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Podcasts, there are millions of them.
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Some might say too many.
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I have one already.
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I don't have any, because there are enough.
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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.
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Why is that? Are they scared?
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Too afraid of being censored by the man?
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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. Nothing more.
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Day before yesterday, Max?
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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.
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And I'm David O'Doherty.
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Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Hello, everybody, and welcome to Midweek Mayhem. From the people that bring you What Did You Do Yesterday? I'm Max Rushden. With me today... Irish funny man, David O'Doherty. Welcome, David.
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Max, I'm not sure I'm going to make it.
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Oh, God. Oh, I see. It's those kind of noises. It's very hard to distinguish. Carry on.
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They were new Birkenstocks. And when I came here on holidays to the south of France for the first walk to the village to get bread and little pastries, I wore them one hole too tight.
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And so I've had a blister there. But I didn't do anything about it for a few days. And my whole... My foot has swollen up. So I've just had to put stuff on it. So this could be my last ever podcast.
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My nerves were the noise you make for I'm about to die. I think it's quite close to the noise I imagine you make for more carnal relations.
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I have just had a very max encounter. So I'm on my holidays, listeners. Thank you. Thank you very much for the best wishes.
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Much deserved holiday because podcasting is tiring.
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And little Brandy. Is seven and he is here with us. We're here with a few friends, two amazing kids.
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And I said, can I use your room? Because this room is closest to the Internet.
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And he said, yeah, what are you doing? And I said, podcasting. Have you had this conversation? He's like, what's that? And I was like, oh, I need to. So I said, talk into my computer.
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And he was like, why? And I said, oh, some people listen to it. And there was a pause. And he said, is it like the news?
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Yeah. Well, and you said yes, I presume.
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I said in a very specific way, yes, it is. What do you say when you're going to the shed?
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Well, Ian is like, are you going to do some podcasting? Yeah. I say yes. So he has just accepted podcasting without really delving into what podcasting is. I mean, you've seen him on the call.
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And when I'm doing my other podcasts, he's, you know, he says hello. But maybe he sees it in a, you know, when he's talking to Poppy D and Granny Liz,
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maybe he's thinking that's also podcasting. It's strange that a four-year-old knows podcasting.
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I certainly didn't when I was four. He's like, are you going to do some podcasting? Can I do a podcast? Yeah. I mean, it's stupid. We're making life worse for our children. That's what, that's the only conclusion we can have.
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Now, thanks to everybody who has subscribed so far to join us. Being in it for life. It has opened up a sort of window of, well, living a park's life. This is difficult.
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I felt like I was cheating having the episode available to me yesterday. Because if you are in it for life, the ep comes on a Saturday, the guest ep not on a Sunday.
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So I only started listening on Sunday. I need to work out on the emotions of an episode now available on a Saturday. You know, we thought it was a nice thing to do, but actually what we've done is we've really affected the feng shui of the audience.
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Here in the south of France, it's really affected village life, which has been the same for thousands of years. Because a lot of the cafes have it on, you know. And there's old men with pastis.
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And then when it came out on the Saturday, just like, you know, firing aniseed out across the road. It's been big here.
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I've lost the name on this, so my apologies. Hi, David. I would swap my stocker. Stocker. I think it's Scandinavian furniture. It's expensive. I would. Swap my stocker kneeling chair for a year's subscription to the extra episodes. I'm not using mine anymore.
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Oh, Angela in Cork. 086-356-600.
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Don't read out Angela's number.
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Oh, I see. You need that chair. And she wants to swap the chair. She's coming to Dublin in September for the live show. Can you accept gifts? I mean, as a guardian, I can't. Somebody offered me a hair transplant or something through the guardian.
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I was like, I can't. And somebody in LA offered me and Barry some sunglasses. Said, we want to get you out in some new frames. I'm like, you do not know us, do you? That is not helping your business. We can't accept them. Can you accept a kneeling chair?
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It was worth saying, neither you or I, we've had to pay. I've paid for it.
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Don't tell them that. We couldn't figure out how to do it any other way.
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Cheap ass. Cheap ass. You haven't done it.
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I mean, I think, could this be turning into, I mean, Mars Bar will not be happy about this. Do you remember that thing you used to do on radio?
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Yeah, Swaps and Sales with Mandy Morton. I've got 18 copies of the Beano from 1982. I'd like a shoehorn. Derek in Cartonham, 0223.
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I don't know if Mars Bar will be happy if we're swapping subscriptions for things that we need.
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If you would like to do it the official way, as I have, but David hasn't, go to yesterdaypod.com. If you haven't done it, there's a padlock on the screen wherever you're listening to this podcast.
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It'll say, would you like to upgrade? And some of you, a surprising number of you have said yes, but a lot of you haven't. You bastards. So anyway.
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Stop. That's what we say on the other one. We really give out about these people on the other one.
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Yeah, but there is another thing as well. If you get in touch with us, yesterdaypod at gmail.com, I think that's it. Please, in the subject line, could you either write freeloader or in it for Lifer?
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Because producer Mars Bar, he's too busy. And he doesn't have time to separate the emails. And we don't want to cross the streams because, you know, people will get annoyed by that. So yeah, that's for you to do. We can do the rest of it.
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So I was hung over up until about two hours ago. And so I jumped in the river. I've never done that before one of our podcasts.
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Oh, how was it? How was it?
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The problem is one of your most frequent references, anytime anyone mentions a body of water is River Monsters, the TV show.
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Oh, were you worried about the Great Galunga?
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Being eaten by the Great Galunga.
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Look, I think you're okay because he's never in Nice. He's always in Papua New Guinea. It could have been the Falun Meninden. Turned out he was actually really pissed and fell in the river in 1881.
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But there we go. I was thinking, because I'm in LA and you're in Nice, we are turning a little bit Alistair Campbell Rory Stewart.
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A couple of weeks, I'll be in. I'm in Tehran, where I've just walked. I've just walked Iran to see what it's like on the ground.
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And David's in Davos, having just given a speech about the impact of climate change.
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They're never both in different sandals resorts. You know what I mean? Or someone's in a Center Parcs.
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I'm at Center Parcs, Thetford.
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I've had to close the window, because the sound of the archery has been interfering with the podcast, Alistair.
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I was talking to some fascinating people in the queue for the log flume.
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Interruption. I listened to our last episode here in France, and there was an ad for what I could make out.
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I did my very best, because it was in French. And it was for a gazpacho tomato soup in a one-liter carton. That's the ad. I'm glad they paired with our listeners in France.
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Est-ce que tu voudrais le grand gazpacho? Oui. C'est fantastique. Un litre pour moi.
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So we're starting a new section.
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Yeah, an extra subscription.
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We're fleecing these guys now. Yes, carry on.
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I've been hit hard by the Jodhpurs incident from last week and the various other mistakes I've made. And what I have learned, is basically I'm a total bullshitter. I speak so confidently.
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You're basically Stephen Bartlett. We're diary of a CEO, except we're making absolutely no money from all the brands and products that we promote.
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Max, you know what's going to happen now? Bartlett's going to put out a tearjerker video with just his face and that audio playing. You know what I mean? And him just shaking his head. So many haters in this world.
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No, but the thing is, I've really been ruminating on when I threw the nice John Verity under the bus. He's not part of that gang. It was just how the algorithm served it to me. I cobbled him in with your Bartlett's and actually he's
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just cycling around being nice.
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Oh no. And I suppose Rory Stewart's going to complain now and you're going to be like, sorry for implying you were queuing for the log flume in Santa Francis, Everett.
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Then I'm going to have to go to Spinnerbox with Rory Stewart to make up for it. I can't sell that to Jaime. I'm away for six weeks and I get back and I say, I'm sorry.
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I've made a podcast enemy of Rory Stewart and now I've got to go on the river rapids. I've got to float down a very slow river with Rory Stewart talking about the GDP of the DR Congo.
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Anyway, on the Kyla Cobbler episode, lovely app, it was a really nice episode to which Promise Squanderer wrote, it's when they quote a bit of the podcast back to us, it's really, it does hit home.
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I have a fair idea of the bit that is about to be quoted. It was when
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Kyla started talking about how she doesn't like fashion, having worked in fashion, and then you started to just freestyle your thoughts on, not the industry, but just rather fashion itself. Is that the bit that's about to be quoted?
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No, the bit that's about to be quoted is very simply, cat piss is worse than human piss, short but deafening silence. We're tackling the big issues here.
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I thought that Promise was going to put forward the bit where, I think your line is, when you buy a bag,
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you should get a photo of the animal that the bag came from. And again, it was just silence and we all just moved on afterwards.
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A lot of criticism for the last, episode of Your Yesterday. Alicia says, what sandwich did D.O.D. eat?
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What leftovers did Helen turn into a tasty dinner? I feel we've lost the interrogation rigour if we've moved into this new subscriber era. Mickey Essence, didn't Max have to count how many months into the year June was?
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I was interested in accuracy. Megan says, I will always think way more deeply about my clothes and their feelings when packing now. That was a nice point. How have they served you, the squad that you've taken with you?
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Turn down. It's Helen Copter saying, if only they'd bought those shorts, they'd have really performed because at the moment, these ones aren't delivering and you've got to think, if he'd bought those other pair of shorts, we'd be in a much better position. We wouldn't be stuck by this river now.
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These are questions that are going to haunt David if he loses out today.
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I have been wearing so few clothes on this trip. There is a heat wave here. So we're not in Nice. We are in the mountains behind Nice, is how we'll say it.
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We have a, a cold river to jump into and then a warm swimming pool to flop around in. I think in the year that I've owned the Lululemons, either I've got bigger or they've got a bit smaller because they now stay on.
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The problem last year was when I was climbing out of the pool, they would go half mast.
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Maybe they've adapted to your body.
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I think that's what's happened.
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We didn't know this, but Lululemon pants are sentient.
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Also, I got several compliments about how, and this could be a new section or maybe just a skill of mine that I will bring out occasionally.
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I guessed how much Kyla's dress had cost.
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Oh yeah, that was good. Penny as well. It's very good if you're about to go on The Price is Right.
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Exactly. Yeah. Or the Antiques Roadshow even. I think I could do that.
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Leslie Crowther is shitting bricks right now. We can't have David on. Do not accept his application. He'll win the fridge.
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Yeah, it's a different vibe. The Antiques Roadshow and The Price is Right. In one of them, you confidently say how much this would reach at auction. And in the other, you tentatively put out a number and then jump up and down when they say it's correct.
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They're different shows.
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Hi gang, says Matt. I particularly enjoyed Jodhpur's Gate. So I recently watched an episode of Friend of the Show, Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont's Spelling Bee where a certain David O'Doherty was a contestant.
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Unfortunately, Doddles came last and had to wear a dunce's cap I thought it was a bit rich to see him pulling up others for their spelling on the back of that showing.
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Fair enough. I had to come last. I needed to go somewhere afterwards. That's not true.
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That's not how quiz shows work. I'm an expert on quizzes and it's not who has to be somewhere later.
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Max, it was Winner stays on on Guy's show.
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Oh, I just had to not win.
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Because you had to fly back to Dublin.
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No, I had a gig in the Enmore in Sydney two hours after the end of the recording. And I overcompensated for not winning by coming last.
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So what you could do now is you could say, so the Jodhpur's incident was actually you just reinforcing.
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That was to show people that you didn't lose intentionally and that TV is not a lie by stringing us along.
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Yeah, I should have said this on the subscription one because someone's going to hear this and I'm going to get in trouble. But yeah.
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This is anonymous. Dear Max, Donut of Destiny and Associated. Producer. Long time listeners. It's the very start of the center of the known universe. Very first time writing into any podcast.
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This is regards me planking for five minutes or trying to emulate Ben Elton's five minute plank. So I'm still dubious of Ben. He's 20 years older than me. How is he planking for five minutes?
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It's been very amusing to hear Max's slight confusion as to why his planking videos, especially the first, got both so many views and shares, but also many new followers.
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Having a preteen, I decided a few years ago to try and get ahead of any social media they may want to get an idea of what perils they may uncover. During my expedition into the unknowns of Snapchat and TikTok, I inadvertently went down a pipeline of smut.
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In this ocean of depravity, there is a recent trend called planking till failure, where topless men film themselves and the associated noises they make while planking for their viewers' enjoyment.
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With Max's recent planking videos, he's unwittingly been making fetish content. If Max just had some clearer audio and maybe a few key phrases, you may get a lot of new listeners to the pod in it for life,
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Anonymous Filth Watcher.
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So is that what Ben Elton's doing as well? He has all that dough from his OnlyFans then, yeah.
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Blackadder didn't pay him enough. That's what he's saying. Times are tough, so now Ben Elton's doing fetish planking and it's working for him.
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Maybe that's it. They have to be long enough. You know, the algorithm says if you can make them five minutes, you really cash in on those last two minutes and he's printing money by doing his five minute plank.
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Max, question. On the subject of your content at the moment, more recently, there was a very funny video where Barry, who's the football me, the Irish guy.
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Yeah, he's the football you. Yeah, I always have to have an Irishman nearby.
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He was asked to comment on English success in the World Cup and he reacted where the good and the great were all yammering on about how great it was for the country
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and what a success the game was. He instead just fell backwards into a swimming pool, which was very well done.
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What I was particularly impressed by is that, like, I know he is an athletic specimen in that he runs 10Ks sometimes, but he managed to maintain his form quite well.
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Oh, yeah, it's amazing. Because it's quite hard to sort of, it's that kind of SAS, trust, fall back. And he just went.
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that is the, because we are, I'm living next door to Christine Quinn, who is the star of the show called Selling Sunset. It has like 4 million followers. And she's always wearing like a red ball gown at like two in the afternoon.
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And on the show, she's like queen bitch. And she's just the loveliest person in the world. She's just like, long old day for me, eh? What about you? Yeah, more football. I see what you're going on. Anyway, back to the office. Anyway, this is the Selling Sunset swimming pool.
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So there's a very tiny Venn diagram of listeners to Football Weekly. We're like, what are you doing at Selling Sunset? Which is a sort of real estate, you know, enormous show. You know, it's very funny.
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So that is the Selling Sunset pool. But yeah, what an amazing, it was amazingly balletic from Barry that one.
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You had described this, some of the beautiful people being around this pool. And I was curious as to how they took a doughy Irish man in his shoes and socks wearing a Sports Direct polyester outfit falling backwards into this swimming pool.
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Did you get in trouble?
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It was a bit shady. So if it's a bit shady, literally no LA person goes outside. They're all just, they're not there. But the funny thing is he left his glasses in the pool. He went all the way up to our floor and then came back and had to jump back in to get his little glasses that were at the bottom.
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And when he got in the pool, he couldn't see his glasses because he didn't have his glasses on because they were at the bottom of the pool.
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We've got some quizzing to do. Felicity got in touch to say, I'm bereft at the loss of the cheese game so soon. Yes, Felicity, you're right.
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It was over in the blink of an eye.
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Seven months. Seven months.
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Dear David, Max and Mars Bar, just wanting to say that with all due respect to Mrs. Rushden, I never skip the jingles. In fact, I especially love singing along to They're Just Normal Countries as one of my worst possible singing voice.
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While the cheese jingle is not as sing-alongable, it is still a delight at least to me. Thank you for all the happy listening hours eagerly awaiting the support tier level where David flies to Massachusetts to fix my bicycle. The front wheel is flat and I think it has a hole in it. Much love from Phoebe.
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There is an extra tier where David will fly to Massachusetts and fix your bike.
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It's funny, the last two weeks, what a hot streak we've been on.
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The Oxford United quiz ended with Desmond Morris from Man Watching, this sexiest book in the school library. And then last week...
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The cheese?
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The cheese ended then. That was Alice. She guessed Delice de Bourgogne.
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The good news is from none, the In It For Life episode has three new quizzes. I'm not sure that's a good selling point given how happy you're like. So Piedimonte's quiz, if you are a new listener, welcome.
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It's a pretty straightforward quiz, this. A couple of months ago, I was in Piedimonte's in Fitzroy North at the Cucumbers.
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And I looked to my right and there was a man I recognized but wasn't totally sure who it was. And then after a bit of Googling, I remembered who it was. Confirmed who it was, more like.
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And there is a clue from Dave Colosimo, the osteopath for the Australian Olympic Taekwondo team 2007-2008.
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Which is that this person used to give him lifts in the 90s. That really helps you. Anyway. Okay. Here is Brian in Melbourne. Hi, Max, David, and producer Mars Bar. Your recent time in hiatus has allowed me to catch up.
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I feel like I'm in a position to prefer a guest for the Piedimonte's North Fitzroy quiz. My credentials. He's got credentials.
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Born and raised in Melbourne. Went to school in North Fitzroy just a few years ahead of Vince Colosimo, who was the last guest I heard. And that's not Dave Colosimo.
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I don't know if they're related. Everybody in Melbourne is Dave's cousin, so their chances are they are related. Yeah. Given Max's background, I think the type of person he would recognize in an Aussie supermarket would come from one of the following categories.
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A soap actor who went on to great, a former socceru, a former Australian cricketer. In that spirit, I would like to nominate Guy Pearce.
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Neighbours, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Memento. LA Confidential, of course. He was in a brilliant thing. Mayor of East Town. Neighbours.
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Well, of course, Neighbours. He also starred in an Australian series called Jack Irish, which was filmed in the streets of Fitzroy, very close to Piedimontes, in it for life, although not financially,
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Brian in Melbourne. Now, it's obviously wrong, Brian, because if I'd seen Guy Pearce at the Cucumbers, I'd have lost my fucking mind. I think he's in Los Angeles. I've got more chance of seeing him here. I should shout out the window, Guy, where are you, Guy Pearce?
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Max, is there a clue in the fact that it was near the Cucumbers? I'm trying to get a...
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Absolutely not at all.
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Little something. Really?
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I have nothing to connect this person with Cucumbers apart from he was at the Cucumbers. In the sense that I think most people eat Cucumbers.
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I don't think it narrows it down at all.
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Yeah, okay.
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But it was a good question. So we're... Still no closer to that answer.
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Yeah. But keep your guessings coming, please. Now let's play They're Just Normal Countries.
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I am the one and only. What country could I be? I am the one and only. Where in the world could our listeners be?
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Bananas and Pajamas. Sorry, I'm sure... I'm still at the Piedimonte's quiz.
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Are you guessing B1 or B2? It's a very vague guess to say one of the Bananas and Pajamas.
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If I say one, it'll just be the other, won't it? You won't give anything either. No, that is not the right answer. And in about six years time We find it was B2.
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They're very different. They don't like to be seen as a pair. They've got their own traits, David. You know. It's not fair to just cobble them together.
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That's like you and me. We work symbiotically together. We're not the same person.
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Yeah, it is. It's true, yeah.
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Northern Marianas Islands, Lesotho, Malawi, Suriname, South Sudan, Sao Tau, Mien, Principe, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Guyana, Curaçao, Andorra, Montserrat, Cape Verde.
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Yeah. Connor in Arizona writes, Hello, Max, David, and Mars Bar. Hi, Connor. Connor, I'm an American listening from the sunny deserts of Arizona. I work as a government attorney for the federal government and my work involves international relations.
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When COVID hit my office, it would occasionally and without warning have an extremely stagnated workflow, leaving us all sitting around for a day or so.
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I used those days to embark on a quest to memorize the location of every country on the map, as well as the flag and capital of every nation on earth. He could really be a superstar at this game.
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I'm hoping all of this gives me a leg up in the Just Normal Countries game. My official guess is a country with possibly the worst flag in the world. I'd love to elaborate for you sometime and hopefully just one podcast listener.
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The island nation of Haiti. If you could let us know what's wrong with Haiti's flag.
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I'm looking it up now.
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It's quite blue, isn't it? The Haiti flag.
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I don't see what the beef is here, but the Southern Court of Law, I would imagine he'd be like, you think that's a nice flag, do you?
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It's like Conor's in the room. Why are you little? I ought to tell you something.
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It's a warm day here at the Arizona Court of Law. I don't want to detain you 12 good and true members of this jury, but I'm going to tell you, it's a terrible flag, the flag of Haiti.
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My Arizona is almost as good as my Irish. Okay, producer Will, is Haiti a normal country?
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What? Shit, the bed!
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What does that mean? I don't know how many there are. I've forgotten how many there are. Is that the end of the quiz or is there more to come, Will? Are you not giving that information?
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I think that's it. Let me double check with Michael.
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Well, no, no, no, because we haven't got any correct so far. Have we got any correct?
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They're dropping, like flies. Also, the child who asked me what podcasting was, I told him it was the news and all he's heard from the other part of this house is me screaming, shit, the bed.
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Trevor McDonald never does that, does he? To Wales now. Shit, the bed. Because my friend Matt got in touch saying I was saying correct about something and it wasn't correct. So, I mean, how can we be expected to know?
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This is a shambles. I'm happy this is over. You just wanted to continue forever.
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Well, no, I'd like to be sure if we finish They're Just Normal Countries redux and then I'm frantically thinking how can we come up with the third They're Just Normal Countries?
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This could be the end for They're Just Normal Countries forever, guys. So that is a real moment. We're frantically waiting. I don't know why I'm doing it like it's live radio because we could just edit this bit out, David, but what I'm doing now is padding.
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I can say, just while we wait for Will, let's do a bit more on Sandro Tonali to Tottenham. A million seems an awful lot of money, but that's just what you've got to pay these days.
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Max, I'll just say I'm only on one tick with my whatsapp. We could be here for a while.
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Okay, right. They're just normal countries could carry on. The thing is, you're worth what someone's prepared to pay. That's what I'm saying.
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What time did you wake up at yesterday?
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Oh, this is terrible news, David, because this isn't a bonus episode. So Jaime, who I believe is not a paid up subscriber, will hear this.
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But I have to be honest.
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Yeah, this was always the risk with this. But so to the freeloaders, Max revealed on the subscription episode last week, one of the most joyous.
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It was like a school trip the whole day. And meanwhile, his good lady is at home. The lads aren't sleeping.
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Oh, it's a disaster. Jaime, I love you so much. I miss you. I miss the kids. And I'm sorry. And I know these take, they sort of come out a week later.
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So it's a week closer to me being home and it's 7.20 in the morning. Oh God, I'm sorry.
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That's fine. That's actually fine. Great. I thought you were going to say 11.
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I've had a full night's sleep. Oh, I'm so sorry.
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Stop apologizing.
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I do the wordle. The answer to the word is demure.
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I think I get it in four. I begin the squaredle. I get up. It's coffee time.
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I meet producer Joel at Handles over the road. I get a black Americano. I get him an oak flat white.
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Interruption.
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Yeah, David.
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What about the macchiato? I thought you had sort of worked out that that would be the closest American coffee to what you're looking for.
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A cortado at Handles. We'll get to that. But my first coffee of the day, I like a black coffee. Gets me going. We chat. We've got a few bit of work things to talk about. Nothing too interesting, but you know, how's the pod doing? Blah, blah. Because I'm doing daily pods for Football Weekly.
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Football Weekly daily for the World Cup. It's a very weird groundhog day that we're on. It feels like this is now the rest of my life. I just watch football all day. I walk 10 minutes up the road, do a podcast, go to bed, and I just repeat this cycle.
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But it's not one you can complain about to people who have normal jobs. Yes, David.
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How's the man who's never eaten a vegetable who's living with you eaten a vegetable yet? It's not Barry. It's another one of the football journalist men.
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Mark Langdon from the Racing Post. He was here for 10 days. And in those 10 days, he claimed ages ago he'd never eaten a vegetable. And I obviously found this absolutely fascinating.
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And sort of get through the football to get to this. And during COVID, one of the greatest things he said is, do you know what I've discovered in COVID?
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Butter. At one point when he was talking about what fruit and veg he'd had, he said, I did have a strawberry milkshake, which we had to point out was not a vegetable.
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Nish Kumar, Elis James and Josh Widdicombe are completely obsessed with this man. He sometimes has a bridge between breakfast and lunch. And one day his bridge was a chicken chow mein and an entire Chinese meal between breakfast and lunch.
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You've got to have a bridge. Quite extraordinary.
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I saw him eat five bits of lettuce and he had a fried rice that had some carrots and peas that he couldn't be bothered to take out. But he basically ate no vegetables. He began every day with honey nut Cheerios. What a guy.
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What a guy. He's been the standout star. He's been replaced by Archie Rintut, who is an excellent football analyst and a lovely man, but sadly eats relatively healthily. We're all very disappointed. A man called Alex says he loves the podcast. Not this one.
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In the cafe. I'm very envious of his youth. He's like an American jock. He's like 23. There's so many muscles in LA. There's just muscles on men that you just haven't seen anywhere else. But anyway, he's in great nick, is Alec. But we have a nice little chat.
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He's 76. When you ask him, he goes, this is my 40th World Cup, I declare.
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I do rightly declare. So I did see somebody. I can't remember exactly when, a bit later in the day.
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Because there's so much work done here. But I think Producer Joel was telling me about the sort of extra bottom that some people get. And I sort of knew about it, but I'd never seen that extra bottom right up close on something.
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The extra bottom. This is the extra bottom.
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And there was a lady who had an extra bottom. I mean, it was fucking mesmerizing. But at the same time, you don't want to stare at a lady's bottom for too long. It feels inappropriate. But I'd never been up close to someone who had had an extra bottom.
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Like, Jaime, you better not be listening to this now.
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No, no, I would talk to Jaime about this because it is like, it's almost like some shelving. Like that's sort of what's happened. It's like, what a mad thing.
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Extra bottom does imply that, you know, you need a second toilet, like two holes. You know what I mean?
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Okay, no, you're right. It's an extension. Yeah, it's like having a conservatory put on your bottom, basically. It's absolutely fucking mad. Like, have you ever seen one right up close?
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I met Cleo Cardesian and she had an extra bottom.
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But have you ever seen, like genuinely, have you ever seen an extra bottom on a bus?
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I don't think I have.
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All you want to do is go, why did you get an extra bottom? You know, it's like the orange for a head joke. Why did you get an extra bottom? Like, what's your... Anyway, back to the apartment. I've forgotten my key. Barry's awake, so that's fine. We chat about life. He was out till half past one the night before.
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You're, and this is just from your social media, Barry, his criticism of you is that you announce what you're about to do.
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A, I'm just going for a shower, which I think he accepted for a few days.
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But something pushed him over the edge. I get it. If you were like, I'm going for a coffee, the implication being, can I get you anything? But you were seemingly, you know, I'm just going to put on a wash.
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If you live in a house with two small children, you know, everything is accounted for. You can't just go into another room because that could be seen as like, you're just taking some time off. So me and Jaime are very much like, I'm going in here to push, I'm going to put these shoes on a rack.
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I'll be back in five seconds. You know, that's sort of how you're conditioned. Whereas Barry is conditioned to sitting there by himself without anybody annoying him by saying, I'm just going to put a laundry on.
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I'm just going for a shower. So like we have, it's taken us a few weeks to sort of reach a, you know, a symbiotic world where there was one point when I said good morning and he just sat much less at the table.
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And I thought this is hard to me, but there was a good moment he was telling me. So he told me the street next to us is so steep at the end of the day. And it has a handrail. Like you'll know this because you and him both done the Tour de France.
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He's like, it's like the Alpe d'Huez basically. And he was on a lime scooter that couldn't quite make it up. Like you almost had to stop Indiana Jones, jump off the scooter onto the handrail to get up.
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Anyway, I make a yogurt with blueberries, strawberries, banana, and some granola. And I take it down to room 408, which is where producer Joel is. And that's sort of where we watch the games. England are playing DR Congo. It's a 9am kickoff.
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Wow. Hang on. It's 9am in the morning there.
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Correct. Yeah.
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Wow. Because I watched this game here in the south of France and it was 6pm. So that's too early for it.
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It's too early. You're absolutely right. I used to have to, when I did Soccer AM during the glory years, I'd have to go and let's say an actor was on. So I think Tom Hardy was on or he was going to be on the show. And so I had to go and watch Bronson at 9am. And it was like, oh, I was just too early for that.
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It's too early for the emotional pain of an England game. Right? Six minutes in, you're 1-0 down. Oh, fuck. For a full report, you can listen to The Guardian for a weekly, but it's very stressful.
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We're 1-0 down at halftime. In the flat, it's me, producer Joel, social media producers Rory and Matt, and Archie Rintuck. Matt is a proper England fan. As soon as a pass is misplaced, he's like, oh, God's sake.
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Like straight, oh my God, why didn't we pick him?
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For people who don't follow English football, the perception is they're just so hard on the team.
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That every time anything goes wrong, the whole crowd, rather than go, have another go there, everyone just goes, oh, I knew this would happen.
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You know, it's decades of being eroded down by how heavy the shirt is. So anyway, so he goes and gets an England shirt on for some superstition. Archie gets an England shirt. Adorable. It's halftime. I'm going to get a Cortado from Handles.
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In the cafe, they're not that concerned about England losing 1-0 to DR Congo. It's weird. But anyway, I need a little bit of time. I'm generally quite an optimist. So I'm like, it'll be fine.
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Even if it isn't fine. Jaime gets in touch. The boys aren't sleeping. It's a complete disaster. My plan is to say I'm not tired for the six weeks after I get home. So I'm back on July the 22nd. I've got till August. I think it's like September the 2nd.
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I can say I'm tired. The issue is I fly for 24 hours from New York back home. So I will instantly be exhausted. And then we fly to London. So I'll be even more exhausted.
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But I'm not going to say it to anyone except you. Okay, David, this is a safe space.
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The extra bottom operation will take a lot out of you as well.
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Honestly, you wouldn't be able to sit in economy. What are you doing? You're like, where's that going? It's all completely mad. And then I heard that one of the Kardashians had the extra bottom because it was cool and then had it taken off because it's not cool.
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And then lots of people who followed her down the extra bottom route can't afford to have their extra bottom taken off. So now they're all lumbered with this extra bottom. Yeah, so poor Jaime is messaging me going, how is this fair? And it isn't.
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I'm sorry, Jaime.
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That's okay. I'm sorry, Jaime. Second half, stressful. The second half is stressful.
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DR Congo have a chance, a really good chance to go two nil up. They miss it. And so we're all sitting on like a sofa. Barry is sitting on a table watching it by himself. This is how he watches all the games. It's not just England games, but he's sort of not. He's there, but
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he's not part of the group because he likes to take notes and watch the UK coverage. And he just has said nothing for 70 minutes. And then he just, he yells, fuck it, incredibly loudly. His biggest fear is England winning a major tournament. He always has the last laugh.
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Anyway, Harry Kane scores two goals. Archie, he's got so superstitious. He's gone into his own room to watch it on his own, on German coverage. And that's 30 seconds ahead. So he knows when England have scored. So he films us surreptitiously without us knowing.
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You'll see a lot of like, look at us being filmed like Gogglebox, but we don't know we're being filmed. Certainly for the first goal, we don't. Anyway, so they are very funny videos because we're all cheering. And then Barry is just there with his arms folded, looking absolutely furious at the back of his head.
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There's a little bit of solace in the fact that Harry Kane who scored the two goals is a bit Irish.
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Sure. He could have played for us. I think he has both grandparents on one side, maybe.
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But yeah, no, obviously we were all there in our Democratic, Republic of Congo jerseys. That we spent a lot of money on.
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Of course. I put a phone in Barry's face and he says, and that has got more views on Instagram than anything we've cleverly put together. Any Clip that we spent hours working on, that is the one that's done incredibly well.
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It's probably another fetish. It's similar to the planking one where loads of people just love to be told to fuck off by strangers.
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But he is in a WhatsApp group. There's like a group of mainly football, but other quite famous non-English people are just a hate watch along. Whenever England are playing, they get together on WhatsApp. They're just, everyone wants to belong.
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And so he's in that. Then we go to the pool and we film that bit where Baz falls into the pool, like a dead weight. I mean, his timing is very good. He goes upstairs, he comes back downstairs, he gets back in the pool, gets his glasses. Oh, I'm off to the gym. God, sorry. I'm doing the
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Amal Rajan workout as we established.
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Kettlebells.
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The kettlebells. The Amal Rajan on Instagram said a single kettlebell irreversibly changed his life. And so we're doing the Amal Rajan, me and producer Joel doing the Amal Rajans every day.
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They haven't changed my life yet, but I do those. Have a quick shower. It's time for lunch. Me and Barry are, we're off to a cafe called Dialogue. Best eggs you can get.
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Just, sorry. Amal Rajan to me is best known as hosting a quiz.
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This is why we think it's funny that Amal Rajan, we're doing the Amal, we're not doing the Joe Wicks, we're doing the Amal Rajan.
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And like me and producer Joel will go, have you done your Amals?
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And whenever you pick up an M&M, he goes, what would Amal Rajan do?
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Sure. But I would know him best as the host of University Challenge in recent times. And I don't know if I would have taken fitness advice from either Bamber Gascoyne or Jeremy Paxman.
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And I will not be taking advice from him. Listeners, it's the most bizarre icon to choose.
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Well, interestingly, social producer Matt made a very sinister comment when he said, Amal Rajan has a lovely silhouette and he'd like to have his silhouette.
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What does that mean? We checked, we checked all social media. It's the first time ever anyone has discussed the silhouette.
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So anyway, we're all aspiring. What you want is, you know, if you can get to the stage where you're all silhouetted and people cannot tell the difference between you and Amal Rajan, that is when you have, your life has been irreversibly changed by a kettle, a single kettlebell.
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Just before we move on, because this is a sort of service department gym, you're not going to get much through traffic, particularly not at that time of day.
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Are you in a pair of tight Lululemons, just shirtless, just staring into a mirror, basically? Are you undressing yourself? Well, no, you're already undressing.
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No, no, I'm in a gym.
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Penetrating yourself with your eyes.
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No, I'm in a gym kit, David, because other people do go there. So there's one man who is on the cross trainer, I think 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Oh, yeah. Like drenched in sweat. I've never been in there. He's not been in there.
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I don't know what, he's trying to do the Marathon de Sable on a cross trainer. I don't know what it is. We go to Dialogue. I get the best eggs on Sunset Boulevard, if you're interested. I get scrambled eggs with a hash brown and avocado. I'm sorry again, Jaime. No toast.
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They don't bring any toast, so I ask for toast and it comes, so that's fine. We get over that minor mishap.
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Eggs on a plate without toast underneath. It feels so wrong to me.
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This is LA. It's not a bread culture at all.
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It is not a bread culture. You're absolutely right. We're back. It's Belgium, Senegal.
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I have to do an interview with our England reporter, Jacob Steinberg, so I run upstairs and I do that, much like I'm talking to you. Senegal are 2-0 up. Joel makes me a cup of tea. Five minutes to go. Belgium score one. Then they score another one.
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Jaime calls. It's extra time, but Jaime calls. So Willie Rushden is trying to pass me a ball through the phone. Oh, I love it. It's absolutely adorable. I miss them so much. And I know that within half an hour of getting back, I'll be like, oh my God.
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But like right now, absolutely. I would do anything to just go back and say hi.
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Sometimes you do magic with your father.
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Where you have told him that you will pass something through the iPad to him
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Is this one of those situations? Do you have a ball to take it off Willie Rushden?
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No, I haven't got a ball. So like, I'm not doing, you know, they're all a bit fraught because it's the morning and Jaime's had no sleep and she's trying to get them ready for the cafe.
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And I'm like, hey, what training are you playing with? And they're sort of talking to you, but also because you're sort of not there, it's almost like you've lost any relationship you've had with them.
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You're just standing in a soulless gym, swinging a kettlebell around your person. You're looking great, William. And Jaime's like, you used to call him Willie. Whatever. Good stuff, guys. Still two of you? Is there more?
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Yeah, Rushden Jr. Belgium have just equalized. And he's like, I don't give a fuck. So anyway, I have a nice chat with them. And that's nice. And Ian's playing trains. He shows me a cargo and he wants me to bring him a train from New York. And I'm going to do that.
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Belgium score in the last minute of extra time. They get a penalty. A Senegal player pretends to be injured and lies on the penalty spot for quite a long time. It's very funny. I've got a radio interview to do with friend of the pod, Waleed Aly.
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Presuming how... how long it takes him to watch a football match. I don't know if he's finished this football match.
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But I do make that reference on the ABC in Melbourne for the tiny Venn diagram of people who might listen to this podcast and listening to ABC Melbourne.
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Amazing. What's the nature of the interview? He's a very intelligent man. So it's just perception of the World Cup so far. What's it like in America, Max? Is that the sort of chat?
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What he's doing on the phone is what's Australians' view towards England in the World Cup? We've got quite an interesting conversation about how I really want the Australian football team to do well at the World Cup.
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But if I see an Australian holding a cricket bat, I want it to go badly. I'm sure there are some people who just actively like, I support England at everything and not other countries. But I have a different, my emotions are different when I'm watching them play different.
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So we have quite an interesting chat about that. And then we just do some football-y stuff. I explain to the listeners that although Welly professes to be into all this politics and stuff, all he really cares about is football.
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So this is the bit that he's enjoying. So I think that's quite funny. Because he's just been talking to a politician and a caller about private health insurance and private health care. That's what I've come into.
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Yeah, what I find intriguing always about that stuff, obviously I want Ireland to win and England to lose.
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But then occasionally there will be a sport where they play together, such as the Ryder Cup in golf.
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And you find yourself like one of your most quintessentially annoying English golfers like, you know, Lee Westwood or Nick Faldo. And I find myself on my knees being like, I love you, Nick.
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Yeah, but that's interesting as well is because there is nothing more annoying than American golfers and American golf fan, we are so desperate to beat the Americans. But actually, I quite want the American football team to do quite well. You're absolutely right.
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Like wanting to see American golfers do badly is literally sort of at the top of my list of things I want on earth. Including, you know, my children having a long and happy life is slightly below watching Jim Furyk crumble. I am exhausted. I have a little nap.
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You know, this is something strange. Like you're just watching so much football and staring at a TV for so long.
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Don't try it. Don't even try this. Come on. I have to represent Jaime basically now.
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It's five o'clock. The USA are playing Bosnia-Herzegovina. It's a good game. Joel makes a creamy pasta. We're sort of doing cooking on rotation. It's not his best work, but it does a job. That's his words. I really enjoyed it. I did enjoy it.
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What have you made?
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So far, I've made a bolognese. I've made a Thai red chicken. I've made a moussaka. And I've made a chicken korma as well.
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Have you had to buy these ingredients individually from a shop?
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I don't know what you possibly could be getting at here. One of the problems is Jaime's like, I see you have time to cook for all these people.
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So anyway, I'm not as time- Or here, as it's established. Barry's bought M&M's and Haribo because he sees us going to the gym and he wants to drag us down. So he just buys us sweets and I have no valve. So I eat all the sweets and then I feel sick.
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7 p.m. The US have won. We're recording at 8 because we have to record just in case there's an extra penalty. So we've got this kind of hour. I go upstairs and I floss. So I've eaten all these sweets and I've brushed my teeth for quite a long time.
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I kind of sit by the pool with Joel and Rory for a bit.
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Interruption. I wonder if you got an extra bottom and you just had it fitted I wonder if you'd have to floss that you know, to stop it sort of connecting with itself. It'd obviously be a wider gauge of floss that you'd have to do.
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It's still the same crack, right?
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Yeah, it is.
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Are you having a new crack? Like you've got to...
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Sounds like he's trying to use Irish colloquialism here listeners. Yeah, it's ass extensions more than extra bottoms. Yeah.
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You don't get more pipe, do you?
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You just have more... More buttock. Anyway, 7.45, we walk to the studio. To get to the studio, you have to walk past a pub, a strip joint and the celebrity cannabis bar.
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There's a nice Irishman called Carl at the pub. He likes the party, invites us for a pint. We can't because we've got to go to work.
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We go in, the pod is me, Barry, Archie Winter and an African football expert called Asasu Obayuana. He's in a different part of LA so he's like on a screen and he's absolutely hilarious.
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He's so angry because D.R. Congar and Senegal have gone out. And unlike us, we're all like, oh, what a heroic effort from this little side. He's like, this is so patronizing. We fucked up in both games. It's shit. I want excellence.
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I'm so furious about this. He says, I'm lost for words and I've done enough pods with him so he is never lost for words. This guy, if you didn't say we've only got 40 minutes, he could do three hours, but he's so brilliant. It's so funny.
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Gasping and just, oh, there's agony in his voice is absolutely brilliant.
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There's an interesting thing with the African teams that most people from Africa just want, they obviously want their team to win, but they will also accept one of the other African teams doing well.
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I think that's fair to say, isn't it? In a way that if Belgium get through and France are knocked out, the people of France aren't immediately like, come on, Belgium.
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Yeah, I think there is that. I think there are obviously some rivalries that run, quite deep.
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The general vibe is, you know, nine African teams out of 10 got to the last 32. It's a bigger World Cup. But that is great. But they haven't done well so far.
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Morocco are through. We record about 40 minutes. The producers, they all have to hang about and sort of like take all the stuff down and they have editing to do. But me, Archie and Barry are done for the day.
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Weed, stripping, bar. You call into them all.
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I get a big doobie. I get a bong. It bubbles away and I bubble it. I'm obviously quite inexperienced with bongs, David.
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You take it into the strip place. Can I ask you, is that an extra bottom there that's jiggling just beside me?
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Barry wants to go to the pub. I don't want to go to the pub. I'll have a quiet beer by the pool, but I don't want to. But anyway, Archie says, I want to go to the pub. So I say, okay, I'll come to Barney's Beanery. And because the US have just played, it is absolutely, it's so loud anyway.
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Like it's the loudest. I mean, it's just unbearable. Even if you're sat in a booth and you're the only people there, they'd be playing I Love Rock and Roll at like 4 million decibels.
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And there'd be someone like drinking pints of tequila on the pool table. And you'll be like, fuck, shut up, the lot of you. So anyway, I am desperate for them to not want to go in. And like, they're both like, oh, maybe we will.
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Maybe we won't. We go and sit in a bit outside that's clearly closed. Then like Barry's like, I'm going in. I'm like, great. Okay, fuck it. I'll go in. And then they're IDing.
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Interruption.
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Yes, David.
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You should have done, do you remember the legendary John Kearns trick where he didn't really want to go to the bar? So he was wearing shorts.
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Oh, I am wearing shorts and I've got a backpack. I've got so many reasons not to be let in. And anyway.
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You're shirtless.
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There's a guy in front of us who's getting ID'd, but he looks about 20. And so Archie says, I haven't got any ID. And then eventually, because Barry's quite impatient, just goes, oh, fuck it. And so we don't go. And I'm like, so delighted. So then we walk up the hill with the handrail.
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We walk up out the ways. We sit on a sun loungers. I have one beer. We talk about, people in the industry that we don't like. And then I say, thanks very much. I've got a podcast in the morning. I'm going to bed. And I go to bed.
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One more question before you ask me what I did yesterday. How much was the beer? Is it very expensive? Is it prohibitively expensive?
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I went to an off-license the day before, but I didn't look. But America is insane. Like LA is so, like there's not a bar. It's just like,
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oh, okay, sorry.
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Everything is expensive. Like groceries are insanely expensive here.
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I thought you might've gone to the Tiki bar. And got a pint of Stella for $30.
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At the comedy store, which we walked past as well, which is before the strip joint. And I think it's quite big. Jay Leno was doing it the other day.
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It's $20 apparently. I've not been there, but it's 20 bucks for a pint, which is what, 18 quid? Yeah. For a pint.
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But weak as piss, bud light.
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Anyway, that was my day. And Jaime, I'm sorry. And Jaime, if you have any problems with my day, this is how you and everyone else
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Now, David, what time did you wake up yesterday morning?