I'm a fan, but you need to grow a pair. And the fallout is, I don't know if I've given the full denouement, is obviously that one listener, John, gave it a one-star review and says,
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nobody upsets Max Rushden and gets away with it or something. So just for the listeners here, Max goes to a cafe.
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The listeners know this, otherwise, what are they doing? Gets a lot of coffee, the guy keeps asking if he's going to be sitting there all day.
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Max gets a sandwich, and the guy is still like, you're just going to stay here and eat your sandwich for hours?
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So Max reacts to this by leaving. You left a five-star review. No, I mentioned it on the podcast, and I named the cafe, and then somebody gave them a one-star review.
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I felt bad. So then I went and gave them a five-star review, and then I told the guy to take down his one-star review.
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So now all they've got is a five-star review and no one-star review. And so they've got a better rating than all the cafes I really like, but I would never review because who the fuck does Google reviews?
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I haven't got time to do that. But it turns out the one cafe I've been to recently where actually I had terrible service has got a five-star review from me.
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It's a disaster. On the Sooz Kemper episode, another classic example of Max assuming he can jump into any career in showbiz. Sooz suggested David could do a musical, and Max jumped in there immediately with "we could do Joseph!"
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Mark says, Here's some praise for you. It was a very good line, maybe the line of the series.
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What is a horse if not an acoustic motorbike? Chef's kiss, says Mark. Yeah, I really like that.
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But, you know, can't just give praise without, it's not a shit sandwich, it's just, it's an amazing five-star review on iTunes, which will make you feel 10 feet tall.
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Oh, wow. Which leads with, glad I stuck with it. Been listening since the beginning.
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I'm glad they got out of the habit of only asking women what they were wearing initially.
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I'm not an uber-feminist guy, but this was a bit weird, lads. What? I don't remember.
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Was this an era? Is there an era of this podcast we just don't talk about anymore?
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It was a different time. Do you not remember when Fatima Whitbread came on? You know, when we did it in the 80s, and we were like, oh, who's on?
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Linda Lusardi. Do you not remember? Do you not remember those? Vicky Michelle. Do you not remember those years?
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Anyway, it goes on to say, you'll like this bit, not a fan at all.
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of David's type of stand-up. To be fair, I don't really enjoy stand-up comedy altogether, but I really enjoyed David on this one, so well done.
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He sounds like this person wants more tales of jazz promotion in the 90s. How have we got five stars out of this?
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He's called us sinister perverts. Then he says he's absolutely no interest in your work specifically, or comedy as it is.
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He does say, I'm a fan of Max's sense of humor, and I enjoyed the glory days.
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So there we go. That's Benfo. I'm with you, Ben. Thanks. Not sinister perverts anymore.
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That would be a good heading to that one. Heidi says, I don't know why, but I love this podcast.
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I genuinely do not know why, but this has quickly become one of my favorite podcasts.
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I think I even enjoy the midweek mayhem episodes more than the regular ones, which makes even less sense.
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But we only get four stars because Heidi says it would be five stars. However, I've had to knock a star off.
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As I now think I fancy Max, and I really don't know what this says about me.
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So any review we ever get for now on that isn't five stars, I'm putting down to you.
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Imagine how she feels about Dermot O'Leary, to be honest. Oh God, imagine. She can't listen or watch any of his stuff.
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Constantly giving one stars because he's so handsome. She says, I tried recommending it to a guy I'm seeing, but he wasn't convinced.
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He does enjoy my excitement about it though. So somewhat of an endorsement. Everything is showbiz, in it for life.
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That's almost the definitive review is just, I don't know why I like it. I played it to someone else who was like, what the hell is this?
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But it just keeps coming up on my phone and I keep listening. So I guess I like it now.
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Somebody called Dylan Tibbs, who was in the year above me at school and has kept the school magazine from 1987, 88 sent me a poem that I had written, about dinosaurs.
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Would you like to hear it? I was in class 2A. Imagine if I said no now and we just moved on.
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You absolutely can. They're just normal countries. We put it in the WhatsApp group. You probably read it.
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You probably don't need it. If you don't want it, absolutely. We don't need it.
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Not only do I want it, but I want to hear how it should be read.
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You know what I mean? The great thing about the Seamus Heaney poetry is, you know, cause you look at a poetry book and you're like, Oh, I'm not reading this.
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But then you, you hear him reading it on the radio and you're like, that's a brilliant poem.
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Exactly. Like John Hegley or like Pam Ayers. Here's a Max Rushden, an original from 1987, 88.
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So hang on, what age? 2A. I would have been seven, seven or eight. So let's just give a bit of cultural background to it.
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Okay. 87. Thatcher is second term. She's still there. Yeah. Pat Cash is about to win Wimbledon.
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Stephen Roche is about to win the Tour de France. Coventry City are winning the FA cup.
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I cried that day. Is that all of culture? Our references are all.. Mousetrap is on. There you go.
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There's a reference. Here we go. I don't have a title. It's just untitled. As all my poetry is, as fans of my work will know.
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In the sea, the sauropods lay down in the swamp. Whoa, stop. You wouldn't laugh that quickly, for a Tim Key, would you?
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You'd let it breathe. The sauropods. The sauropods. What's wrong with this? It's very insulting.
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Sauropods are a prehistoric sea-living dinosaur. I'm sorry. You know better than me. As you know, I don't know anything about sauropods.
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Let's have a look. One of the most recognized group of dinosaurs. Oh, no, the sauropods are sort of your Diplodocus, your Brontosaurus.
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But you've put them in the sea in the first line. Sorry, I'll let the rest of it go now.
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They wasn't much fact-checking in 87 at my school. I think they're sort of, they're in the shallows.
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Okay. There's a drawing, a pencil drawing of a Triceratops just to the left, but I don't think it's one of mine.
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I think, you know, it's a sort of collage of work. Okay. Start again, please.
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Sorry. Untitled. In the sea, the sauropods lay down in the swamps on a sunny day.
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Long time. The sea and the swamps. Sorry. The swamps are not the sea. There's no saltwater swamps.
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I'm only seven years old. I'm seven years old, David. What do you want from me?
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They're down in the swamps, in the sea. They're in the shallows of the sea.
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It's, it's sort of at the mouth of the sea and it's a bit swampy.
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Okay. It makes perfect sense. Wow. So what's the metaphor here is a sort of lurking danger.
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Do you see what's come? Do you see John Major and future political year? No, I see the fall of the Berlin wall.
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That's coming. That's what this is about. Oh my God. Of course. I see the breaking of the iron curtain.
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That's what this is. In the sea, the sauropods lay down in the swamps on a sunny day, long tail, big neck, rough skin, massive legs, plodding along.
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Massive legs. Plodding along, swaying aside, dark, dank face, and the earth is crumbling wildly.
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Oh my goodness. Is that a haiku? Do you think? No, I don't think it's a haiku.
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I think it's iambic pentameter that I just naturally discovered at seven. Yeah, because the non rhyming thing, like it's a funny one because the rhythm is so, you know, it's like that thing that contemporary poets use where you lure them in,
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with a bit of rhyme and then for the heavy bit at the end. Yeah.
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For the asteroid. Yeah. You're on your own now. Yeah, exactly. In many ways, people see me as the pioneer of that form of modern poetry.
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I think. Anyway, thank you to Dylan Tibbs for sending that in. If anyone has any more of Max's poetry, do not hesitate in sending it in to our podcast.
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Thanks Dylan. Let's play. They're just normal countries. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the one and only.
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Welcome everybody to the one and only. Previous guesses are Madagascar, Namibia, Costa Rica, Uganda, North Korea, Guyana, and the Northern Marianas Islands.
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Are we allowed to say what Mars Bar said last week? I think you threw all of your toys out of the pram, which was the closest guess had been.
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No. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay. Sorry. Sorry, everyone. Omit that from the record. Russell in Sydney writes, hi, David, Max and Mars Bar.
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I really enjoy the pod, but keep experiencing odd food related coincidences while listening, which so far have involved grape nuts, guanciale, rhubarb and apple crumble and the misleadingly named tea cakes.
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My choice for They're Just Normal Countries is a place that uses gross national happiness.
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GNH is a measurement for how well the nation's going. I believe that maybe a bureaucrat was given the task of identifying podcasts that the government can recommend the population listen to in order to increase the GNH.
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The bureaucrat randomly chose an episode from series one, listen for about 10 minutes and then thought this is not for our people.
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And immediately blocked access to what did you do yesterday? For the whole nation. I think you can guess which episode he picked.
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No comment actually, unless it's a Kumar reference. Yeah, it's gotta be Kumar. It's gotta be.
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My just normal country selection is Bhutan. Mars Bar, Bhutan. Bhutan. So not Bhutan. It carries on.
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I mean, if somebody, cause it is winner stays on, but you know what is going well, David, this is going to last until the cheese board.
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What if it's still going? And then really this podcast becomes quiz, just quizzes. Bhutan has had two listens.
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Stop it, Mars Bar. That is insane. That is the closest guess we've had. Two listens in Bhutan.
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What we need to know is, did it only have one when the game started?
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In which case that could be a correct guess, but this is very exciting. The closest we've had.
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Well done, Russell. It's like getting one on Pointless. You don't win, but go, you get a lot of kudos.
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It had zero listens when we started the game. So it's gone from zero to two.
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Mars Bar's microphone doesn't work, despite being a podcast producer. So that's why I'm relaying the information to you.
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Bhutan uses gross domestic happiness then. Uh-huh, yeah. And yet they seem to not need this podcast.
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Only two people have needed it. Just worse. Maybe one person has listened twice. This is very exciting.
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If you're the person in Bhutan, please, what did you do yesterday, pod, at gmail.com?
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Tell us what you're doing while you are the only person, the two of you in Bhutan, listening to this.
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Unless you listened once and thought it's not for you. But I know, we'll take that.
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You're not listening now, so why am I asking you? I'm asking someone in Bhutan who stopped listening to this podcast to get in touch with us.
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Hey, David, it was my day yesterday. Max Rushden, what did you do yesterday? What time do we rise and shine?
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Well, rise and shine is not necessarily the words that I would use. As we begin the 2nd of July, 2025, at 4am, Willie Rushden wakes up.
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So Willie's the five-month-old. Puts you on the leaderboard, yeah. Yeah, it does. Yeah, we're trying a new tactic.
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He's drinking too much. What, beer? Wine? Anything he can get his hands on. He's in a bleak household, and he's like, this is the only way to get through.
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He's drinking too much at night, too much milk. So basically, we've worked out he's going to get food at two or three occasions in the night, and if he doesn't want the food, I'm going to settle him.
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Jamie's not there, because if he can smell the milk, he might go for it, but I don't have any, and so it's just me rocking a baby for 20 minutes, 10 minutes, whatever.
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The best way is when you just lie next to them and you fall asleep, and by the time you've woken up, they've fallen asleep.
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You don't know what's happened. Anyway, it's been quite successful, but at 4 a.m., he's hungry, so Jamie arrives, and I go to the daybed, right?
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So this could still be the nighttime, but at 10 past four, Jamie comes in and asks for help.
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Which I am very sad about because this is my daybed time. I've got in the daybed, it's like daybed time.
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I suggest this is not a two-man job, but I say I will take over.
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I hopefully not just because it's my yesterday, and I want to get some points early on.
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Not this again. I'm just thinking, look, Jamie has harder nights than I do.
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I'm okay. I think I'm okay, or I'm just awake. I'll just go and do it.
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Yeah, and because it's food, you immediately start making king prawn in a box. When anyone says food, that's just what you start doing.
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Anyway, so 4.10, I go back to mum and dada bedroom. Me and Willie Rushden into there.
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From 4.10 to 5.05 a.m., I'm rocking a baby, pushing it back and forth, holding it, putting it down.
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I mean, it's my baby, it, him. Putting the dummy in, he's spitting it out, putting the dummy back in, rolling in this way, patting his bottom, blah, blah, blah.
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Okay. So that's 50, 55 minutes of that. Yeah. 5.05, Jay comes in. She takes over. I'm appreciative of this.
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I go to the day bed. So here's where you could say, I think I get half an hour sleep.
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5.41, Ian wakes up. He didn't need to wake up at 5.41. Love this guy. We didn't need him to enter the chat this early in proceedings.
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He could have done a 6.30. I'd have taken that. I get into his bed thinking 5.41, you know, I will say it's the middle of the night.
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It's the middle of the night. We need to go back to sleep. Sometimes it works, but he is awake.
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We discuss life and the meaning of it for about 20 minutes. Sauropods. Pick on sauropods.
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He wants the loo. Then he says, let's play Lego. And I say, why don't you go and play Lego?
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I'm just going to stay here. And then he announces, he says, but you're my best friend.
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So, and he's such a con man because if Jamie's in the room, I'm not his best friend.
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In fact, he wants me to go away, but she's not an option at this stage.
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So suddenly I'm his best friend. But when a three, three-year-old says I'm your best friend, you say, well, I've got to go play Lego, you know?
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So Lego starts and at six o'clock he checks the time. Interruption. Yes. David. Are we just building a straight up tower?
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Are we just building the classic wall? There's a lot of wheel work. There's a lot of making cars, taking cars apart, taking the wheels off their little bits.
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What I tend to do is open a wheel shop. So I find all the wheels in the big thing.
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Yeah. And then I put them in a little basket and then I sell him the wheels.
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But he says, I can't find a one-er, like a tiny thing or whatever. Yeah.
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So then he tips the Lego onto the floor, all the, like the thing, that sound of the kind of Lego going, you know, just like it's actually a beautiful sound, but sometimes you're like,
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oh, we don't need all the Lego on the carpet. All the Legos on the carpet.
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Where my brother is backs onto a late night bar. And you know, the tipping of the bottles.
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Yes. Into the large thing of bottles. I mean, that's the only thing that I can compare the sound to.
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The Lego monsoon. Yeah, it's a very good analogy. He looks at the clock at 6am.
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He wants just in time. Just in time goes on. There's an episode about clocks that he loves.
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Schnuzel hein wants to stop all the clocks. He stops all the clocks. I think he's in sort of Southeast Asia.
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Then he's in Jaipur and then he needs to get to London. So he gets there on an elephant, which is, as we're flying to London soon, he has on occasion said, why don't we get an elephant?
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Tricky to explain that that is an impractical way to get from Australia. To London.
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But you could make a good Channel 5 show. I sent my three-year-old to London on an elephant.
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I get to work doing a lot of admin. Dishwasher, laundry, Ian's porridge, my porridge.
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Jay and Willie arrive at 6.45. So she's gone back down and then she's had a touch there.
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That's really great sleep. Yeah. This stage. I mean, no, but yeah. It's all relative.
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I've got the two of them. I'm trying. I think Jamie's getting ready. I'm trying for a bit of fun to be fun.
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I've got a bit of ventriloquism. So I'm using Willie as a dummy and I decided that Willie should be an old Scotsman.
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I'm like, oh, Ian, look at you. I'm Willie Rushden. Anyway, the reaction to this is it's so lead balloon.
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It's like nobody thinks it's good. It's the worst reaction I've had to anything ever.
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Ian is completely ignoring me. Obviously, Willie's five months old. He's just going, why are you?
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This is not what I'm here for Jamie is like, this is the least funny thing you've ever done.
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It's difficult to introduce a new art form. You know what I mean? If someone has no idea of, say, balloon animalism and you just start wrapping, you know, the awful tension of wrapping blown up balloons around each other.
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I see why the people would be. This is not good, but at least with balloon animalism, you have the release at the end where you're like, look.
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It's goofy or Pluto or Homer Simpson or whatever, whereas this is just shit. I'll also make the observation.
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You should do cameos of you using your youngest as a ventriloquist. I mean, your default Scottish accent is that more Glaswegian one.
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I'm going to call it to the ire of our Scottish list. Yeah, it's not a sort of Edinburgh.
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It's not a sort of beautiful sky. So, yeah, I'd be more like this, but I don't know.
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I don't know. I can do that while trying to do a ventriloquist. You see, it's easier, right?
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It's much easier to do this kind of Scottish accent. It is a surprise there aren't more ventriloquism pods, isn't it?
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When you think about it. Can you do bees, though, in your ventriloquism? Because that's famously the problem.
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I mean, I don't think it was seamless. If I'm really honest, Ian knew it was me making the noise.
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This is not his suddenly Scottish four-month-old brother. He's not really aware of Scotland, so I think that was a mistake on my part.
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But the one person who is thoroughly entertained by this is me, so I'm having a good time.
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It's whatever gets you through, right? I've been up for two hours. We're all in the room, and Ian is putting a lot of wheels on a car, so I put a lot of wheels on a car.
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I suggest counting them. Because Jamie's there, he just yells at me and says, you can't count the wheels.
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You just can't do that. What a stupid idea. Willie needs a nap walk. Jamie's going to do it.
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So she says, I'm off, and Ian is very sad for 15 seconds. But then I turn the Hot Wheels on, and he's happy.
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It's got four big batteries. It's incredibly noisy, and it does a kind of loop-the-loop, or if you take the loops off, it just shoots cars sort of across the room.
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I think I've seen this. Yeah, so it's – well, Hot Wheels were around in my day, but they were just the cars themselves.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's a little track. It's got a little loop-the-loop track. Got it.
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The joy of this is when you turn it off because the noise is like – when you turn it off, it's like the silence is just – it's like the most atmospheric silence you'll ever hear.
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It will be interesting when the e-car era reaches Hot Wheels and they'll just silently glide down the track, maybe with that slightly dystopian, sinister chorus sound that a lot of electric cars make, just – 8 a.m., Sophie arrives to look after Ian.
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We love Sophie. She's the best. I join Jamie at our favorite cafe. Shout out to listener Emily, who is leaving.
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Hopefully not because of our coffee order. Coffee footnote, the day before, I'd ordered a strong three-quarter to go from another cafe as I was taking Ian to the Museum of Play and Art.
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I left him in the car, so I'm sort of like running from the car to the cafe.
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He's fine, but I'm running back and forth. They hand me the coffee. It's completely full, but I don't have time to complain because I'm late for the museum.
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Our slot already. Actually, the coffee was totally fine. They should know. If it's wrong, they could be getting a five-star review from you.
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Okay, so I get to the cafe. I have a long black. It's great. I talk tactics with Jamie.
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We talk about our London plans, get the diary out. There's been a little hat in lost property that's been there for ages and ages and ages, so they give it to us.
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It's got little ears, and it makes Willie look indescribably cute. Jamie takes Willie on a second nap walk.
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I stay, get a second coffee, strong three-quarter flat white. It's perfect. I do the script for Football Weekly.
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Sit there going, blah, blah, blah. There's a bit of Club World Cup, a bit of Women's Euros.
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There's plenty of football kicking about. Chelsea have had that two-hour delay because of possible lightning.
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Have you ever had, on Football Weekly, when's the famous day, 1958? Today, there is no news.
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You know, that BBC report where there was no news. There's always, there's just, when you think, oh, it looks a bit light on Monday, stuff always happens.
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Like, it just never ends. And now there's actual football being played all the time, you know.
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And so, yeah, it never ends. But you just have to be, Swansea, you've got a new physio.
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No, no, we're allowed to be like, is anybody watching the Club World Cup? I can't be bothered.
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Like, there is that level of honesty. I think when you work in football, the magic goes a bit, right?
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It's not your escape. It's your job. But there are so many moments in a season which remind you why you love it.
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I think it's complaining about being paid to watch football is a risky strategy, in my experience.
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But it doesn't mean sometimes you go, pfft, Hull, West Brom on Monday, pfft, really?
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Max, I work in the yesterday industry, and I'm not sick of yesterdays. I still love yesterdays.
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I walked to the doctor. Jamie is covered in sick It's not her sick, it's Willie's sick.
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He's got a little appointment, so Jamie is like, I'm covered in sick, can you get here and just take him?
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So I get there just in time, and she goes home, and I take Willie into the doctor, and he's fine.
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He's got a slightly dry back. A dry back? He needs more moisturiser. He might need a little steroid cream.
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But the guy's like, every baby gets this, don't stress about it. And then the doctor's like, you just need to wear sunscreen all day.
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You know, that's what's good. And I say, Baz Luhrmann was right, I say to him.
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And he agreed with me. About Moulin Rouge? No, about wear sunscreen. Oh, yes. It's an early song.
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Yeah. I walk to the chemist, Willie's down, I walk for an hour, I listen to Sounds of the 90s.
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The highlight is PM Dawn's Set Adrift on Memory's Bliss. It is so wet out.
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It is raining. It is proper shit Melbourne winter weather. It is like hammering down with rain.
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And so on the high street, there's like about 500 yards, which is undercover. And so I probably do that about a thousand times.
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Just go back and forth and back and forth. And then I am consumed by a ravenous hunger.
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So I walk through the rain home and he's been down for long enough. So I leave him on the porch and he'll wake up pretty soon after that.
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If he's still, he wakes up, which is actually slightly annoying. Just be asleep. You know, I make some toast and peanut butter.
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I'm not feeling 100%. So I make a hot lemon and honey. Big news. Ian's got new bathers, new swimming outfit.
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Oh, great. Me and Ian are off to Brunswick baths. Is he swimming in a special swimming nappy or is he now?
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No, no, he's potty trained now. He's potty trained. He's not number two potty trained.
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But before he was potty trained, you'd take him in the pool. I just hope he didn't dump.
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For sure. Now he's at a stage where if he needs a number two, he'll say, I need a number two.
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It's the great thing about being a sauropod in the slime. They can just number two, number one away.
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It's not a big deal for them. Anyway, I've mentioned it is very wet. So we get drenched just getting to the car and getting in the car.
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And he's saying, maybe I'll go in the front. Maybe I'll go in the back.
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He climbs in whatever door he wants and he climbs through to his seat. But I'm in no mood for this because I'm getting rained on.
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But it's OK. We have fun with that. He noticed there's lots of puddles. He jumps in the puddles.
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I'm in my second coat because my raincoat is so wet from the walk. So I'm now in a coat that's not waterproof.
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We get in the car. We listen to the only CD we have in the car, which is a play school jazzy street party.
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It's quite fun. I promoted them once in the 90s. Had to get them out of an early house in order to make a flight back to New York.
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So I did listen to your Brad Maldow. I told that on an episode which is out soon.
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So we listened to that. Humpty Dumpty's, you know, got a bit of swing to it.
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You know, there's the cow jump over the moon. There's all the classics in there.
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What's the metaphor of Humpty Dumpty? So what's the first line of Humpty Dumpty? Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall.
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He had a great fall. What's that about? Yeah, I think if you're a big egg, like, just be really careful where you sit.
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It's so good that I'd never had that sort of analysis of it before. I bet it's about like Oliver Cromwell or something.
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You know, do any of the listeners know? Is it about like a politician called, you know, Sir George Humperton, who once fell off, was a giant egg and fell off?
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Can I just, for the tape's sake, I don't mind if nobody emails us to tell us.
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I'm happy in the ignorance of whatever it is. Ian's bathers look sensational. We're in the pool and he goes down the slide a bit.
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He asked me to come down the slide with him a bit. Sometimes he does it on his own.
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He's got two small Lego motorbikes, which are his and not mine. We get a couple of noodles.
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We turn them into a tunnel, goes through the tunnel. The tunnel is closing and it's like, oh, we get to the tunnel.
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Is this one of those? It's obviously a free swim with kids, but is there a serious lane in which older people are going up and down?
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There's a kid's pool. I mean, it's just me and one other dad and his two kids in it.
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It's amazing. Then there's an outside pool where some mad people are swimming because it's really raining.
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But I suppose there's a beauty in swimming in a heated pool with the rain falling on your face, you know, in a different time.
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Maybe I'd have done that, but I do not want to go outside. Sometimes he wants to run outside when it's cold.
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It's like, I just don't, please. And the automatic doors open. You're like, oh, yeah.
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But generally, swimming is actually a really fun thing to do. He doesn't love swimming.
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He jumps around in the pool a lot. Some three-year-olds are already doing butterfly, but he's got some goggles that he doesn't want to put on.
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He doesn't put his head under the water. One of the other kids has a water pistol.
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It gets Ian once. He's sad about that. He wants to go home, but it's okay.
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He has a small yogurt, and then we're back in the pool. So that's good.
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I have a nice chat about how much it costs to renovate a house with the other dad in the pool in the pool where he's we're just chatting about life and that comes up.
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You never said you got out of the Subaru. So you've just driven the Subaru straight into the pool.
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Yes, that's bubbling away in the shallow end. You've opened the windows. So it's starting to fill as you just chat out the window down in the sea.
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The Subaru lay down in the swamps on a sunny day. You know the rhyme.
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Oh, there is one really funny moment where he says, you know, you can't do poos in the pool.
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He says, if you can, I'll wee in the pool. I say, yeah, yeah, sure you can.
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But then as we're getting changed afterwards and I take all his clothes off, he says, I just need a wee.
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And he stands by the side of the pool and just pisses in it. So I want to say, try and be a bit more subtle about it than this.
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That's famously Tom Daley said that once, you know, where he's standing up on the high platform and he remembers you're allowed to pee in the pool and just wazzes straight off.
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Well, actually the synchronized diving, him and his partner both did exactly the same. With the same trajectory.
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It was a 3.1 difficulty. You do a big piss and then you go bounce, bounce, spinny, spinny, spinny.
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No splash. So we get home and Jamie is still, I think she's still in the bedroom with Willie who has a long nap in the middle of the day, but has to lie on one of us for two hours.
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Sophie's gone. Sophie went ages ago. Yeah, yeah. I make pita, hummus and cheese. It's a pretty beige plate for me and for Ian and I prefer it to Ian.
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He just wants some plain pita, doesn't want the cheese. Then we turn the sofa into a train, which involves him sitting on one end of the train with a small,
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Jamie's small Irish whistle. If you remember recently, I'd sent you a photo of some Irish trinkets that Jamie was given by her dad in her childhood when she loved Irish dancing.
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So one is a toot toot whistle. So I sit in the back of the train and he tells us if we're on the train or not on the train, this is a really good fun thing because also I'm lying on a sofa,
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but also I'm playing. So like it's weird for everyone. It's why, sometimes you don't mind doing a doctor type thing where they're going to perform surgery on you because you do get to lie down fully then.
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Yeah. And if you say sometimes I'm going to lie on my front and don't whatever you do, take this back scratcher and softly rub it up and down my back for the next three and a half hours.
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We've got friends coming over for the afternoon, Court and Raph, who we love and their daughter and our cupboards are bare.
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So they bring biscuits and crisps. This is a great time. Salt and vinegar crinkle crisps and some classic Arnott's Australian biscuits.
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Rafael Nadal this is, isn't it? It is Rafael Nadal. Yeah. Yeah. And Carl Court, the former Wimbledon and Newcastle centre forward.
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So they play. We all play together. We do a bit of train. There's a busier train.
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It's sort of a rush hour now on the sofa. There's some marble work and just a nice time.
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You know, it's quite hard to find good company with good kids where you like everybody.
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You know, you might get a kid you like and parents you're not sure about or parents you're not sure about and kids you like.
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Whatever. But like, this is a great package. Good company, easy company. Very happy. They leave at four.
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Can't remember what happens between four and five. Here's the highlight of the day. Willie has a bath at five.
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He really makes a mess that he's not focused on keeping the water in the bath.
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He's a lot of slapping the water. You know, he's like a sumo wrestler, just absolutely slapping the shit out.
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Great. Ian wants a bath because Willie's having a bath. We've lost the plug to Ian's bath.
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Oh, shit. It was a bit of rubber attached to, because we don't have a bath, so there's ones just on the top by the sink, Willie, and Ian's in the shower.
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But there was a little sort of, the plug was attached to the bath, and that broke, so then we just had the bit that we've just done really well not to lose for six months.
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But we've got no plug. This is a disaster. Yeah. And we're just thinking, what could be a plug?
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And then I try a bolt from a mechanics set and it fits absolutely perfectly. And the elation and pride I feel in discovering that this worked.
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I want to tell the world. I, right now, am telling the world, David. It was all worth it.
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I fixed it. I fixed the bath. It fills up. I keep telling Jamie how amazing this is.
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She says, yeah, this is good, but, you know, it's not the most extraordinary thing in the world.
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But it's great news. To the listeners, I apologize for Max prefacing this bit by saying this was the absolute highlight of the day.
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I think we all presumed it was going to be something a little bit more exciting than him just putting a dangerous piece of metal into his son's bath.
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Oh, no, it's plastic. It's plastic. Don't worry. And the great thing is if we lose that plug, we've got loads more of those where that came from.
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The whole set. So this is fantastic news. You know, he gets out of the bath at about five past five, ten past five.
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So maybe the bath was a bit earlier. But Jamie is putting Willie to sleep He's knackered.
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It's too early for him to sleep. But like, he's got to go. But he's not down yet.
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And I've got Football Weekly. So I leave Ian in a towel with a bowl of pasta and say, you'll be all right in front of the telly.
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I think is what you're meant to do. He's eating his pasta. He's very happy.
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Series one of 24. You're going to love this. I do Football Weekly, which is good fun.
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I run into the kitchen. There is some leftover Massimum Curry from a box. Yeah.
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And Jamie's ordered Thai in for herself. So I have a bit of her Thai with my Thai.
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I eat all that. I take a vanilla bean yogurt from Gippsland back into the shed.
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I turn on the laptop and there you are, David. Oh, wow. Yeah, we recorded a great episode.
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We did with my friend Charlie Baker. That was really good fun. And then as we finish, I check my emails and our Airbnb we've booked in the countryside for the five days to get over jet lag has cancelled.
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For maintenance issues. I smell a rat there. God, they've got a better offer. It's bloody.
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I blame Oasis. Everyone in Britain and Ireland this summer. Bonehead is staying there. It's really annoying.
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And he's driven a Rolls Royce into the swimming pool like the video for Don't Look Back at Anger.
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We finished that pod and then I see that and I'm like, OK, well, I can't do anything about this now because it's been a long day.
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So I'm in bed at 844 and I say, we'll work out what we're going to do tomorrow.
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But it does play on my mind. I'm too tired to play Squardle and I fall asleep within about a minute.
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844. 844. I mean, look, I know the... You always do this at the end. You always do this at the end.
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I mean, there are, you know, it's kind of, it's different. 844. So I had great sympathy for you when you got up at 410.
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Yeah. But if you're going to bed at 844, that is eight hours sleep if you were to be woken at, well, it's seven hours sleep, but you know what I mean?
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Still, you know, it doesn't work like that. It doesn't work like that. No, I had a lovely day.
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You know, I think Jamie finds it hard that I spend a lot of time doing fun stuff with Ian, you know, and she's sitting in a dark room with a five-month-old.
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Oh, God. But it's all part of the journey. We've decided that we're just going to tell each other that we've got so much vim that we can't stop.
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But, you know, there is an edifice there that my eyes are so small now.
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Isn't there a question or a quote that's sometimes said to parents that for the vast majority of your children's lives, they'll just be grown-ups or self-contained adults.
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So this is this magical, this wonderful little journey you're on at the moment. It's funny.
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There's this reel that I saw, and it's a podcast reel. We might do some someday.
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And it's two women are saying, someone's reading out like a letter from their 80-year-old saying, you know, it was only yesterday that the kids were so small and their hands are so small.
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And I would ring my mom and I haven't spoken to my mom for ages because, you know, she passed away.
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And then, you know, and I just want to go back. I'm back in my 38-year-old's body and my husband is young and lithe.
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And obviously that doesn't exist for Jamie even now. And I was just saying to Jamie, I suppose, you know, that is the point.
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You have to really embrace this time and these are the best bits. And then Jamie was like, yeah, but I bet on day two, she'd be like,
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yeah, yeah, you're saying this to Jamie as you hand her wet wipes to wipe the puke off herself.
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Best days of our lives. Shall I finish with a lovely email from Chris who said, Hey, Max and David, hope you're having a good day and had a great yesterday.
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This is a wonderful podcast. I thoroughly enjoy listening to it. Your journeys through the everyday bring a joy and whimsy to the normality of life that I feel we all need.
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Like many, I found this podcast because I was previously a fan of David and his tiny keyboard.
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But this pod was my introduction to Max. I have to say, I'd find him to be a great host and really fun to listen to.
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He truly has cemented Generic Man 3 as my favorite of all the generic men. I wanted to thank you for the interesting new outlook your podcast has given me on life.
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Blimey. In a few of the season one episodes, you were talking about how people should live their lives like they were always going to be on What Did You Do Yesterday?
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Yeah, that is, we're going to bring out a tea towel and a breadboard that says, live today like you're going to be on What Did You Do Yesterday tomorrow.
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As I am someone who has an almost constant inner narration, the idea of telling people stories about my day was very appealing, but I ended up taking it one step further.
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At the beginning of the year, my daughter, who's three, decided she didn't want to wear nappies anymore and wanted to try pants.
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My wife and I were really proud of her, so I suggested we take her to the local ice cream parlour to celebrate.
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While we were eating ice cream, I decided a better application would be to try and make sure she always has a day worth telling about if she was on What Did You Do Yesterday.
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Five months later, she is toilet accident free and I'm fully committed to make as many days of her life as possible to be ones worth telling people about.
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I just want everything in her life to be showbiz. Thanks for the pod. This listener is in it for life.
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Thank you, Chris. The number one potty training podcast currently on the internet. Thank you very much for that, Chris.
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Is that a category? It should be, shouldn't it? It should be a category. So there we are.
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Thank you, Chris. If you would like to get in touch with the podcast, say, for example, on where Humpty Dumpty, the rhyme actually, or indeed anything else you'd like to tell us about,
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here's how to get in touch. To get in touch with the show, you can email us at whatdidyoudoyesterdaypod at gmail.com.
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Follow us on Instagram at yesterdaypod. And please subscribe and leave a review if you liked it on your preferred podcast platform.
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And if you didn't, please don't. Thank you very much, Max. Cheers.