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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? 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 Midweek Mayhem. From the people that bring you What Did You Do Yesterday?
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I'm Max Rushden. And with me today, David O'Doherty. Hello, David. Clarification. Okay, what's happening?
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It is not the Midweek Mayhem, the TNT Sport, one of the premiership football TV channels in the UK.
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They currently have a Midweek Mayhem as well, where I think they show, I couldn't quite figure out what it was.
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I think they show all 10 matches at the same time. Is that possible?
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There were only five on last night. But yeah, maybe they have them and they have a gold show and stuff.
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But I have instructed lawyers and I've said, you have a choice here. Either we sue you for millions or you make me the face of TNT Sports, but from my shed.
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So the choice is yours. We need Susie Dent to really go into the definition of mayhem.
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Because for me, mayhem involves guessing cheese, and one of us talking about what we did yesterday, it does not involve a bunch of football matches.
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Yeah, highlights of Nottingham Forest nil, Wolves nil. You can't call that mayhem in anyone's world.
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I feel like somebody could collate it from Everything is showbiz, but we're suing a lot of people.
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But we have deep pockets. We have deep pockets and we like a legal fight.
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The problem is our barrister is simply Mars Bar, brackets, not a barrister. We've put a little wig on him.
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That's slightly the wrong sort of wig and sent him down to the high court in a gown with a hammer.
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It's like my cousin Vinny, but he can do it. I bet he can do it.
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Spencer writes off the back of the excellent Susie McCabe episode, as a big laundry fan, I was sceptical when Max hyped this episode at the beginning, but after listening, this is not just my favourite episode of What Did You Do Yesterday,
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but possibly my favourite episode of any podcast. And the fact that I was listening while doing the laundry, pure bliss, says Spencer.
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Thank you, Spencer. It's nice that the laundry lover has found a home in podcasts, because I don't believe there was one.
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I mean, I haven't checked the industry, maybe Hotpoint do a really good podcast. I don't know, but they found a home here.
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There's been a bit of tension between us in the last couple of podcasts, because I like to just mention at the start one of the themes when we do the intro.
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You spoil the podcast. So I did get in trouble for talking about Vittorio, Angelone's forthcoming bonk.
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And then you got similarly angry where I said, there's a good bit of laundry coming up as well.
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Did I get annoyed about that? Yeah, those two things are equivalent. I suppose they're both important parts of life.
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I would say I'm a much more regular and probably better performing laundryman. Yeah. If I was to judge myself on these two things.
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In most situations, they involve an insertion. You know what I mean? And a swizzling round as well.
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And a capsule of aerial automatic. I don't know about you. Kat says, I enjoyed listening to this episode whilst cleaning out the dirtiest washing machine in Bristol.
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What a TV show that would be. Who would host the, who's a famous Bristol with Pam Ayres?
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Is she from Bristol? I don't know. West country way. Needs a very West country.
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David Attenborough? No, no, he's Leicester, but he could host it. Well, I mean, of course Attenborough could host it.
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He could host anything. He could turn his hand to anything. But I don't know, as he approaches 100, is that the gig he really wants to sign off with?
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Does he want to sign off with the dirtiest washing machine in Bristol? I think he might struggle to host this podcast.
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Like if one of us, for some reason, had to step down and Attenborough came in as the other, I just don't know if he'd enter into it with the right frame of mind.
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As regards, trying to guess what country has one listen to this podcast. It's here, the bath of jism from David O'Doherty.
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That would be a tough bit for him, wouldn't it? When you were saying, I've always wondered how he'd fill a bath.
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I'm not sure Attenborough would have run with that, if you're asking me. Hi, DOD, Max Mars Bar and various producers, says Stephen.
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Longtime pod enjoyer here. Since the early days, I've enjoyed your twice weekly forays into the marvellous mundanity of it all.
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I'm an English language teacher in Dublin and have occasionally used the premise of the podcast as unserious and silly fodder for warming up classes.
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Warming up? How dare you? Sue him. Mars Bar, get on this guy as well.
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Yeah, this isn't just a warm-up. That's an absolute outrage. Asking Bruno from Brazil how many strands of pasta were in the dinner he cooked last night, et cetera, before trying in some way to impart the wisdom of relishing the mundane that this pod does so well.
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Thank you, all creators, for reminding us of this. However, I can only be sceptical that Vittorio Angeloni was truly the first bonker of the podcast. While we'll never know for sure about incidents of bonking of previous guests, I would like to raise the possibility that D.O.D.
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may have concealed a bonk during his Christmas time yesterday. After mentioning that he'd gotten a necklace for his partner Helen, he mentioned that she had given him in return a book that I'd wanted and another nice little thing, to which Max did not make any further inquiries.
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Was D.O.D. on the cusp of revealing a bonk on pod? The mysterious nature of this exchange conjures the image of D.O.D. doing a quickly exaggerated wink over a webcam to Max, pulling the wool over all of your eyes and ears.
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In it for life, or at least the foreseeable future, keep it marvelously mundane. Everything is show bonk, says Stephen.
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D.O.D.? Well, first thought, I don't think Helen's worn that necklace. It was received with a lot of fanfare and you know me, you get what I like.
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Yeah. I don't think I've seen it since then. I see you're avoiding the question.
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As regards the other thing. Answer the question. That's what Attenborough would be.
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David, could you answer? And that's David Frost. Sorry. David, could you answer the question?
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That's Bamber Gascoigne. That's going, no. I mean, I can do them all. I can do them all.
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But, I mean, let me just, again, it's going to sound like a deflection tactic, but you don't give someone one of those for Christmas, surely.
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That would be so odd. What a bonk. Open it in front of all of the family, you know, where, someone else is giving you an R Prize voucher.
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Oh, great. 25 big ones. I don't know what I'll get with that. And from Helen, oh, my days.
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Yeah, I think you're probably right. John says, hi, Max. I lead a church for a living.
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I recently preached a sermon citing what did you do yesterday as a model for biblical understanding.
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Everything you show me is they're just normal Christians, says John. Wow. Which aspect of, you know, life is tricky because it must be lived going forward while looking backwards.
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I'm trying to imagine the sermon now. Okay, I see. But is it a better idea not to not get stuck in the past?
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You know, you kind of want to be looking forward. It's one of the problems of our age is that we're now.
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The Bible seems quite stuck in the past, doesn't it? I mean, I'm not an expert, but it seems there's a lot of the past in it, or is there?
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And the big question which came up on a recent What Did You Do Yesterday?
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which was different versions of the Bible have Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ox.
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And one of the other ones has Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ass then.
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Well, the original hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone, I believe said, let's get down to business.
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What time did you wake up in the morning? Did you set an alarm? I think.
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I think that's what Cain asked Abel before they fell out. Simon says, Hello, Max, DOD and Mars Bar.
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In regard to what David said about leaving furniture on the street not being a thing in Dublin and London on the midweek mayhem from the 28th of January, I can assure you that such a practice is alive and well in Hackney.
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When I first moved in with my current wife, Rose, we dragged one of her two sofas onto the street outside our flat to make space for the mountain of crap I was bringing with me.
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I was convinced we'd be busted for fly tipping, but Rose said it'd be gone in 30 minutes.
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This was January, and whilst it wasn't raining, it was quite cold. Sure enough, in 20 minutes, two young professionals had walked past, stopped, turned around, had a discussion, and lifted the two-seater up and walked off with it.
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This practice has continued for the 11 years I've been here with tables, chairs, children's books, children's bikes, full sets of crockery we were bought for our wedding that depicted a bird in a cage.
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Just last month, I found an eight-holed Kallax just down the street when I was on my way out, excitedly picked it up and carried it back to our flat.
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What is a Kallax? What's an eight-holed Kallax? I'm looking it up now. Eight. It sounds so specific.
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Oh, I see. It's like a bookshelf. It's like a bookshelf. Yes. It's the IKEA-looking one with a load of squares in it that are all the same size.
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I found an eight-holed Kallax just down the street when I was on my way out, excitedly picked it up and carried it back to our flat.
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It was only when I went back to continue my original journey did I see the people who left it there were moving out, and I might have just stolen it from them.
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That's the law in Hackney, though. Anything left on the street for however long is fair game, isn't it?
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For showbiz, everything is life, says Simon. It's tricky that if anyone's having milk delivered, Simon is just straight round being like, well, you left it on the street.
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I'm guessing not many people get their milk delivered in Hackney. Did you ever get your milk delivered?
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Yeah, and you know, we used to, me and Matthew Walsham, we used to, on the way back from Scouts, one of our best friends, Clive, went to a different Scouts, so when we went past on the way home from our Scouts, we'd put his milk up to six
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or please call, the worst, please call. And sometimes we'd knock on their doorbell and run away, even though I knew Clive's parents well, they were lovely.
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And one day they came down the alleyway with a torch, it was terrifying, because we could get caught and we were friends.
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And then occasionally they'd get six pints of gold top. Nobody wants that. There are so many things in that last bit that I'd say over 50% of our listeners don't understand.
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So putting the milk up to six, I'm pretty sure isn't where you order more powerful and more powerful milk.
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It's not like turning the volume up to six. It's just asking, because tomorrow I want six pints of milk, which is rare, because milkmen came every day, didn't they?
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So you'd just ask for one. So there was a plastic board. I mean, this is a trip in memory lane for me.
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Yeah, there was a little diet. It was a plastic board with number of pints I want tomorrow.
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And it went from nought to six, and it also had please call, which was presumably when you wanted a milk overload.
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Or you wanted to have a chat with a milkman. Or maybe that's if you were having an affair with a milkman.
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And that was just a really good way of please call was, I want some milkman time, you know?
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So hang on, was part of your terms and conditions with the dairy that if you needed a bonk, it was one of the other services that the milkman provided then?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like butter, yogurt, and then other. And the milkman would just come in then.
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A quickie, a quickie. That's what it would say. Butter, yogurt, a quickie. Martin Swift.
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Having had a couple of days working at home, I jumped in my car this morning and opened up my podcast app, eager to catch up on my favorite podcast.
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I was pleased to see my usual Sunday arrival of the Yesterday Pod, a great episode with Susie McCabe, a good start to my journey.
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Next, as a Manchester United fan, I like to listen to Justin Morehouse on the good days are coming and had the Tottenham episode to catch up on.
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20 minutes in and Justin says, welcome to our Spurs fan, Max Rushden. That's good. I thought, I like Max.
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A good football chat was had about the resurgence of United. Quick stop for a coffee and I delve back into my podcast and freshly arrived as the Guardian Football Pod talking about the demise of Thomas Frank and the cracking Sesco equaliser against West Ham.
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More Max, but that's okay. I quite like Max. Lunchtime and time for a Greg special at Charnock Richard Services.
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As I said, I kind of enjoy listening to Max, but with three out of three Rushden Bakes podcasts up to this point, I thought I'd just put the radio on for the next leg of the journey.
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The first thing I hear is, you're listening to Max Rushden and Charlie Baker on Talks4.
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For fuck's sake, not more Max. Is Max slowly taking over the whole of, audio-based entertainment in the world, or am I just having one of those days?
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Max is clearly the center of my universe heart. My apologies, Martin. That does feel, that feels like too much of me, I would suggest.
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What I would recommend is just chilling out by listening to something like Sounds of the 90s, particularly the episode with Max.
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Although BBC Sounds has changed and I can't get it anymore. And I am sad about it.
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So I haven't listened to it for ages and I really loved it. Yeah, I'm sorry.
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That's okay. Your app of Sounds of the 90s, you nominate the tracks presumably you want to hear.
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Well, I think I picked three songs. I think I picked three songs. Yeah. Can you remember one of them?
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They wanted me to pick a TV theme. So I picked the theme to California Dreams or California Dreamin' N apostrophe, which was a bit like Saved by the Bell.
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And it's sort of like the precursor to the OC. Yeah. And I didn't remember it.
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They had a band and it began, with like a sort of, you know, like a synthy keyboard going wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah.
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And then the man goes, Surf dudes with attitude, feeling groovy, laid back groove. You in your full scouts uniform, just tripping along the streets of Cambridge, changing everyone's milk orders to random things just because you've got that cool dude surf attitude.
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Great song. Sam says, Hello, Mars Bar, Max and David, on your last midweek special.
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You had an email from Bene, sorry, I'm not quite sure on the spelling, from the mountains of Albania.
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Unless there are two, I'm pretty sure this is the same Bene who featured heavily on the cycling podcast coverage of the 2025 Giro d'Italia.
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And he was living a nomadic existence in Albania, having ridden from the UK. This might be the most middle of the Venn diagram moment for the notorious DOD.
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Love the show, says Sam. Wow. Who won the 2025? Was it, I think it was Tadej Pogacar.
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Eddie Merckx? Was it Eddie Merckx? No, Merckx is still with us. That's all I can say.
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Giro d'Italia. Because I think he won the treble that year. Oh, Simon Yates won it.
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Oh, wow. Okay. Simon Bates. Simon Bates won the Giro d'Italia just before doing Sunday love songs.
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This is insane. What a talented guy. It was him versus Tony Blackburn on the Gavia.
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The notorious climb with the ice. Blackburn doesn't have the stamina for that. We know that.
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Blackburn needs a huge lead if he's going to win a stage like that. Leanne from Wodonga writes, Dear Max, David and Michael, as soon as Max announced the show in Melbourne,
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I was on the website, booked two tickets. What a great time of the day to do a show, I thought.
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I could catch the early train from Wodonga, see the show, catch the 6pm train home.
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I messaged a friend who lives in Hawthorne to say I was shouting her to the show, knowing she would find you both very entertaining, even though she had no clue who either of you are.
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Next, book the train tickets. A return from Wodonga is only 30 bucks, so there's no question of driving when you can get to Melbourne relaxed and stress-free.
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I clicked on the 3rd of April. Nothing. No trains will be running on that day.
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How could that be? They were running the day before and the day after. And then I clicked.
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It's Good Friday. For those overseas, most things stop in Australia on Good Friday, including the regional train service.
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I'm sorry, boys. As much as I love your podcast, I've listened from the first one.
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Won't be driving a seven-hour round trip to see you live. I will now pass the tickets to my 30-year-old son, knowing he will get none of the nuances of the show,
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but will hopefully appreciate the warmth and humour that you bring out in one another.
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I can only hope there'll be another opportunity to see you both live. In the meantime, I'm in it for life.
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Leanne from Wodonga, smiley face. That's why we still have... We were moved from a 300-seater to a 2,000-seater, which is a bold jump.
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We're pushing 800, but there's still 1,200 to go if we want to feel really loved for 4pm Good Friday when there's no public transport.
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Now, there is a running theme. There was a tube strike when we did Hackney.
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Oh, yeah. We like to make it difficult for ourselves. But if there are 1,200 listeners in Melbourne that haven't got tickets yet, could you please come?
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Because Leanne in Wodonga is letting us all down. Yeah, it does bring up the frightening possibility that all of the people who have tickets now can't go and are putting in their stead people who don't know what they're letting themselves in for.
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Also, Wodonga and the Wodongans, I had never heard of them before the start of that email.
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And then I think I heard the word six or seven times. So, yeah, maybe we should think of doing a live show in Wodonga.
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In many ways, we're all Wodongans. David. I don't know what that means. Brian says, just wanted to say I'm a big fan of Christopher MacArthur Boyd asking Max if he was in any way neurodiverse and Max flatly answering no.
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Only for Max three episodes later when asked what he was doing at 16 to say, I would have been able to tell you every manager of every team in the football league in the capacity of their ground.
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I love this, bud. It's the center of the neuro-di-universe. Oh, this is from Dan on the subject of they're just normal countries.
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Dear all, Max asked on the last Midweek Mayhem podcast if anyone would be interested in purchasing just normal countries merch.
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He suggested a world map made entirely of platinum for the slated cost of £20,000.
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I would very much like to take him up on this offer considering an A3 wall map, a fairly small wall map, one centimetre thick, would be around 1,247 cubic centimetres, which is roughly 26.7 kilograms of platinum.
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With the cost of platinum at £49.6 per gram, the cost of the platinum for the normal country's globe would be about £1.3 million.
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As such, please send the PayPal details for the map purchase. I would happily transfer over.
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I cannot promise it will not be melted down. Everything is showbiz, Dan W. What was the name of the band that justified an ancient?
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What were they called? Oh, the KLF. The KLF. They burnt money, didn't they? Well, before they burnt it, they stuck a million pounds into a frame and had it as a piece of art and then put it for sale.
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And initially it was going for like 200 grand. And it was just, a million pounds on a giant piece of wood.
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And so my friend, Michael, approached the student bank in University College Dublin to get a loan to buy it with the intention of simply liquidating it then.
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How'd he go? Did he get the loan? I'm not a bank manager, but... The KLF burned it then instead.
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Oh, come on, KLF. Let's play 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? Welcome to They're Just Normal Countries.
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So Madagascan, Namibia, Costa Rica, Uganda, North Korea, Guyana, Northern Mariana Islands, Bhutan, Brunei, Nepal, Eswatini, U.S. Virgin Islands, Equatorial Guinea, San Marino, Correct.
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Liechtenstein, Turkmenistan, Seychelles, Mauritius, Georgia, Vatican City, Oman, Fiji, Correct. Vanuatu, Bolivia, Faroe Islands, Correct.
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Belarus, Palau, Aruba, Ecuador, Iraq, Gabon, Correct. Eritrea, Andorra, Peru, Reunion, Greenland, The Gambia, Ivory Coast.
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Here we go. Down in Northampton, Hi Max, David, Miles Barton, Will. Inspired by midweek mayhem number 58 and the idea that Didier Drogba listened to the podcast 12 times in the Côte d'Ivoire,
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I couldn't help but think what other ex-Premier League strikers may listen from their home nation.
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Therefore, my guess is Dimitar Berbatov once listened to the podcast on a trip back to his home country of Bulgaria.
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I too am in it for life. Everything is showbiz. Dan in Northampton. Yeah. Miles Barton, Is Bulgaria a normal country?
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No. How many listens in Bulgaria? At the start of the quiz, 101 listens in Bulgaria.
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I knew it! And we're actually massive. Let's play Sofia. Is that Bulgaria? Yeah, that is, isn't it?
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Bulgaria? I think so. Let's play CSKA Sofia's Ligia Sofia. I'm exposing my lack of knowledge here.
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Sofia United Stadium. Former guest on the pod, Vittorio Angeloni, second time he's come up in this app.
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Yeah. Played in a charity football match with Dimitar. Yeah, yeah. Nutmegged him, yeah. A man who has listened over a hundred times to this.
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Yeah. So a nutmeg to the listeners. Oh, come on now. You have the ball at your feet and the person runs towards you and you sort of shape to whack it,
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but you just nudge it through their legs. It's in many ways the most humiliating thing.
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And I wonder, did Berbatov, I'd say Berbatov might have just fouled him straight afterwards then.
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No. What happened was it wasn't a perfect nutmeg because it touches Berbatov's legs so it kind of gets deflected a bit.
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And Vittorio passes the ball and then runs off celebrating like Tardelli. It's actually great.
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He does exactly what you want him to do in a charity football match. And I did interview Berbatov once and I said, you're a really good footballer, blah, blah, blah.
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You made it. It sort of looked easy for you. And he went, yeah, it was easy.
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So I quite like that. Anyway, David, I have a question for you. What time did you wake up yesterday morning?
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I woke up and beside me was former Bulgarian and a utility number 10, Dimitar Berbatov.
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He made it look easy, to be honest. Your second bunk. 8.10, which is later than you might think.
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But who am I? I'm David O'Doherty. That's the first thing I establish. Why are we getting up at 8.10?
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Because we have a house guest and me and Helen Kupter are there and the house guests are going to Dublin's, I mean, I'm not going to say best because that's too subjective,
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most talked about brunch spot. Whoa, you're there to be seen. You'll move it in a shaker.
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It's hard to get a reso exactly, but I've got one for 8.30 on a Thursday.
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And so kind of half asleep. Helen Kupter does shower and I have to go.
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And wake house guest and former guest on the pod, Sam Campbell. Ah, Sam Campbell.
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Yeah. Okay. So immediately he asks you for a game of shuffleboard, I presume, and he goes to see the sea.
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This will feature actually in today's ep. We stroll to, it's called Alma in Dublin.
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I think it's Argentinian-adjacent place because they - so Paraguayan - they do big sossies and things like that.
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Okay. Okay. Most brunch places, you look at the offering, even when it arrives and you're like, I could have made this, but an Alma, there's various pickled things and stuff.
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But nobody wants fancy at breakfast. You just want eggs done well. It is not well done.
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You want them done well. Okay. Midway through this meal and it is a delicious meal.
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I pat my pockets because I remember a minor crisis I've had during the night.
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And what's that in my left pocket? Two lost ear pods. Whoa. The ear pods.
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The sperms themselves. Have you found the ear pods? No. This is the second set.
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The first set will be found. If we ever move out of this place, they're somewhere.
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The second one, I've lost their, You've lost their little box. The flossing box that they sit in.
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It's just second failed ear pods. Yeah. So now I'm looking down the barrel of having to buy a third set.
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They're like a hundred and something quid. Thank God this podcast is doing well. And I only realize it because I go to show Helen Kupter and Sam a funny vid and the sound,
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they're still trying to Bluetooth into the sad ear sperms that are in my pocket.
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I see. Yeah. So the first set you've lost everything. Box and AirPods.
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And this, you've just lost the box. The first set still tantalizingly appear on the find my ear pods, AirPods, whatever they're called.
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You know where they are. Surely they're not, because they, it's so, I learned this from you.
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Yeah. Apologies to Ian. I still haven't sent him a present for getting them from Perth airport.
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I feel absolutely terrible. But you know, you can really nail it down to the sort of the meter where they are.
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No. Here's the problem. You live in effectively on a large bungalow compound in Australia.
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Yeah, a ranch. Yeah. You can get a satellite, use a satellite to find where something is.
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Whereas I live in a terraced house with dozens of floors. I live in a skyscraper.
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Yeah, of course. From above. One room per floor. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
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You're like in a Tetris. You live in Tetris. That's where you are. And so, yeah, I don't know.
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I still think it's pointing at the jackets, but the problem is where the jackets are, there's a wardrobe directly above that that's absolutely full.
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I just think you haven't done, you haven't done enough work to find these. Sportswear, et cetera.
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It's absolutely delicious. What do you have? I have a thing called vegan hummus toast that I undermine by getting bacon and an egg with it.
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But it's a large plate of stuff. This is what I'm not getting across here.
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This is like a medieval meal we're having. It's a banquet. Yeah, you're full for the day.
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Wow, okay. Helen goes off to work. Me and Sam love a tour, love a touristy educational tour.
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Okay. So we head to Kilmainham Jail, which is a historic jail from the early 19th century.
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I think it was built that was used up until the 1920s. It has an incredible history.
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Luckily, we get simply one of the greatest tour guides I've ever had. And is it just you two?
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Is it you two on a private tour or are you part of a group?
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No, hilariously, it's me, Cambo, 20 people, many of whom don't speak English, but now use, use the technology where they hold out their phones and they have one headphone in and the phone,
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it's simultaneously translating his tour. I don't know if that, if that technology is reliable at all.
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I could see it might be in 20 years time, but it's the first time I've encountered that.
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So there's all of us and then a six foot five man who I immediately identify as the coach of the Leinster rugby team.
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That's great. Okay. Does he recognize you as David O'Doherty? Yes. Okay, great. I've met him in the past.
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His name is Leo and he's a really nice man. Now Leo's going to struggle in this prison because I imagine there's a few, you know, back then people weren't as tall and you've got to duck into the clinky,
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clinky, clinky cells. So incredible fact here from our tour guide is that the entrances are low in the Victorian, the early Victorian part.
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And some will say that's because people were shorter and they were a bit shorter, but also in the architecture of it was a stooping thing whereby, you know, because this is a period where they believed that prisons should cleanse you of your criminality.
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So there was the use of daylight and there was the use of the panopticon, which is you're supposed to feel like- Was he a transformer?
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Was he one of them? You're supposed to feel like you're being watched all of the time.
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Oh, okay. Watched by the Lord. So a lot of it is sort of religious stuff.
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You have to go to mass a lot and then the prison guards as well.
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I won't give away too much of the tour, but I'll tell you some selected highlights.
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The rest is history. You're shitting bricks right now, by the way. In the potato famine in the 1840s, there was food in the jail.
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No one died of starvation. At a time when a million people died in the country, no one died in Kilmainham Jail.
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So people would try to get themselves sent into prison. So you would get food.
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That's mad. Yes. The youngest person ever taken in for, there was so much begging during the famine that soliciting of alms became illegal and a three-month-old is officially listed as the youngest person.
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And then the tragedy is she was hauled in again when she was 18 months old.
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Oh, right. That's the trouble. They repeat offend. They get to know the wrong people in prison.
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They get in with the wrong crowd. She's probably a gang member. She's probably got a big tattoo.
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She's in one of the Puerto Rican gangs by the time she comes in again.
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Oh, man. You know when you think, you don't spend enough time thinking we were born at a good time.
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Who's arresting a three-month-old? For begging for food. I mean, that is so bleak. The jail has a very significant place in Irish history, which is where there was a failed revolution in 1916.
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Because it was just babies trying to get out. They couldn't organize themselves. The leaders were kept on this particular corridor and they were all shot, which is one of the,
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terrible mistakes that the British authorities made because it felt like a ritual humiliation. And whereas the revolution hadn't been very popular when it was taking place, the fact that these guys were all done in leads to this sea change that four years later,
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it's the War of Independence, etc. I announced confidently because my great-grandparents were involved in it that he had spent time in this prison, which gives the whole thing quite a poignant vibe to think of a mere three generations ago, him walking along these corridors, etc.
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Later in the evening, I say this to my father and he says, no, he was in the other prison. He was in Mount Joy.
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Other fun facts about it, because it's a perfect prison of the Victorian style with the metal gangways and you imagine using your spoon to hit against the bars.
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Prison officers have jangly keys. Everything's jangling. That's what I'm thinking. Many, many movies are filmed there. For example, The Italian Job.
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They all get nicked at the end of it. I think that's the end of The Italian Job.
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While the gold teeters on the edge, I think Michael Caine and the rest of them all go in there.
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Cool Runnings. There is not a prison scene in Cool Runnings. Although, later in the day the Winter Olympics does come into our chat because yesterday was the incredible interview with, I think he was a Norwegian biathlete who got bronze and announced that
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in the interview, this has been the worst week of my life because six months ago I met the love of my life and three months ago I made a terrible mistake and had an affair.
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Yeah, amazing. And he's begging her forgiveness in the interview. A bit more of that in football.
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Do you know what I mean? Good win, Darren. Yes, but I've been living a double life for the last five years.
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Interestingly, and I know it's not my yesterday, but on the radio show yesterday, we had Duncan Goodhue on, like the most iconic swimmer of the 80s.
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The producer's like, we can ask him about the Winter Olympics, can't we? He's an Olympian. I was like, we can't really.
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He'd swam in the Olympics. He's not going to talk about skiing. He's promoting a charity swim.
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And anyway, Charlie Baker did some Googling, and he actually represented Team GB in the two and four man bob at the European Championships in 1981, because they were just like, can anyone bob slay?
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And it was like, wow, he's quite fast at swimming. So yeah, what a perfect guest.
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Anyway, not my yesterday. Because he is a fully bald gent and very, you know, I feel he sort of represented, he was the go-to person when you would put on a swimming hat and you'd go, look, I'm Duncan Goodhue
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now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he was very much kind of the Sterling Moss of swimming. You know, like, when somebody drove fast and your dad would say, who do you think you are, Sterling Moss?
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It's like, anybody swimming anywhere was Duncan Goodhue, basically. I would imagine he looks the same, because that's the thing about the bald guys.
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He said that very thing. And actually, we'd just gone from interviewing, you know, that Man United fan that won't cut his hair until the final row, and it's like, now it's just like an oak tree of hair. Actually, people are getting
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furious about it. And he's actually going to give that hair to this beautiful charity called the Little Princess Trust, where they, people donate hair, and they make wigs for, mainly for kids who have gone through chemotherapy.
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Like, it's a really amazing thing. And we went from talking to that, to talking to the most famous bald person of all time.
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For balance. It is, I know we're in the banter era of sport here, but to the listeners, there's a guy who said he'd cut his hair when Manchester United won five games in a row, and Manchester United haven't won five league games in a row for
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like two years, or something like that. But we're at the point now where my dad is like, hope that guy can get his hair cut.
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Yeah, I know, it's amazing. It's like so much hair. But the thing is, what's funny is, obviously no one notices for the first year, right? No one cares.
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And then his hair gets really big, and then people are like, this is funny. But now it's gone full circle where Man United players are getting asked about it. So some Man United fans are so angry that they're just like furious about this guy
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just came up with some dumb thing, and now he's like, well, I'm doing it. There are worse things in the world, and people are like, genuine normal people have lost their minds over the hair, man.
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And then if you ever talk about the hair on TalkSport, you get texts of people going, why are you talking about the hair?
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And you could be talking about the form of Arsenal. Why? Stop talking to me.
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Stop talk hair. And you're like, guys, it's okay. I believe I'm not the only person listening to this podcast that will have noted there that your impersonation of a generic listener to a football photo is very similar to the cat from the Great Christmas Bunny Emergency.
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People are starting to wonder, does Rushden only have four characters? I've got Attenborough, I've got Bamberg-Escott, I've got David Frost. What else do you want?
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Do you know what I think sometimes, David, is? I think, actually, I have brilliant impressions.
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But I'm way too lazy to practice any of them. Because you sort of think about the guys that are really good. You know, your Bremners, your McGowan's, your Matt Ford's, right? They must spend hours going, you know, you know. I just go into Attenborough. I haven't done Attenborough
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for decades. I don't know when I was last pretending to be David Attenborough. You're getting the raw Attenborough. But I really went for it.
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Incredibly familiar feeling of Max saying he could do a thing if he just practiced it a little bit more.
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There is a beautiful moment where Leo Cullen, the coach of the Leinster Rugby team, is introduced to Sam Campbell two people who you'd imagine their Venn diagrams may never have crossed.
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No, that's good. We go to the gift shop. Sam buys a tin whistle. You know, one of those sort of little metal penny whistles that he really enjoys getting a sort of a flittering sound that does sound, if you just blow
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into it and move your fingers over the holes, it does kind of sound like you are playing some quite complicated piece of music.
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Or a scene change in Bewitched, isn't it? Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. We are going to continue with our tour.
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We've got a few more hours before his flight, so we decide, we're not exactly sure where we're going, but I've got my car.
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We see the funny sight. I mean, I hope no one takes offense to this, but I know that kind of Helen copped her will a little bit, but we're driving now
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it's lunchtime, so you see six people in a line, all holding a coffee, walking along the canal.
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Cambo delights in rolling down the window and just going, coffee! At them. Which is, I would say the least threatening drive-by of all.
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How do they react? We don't know. We've driven on, except one time where he goes, oh, nice coffee, boys.
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And I go to drive on, but there's just a traffic jam. We're just staring at six men and women all holding coffees, and they're going why? I used to get the X5 from Cambridge to Oxford,
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which stopped at every stop on the way, and you'd lose your mind after about two and a half hours.
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And I remember just driving past this bus stop, and I'd gone mad by the sound, just waving really enthusiastically to everyone at this bus stop and then on the other side of the road and then we went round and round about and stopped and picked them all up
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and they're like, oh no, this is I didn't want to have to see these people face to face and think who's this fucking weirdo on this bus for the next two hours.
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So I understand, I understand the situation, the predicament you found yourself in. We need to see the sea so we drive to visitors to Dublin, maybe familiar with a famous bathing spot, the 40 foot which is a year round place where... Yeah, it's where Sharon Horgan goes on that
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show I watched that she was in. It's true, Bad Sisters. Bad Sisters, yeah. Her and her sisters go to the 40 foot.
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I don't know if they go there with normal people but they go there in conversation with friends. Dozens of films, they go there.
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Beside it is the Martello Tower. So Martello Towers were these Napoleonic defensive towers because the Brits reckoned that Britain would be invaded by Napoleon through Ireland.
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So they built these towers that are kind of signaling towers along the whole east coast that if anyone saw the Napoleonic fleet coming, they would shoot a cannon and light a fire on the top of it and the message would be passed back
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to Dublin. So we pass a very specific one of those which is by the 40 foot which is where literary fans Ulysses by James Joyce begins there.
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We look at some people in the sea. There actually aren't that many when we're there, but they're generally really healthy people in their 60s. Who are also a bit mad, let's face it.
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It's so cold. It's such a big thing in Dublin. I don't know. They look really happy and they're standing in their togs having got out because it's so warm now that they're out.
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Do you think a bit smug? Do you think like sea swimming people are sort of a bit smug? That they're braver than you are, you and me? I think there might be a little element to that at the start, but then a lot of people just do
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it every day here. So it's probably good for you to shock you. Probably not right now for you at this time where you get up with a baby's bum in your face and then announce you're going for a swim in the sea. I feel
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whatever you get from the sea swim, you get from being welcomed that early. Shock treatment like that. Maybe you're right.
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And for me, it's to the nearest beach, probably 25 minute drive. And so then I said to Jamie, I must to the sea every morning. She'd be like, well, hang on a second. There's some porridge to be made and there's some children to dress
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and I say, I'm sorry. I must to the sea. No, you don't need to do that. We continue the tour. We drive past Enya's castle. We drive past Bono's house. We go to the sort of posh suburbs.
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What's Bono's house like? Is it ridiculous? It's behind big gates. You can't see it. Seems modest enough now. Do you think if you knocked on the door and said, I'm David O'Doherty, can I come in? Bono would say, sure.
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No, I don't think that would have any... Do you think Bono knows of your existence? Great question.
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We can be really pretty sure that Bono does not know who I am, but there is a chance that Bono knows who you are. Maybe Bono is really into football. You never know from your podcast. He probably doesn't listen to this, I'll say.
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I've met the edge. You met the edge, okay. That's a good start. We've got an in for Bono's yesterday. The edge is really, was really nice, but I don't think I made enough of an impression that the edge would be like,
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Bono, I met this guy. We just generally had a nice time. Alright, but do you reckon the edge would come on?
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Because I'd love to know what the edge has for breakfast. I don't have his number.
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Come on, if the edge does a 30 degree wash, everyone's like, this is what I'm here for.
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Okay, if anyone listening has had contact for the edge, oh man, please get into this.
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We go for a walk on a beach. Sam finds a magic stone that appears to have a perfect circle on it.
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And I point out, there's no way that exists in nature. This is possibly a listening device.
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I'm not sure what it is. But Sam takes that on his way. We get stuck in traffic a bit on the way back.
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But we still make it, send him off to the airport. It's been a lovely day.
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However, it's only getting going because yesterday, the 11th of February, 2026, is my dad Jim's 87th birthday.
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Happy birthday, Jim. Yes. The guy who played the piano on the Christmas bunny thing.
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Is that how you know him? I mean, I think he would... That is also the main thing he has achieved in his life.
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Well, something he probably doesn't remember doing. I just shoved a phone inside a piano. I was like, here, bang out a few Christmas tunes there.
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We meet in the hotel beside where they live. It's just really nice. There's helicopter's there, extended. Only about 10 people. You know, 87 is not a big one.
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We'll hold that back. Of course. I mean, 90 will be big. 100 will be really big.
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Yeah, 155. That's the killer. Yeah, exactly. 180. He likes darts. We're going to plan a really big darts Really big darts cake.
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Jim Bowen's going to come. Eric Bristow. Dad has decided the food that he wants is fish and chips from the good fish and chips place near us.
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So I put the order in. It goes back to the house. It's really nice.
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It's the classic five of us. As in my brother, my sister, me, mum, dad. I mean, it's so amazing that we could still do it.
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And me and mum have got him a jumper. We've got him a jumper in the quarter zip style.
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Do you know the zip that goes up? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Very much the jumper of the moment.
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I don't think dad's ever seen this sort of jumper. And he thinks that's absolutely mad. Like a zip and a jumper.
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Like, this is a new breakthrough in jumpers. But he's terribly happy. It's a lovely evening.
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We leave them there to watch football highlights at about 10 o'clock. Oh, I forgot one thing earlier. While we were having hijinks on the beach, I'm trying to impress Sam. So,
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I kick like a tree trunk that's on the beach down into the sea with the intention I'm going to float this off into the horizon. It's going to be cool. And I mistime the waves,
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the very small waves that are lapping in. And I see a huge one coming.
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So, having pushed it a few feet into the sea, I jump up onto the tree trunk and I get wet to the knee down, I would say. Like, absolutely inundated. That is annoying.
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Luckily, I've got the cycling trousers on, which provides some waterproofing, but the shoes are filled with water that comically make farting sounds then when I walk.
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I've changed my shoes and socks earlier, but I feel it's time for a bath when I get back.
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Are we still lowering ourselves in the classic style? Yeah, because Helen Copter has gone to meet her friends and so this is some pure David-y time.
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And so I can make it so hotter than the sun, you know? It's a really slow entry then.
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A bit too hot for your balls or is it fine? The balls don't arrive for a while because I'm in, to use a Winter Olympics analogy, shout out to Cormac Comerford,
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Ireland's Olympic skier. I get into a tuck type position, like I am going for aerodynamics on a downhill.
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The feet are in, you know what I mean? And the rest of it. And then I try and get lower and lower.
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You're sort of like a duck. You're like a duck for a bit. I'm not going to say a duck. I'm going to say a cool Olympic skier rather than a duck.
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But I see why you might think that. And then eventually my geoids go in, we lower.
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It's a great bath. It's a lovely bath. I mean, ruined only by the fact that Helen comes in during it when she gets back for a little chat.
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And I feel it's a sacred space. You know what I mean? Okay. Do you say, could you leave me alone? No, that would be utterly mad because I am happy to see her. But of course it's just me with my very hot balls.
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I mean, it's probably about midnight now. Go to bed and just as I'm dozing off, I say to myself the day before yesterday, I put on my full waterproof trousers and jacket to go out on the bike.
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Maybe the little box for the ear sperms. Maybe I left the box in the waterproof trousers.
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So I cast the duvet aside, thunder downstairs. Helen's like, where is he going? Yes!
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I found the box! Oh, what a relief. We're back to just one missing AirPods. What a day.
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Have you any other questions for me? No, let's play They're Just Normal Cheeses. Five.
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Four. Three. Two. One. Two. One. Two. Three. Four. One. Two. Three. Four. One. Two.
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Three. Four. One. Two. Three. Four. One. Two. Three. Four. Four. One. Two. Three. Four.
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No no no. Well unless you did bonk. No I was trying oh my. This podcast has reached disastrous, disastrous place. Oh no. Why?
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Mars Bar writes, after Max's passionate plea on last week's episode we received an influx of new rebel cheese quiz guesses. But no new Just normal Cheeses guesses. What? It is becoming clear that the world cannot handle duelling cheese boards.
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Yeah. Just because I was disappointed in you for not entering the rebel cheese quiz. Maybe it's a bit like you know the rebel tour of South Africa. Once you guess the rebel cheese you are banned from original Curdle. But I'm even more disappointed in the listeners now
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Four. One. Two. Three. Four. One. Two. Three. Four. One. Two. Three. Four. One. Two.
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This is a 5 cheese board. This is entirely your fault for starting the rebel cheese tour. You are the Kerry Packer of the cricket that is, you've just robbed the West Indies of a
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Generation of talent for a few years. I am very sorry that, you know, in the Caribbean there will, for many years, they will be incorrectly guessing cheeses at such a lame level because of what I've done. So I would like to say now
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I'd like to apologise and say you can enter both the OG Curdle II and the rebel cheese quiz in the same email. Could we possibly hope to knock off the rebel tour right now by someone making a correct guess?
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Well, listen, we can hope. So just you know to mark your card, and if you do love this podcast, you'll have a cheese guess this week. What are you doing? Everyone's got a cheese guess in them. Last week's guess was Brie, ding ding ding ding, Mozzarella, Gouda, Saint Tola goat's milk cheese, Cashel blue, ding.
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So it's a three-and-a-half cheese board. We know where Brie is. Cashel blue's got to be somewhere. But that's where we're at with that. And frankly, you know, it's a real wake-up call, yeah, for all of us on the podcast, isn't it? It's a real moment for us to go, are we delivering? Yeah. Are we delivering if people aren't guessing Curdle.
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If Curdle II isn't going strong in early February what's going to happen when we do curdle in 25 years time? That's my question, you know. We are in for it as well. Mars Bar's going to call one of those team meetings, where
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He makes us listen line by line through the last podcast. Not. Good Enough. So let's try to end two cheese board is so simple. Helen copter's friends came over.
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I need two tasty after-dinner cheeses. So I pick the two. No, no clues. Obvious. They're just. They're just normal. Ruth Jones. To Max, DOD. Yes, the Ruth Jones.
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Two, Max, D.O.D., Mars Bar, and the Hero of Teddington. I wonder if Max's guilt trip worked on anyone else.
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It did, but it has flown back in my face. Yeah. In order of that, I'll keep this generic.
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One, Brie. Yeah. Not just yeah, David. Come on, let's do it properly. I know we've lost a bit.
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Yeah, good, thanks. Zuring. Oh, no, David's run out of batteries. Two, Mature Cheddar. Oh, no.
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May this go on for as long as it takes. Day one listener, in it for life, everything is showbiz, Ruth Jones.
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So there we are. We have a one cheese rebel board. We have a three and a half cheese curdle IOG board.
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And if you didn't, please don't. So I'm sorry to end, David, on such a low, perhaps the lowest point of what did you do yesterday.
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But, you know, we will, we will come back stronger. I hope we will. But like, this is like running out.
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We've had a big team talk in the dressing room. We run out and no one is in the entire stadium.
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Like no one cares about our plight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think I've ever felt this lonely before.
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No, I know. No, do you feel empty? It's like, and I've told this story to you before, it's like hammering the phones on BBC London.
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No one's ringing in on a bank holiday Monday and Faye and Chiswick calling and us saying, what's your point, Faye?
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And Faye going, I don't know, you rang me. And I still remember. Nothing can make your soul feel smaller than that in this broadcasting world.
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That I don't know, you rang me. Come on, Faye. Like, don't tell us that.
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Like, what have they been doing behind the glass? There's where this podcast is. We're now ringing listeners, asking for cheese guesses.
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When I said I was in this for life, and I am, I presumed it was with other people.
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I'm now just in this alone. Just the two of us. We're not even recording this now.
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Yeah, as far as stop recording it. It's good for them, he tells people. How are David and Max doing?
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Yeah, yeah, they're ticking over. Yeah, yeah. Listen, if it does end with just the two of us, I'm still in it for life, David.
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In many ways, it'll make it more into it. We can just do it on the phone.
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Let's just do it on the phone. Why are we bothering with these microphones? I could just give you a call.
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Maybe I could do it earlier in the day. It'd be great. We've now got no cheese guesses and over 1,000 empty seats in Melbourne.
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Yeah. We need the edge, and we need him fast. This is an SOS, Edge.
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Only you, or anyone else in U2. It's an SOS to any member of U2.
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Bono, the edge, Larry, the other one. Is it Larry? I'm getting a lot of sort of life coaching and motivational ads at the moment.
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Uh-huh, yeah. One was for a Tony Robbins, you know, be the best you can be type course recently.
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Tony Robinson? No, absolutely not. And it was called, Get the Edge. Oh, yeah. But my first thought was, it's just where Tony Robbins tries to hassle the edge from U2.
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As much as possible. Please help us. Thanks for listening, everyone. Bye. Thank you. Bye.