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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'll try and say it at the same time, Max. What did you do yesterday?
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What did you do yesterday? What did you do yesterday? That's it. All we're interested in is what the guest 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, welcome to Midweek Mayhem. From the people that bring you What Did You Do Yesterday?
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My name is Max Rushden, and alongside me, David O'Doherty. David, hello. I'm not well.
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Cards on the table. Okay, let's put your cards on the table. Comedians of Dublin Christmas party last night.
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Wow. And yeah, I came in. You got off with Jason Byrne. Ed Byrne shaved your eyebrows off.
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Dara O'Briain. We know what he gets up to. Electrocuted a dog or a cat or something.
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All I know for sure is that I had six bits of toast at 3.06 a.m.
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That's good. While that was seven hours ago. I don't know if this is peak performance, Max, but...
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You're broadcasting through the pain. Yeah, I'm doing my best. I've got two drinks. I've got electrolytes.
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And I've got a coffee. And I will be trying to stimulate my... I mean, it's obviously a very exciting day.
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It could be the day that Teddington ends. Could be. I've got two drinks too.
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I've got one can of Nam Nam Alley Vietnamese Lager that brought you everything in showbiz.
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I've got another can of Nam Nam Alley Vietnamese Lager. It's the end of my working week.
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It's Thursday night. So, you know, I'm giddy with excitement. But I can't tell you what time I went to bed yesterday because it's my yesterday.
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And that would be a spoiler. Oh, yes. So there we are. Now, obviously, it's Spotify wrapped season where it turns out that my most listened to songs are Sigur Ross and Blippi.
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But thank you to everyone who listens for so long. Matilda, some people make a video clip.
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The Wiggles sent me a video clip saying, thanks for listening to us. And I've listened to Brush Your Teeth over and over again because I'm trying to get Ian to brush his fucking teeth.
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It's not because I like the song, The Wiggles. And they sent me a video clip.
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Matilda said we didn't send her a video clip. But she has listened to us for 26,220 minutes this year, which feels like more minutes than we've broadcast.
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How is that? A lot of minutes. 18 days of her life. What? That must be multiple listens to every episode then.
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I suppose it is the kind of podcast where to really understand what's going on.
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If I have one piece of advice from Matilda, brush your teeth. Come on. You've got to brush your teeth.
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Yeah. Brush your teeth. I can't even remember how it goes now. It's etched into my brain.
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But at the same time, I just don't want to remember it. We are the number one show for 10,000 fans on Spotify.
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We are the number top 10 show for 50,000 fans. What? Fans listen to us for longer than 99% of other shows.
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Is that because the Ross Noble episode was so long? I'm assuming. That was what the 52,000 hours was.
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Someone listened to the entire episode. Someone got the unedited Ross Noble. They're still listening now.
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Anyway, some more important things. Kelly Cates feedback. I love the Kelly Cates episode. I really enjoyed this from Gray Hoodie, who said, it's nice knowing my cat eats the same cat food as Kelly Cates cat.
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That little guy is living the high life. The addition of the sprinkles on top of the cat food, that's bonkers.
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Like when we were looking after the cat last summer, me and the Helen Copter.
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Oh, yes. I remember the cat. If you remember, it had a machine that made meowing sounds and then kind of shot out more pellets of brown kind of cat stones.
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Yeah. But no sprinkles were involved whatsoever. Laura writes, Hi, David, Max and producer Mars bar listening to episode 24 with Kelly Cates.
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I had possibly the most shocking thing I have ever heard in all my days of listening to this podcast.
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Even worse than the Nish episode. It is shocking that Max doesn't separate lights and darks in the wash.
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Max, how can you have reached adulthood and not be doing this? Lululemon will never sponsor you if you're not going to look after your pants properly.
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I've just never seen the need. I got the impression that you didn't either. No, me neither.
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Yeah. Which is, it was one of the difficult things about Helen Copter moving in here.
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Oh, yeah. It was. Yeah. The non-separation. But I don't, like, I have white t-shirts that are still.
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I agree. Yeah. It's a racket. Just talk to Alexander Van Tugentuck. Wash them at 0 degrees.
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For once, we should actually talk to him. Yeah. Yeah. I'm asking him right now.
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Alexander. Yeah. Slash Max. Chloe says, fun episode. David, for your cheese toastie needs, there was an ad with a song, Tasty Tasty Toaster Bags, the smart way to get toast in.
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Toast in, N apostrophe. Foil baggies you put a cheese sandwich in and into the toaster.
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This innovation could be what you need. And then she moves on. For me, she says, Max, when my daughter was a baby and did gusset ruining poos, I couldn't face changing the whole outfit in the middle of the night.
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I would take a pair of scissors and just cut the pooey bit off the bottom of the vest and put her back in the bed.
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Shame. Wow. That is lazy. I mean, I understand the tiredness, but also dangerous. I would not want to take scissors to young Willie at 3 a.m., if I'm honest.
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Yeah. Also, you're going to have to have a steady flow of baby grows. I mean, how many times a day do you poo then at that age?
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He followed through in the paddling pool this afternoon, but that wasn't yesterday. I managed to get a guardian column.
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It may not stay in the guardian column, but I managed to get it in.
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And is it a slow kind of shadow that casts out, or is it a big old unit that floats up?
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Yeah. I mean, it wasn't a big old unit. He's a small guy, but I was watching the cricket inside, and Jamie said, I need wet wipes quickly.
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And I came out to the events. Jay says, Max, not knowing that Morty Richards is the most standard and commonplace of kitchen appliances while falsely claiming to have two jewelets says a lot.
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Hey, now we move on to your AirPods. Any luck, David? No. So the AirPods have now stopped broadcasting, and they give their location as the last place they were.
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What's happened there? Because mine were in Perth Airport for about a month, and they stayed good and proper.
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I could still see them. Yeah. I could still see the last place they were.
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Well, Hillary says, the mum in me wants you to look under your bed, and if I have to come in there, and Modric, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, says, and I don't think it is Luca Modric,
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but maybe it is Luca Modric, says, for fuck's sake, David, move the pile of coats to the other side of the house, and then check if it's reflected on the tracker.
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It's genius. Oh, wow. Yeah, that is really good. That's genius. I did a terrible thing, Max.
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I don't know what you've done. I was so frustrated. Yeah. I bought a new pair.
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Oh, that's okay. I know, but I'm going to find the old pair. You can give a pair to the Helen Copter.
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Has she got her own? She's got her own. She's got the aftermarket ones, and she says they work even better, but I like these ones because they talk to the phone, and they're just, they're friends.
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Maybe I'll give away, if I find the second pair, I'll give them away on the podcast.
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Yes, that could be whoever gets either the sixth country, or obviously we are now, we are less than a month away from the difficult second cheese board.
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The baby cheeses are coming. You're going to find it so hard to pick your cheeses.
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It's so funny that suddenly this, you know, what was something, an easy thing, a fun thing for you to do.
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This time you won't be thinking of your family. You'll be like, oh my, you'll be just right.
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You'll be paralyzed by indecision. But the cheesemongers are so excited. My family will just be baffled as to the choices on Christmas Day.
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Why did you get laughing cow? You bought 36 packets of laughing cow triangles. Imagine if there were two laughing cows in the five, that would be a curveball, wouldn't it?
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Mark says, on the subject of what did you do yesterday being the center of the known universe, originally from Belfast.
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I now live in Ontario, Canada. I'm a big fan and a big fan of the pod.
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So I presume that's a big fan of us and the pod. Very kind. Thank you, Mark.
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Listen to this week's Midweek Mayhem and the possibility that Jordan Henderson is the football player in question of the Teddington quiz, the quiz that everybody loves.
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I'm not a big fan of football, but I recently ordered some Formula One cards that arrived today by mail.
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The sender had included a couple of packs of football cards extra. You'll never guess who was in one of the packs.
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Jordan flipping Henderson. See picture. The world truly revolves around this pod. Everything is showbiz from Mark.
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So, I mean, the Teddington quiz now has, and I know we normally talk about that.
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Do you want that feedback just before we do the Teddington quiz? Or do you want it?
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I just, for a second there, I thought it was going to be that your football card had come through.
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The legendary, what is it? $9.35 or something. Yeah. I'm up a bit. I'm 20 quid now, I think.
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That's exciting. Anyway, do you want to, let's have a nice message before they're just normal countries.
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Here we go. Camilla from Minnesota says, hi, David, Max and Mars bar. Whatever other producers may be filling in, producer Will today.
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I don't have anything especially witty or entertaining to say, but I just wanted to reach out and thank you for this podcast.
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It is so comforting and grounding during these wild times. I appreciate the episodes are long and plentiful and I look forward to them twice a week.
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I love so many things about the show. Among them, having been a touring musician, I feel at home hearing about life and entertainment and on the road, the hurry up and wait, the venues, et cetera, being 45.
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I appreciate Max's unending zenial references. I love when David uses his fantastical voice and when Max uses his documentary presenter voice.
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Anyway, just thanks. Everything is showbiz, in it for life. Camilla from Minnesota. She says, for what it's worth, as someone with an overactive gag reflex, I also appreciate there's less scatological stuff and less BOC stuff recently.
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But even if there were, I'd still listen because it's worth it. But very kind.
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Long and plentiful, I do feel, is slightly faint praise. It's slightly, whatever the opposite of the food is terrible and the portions are so small.
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It's the opposite of that. What they say, what I hear about podcasts is, it's quantity, not quality.
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I've always heard that. There's lots of Teddington quiz feedback to get through. But before that, let's play.
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They're just normal countries. I am the one and only What country could I be?
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I am the one and only Where in the world could our listeners be? So here we are.
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Welcome to They're Just Normal Countries. I feel like the Teddington quiz has kind of taken over what is in itself, its own right, one of podcasts' premium quizzes of this age.
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Madagascar, Namibia, Costa Rica, Uganda, North Korea, Guyana, North Mariana Islands, Bruton, Brunei, Nepal, Eswatini, US Virgin Islands, Equatorial Guinea, San Marino.
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Correct. Liechtenstein, Turkmenistan, Seychelles, Mauritius, Georgia, Vatican City, Oman, Fiji. Correct. Vanuatu, Bolivia, Faroe Islands.
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Correct. Belarus, Palau, Aruba, Ecuador. David. I've never said this before, but in the current state of mind, post-Christmas party, the theme to this part of the show, that's pretty much how I feel.
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I never thought the deranged one and only music would reflect how I feel. But yes, here we are.
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Here we are. This is the Reverend Calum Burke. Welcome, Reverend. Dear Max David and Marsba, greetings from West Yorkshire.
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My name is Calum, pronounced Calum, not Callum. It's written Calum. Calum. From my intimate knowledge of what did you do yesterday, I believe I may be the first vicar to write in.
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Though I know for a fact I'm not the only member of clergy who listens to the podcast.
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It's mentioned in the vestries up and down the country. Because the episode drops on a Sunday morning, it is the perfect way to start my day before heading over to church.
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This is great. So many sermons are just, life is like a bath and we fill it throughout our lives.
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Vicar, where is this going? We will all rise for all things bright and beautiful.
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I'm not sure whether this makes my submission more or less interesting. Only time will tell.
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For reasons I can't fully disclose, I suspect I might be the one and only listener in Iraq.
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This, of course, depends on how your analytics treat the semi-autonomous northern region of Iraqi Kurdistan, whether as its own entity or simply as Iraq.
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Either way, I think I have a strong chance of being the one and only listener in either Iraqi Kurdistan or Iraq.
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In it for life, everything is showbiz when life gives you lemons. Best wishes, Reverend Calum Burke.
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Wow. So, producer Will, is Iraq or Iraqi Kurdistan a correct answer? Oh, we're huge in Iraq.
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Absolutely massive. Do you know how many listens we've had in Baghdad? Listens at the time the game started was 234.
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234. Damn it. Massive. It's Rory Stewart's world. When he walked across Iraq, he knew that this would come up one day and he would just restart new episodes.
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I'll ruin their quiz. Yeah, what a shit. What a massive shit he is. You know, preaching, saving the world.
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And all he's doing is ruining They're Just Normal Countries. Playing out Amy Gledhill's episode on a massive tannoy.
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And now the whole of Fallujah are warming their duvets with hair dryers. Damn you, Rory Stewart.
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Anyway, do you have a question for me? No, all done. Forget Teddington.
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Let's chat again next week. Max, we ask a lot of other people what they did yesterday.
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This time, I'd like to turn it on you. What did you do yesterday? Okay.
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So it's a Wednesday morning. It's 6.30 a.m. And I'm in bed with Willie Rushden.
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10 months old. Great. Good old Willie Rushden. Yeah. Raconteur. He's telling me about his time on through the keyhole.
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But 6.30 is good. We can't complain. Yeah. Willie wakes up. He's a bit hungry and wakes up.
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Jay walks in from maybe the day bed, maybe Ian's bed. I'm not sure. She walks in.
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Ian walks in. He wants us all to get out of bed. You know, I don't really want to get out of bed, but fair enough.
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It's time to play. It's time to play. Train track. Hot wheels. He needs to get those hot wheels moving.
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Yeah. He's more sort of puzzles and train tracks at the moment, but there's a bit of train track going on.
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Question. The football's on. Question. Yes, David. Is he still watching those weird train enthusiast videos of tube trains just coming into stations?
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Oh, this guy called Oliver, who's sort of his hero, who wears the same jumper as him that says, mind the gap.
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And he's a sort of 10 year old. He's trying to do it. Because today I'm going to do the whole central line with his dad.
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We do sometimes watch that, but he's like, he's big on Paw Patrol now. He's on Paw Patrol and he's on singing the song from his Christmas show.
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You know, the 12 days of Christmas. On the first day of Christmas, my true love said to me, an emu up a gum tree.
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It's really good. Five kangaroos, four kookaburras, three jabaroos, two pinkalats, and an emu up a gum tree.
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Anyway, I turn on the football film and playing Man City. City are winning quite comfortably.
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I turn on to Newcastle Spurs. I'm a Tottenham fan. I've got goals as they go in.
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I'm kind of doing that's on the laptop, but we don't put TV on in the morning anymore.
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There's no TV in the morning anymore for the kids because we've become those kind of parents.
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Jamie makes me a holding granola because we're going out. We're going to go out for breakfast later, but yeah, that's in a while.
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So I get a little bowl of granola and milk and banana, and it's probably big enough to be a full breakfast.
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Do you know what will tide you over? The most filling possible breakfast. That should just get you through.
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It's a holding granola. That's what it is for the tape. And so I eat that and it's delicious.
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We get the frog game out and with the hammers, there's a... Hang on, let me just clarify.
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Yeah, okay, sorry. These are not real frogs. I can see in retrospect that, you know, like without the full knowledge of what it is, that sounds quite a brutal game to introduce to a three and a half and a 10 month doll
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where we get metal hammers and we just put out live frogs. We say, kill as many as you can because one day...
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Because life is the survival of the fittest and you've got to get used to killing.
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That's a motto that my family have held for many, many years. It's a plastic game.
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You know, it's like hungry hippos, I guess. You're just hitting frogs. It's probably quite good for your...
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I was thinking about this for, you know, to keep your reflexes when you get old.
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It's quite good. The frogs light up and you have to hit the frog. And then if you don't get enough in time, the woman says, what a pity.
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And I've heard what a pity so many times. What a pity. It's American. What a pity.
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But you actually have to do really well to get to level two. With a bit of help they can.
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I just feel if we had invented that, we would have thought of something catchier than what a pity.
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Like I get that many things are trademarked probably. We could have at least thought of a slight frog-based pun.
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You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. You're right. Like... Are you stuck on ribbit?
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Because I am. Tad. That was the tadpole bad. Okay. We'll think of a better one.
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Do you know that episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway that we were on that really didn't go well, wasn't it?
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Greg Proops staring at us going, these guys are fucking useless. Imagine if Cariad Lloyd had heard that bit that we just did.
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Suddenly, Lord Percy of a dingbat doesn't seem so bad. Anyway, Jamie takes Ian to the park.
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I'm watching the rest of the football while Willie is just sort of generally... Croak.
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Croak. Something. Yeah, that's good. You've absolutely croaked it. Yeah, yeah. That's really good. But that sounds like you've fucked it.
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Yeah. I mean, you croaked it. It's actually you're dead. You don't want to introduce the other death to children that early.
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It's also tricky. So basically, I'm watching the football and sort of trying to entertain Willie.
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There is a loose tile in the fireplace and he keeps picking it up. And then underneath it is sort of grit and dirt that he keeps putting in his mouth.
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So that's why I'm just trying to take the dirt out of his mouth. It gets to about nine o'clock.
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Interruption. Yes, David. Do you think he's loosened the tiles because he's planning a jailbreak?
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Like Shawshank. He's got a big poster of the blue Teletubby on his wall. But I've never looked under it.
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I don't know. Maybe I should. There's every chance. It's about 20 minutes to go in the football, but he is tired.
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So he needs a nap walk. So I put him in the pram and I rest the phone on the top of the pram so I can watch the rest of the game.
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Because this is work. I'm trying to work and parent at the same time. Is it?
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It is work. Yes. I think it is. I like watching football. Like I appreciate this is a good job to have.
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Yes. And I like it. But you know, it's also it's incumbent on me to have watched the football before I do the other podcast.
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It's less important for this one. Okay. So I'm watching the football. I'm trying to get Willie down.
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He's not going to sleep. But I get to the park where Jamie and Ian are.
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He looks like he might go to sleep, but he might not. Christian Romero scores an overhead kick.
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It's not a good one in the last injury time to equalize. I'm pleased about that.
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He's not asleep. But that doesn't matter. We go to the cafe instead and we order.
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I go for the chili eggs at a cafe called Joan. Really good. Yeah. Get a black coffee.
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It's great. Jamie gets the avocado on toast. It's really good. It's kind of got crushed peas with it.
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Very Aussie though. Yeah. Ian has about five pieces of toast and butter and he's just wolfing it down.
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But the butter comes shaped like a heart. It's really nice. And he doesn't want us to use it.
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He wants us to take it home. It's quite sweet. So we say we'll get one to take home and then hope he forgets.
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In the meantime, he gets all the cushions from like a sofa bit in the back and puts them on his chair.
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So I put them back, but he's okay with that. So that's brunch. It is ironic that butter is, I would imagine, a major source of cholesterol that could cause a heart attack.
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Yeah, of course. And obviously I'm off the butter. I'm on Flora Proactive, but I eat butter in cafes.
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And that's the rule. You know, when I'm at home, I'll reduce my cholesterol. Jamie takes Willie on the nap walk and I'm taking Ian to the swimming pool.
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Yes. To Brunswick Baths. So we get in the car. We drive to Brunswick Baths.
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Shit in the pool. Shit in the pool. No, no, no. We don't do that.
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Neither of us do that. We've got a Spider-Man bike, Lego bike with Spider-Man on it.
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And we've got a speedboat, which is Chase from Paw Patrol's speedboat. They're the toys that we're taking in the pool.
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Ian is a pretty lazy swimmer. There are two-year-olds in Australia doing butterfly underwater, and he doesn't want to get his hair wet.
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And that's probably our fault. And each time you go, you think, I'm going to be...
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You sometimes see forceful dads going, and now jump in. And then they swim away.
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And this poor two-year-old has to swim to them. And that's how you learn to swim, right?
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But really, I just sort of carry him around a pool like he's some sort of prince.
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What kits he got? Does he have the sort of inflatable seat that you sit in?
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Or does he have classic water wings? No, no. He's just got... He's got like a one-piece swimsuit.
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But he's not got any buoyancy devices. He's just there. But the toddler pool, he can walk around in.
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Then we go to the big pool. The big pool is a bit warmer, interestingly.
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And it has a kind of alleyway that he can walk down. But then I sort of pull him into the big pool, and then just get his hands, and I pull him along.
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He's constantly telling me the time. But the time changes between that and the temperature.
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So then he tells me it's 35 o'clock. And that's sort of happening on loop. Jay arrives with Willie.
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He gets in. I mean, 10 months old is a funny in swimming pools. And he just sort of sits around in the really shallow bit and occasionally, like, falls into the water and you have to pick him up.
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So that's fine. That's quite good fun. So we have a good old swim. There's a nice outside bit.
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Jay gets out and gets changed first with Willie. Then they've got some berries and some food.
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I get Rudy out. He eats some biscuits. He's at that stage where he's sitting on a chair and Willie comes near him.
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So he keeps pushing Willie over. And Willie's so excited by his older brother. And his older brother says he loves him, but basically beats him up.
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You know, it's a tale as old as time, really. But it's all the hallmarks of a wonderful fraternal relationship.
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Something Kermit. Yeah, that would work. Yeah, I don't know. Because now I'm stuck. So it needs to be something to be like, you've messed up.
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So, like, you've fucked Kermit. Yeah, that would work with a kid's toy game. Oh, you've fucked it, Kermit.
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You know? To be a New Yorker, you've fucked it. Hey, you've fucked it. You know?
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Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-da-la-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Ah, you fucking idiot. You didn't kill enough frogs. Okay, so as we're home at about half past 12, it's nap time for Willie.
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It's nap time for me. One more question. Sorry. Don't apologize. Does any part of you, when you're at the swimming pool, think, I am going to turn these children into absolute Phelps torpedo swimming machines?
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No. Like, as if you go down the far end of the 50-meter pool with the Spider-Man motorbike, and you leave it there, and you just say to the two of them, go and get that.
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And that's the day they begin their journey to Olympic gold. No. Because I, you know, I wouldn't mind them being elite.
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Actually, I don't think I want my kids to be elite sports people. Yes. Because in my experience, it's not a path to happiness at all.
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Not in my personal experience. No, but in the experience of spending time with people who've played at the highest level of any sport, actually, I think it is, I reckon the chances are you won't find happiness.
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You may. Yes. Okay, fair enough. Having said that, I think swimming would be one of the worst.
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Because as far as I can tell, there's a lot of, A, you're going to have to watch a lot of swimming galas.
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I mean, kill me now, right? B, they always do them at like five in the morning.
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You know, once my kids get out of an age where they're not waking up at five in the morning, I'm not getting them up at five in the morning.
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And it's so boring. And also, like, even if you've got Olympic stardom, it wouldn't set you up for life, you know.
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So, and Olympics is so daft because unless you're 100% fitter one day every four years, you're screwed.
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And then what are you going to be? Like a guest on Question of Sport once?
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Oh, my goodness. And then you have to go and be an accountant. Wow. The dream crusher is here.
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Go and be a cricketer. Great. Golf or football are fine. But swimming and rowing, they can get out.
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I'm not interested. But if they want to do it, of course, we'll support them in their journey.
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Wow. It's when Willie Rushden, he's got like eight gold medals and Ian Rushden has 10.
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And it's a sort of this is your lifetime show. And your father wasn't always very supportive, though, was he?
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Just listen to this. I'll stand by it. I'll stand by it. And I'll say, are you happy?
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Look at you. And they'll be there with their enormous shoulders. So nap time, it's one o'clock.
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I get Willie in bed with me. And we both fall asleep. And that's great.
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And we both sleep for an hour and 40 minutes. Absolutely great times. I wake up.
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Jamie wakes me up. I'm quite disorientated because that's, you know, I'm just sort of confused as to what's happening.
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But I make myself some peanut butter on toast. Nice. I'm at a good place.
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Sophie's here to look after Ian for the afternoon because Jamie's got some mama jobs.
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I've got some work to do. So I get on with the pod script, the Football Weekly pod script.
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At some point, I'm outside with Willie. He's learning to walk now. So he's sort of balancing on things, balancing on things and then falling on his bottom mainly, but occasionally on his face.
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But once again, a rite of passage. Spawn. Spawn. Yeah. Spawn. Could be something like frog spawn.
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Spawn of the devil. Maybe you should say that. That's very strong. You're the spawn of the devil.
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Hit more frogs. That's possible. Jamie goes to get a coffee. She brings me back one.
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I have to microwave it. They're really nice. Strongly called a flat white. Very happy about it.
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We're about 5.30 p.m. Now. It's TV time for Ian. Put Paw Patrol on. I'm feeding him plain couscous.
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But we've cooked it in a kind of yes, David. Spawn Patrol would be a very different show to Paw Patrol.
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It's just them in a sort of mucus state. I guess some people could be walking by and just slip on it.
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And, you know, the as yet unborn Chase would be like, got him. I don't know what Chase says.
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So I'm feeding him plain couscous. Jamie's cooked it in like a stock that's got all the nutrients that you need if you don't eat any actual food.
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Six o'clock, she reheats me a chili con carne. She's made a great chili. I made the bolognese.
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She's turned it into a great chili. It's got all the accoutrements. You know, it's got your avocado seltzer and some corn chips and some sour cream and cheese.
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Is this from a box? No, not from a box. We've done this all by ourselves.
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Wow. Yeah. Hold the phone. Hold the front page. Do you think it's my criticism of the box?
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No. And I'll tell you this, David. Every time we eat something from a box.
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Time poor. Please say time poor. Can someone search time poor on everything is showbiz?
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Every time we eat something from a box, Jamie is actually is like, yeah, look at this, David.
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Fuck you, David. She's like, it's really expanded our repertoire of recipes. Okay. This is not yesterday, but we had a sort of fatter salad with like a sort of spiced mince and lettuce with a pomegranate molasses.
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Yeah. And croutons and chickpeas. And it was really delicious. And we wouldn't have made that.
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And we do a lot more sort of Southeast Asian cooking now because of the box.
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So, you know, this podcast should be brought to you by quite like they are getting a lot of free airtime and they should cough up the bars.
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Okay. So 6.45. It's time for Willie to go to sleep. I put him down. He's taking him time.
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He doesn't like the cot. So he's falling asleep on me. We've tried recently to really get him in the cot.
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We've basically given up, but that's okay. Yeah. He'll sleep in a bed in three years.
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We just have to suck it up for three years. So it's touch and go, but I get him down about 10 past seven.
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I run to the shed. It's Football Weekly. So we record Football Weekly. It's a fun episode.
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Yeah. We talk about yesterday's games. Luckily, you've seen them. I've seen them. We talk a bit about this final verdict from the Hillsborough disaster where basically there'll be no justice for the 97.
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Awful. Total outrage. And those families just deserve so much more and have worked so tirelessly.
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And it's completely heartbreaking. But David Conn, who's done some amazing journalism on that, comes on.
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And we talk about that. That finished about 8.30. So I come back inside. Jamie's gone to the daybed.
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Slightly disappointed because I've got work later. So, you know, I could have had the daybed.
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But I go into the main bed. Willie's stirring. He wakes at 9.30. I don't get to sleep in that hour.
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I'm quite a good sleeper normally. I'm now getting to the stage where I'm, did someone tell us on this pod?
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I'm basically going through the alphabet of names. I'm going A. And I say all the names in my head of names.
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Arthur, Alan, Audrey. You know, I'm doing this. What a simple man. Atticus. I'm like, I've got to Atticus.
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I'm not going to go to sleep for fuck's sake. Anyway, I just can't get to sleep.
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He wakes up at 9.30. Jay feeds him. I get him back down. Then he wakes up again.
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It's 10 o'clock. I'm back in bed with Willie. He won't sleep on Jamie. So that's why I have to get him to bed.
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I get him down at maybe 10.30. Shit. I get into the daybed. I'm hoping for 40 minutes sleep.
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But I don't get to sleep. So 11.15 p.m. I just say, sod it, I'm up.
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It's fine. I go and make a decaf coffee. Go to the shed. Because I'm on TalkSport at midnight until 3 in the morning.
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I'm in this shed. It's been a really hot day yesterday. And the trouble with the air con is the remote control broke a while ago.
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I press it and it'll go on auto. So hopefully it's meant to realize if it's hot outside, it'll be cold.
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And it starts cold. But then it gets dark. And then it thinks it needs to heat up the shed.
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So then I'm getting really boiling hot. And so this camera starts turning off when we're live on YouTube.
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So I have to fiddle with the camera. That's annoying. Highlights of the radio show.
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Do you want them? Is it a three-hour shift? Three-hour afternoon show. Me and Charlie Baker.
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What did you do yesterday? Alumni. Yes. The day before, his daughter had complained of an earache.
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And they found a ladybird, a live ladybird in her ear. So we do, what have you found in your ear?
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We do the first 15 minutes on this. And Denzel texts in to say, when you two came on, my heart sank.
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I thought I'd give you a go. It's 15 minutes in and you're still talking about ladybirds.
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I'm going to listen to a podcast. Anyway, other people like it. Lorraine Kelly is on the show.
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Lorraine Kelly's on the show. From Lorraine. From Lorraine. As in Lorraine. As in Lorraine with her daughter.
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And they are on for reasons that aren't particularly clear to basically plug Christmas. I don't know how they've...
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I think EE have sponsored them to talk about Christmas. I don't think EE get their money's worth.
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But we have a great chat with Lorraine Kelly and her daughter. Basically saying, what are you doing talking to us?
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And they're saying, we don't know. But let's have a nice chat about life. So hang on.
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EE are a phone network. Yeah. So what happens all the time is they will say, would you like Lorraine Kelly on the show?
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Yeah. And we'll be like, yeah, what are you plugging? And they're plugging something. So EE have paid Lorraine Kelly a bucket of money to talk to every radio station they will about plugging Christmas.
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The best I ever had was me and Ali McCoy had Ricky Tomlinson on, who was talking about co-op funerals and about organizing your own funeral.
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And he refused to get onto the subject of talking about your own funeral. It's amazing.
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I should find you the interview. It's so funny. And I am trying to steer him towards, you might die.
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So you need to set up your own funeral. I'm just aware we've got to get this out of the way.
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And he never gets around to it. It's an absolutely hilarious conversation. Max, is Lorraine, is she talking about, you know, Christmas is a great time to reach out to people and talk to them on the EE phone network?
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Yeah, that's what she's meant to do. But she doesn't really get in. She does say EE once.
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I once had Juan Mata, the former Midfielder and Chelsea Midfielder. And Juan Mata was promoting, I don't know, Call of Duty 10 or something.
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You basically, you softball the interview. You basically say, good afternoon, Juan Mata. Lovely to talk to you.
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What have you been up to today? And he goes, well, I've been playing Call of Duty 10.
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So I said, hey, Juan Mata, what have you been up to today? And he went, I went to a musical.
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I love musicals. I went to see The Lion King. No way. Well, this is great.
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I don't need to talk about Call of Duty. I'm talking to Juan Mata about musicals for as long as I possibly can.
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This is great. So Lorraine Kelly is a total highlight. It's really lovely. And her daughter's lovely.
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Her daughter has a little baby who, for a while, looked just like Alan Brazil.
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So we laugh about that. Interruption. Interruption, just to go back a week or two, the Troy Parrott scored this hat trick of goals that have qualified Ireland for a World Cup playoff.
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And people have gone really deep on Troy Parrott now. Of course. Yeah. And his family and his mom and all this.
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Yeah. But one of his ex-teachers said, I think maybe the ex-headmaster, I think he went to O'Connell CBS, said he was the heart and soul of the school.
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He was a sort of class rep, but he also played the lead in guys.
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And dolls. Ah, that's what we want. Yeah. Che, we're going to meet those dames.
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It's sad, isn't it? You don't get, you aren't forced to do plays. I mean, I know you could join amateur dramatics, but that's not the same.
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Yeah. Because it's like, you're not for, like everyone suddenly should just get a letter saying, you are Banquo in six weeks.
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You're like, oh God. Okay. Here we go. Let's get on with it. Just as regards the ladybird, because the ladybird is such a cute animal.
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It's not a bad one to have in your ear. No, it could be worse.
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Yeah. Is there a family in there? Well, we don't know. We talked about the eggs.
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Then we were saying, you know, do you just lay the eggs? Do they come out in your bottom?
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Or like, what happens? Yeah. No doctors texted in. But someone did get a bus ticket lodged in the rear for 10 years or something.
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So anyway, that show finished at three in the morning. It's funny. Like it is, you are tired, but there's something about when the show is on that you're just on.
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So you're like, okay, this is fine. I'm doing it now. I've said I'll do it.
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I'm doing it. So fine. Yeah. So anyway, three o'clock in the morning. It's literally like, thanks.
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See ya. But you know, the show finishes. You literally just close the zoom, you know, carry on, close the zoom.
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And is Joe Root out? No, someone else is out. Oh my God. Are you watching cricket on a second screen?
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This is Joe Root got his first century in Australia. So that is important. Do you always do this?
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Do you always have stuff on? No, no, no, no, no, no. This is very rare for me.
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I'm sorry. No, I've let the podcast down. I knew something was going on. No, you didn't.
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No, just the last minute where I was like, has old Ali kicked in the thousand milliliters of beer?
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Because you just didn't seem to be able to complete the day. What happened was, okay.
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Gus Atkinson put one really high in the air and he was caught by the wiki keeper.
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They like two of them were running and running and running and running and caught it.
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And like Joe Root's got his century. That's good. But we don't want Joe Root to get out.
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Wow. So I do apologize. That is rude of me. This is a shambles. My apologies to you and the listeners.
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I've come on here clearly hung over and you are watching the cricket on another screen.
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Sorry about that. Anyway, it's three in the morning. I close the laptop, turn the camera off, blah, blah, blah.
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And I leave the shed and I walk into the house. I shut the back door and on the back door is a big spider.
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And I'm not cool with that. It's not a huntsman. No. Why would I be cool with that?
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It's big, but I don't know if it's kill you big or just big. Yeah.
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How do I know? So I get the insect spray. Oh no. And I spray it as hard as I can right on its face.
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And what that means is it just starts running towards me. And you know, in that mind, it's like, it's like it's running towards you and it's getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
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It's not. So I get the hoover out and I basically shove it up the hoover and suck it up and it sort of squashes on the floor.
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It's not humane. It's not a humane way for me to end my day because then within about five seconds, I am in bed and that's the end of my day.
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Charlie Baker should have taken the hoover to his daughter's ear. Yeah. Just the bag is just filling with millions of ladybirds.
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We did have a couple of texts where someone said, you know, I got like a peanut lodged in my ear on marble.
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So my dad just came up to me and smacked me in the other ear and it popped out.
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It's a different time. Now, we have had lots of... I'm just watching your eyes.
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I'm just watching the bed. Do you know what? I'll turn it off. You're right.
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Because it's the Teddington quiz. Yeah. David, I'm writing to tell you directly because I simply can't endure any more of this Teddington bollocks.
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It's high time someone took a metaphorical axe to his knees or else this crap will drag on until next millennia.
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I swear. Speaking on behalf of your North American listeners, I can say with the utmost confidence that nobody gives two tiny turds about who Max spotted in Teddington 116 days ago.
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I implore you to outdo him with a proper quiz instead. How about how many times did Nish Kumar shit yesterday?
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Lots of love from Houston. Kat Smith. Lots of love. Lots of love was lovely though.
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Yes, there's been lots of interaction about the Teddington quiz. Barca Jim, friend of the show, get the bleeper ready.
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The Teddington quiz makes me want to smash my phone into a thousand pieces. Max is a ****.
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Mick says, I screamed at the phone when he said incorrect. This is really good.
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Evening. I think we can safely say there is a societal consensus stating that the Teddington quiz is terrible.
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This is from Ian. He says, Max's assertions that the increased attention it's getting suggests that people are now on board are fundamentally misguided.
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The dictator has plundered the nation or the infection that has ravaged a body should not be congratulating themselves on being talked about when the will to eradicate them finally rises.
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It's true. Leaving its crappiness to one side. I fear there is a bigger issue that has not yet been considered.
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As a long-term listener, I remember when Max seeing Russell Howard in a cafe was often mentioned on the pod.
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I need hardly add that this concluded with the revelation that Max had actually seen a random man.
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The new investigative zeal to solve the Teddington crisis is inspiring. But what if we are betrayed by facts?
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What essentially if Max has once again been mistaken and has simply seen someone who he misidentified?
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All attempts to construe probability from events would be down to failure. We would be at the mercy of large numbers and the grave would take us all before we ever glimpsed the truth.
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Sadly, there doesn't seem to be a way to rule out this possibility, short of contacting the involved individuals.
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And even then we would need to depend on memory. Perhaps Max should, in the face of this horridly plausible scenario, just let go.
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Would he have us, like the damned in the vestibule of hell, chase forever after a banner that can't be reached, stung eternally by the wasps of doubt?
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I hope this finds everyone working on the pod well. Many thanks, Ian Daw. Yes, good point.
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As in, in February 2020, you could have misconstrued it. Like, COVID's getting very popular at the moment.
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Whereas in fact, it was taking down society. Similar to this. The argument against that is, you saw someone with a poster that had their name on it.
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Like they were wearing, and I'm pretty sure this is what happened. So I don't think it's just you thinking you've seen Jasper Carrot.
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And also, even if I hadn't seen Jasper Carrot, I think I saw Jasper Carrot.
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So like, as long as you get the right comedian, it doesn't actually matter if it actually turns out that that comedian wasn't there at all.
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Like, actually, fundamentally, the quiz is the same. But I am as certain as I will be as certain of anything that the comedian I saw is the comedian I saw.
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Which brings us to... Max saw two people in the same location. One day after another different occupation.
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David and Mars Bar always have to guess again. Who did Max see in Teddington?
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Who did I see in Teddington? David is with us. Producer Michael is with us.
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He's not on shift. He just couldn't miss it. Producer Will is here too. You can all have a guess.
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Who wants to start? David, do you want to start? Have you got any further?
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Have you guys been in cahoots? I know you were on social media. Like, you did a call to arms, David.
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I have received so much feedback. Yes, I did. I just put a message out.
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But I felt that the most useful people were those on the Blue Sky app.
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Right, okay. Of the several social medias I'm on. Yeah. The woke libtards on Blue Sky.
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And I'm just going to go straight to it. David K. Mitchell. You need to remember, Max is a simple, simple man.
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Who, despite claiming to book them all, doesn't know many comedians. They need to be someone recognizable.
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And that is why I believe that the footballer you saw was Jordan Henderson. And the comedian was Milton Jones.
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Incorrect. Oh, no! Okay. Producer Will, do you want to have a go? Yes, I'll have a go.
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So, obviously, obligatory Jordan Henderson. Yeah, Jordan Henderson to you, but that's fine. Yeah, Jordan Henderson.
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And I'm going to say Rufus Hound. Oh, yeah. Correct. Well done. That's the end of the quiz.
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Are you serious? Yeah, that's it. Yeah, it was good fun playing, everybody. If you'd like to get in touch with the podcast.
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And if you didn't, please don't. What's it, Rufus Hound? Yeah, it was Rufus Hound.
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I mean, like, he's got the correct answer. Why would I carry on this quiz any longer that needs to go on?
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Like, you can't just move on. Mars bar. Right. I tell you what. I've just parachuted in three minutes ago.
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And I can't tell you how angry I would have been had I not done that.
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Now I'm just confused. I don't know what emotion to feel right now. Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, how did you get that, Will? That's really impressive. Yeah. Take us through your reasoning there, Will.
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After Max's blunder with that. The 0.01%. Yeah. Rufus Hound was one of the people who came up as, who matched that.
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Wow. Statistically. Yeah. I thought it would go on for a bit. I mean, I thought it was just getting going.
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I'm sorry. I kind of feel like I've peeled back. No. No. That's good. You don't know how many people you've made happy.
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You know, you do not realize. Yeah, but I don't see any of them. I've got to work with you.
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You know, this is such a... I don't mind. The quiz is the quiz. Once you win the quiz, you win the quiz.
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Like, there's nothing we can do. It was so weird the way you didn't celebrate it at all.
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That was real... That was my plan. My total plan was to say, yep. And if you'd like to get in touch, here's how.
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Thanks for coming on. That's what I really... I didn't want any of this. I just want it to be a massive...
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Because it's obviously a massive anticlimactic, isn't it? Yes! Yes! I saw Rufus Hound putting up a poster for a Rufus Hound show.
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And a few days later, I saw Jordan Henderson walking through the Lensbury. That is the quiz.
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Frankly, you should all be ashamed it took you this long. Is what I think.
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Wow! It is a strange feeling, Mars Bar. Yeah, how do you feel now? It's sort of Alexander wept because there were no more worlds to conquer.
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Yeah! It ends not with a bang, but a whimper. Yeah! Like, I feel really...
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How was it ever going to end? I feel almost ashamed. I don't know. I've never had a one-night stand, but I imagine this is what it feels like.
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I feel sort of empty and hollow. It'd be like if you were Roger Federer and you're holding the Wimbledon trophy and you just, at that moment, realise what a stupid game tennis is.
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That's kind of how I feel right now. But I think, you know, you get the correct answer.
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I mean, should I have played the trumpet? I mean, I don't know. I mean, it's just, that's what happens.
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Will got it right. It's Rufus Hound. It was Rufus Hound. I was slightly surprised to see Rufus Hound putting up posters for a Rufus Hound comedy show.
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I've done a lot of Googling to check, that is Rufus Hound, because I was like, I think that's Rufus Hound.
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But I've really been looking at pictures of Rufus Hound recently, certainly as the quiz has carried on.
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So I'd be like, that is Rufus Hound. I don't know a huge amount about Rufus Hound, but I do know his face.
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And that was a key part of it. Yeah. The challenge now is if we can wrap up the normal countries quiz before Christmas, that would be lovely.
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I was quite worried about going into the new year, sort of 80% quiz podcast. Yeah.
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It's not a quiz podcast. It's a yesterday podcast, isn't it? It's going nowhere though.
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The countries quiz, like what are we on the list? How many are there in total?
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So I think we've got three of the six. Yeah. So we need some mighty big December.
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But you have to believe in this audience. You have to believe in them. Mars Bar, are the others gettable?
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I'm not looking for a clue. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. David, these things are organic, right?
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They just have their own life. The lifespan of the Teddington quiz, it was always due to end on the 4th of December with just the abstract voice of producer Will saying Rufus Hound.
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That was how it was meant to end. We can't be looking for clues for they're just normal countries.
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We can't. Even if some listeners have suggested they might not actually be countries. We just, that is just part of it.
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Like I have received, I would say 500 messages about this and no one has ever suggested Rufus Hound.
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Like they've suggested maybe 30 or 40 different. Yeah. I hadn't seen anyone suggesting it anywhere. That's why actually Will has done astonishingly well.
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Wow. That is great. Yeah, I guess I am pretty cool. Who knew? What a day he's going to have.
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He feels 10 feet tall. Really quickly, what's also quite interesting is I had said to Will, because I wasn't sure whether I'd be able to join for the Teddington bit.
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I had given him what was going to be my guess to add as my proxy.
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So had I not joined, I'm assuming Will would have picked my previous guess, which was going to be Mark Watson.
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Who knows when Will would have been on this show next and whether he would have guessed Rufus Hound then or not.
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Yeah. Wow. Yeah. But that's the beauty of it. And that was always the beauty of a popular, successful quiz like the Teddington quiz.
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And we've all been part of one of the most popular quizzes in quiz history.
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And it's great to have been a part of that. Hey, thank you, David. What a momentous episode.
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Yeah. Amazing, isn't it? It started off with me wondering whether I'd be able to do it.
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Yeah. And by the end, it was an absolute triumph in broadcasting is how I would describe today's podcast.
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Everyone will remember where they were the moment that Will said, Rufus Hound. Rufus Hound.
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And I, in the most anticlimactic way, said, yeah. So there we are. I'm in it for life.
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Even if we run out of all the quizzes. Well, we won't because, you know, the cheese board's coming soon.
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Can't wait. The fun thing about the cheese board, David, is the second one will be a real damp squib.
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Stop. But let me tell you this. The 20th one will be pretty amazing. Thanks, Max.
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Thank you David. Thanks Mars Bar. Thanks, Will.