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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? 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 and welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Midweek mayhem episode. I'm Max Rushden. Alongside me today, David O'Doherty. Welcome, David.
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So you're still in America following the World Cup dream that if you go to all the games dressed in the jerseys of one of the teams, you may be picked out of the crowd by the coach to play in the second half. I know that's your dream.
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Well, that is actually a storyline from Mr. Cool of the Mr. Men books.
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It's poor Andy Robinson is ill, but Mr. Cool, who is pretty cool, one of the things he does is Andy Robinson is suddenly on the bench for his team, and then he brought on, he scores a goal. They also sled down Mount Everest, which
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I'm not sure actually in reality that would be a dream. I think it'd be quite an ordeal. He flies a jet fighter over the Pacific, which I think is a lot of responsibility to put on an 11-year-old boy.
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So not Mr. Cool from the Roger Hargreaves Mr. Men series? No, Mr. Cool from the Roger Hargreaves Mr.
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Men series. He arrived. He arrives, does all these cool things for Andy Robinson. Andy Robinson gets better. Mr. Cool goes, yeah, see ya.
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Is Mr. Cool the one shaped like a snowman with a scarf?
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No, he's a kind of blue triangle.
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I hope the listeners know what we're talking about.
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I'd say most of them do. I think so. If we're not explaining who Dion Dublin is, we're not explaining who Mr. Cool is.
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I always thought Mr. Cool was the autobiography of Phil Cool, the 90s impersonation guy on the TV.
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I only read autobiographies of impressionists. Bremner. McGowan. McGowan. This guy, you just feel cool. The reason I bring this up. Yes, David.
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So the big fear all along, particularly with us doing these In It For Life extra podcasts, which, can I make clear, I have now signed up for, because it didn't seem like Mars Bar was going to send us free logins or anything.
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Do you know what the thing is? We both signed up. So like, it's okay. We just lose a bit of money, each of us.
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But your fear. From that was that the wonderful and beautiful and timeless Jaime, mother of your children, would hear how much fun you have been having in amongst the great work you've been doing in reporting the Football World Cup to the world.
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And then last week, you went and blabbed on the main feed.
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You've got to be honest. Like, we have to be honest to the audience. And I think, I don't think Jaime's listened to that episode yet.
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So, I'm waiting for the reaction. And I'm hoping that maybe she doesn't get around to it until I'm home. And I've still got two weeks to go. God, it's such a long time. Oh, man.
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Jaime, once again, I'm probably near you now. Because by the time this comes out, I'll be nearly home. I love you. And I'll say it to your face. But just through the medium of podcast, I'm really sorry about this.
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And it's very unlikely that The Guardian will send me to Saudi Arabia 34. Like, that's the only thing we have to... I don't think we're going to be doing daily episodes from Riyadh. But I can't promise these things. Oh, the Dan Tiernan episode was fun, wasn't it?
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T in Brooklyn. Hey, T, and I'm in Brooklyn too. The Dan Tiernan episode is the most my lifestyle has been validated by the podcast since the Christopher McArthur Boyd episode.
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They are two peas in a pod. The latest ever wake up, I think people are calling it. He gets up at noon.
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She says, I still don't know what a top it is. Ring the crab bell says, I really enjoyed him. Knowing most of us would want to know, but not enough to bother to look it up. To which KT Trey said, we really are a listenership that on the whole cannot be asked with much.
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Well, a newsflash there. I looked up what a top it is, but it's so complicated. I stopped wondering then after a while. It's something you use in magic.
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But if you don't know exactly.
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There isn't a magic wand. It's used in magic, not a saw or a magic wand. Isn't crucially a top hat, which I think a lot of people.
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He was just saying top hat.
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And then what really confused it in that episode, there was top hats. There was top it's and there was tiptoe the series, which he watched all of.
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The part, though, that I love in that episode is the magic shop scene, which future children will have to act that out in drama school.
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That all leads up to the moment where the man who runs the magic shop, who's been shouting at everyone, turns out he's actually magic because he makes his empty cigarettes suddenly fall again.
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So good, wasn't it? Juliet writes, actually, on the TNN episode. Hello, Max, DOD and Mars Bar. This week, my girlfriend became obsessed with playing a game called Contexto, which she excitedly told me was just a mystery word in an app.
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And you have to guess what it is with no clues. That sounds right up my street.
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Oh, it's digital think of a thing, I exclaimed, and proceeded to fill her in on Max's love of an insufferable quiz curdle and moomins as butt plugs. I have one tattooed on my arm, a moomin, that is, says Juliet. So far, so delightful.
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Then the following morning, as I was on the way to the tube listening to Dan Tiernan's episode, it quickly became clear that the coffee shop he was unable to recall the name of is in fact one owned by my girlfriend. It's called Fink's Gillespie.
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Not only that, but as I was sending her a message to let her know that, as I told her just the day before, what did you do yesterday
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Was in actual fact the center of the known universe, the exceptionally friendly man, in the kiosk at Arsenal tube station, also gave me his usual, hello, good morning, you're right, yeah, have a good day. And I didn't get to that bit of Dan's story until I was on the tube.
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I do hope I've not peaked with this interaction with the what did you do yesterday multiverse. Lifer for life, Juliet. Thank you, Juliet.
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Yeah, it's such a beautiful episode, that one. You could almost, I'm not saying you need to start at Dan's flat, but you could walk a lot of that episode.
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You know what I mean? Almost like a Strava or something. You could see if you get to the point.
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Yeah, that's a great idea that you could take a yesterday and try and recreate it. Some are easier than others, depending on where you are. Really, ideally, you'd have to start in their bed, like completists.
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You would have to knock on David Baddiel's door and say, look, I'm trying to do your yesterday.
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I do wonder if the proprietor of Fink's Gillespie or whatever that cafe was called was also where Don Turdant, when he poured vodka on his third MacBook and got a desktop instead and then carried it around in a plastic bag, in a huge bag for life,
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whether he ever cracked that bad boy open on the counter in the coffee shop. You know the no laptops rule? The one way around it is I did not see no desktops written there.
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You bring in an Amiga and you go, there you go. Power pack down there. This is from Matt in Melbourne on this being the center of the known universe.
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Dear Max, dollars, Mars bar, and the Teddington wizard. From a newly dubbed freeloader with a tail from the center of the known universe. I have noticed this phenomenon in small ways since the beginning. For example, three quarter flat whites have been my choice for years.
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Then there was the time I was listening to the pod while assembling my new Ikea furniture and picking up a Kallax piece as Max asked, what's a Kallax?
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But during last week's mayhem, things got spooky. I'm one of those listeners who uses what did you do yesterday as a sleeping aid in that the jovial mundanity and inane quizzes seem to have a soporific effect. Wake up, wake up.
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I'm trying to, wake up. The morning after, I enjoy listening to the second half of the episode as I drive to work. When I start the car, it takes a little while for the audio system to sync up with the pod on my phone.
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In the meantime, the car radio plays until the podcast takes over. We all know that little bit, that little vacuum. So last week when I started the car, an 80s tune was playing that I knew very well.
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Oh, yes, it's true. I'm happy to be stuck with you. Oh, because I can see, I can see that you're happy to be stuck with me. I thought to myself, what's the name of the guy who sings this? For the life of me, I can't remember who it is.
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At that precise moment, 44 minutes and two seconds, the podcast kicked in and DOD says, Huey Lewis. My blood froze. I stared at the radio. Am I in the twilight zone? I nearly drove off the road.
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Anyway, I love your work. Come back to Melbourne for another show. This time not on a public holiday so that David could fit a classier round of cheese in his pocket to Matt in Melbourne. Thank you, Matt. That's great.
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That's beautiful. I, too, have been haunted by What Did You Do Yesterday since my errors have been pointed out. We need a catchier name. You know, the incredibly confident, like jodhpurs.
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Do you know what it is? I was at university with my friend Rich, who was known as Geordie because he was from Newcastle, and then one of his tutors wrote Jordi like Jordi Cruyff because she thought he was called Jordi because everyone called him Geordie.
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J-O-R-D-I, cool.
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He used to. When we watched Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, he was very good at general knowledge, right?
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So he would, the question would be about birds of prey, and he'd be like, it's D. Kestrel. And you'd be like, well, he knows. Geordie knows. So you'd be so convinced. And you'd be like, it's D, and they're going C. Osprey.
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And you're going, no, you're going to lose the money. And then it was C. Osprey, but because he did it with such conviction. So what you're doing, David, and I'm glad to bring it back into my life, it's a D. Kestrel. The way you spell Jodhpurs is very much a D. Kestrel, if you're happy with that.
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Because I attempted to D. Kestrel on Dan Tiernan episode as well with the discussion about who had the bigger head.
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And I asked you, what's the area of a sphere? And you pointed out that a sphere has a volume and not an area because of the difference between two and three dimensional space.
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And you weren't having it.
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Well, it wasn't that I wasn't having it. I was just, I think I just went quiet for 10 minutes.
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Alone with your thoughts. Probably just 10 minutes of spelling Jodhpurs incorrectly to yourself. Val says, dear gents, in the episode today, Sunday, the 5th of July with Dan Tiernan, Max mentioned the Newbury bypass with Swampy.
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It was, however, the Winchester bypass. Oh no, I've D. Kestrel the bypass, which Swampy protested about. Winchester is near the M3, however. Newbury is near the M4. Another point is that Newbury is 30 miles from Swindon.
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Hope you do not mind me bringing this to your attention in it for life, Val. No, because we are in search of truth, real journalism. So I'd like to apologise for D. Kestrel-ing, Swampy, Newbury bypass, Winchester bypass. My apologies.
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If anyone else has noticed any other factual errors that either...
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I don't think we need to ask. I don't think we need... I think they like to tell us, David.
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They do, actually, yeah.
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Nerdify saw me on Sky News doing an interview about the World Cup.
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Max literally mentioned he was exhausted within 20 seconds of starting the interview. Shout out to the unmade bed in the background.
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So tell me about it. So Sky News, whoa, 24-hour rolling news. You are the news.
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At this current moment, I am in demand, David.
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Because people just need to fill their time with World Cup stuff. And I've said no to everyone because I'm tired.
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Sorry, Jaime. But the guy hosting it was a guy who I used to work with at Radio Cambridge. Well, he was doing Look East. And I was at Radio Cambridge. Look East was a great show.
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It was a great show, Look East. And actually, when you're in Cambridge, you didn't even do the main episode. That came out of Norwich. You did like the little five-minute bit on the end. So everyone there was like, oh, if I do really well, I'll get to Norwich.
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And you're like, maybe that isn't the end game, guys.
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Sorry, interruption. I love the idea that there's almost like what you do yesterday, constraint on Look East, where if anything happens to the west of the studio, it has to be, utterly ignore it, you know?
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Yeah, what's over there? There's a marching band on fire just to the west, but they're just doing another story about a bric-a-brac sale in Yarmouth. So I agreed to do it because Jonathan Samuels, I worked with, I hadn't spoken to him for 30 years.
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And obviously we didn't spend a lot of time at 8 p.m. Sky News, top story, talking about working together and, you know, Sandra Craft on reception. I wanted to get into that stuff, but he was really focused on the world cup.
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Did you, a part that's really stayed with me from last week was the guy in L.A., and you're in New York now, so we're excited to hear about this, but the guy in L.A. who said that you needed to go out in new frames.
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Oh, new frames, yeah.
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Were you wearing them on Sky News? Was that the dirty contra deal that was going on there?
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I had new frames.
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I haven't changed, no way. Not in the slightest have I changed.
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I did my hair like Gok Wang, and I was wearing a very tight singlet. I think it was fine. I did what, you know, I ask a lot of people on the radio to do this. I filled 10 minutes for them.
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I did what I had to do. They asked me about Infantino and Trump, and I said, it stinks. I said, could you just put a big picture of Jimmy Hill saying Cheney record on the screen? And I enjoyed that reference, but you know, and that was as far as I said, I don't know who gets sued.
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Did you get sued or did the Guardian get, who gets sued if I say something right now? So I'll just leave it at that. But that was pretty, you know, that was pretty hard talk from me.
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That is really hard talk. Yeah. You, you should be a motor mouth that just goes on, you know, just pure opinion. You know what I mean?
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Thing is France aren't going to win because ultimately they don't have the bottle. You're saying stuff like that.
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I can say, but who is better? Cristiano. Oh God. Heidi says evening DOD and my favorite generic man. Let me set the scene for you. It's Sunday morning. I've awoken early to get ready for a coffee and walk date with a guy I'd been speaking to for about a week and a half.
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I sent him a message confirming the meetup only to be met with no response, but being the optimistic, lady I am, I went to the prearranged meeting place anyway, and the hope he might still turn up readers.
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He did not. Listeners also. He did not boo, boo that man. However, you know who did turn up Dan Tiernan and his yesterday.
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So after a very small pep talk and a Taylor Swift song, I put my headphones in and did the walk by myself with my new, what did you do yesterday? And had a lovely time giggling away to myself and a walk around the lake.
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Then I continued with an old classic, the James Buckley episode in fact, and altogether it was almost definitely more enjoyable than what the date would have been. Thank you. Thank you for always being there and for making me laugh. And all I wanted to do was cry in it for life.
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I have signed up. So I'm actually in it for life. Yes, you are Heidi and shame on that man.
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Yeah, that is awful. And remember there we're bringing in soon a new tier where we will, we're hit men.
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We will take out people as well with Mars bars working at the exact price of it, but everyone gets two hits a year that me and Max absolute killers will carry out for you.
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And I kill it. I've just got my silencer really excited. Screwing that on top of my gun. It's really fun.
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Yeah. Mars bar. It's sort of talking to the incompetent assassins where it's like, you boys know how a silencer works. And immediately you're like, no, I don't think I do. Sorry.
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You get to select who you want to do the taking out as well. So, you know, our stats are on the, if you sign up for that tier, our stats are online, you know,
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like top trumps.
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Yeah. Exactly. Don. Hey, I was in Uluru on a guided tour of the big rock.
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Have I read this one out?
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Walking by an American girl on the tour, I heard her talking about her socks, which had a Nordic cartoon on. Everyone she was speaking to had no idea what she was talking about. I feel I've read this, but maybe I haven't.
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Keep going.
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I tried my luck and asked, are they Moomins? She was delighted lifting up her trouser leg to reveal a Moomin. She then went on to say her sister married a Norwegian and the wedding was Moomin themed. She asked how I knew them. And I said, a podcast I listened to mentioned them.
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I did not have the heart to tell her that her sister's wedding was a butt plug themed wedding.
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Just imagine the invite. Mr. And Mrs. Arthur Chumley-Wilmot are inviting you to the wedding of their lovely daughter, Alexandra and David.
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The theme is butt plugs. More proof that the pod is the center of the known universe. As I've never heard of Moomins before listening to the pod that same week. Thanks Dawn. Thank you, Dawn.
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I did a gig with Phil Elis this week.
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Oh yeah. With the greatest of respect.
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And his life has been somewhat mired is the wrong word, but it's certainly become a recurring theme among our listeners that people kind of mime things going up butts around.
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Do people talk to him about it a lot?
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He definitely said it was one of the things that he's done that audiences are most likely to shout at him. So that's a win of sorts.
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It's a win for us. You know, like Nish Kumar is certainly, you know, he's having to deal with a lot of that still, isn't he? Years later. And now Phil Elis, people can just go, you see Phil, if you see Phil Elis, you just say with the greatest of respect.
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And then we all know what it means. We all know what the line is. Hey, look, the cheese quiz is done. You know that. So hold on to your hats until December, 2026 guys. We'll get there soon. Let's race through this year and get to cheese board. I, I, I,
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I know we'll miss that. The cheese music theme that some people hate. Well, you don't have to hear it now for six months, five months.
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Yeah. But Joni at Eddington says, uh, hi all in response to Jaime's dislike of the long quiz theme songs, particularly they're just normal cheeses.
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I'd like to offer a counter argument. Aaron Copland's fanfare for the common man is a groundbreaking piece of music, which really defined the sound of Americana in music going forward and has massive influence on people like John Williams,
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Emerson, Lake and Palmer. It couldn't be a better way to introduce a celebration of normal. i.e. the common cheeses. The only criticism is the podcast version is too short. Maybe what the quiz is missing is the full three minute piece.
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Commit to the bit. Thanks for the show. I have no opinion on Chesney Hawks, the one and only, but we could do the whole of Appalachian spring. That's like 20 minutes. That's nice. Maybe I'll listen to that on a walk around New York city later today.
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What's wild is that Aaron Copland also put in the Alan Partridge voiceover part in it where he's talking about cheese as well. He did that. Yeah, it's incredible that he did that in the 40s.
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What I've noticed about New York is people like it when you say, I'm in New York city. I'm walking here. You want a coffee? They love that stuff. They really do. Hey, do you want to do the Piedimontes quiz?
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Do I have big news first? Do you remember we talked about Vince Colosimo and I said-
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Vince Colosimo has the same name as Dave Colosimo.
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Yeah, I said they're probably cousins, but they're not related. But Dave got in touch to say, Vince and I are first cousins.
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Our dads were brothers. So that is a clue that should help us. Because if you remember, I was at the Cucumbers at Piedimontes in Fitzroy North.
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Next to me was someone I recognized, but I wasn't sure who it was. And then when I got home, it triggered who I thought it was. And I Googled and it was that person.
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It's since been established that the osteopath for the Australian Olympic Taekwondo team 0708, Dave Colosimo, who's coincidentally a very good friend of mine, used to get lifts from this person in the 90s.
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When they were young.
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But old enough to drive a car. But I can't give you the reason. So we're basically there. Dan says.
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It's not Guy Pearce. Sorry.
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It isn't Guy Pearce.
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It isn't somebody who I would instantly go, oh, it's not Harold Bishop. Because then I wouldn't be like, oh, I think that's Harold. I've gone like, oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, tuba, tuba. I don't think so.
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Yeah, sure, sure.
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Hi, Max. Dear, dear Michael, says Dan McCarthy. Was the guy Max saw near the Cucumbers a legend of Ramsey Street, the one and only Toadfish, aka the actor Ryan Maloney? Many thanks for all the glorious yesterdays. No, it wasn't Toadfish. This is the same issue, guys.
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You've got to think of a celebrity you probably haven't heard of. That is the...
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Toadfish is from after my time watching Neighbors.
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Well, that is how time is. Because they used to be B.C. and A.D. But since the world has become more secular, it is now B.T.F. and A.T.F.
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And that's before Toadfish, after Toadfish, and that's how everybody, that's how the years happen now.
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However, my friend Megan is from Colac, which is a town in rural Victoria. And the most famous person from there is the character of Toadfish from Neighbors.
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Yeah, he's from Colac, yeah. His whole family, they come in sometimes, I think. May Neighbors rest in peace.
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Now then, they're just normal countries. Welcome, let's play They're Just Normal Countries.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop. Hang on,
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I thought we might have finished this debacle last week.
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No, we got one, remember? Big moment. We got Haiti.
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I know, but Mars Bar left producer Will on one tick. Do you remember that? So there was this great hope among me and many of the listeners that in fact the whole thing was over.
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Yeah, but if you listen to the whole episode, he came back with two ticks and told us the answer, but maybe you fell asleep like this podcast sent you to sleep.
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I had a root canal.
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You were doing the podcast and you fell asleep during the episode when they said it's just one. That's okay, David. If we can't be bothered to listen, we set expectations low. For the audience, but that's okay.
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Hi, everybody. Max here. I hope you're enjoying the episode of the podcast. David's here too.
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I've had to break into the podcast. I'm outside the podcast.
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What are we doing?
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Because it transpires that the bit where producer Will said that we hadn't got two countries, we were just one country.
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Yeah. Didn't go out. So I was teasing you for something that didn't happen. I went full de-Kestrel and rather than do like a clever edit, dropping this bit in here. So, David, from outside the podcast to inside the podcast, I'd like to apologize to you for
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teasing you.
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Back to the podcast.
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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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Northern Marianas Islands, Lesotho, Malawi, Suriname, South Sudan, Sao Tome and Principe, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Guyana, Curaçao, Andorra, Montserrat, Cape Verde, Haiti.
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Correct. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Now, Abel says, first, congratulations to Connor in Arizona. I honestly don't get the shade thrown down on Haiti's flag. While born and raised in the States, my parents came from that country in the 80s.
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That flag is 100% my ancestral flag. I'm not calling it the best flag in the world, but it's certainly not the worst. It's just a normal flag. Second, I'm not that one and only. But if you are, I'd love to chat. So if you are the one listener in Haiti, Abel would like to get in touch.
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But Connor in Arizona has been in touch. Hello, my scrumptious little soldiers. I'm so pleased that my guess of Haiti was correct. Quick explanation of why I believe the flag of Haiti to be the worst in the world.
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So here we are, Abel. Haiti's flag consists of a red and blue bicolor with the coat of arms of Haiti in the middle. What could be the problem with that? The coat of arms of Haiti features the flag of Haiti.
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Its flag. Exception. It's Haitian turtles all the way down. And it's driven me mad. Do you see that in the coat of arms is the flag? So then you have the coat of arms in the flag, in the coat of arms in the flag, in the coat of arms in the flag, in the coat of arms like that.
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It just goes on and on and on forever. He says, your impression of me as a Southern Atticus Finch style lawyer was the highlight of my month. I do declare this court in session. Let all rise, ladies and gentlemen. This is Flip Fantasia.
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Anyway, it was. You did it. You can't say, oh no, you did it. I do solemnly declare. Yes. My second guess, I'd like to nominate for a country with one of my very favorite flags in the world is the Marshall Islands.
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Could he get two from two? Could he be the sole winner of They're Just Normal Countries?
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Let me look up the Marshall Islands flag. Let me just check it. Oh, it's a beaut. It's an absolute beaut. It is, however, in the corporate colors of my bank. So that's the only thing I'll say about it.
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Midland. Midland Bank.
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PTSB. So it used to be called the Irish Permanent, and then TSB bought it, and then it was called PTSB.
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Yeah, it's literally called PTSD now. Every time you look at your balance. Fuck.
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It reminds you of Nam. That's what they do. They're constantly saying, there's an update in your app. It's just a memory of Nam. Anyway, let's go to Will. Is Marshall Islands a normal country?
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Technically incorrect.
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Hang on a second.
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Michael says, it's so obscure a country, it doesn't even come up on the analytics as an option.
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Oh, so there's every chance. We're absolutely enormous in the Marshall Islands. Does that mean Connor gets another guess, or is it everyone's back in play? I think he forfeits. Everyone's back in play.
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Okay, but we allow Connor if he wants to submit, but he just goes in with the thousands of others in the tombolo that Mars Bar draws them out of.
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He's not out. He's just... Everyone else is back in. So everyone in the world has a buzzer. They're all standing in a semicircle. So you can all have a guess. So get in touch with us.
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I have a question for you.
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No, I have a question for you.
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Oh, you've got a question for me.
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Yeah, I have a question for you. You have a question for me, but only for people who are in it for life.
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How about this? I have a question for you, and that question is, do you have a question for me?
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My question for you. I do have a question for you. What time did you wake up yesterday?
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I woke up at 9.30.
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Okay, nice.
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And I woke up with the sound of golf ball on metal driver. Actually, my carbon head, something like that. Are golf clubs still made out of metal?
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Anyway, I'm staying on a golf course somewhere on the way to Newbury, I think maybe in England. I don't really know where I am.
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I've flown to an airport and then been taken to a place where I've been making a TV show for the last few days. And then normally,
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I know your instinct here is to really try and dig, but I have had to sign a thing that says people will know in a few months, but yeah, I'm so sorry.
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It's funny that the only NDAs you sign are either when you're paying someone off because you've committed a horrendous crime or because you've done like a plinky plonky TV show.
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For the tape, I know what it is and I can't tell you what it is, but here's a clue. No, I can't give any clues. I'm not one for clues. Okay, so you're doing a TV show. So this is going to make your yesterday quite tricky if you then say, I can't tell you anything that I've done.
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No, no, no. I'm finished doing it.
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Oh, you're finished doing it? Okay.
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Don't worry.
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Someone says, that's a wrap, guys. An absolute disaster, yes. And that actually happened and there was a round of applause and there was not champagne, but high-class Prosecco and we all had a glass of it. So anyway, we can't talk about that.
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But what I can tell you is I'm wrecked after doing that for a few days.
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It's the Krypton Factor. You've just done the Krypton Factor assault course in one of those tracksuits.
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Slept in till 9.30 and I put on, I mean, this will reveal something about it's pretty classy. I go to put on my TV in my room, see what's on, see if you're on Sky News.
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It only has posh TV. It's got keeping up appearances and antiques roadshow. And that's it. And to the manor born and Downton Abbey.
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Yes. Every decreasing circle. And my TV doesn't come on, but somehow I think I've got the controllers mixed up and the other TV comes on in the other section.
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Yeah, I have two TVs.
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I wake up and go down for breakfast. It's your time. Classic hotel breakfast.
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Ah, good stuff.
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But I have to get healthy. This is absolutely ridiculous. I've got Edinburgh fringe and all that coming up.
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But it is virtually impossible to be healthy.
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You've just had a week of le pain du bon sang, du petit lapin in Nice, haven't you?
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I have. And to the listeners who were worried, my Birkenstock injuries have largely healed up now. There was a chance. I know a lot of people thought that I mightn't make it.
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They could hear in my voice. There's always this sort of Victorian weakness, like when someone coughs blood onto a napkin. These Birkenstock injuries could end this podcast.
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Although for the tape, we only discussed the Birkenstock injuries on the subscription episode, so we don't want to upset the freeloaders.
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Okay, sorry.
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They are not aware of the agony that you've been through with the Birkenstocks. But what are reasons that they're like, well, I need to get a piece of this action. Now I hear that David got a blister off a Birkenstock. I can't miss out. That's for sure.
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Scrambled egg.
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Slightly underdone, but absolutely perfect.
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Some avocado, two hash browns, which I think ruined the entire healthiness. Have you ever made a hash brown? I guess you grate a potato into oil and squish it together, something like that.
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I mean, I love them and I've had many in LA and I think sort of pound for pound, nothing can hold more oil than a hash brown. That's what I would say.
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Is Mr. Cool shaped like a hash brown?
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Yeah, I guess. In a way, your old school triangle hash brown.
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Just imagine that blue with little arms and legs doing amazing things for Andy Robinson.
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Why is he called Andy? Andy Robinson sounds like a sort of generic name for an England goalkeeper.
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It is somebody who played 300 times for crew Alexandra, isn't it? But they have dreams too.
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This is a posh hotel, Max. And it has, I mean, I'm not going to call it a pet peeve because this would be a really annoying thing to describe as a pet peeve,
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but they have the toast train, so what I want from the toast part of a breakfast buffet is individual dualit toasters where you adjust the time yourself.
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Instead, it has the sort of central line.
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Oh, the conveyor belt.
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So you stand there for ages and it comes out not even slightly cooked at the end of it.
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And then you put it in again the wrong way up and then it's double toasted.
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And actually what you need to do is slow it down, but like no one, it's a real power move. To get onto that turny button controller in a hotel buffet.
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That's the high performance types. They are going straight up and turning it onto five.
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They are down low. Some people evidently want the toast just light as if the sun has shone on it for 15 seconds.
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Who are these maniacs?
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Could you lightly toast the outsides and make sure the inside is completely fresh?
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That's what you get. And then could you get me the coldest square of butter and I will cut a hole, in your untoasted toast, and then I will put my egg on that.
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So I go back up to the room after that and steal an interior mag. Are you allowed to steal magazines that might be in hotel rooms?
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Not from all shops. Not from everywhere. What have you got?
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House and garden? Wallpaper is there.
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Wallpaper. Oh, okay.
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So it's very much.
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It's like each piece of paper is about two inches thick.
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Yeah. In that magazine. 80%. 80% ads and it's stuff. It'll be like, if you'd like a statue carved for your back garden of you, a fountain with water gushing out of your Mickey, here's you to get in touch with.
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One of the guys here was talking about a broadcaster. I won't mention name who just said to him once, I'm just off to Morocco for the weekend. We need some new tiles. Yeah.
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It's that's the vibe.
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And I've got a wicks going to Marrakech.
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I get in the car. Then there is a car has been organized to take me to Cambridge.
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You're having dinner with my parents.
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The car journeys. I quite enjoy it. It's about two and a half hours from where I am to your hometown.
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And there's a man, I didn't get his name, but he's Romanian. And he wants to talk a little bit about broken Britain.
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He wants to talk about the world cup a little bit. And he's still salty that Ireland beat Romania in the 1990 world cup and a shootout. That was their golden generation. And I was, yeah, I apologized for that on behalf of David O'Leary.
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You apologize.
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Yeah, no, we got somewhere with it as in he was complaining about people coming to Britain, this country.
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But I said, but you came here and I've come here now and we're having a great time here. And then he said, yeah, yes, the world has got smaller. And I think that was quite a nice place to leave it.
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Just before I clearly put my headphones in and said, that's all the chat now. That's it. I don't know where this is going.
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I had a great Uber with an Armenian wrestling coach who wanted to learn English and his English was not great, but we had a really, I was like, okay, I'm invested here. We're going to do some English. We had his Google translate and everything.
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And he, who was from Mount Ararat. And then he went, you know, nigh. And he said, nigh like this.
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I was like, nigh, nigh. And I'm saying for 10 minutes, like a good 10 minutes, he was trying to say Noah, but he was saying nigh.
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And I didn't understand nigh and it didn't work in Google translate. So we eventually got to Noah's Ark and the thrill when me and this Armenian wrestling coach, and he had the biggest neck I've ever seen was just that we were euphoric.
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That we'd both realized that we'd got to Noah's Ark, but he didn't, he didn't complain about immigrants. Unlike your Romanian taxi driver.
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Cause I was really trying to channel Kyla Cobbler.
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Did you try on like six dresses in the taxi? Is that what you did?
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It was going somewhere odd. So she said what the world needed was more kindness. And they just both agreed on that then. And I think that's good. I always feel that cause he was starting to give out about people.
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So I pointed out that Irish people, you know, had a very bad people complained about them a lot. You know, in the sixties when, when a lot of Irish people were moving to London as if be like, but look, we're not so bad.
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And people complain, used to complain about Romanians and you're great too. And then yeah. Headphones. Me just singing really loudly to myself along with fake music. That's playing.
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Did you listen to, you know, the latest interview with count bin face, which mean if Nigel Farage loses to a bin, it doesn't mean we've solved politics, but man, a lot. I have what a day that's going to be.
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So to the listeners, the head of the far right party or one of the far right parties in Britain has announced a by-election and no one's going to run against him except,
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and it is the most English thing ever. A man with a bin on his head called count bin face.
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He's from outer space.
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How does he talk? Does he have a voice?
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No, no. It's sort of quite high pitched, but he does really short answers. So the interviewers have to try to be serious. And they go, so what, you know, why would you be a good MP for Clacton?
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He just goes, I'm not Nigel Farage. And then there's this awkward silence. And you know, the, the interviewers who are just so used to interviewing politicians, do they laugh or are they not meant to laugh? Do they play it straight? It's all good stuff. It's good stuff. May he lose to a bin.
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He'd be a tough yesterday. If you're a thing in a booking of Max,
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would he best as have been in parliament? Would he be a bin? Cause somebody told me who did an interview with count bin faces, he can't get a bin. He can't get the bin on himself. So he needs people, he needs help to put the bin on.
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So when he's in parliament, does he need, you know, Michael Heseltine to stick the bin on him? I mean, I should have picked a politician that was still in there perhaps, but yeah, you take my point.
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Who's dressing him? Angela Rayner has to dress count bin face before he goes into PMQs.
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He needs a party maybe where there's a ladder man as well. You know what I mean? And then a parliamentary assistant can climb up on ladder man to get the bin onto the counter.
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Good idea. Then he wins, needs to win another by-election anyway. It didn't happen yesterday. It hasn't happened yet. So, but you know, here we go.
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So it's this swallows and Amazon's idyllic day as you go into Cambridge. And like,
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it's a lovely little town, isn't it?
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Time really has stood still with the exception of the incredible traffic.
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It is the exact same. I would imagine as when you were growing up there in the 1930s, you and Mary Beard coming out of scouts, her out of guides, you know what I mean?
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Meeting up to just do some Latin.
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Yeah. To do an archeological dig somewhere in a field.
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It is such an evocative place. Now it was graduation week, I think. So there were quite a lot of drunk people also dressed in gowns and whatnot, but with a lot of proud parents around the place.
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Proud parents for the morning. They go home. Then it's drunk people with mortarboards.
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Nothing makes, you know, your average man in a local pub happier than seeing really pissed people in mortarboards.
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Having grown up there, do you ever get past thinking everyone's really smart? You know, every single person here that you meet is working on a PhD.
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And every time someone runs past you on the path, it's because they've just solved Fermat's last theorem and they need to write it down.
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All the cross of papers and they're running. Everyone's constantly just going, I'm, I've just discovered the atom. Fuck. What about you?
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I found an old monotheistic language from Mesopotamia.
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That's the same. It is. Yeah. It's strange when you leave and then you realize not everyone is a genius.
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I went to Fitz, Fitzbillies.
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Oh, Fitzbillies. Come on. This is too much. My parents love Fitzbillies.
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It's an adorable cafe where I'm pretty sure Turing worked out the Enigma codes, you know, while eating these, these sort of pesto savory little cake. They're almost like cinnamon rolls, but they're savory.
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And they do a good vegan one. And Hannah, who is one of the bosses of the gig I'm doing that evening is eight months pregnant and vegan.
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congratulations.
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And it's too hot. And she's sitting in a little box organizing stuff for the gig that night. So I go to the fence of the Cambridge comedy garden where I'll be performing later on that evening.
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And I get her out and I pass over a Fitzbillies vegan bun to her.
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Nice. That's nice of you.
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It's such an idyllic day. I think I possibly think it's just a fever dream because it's such an on brand David O'Doherty thing to see.
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But I woke past, was that just the polar Institute with a big stained glass window of Robert Falcon Scott outside it. And then I do a sort of quadruple take and it says it shuts at four and it's three minutes to four.
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Yes. You can get three minutes of shackleton.
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And I run in and I say, can I? Yeah. The guy said, yeah, yeah. You've three minutes. Go for it. I just join a guided tour.
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You could have said, I won't be some time. That's a sort of explorer joke. It's a really good joke though.
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Cause my most, I've possibly said this before in this podcast,
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There's every chance, isn't there?
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but it's my one really good polar exploration joke. But you do have to know that that guy, he, he was worried he was slowing down.
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Captain Scott. So in the blizzard, he says, I'm going outside. I may be gone for some time. And he was called Captain Oats and they find him dead in the snow. The next morning.
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Is it a herb joke?
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No, the joke is he invented overnight oats.
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Okay. Right. That's good.
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It's very disrespectful.
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What was his exact phrase?
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I think he says, I'm going outside. I may be gone for some time.
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Yeah. But then he find him with loads of coriander. just there. Loads of flat leaf parsley, but he, uh, he just not there at Waitrose.
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Waitrose, Antarctica branch. I should talk about my craft more.
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He was trying to lime it up a sweet potato and he had rosemary.
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He was making a coq au vin. Sort of a big misunderstanding. People think he's a hero. Scott furious with this unseasoned dinner. They didn't get, so he killed Captain Oats because he became the wrong herb.
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And the whole history has changed on that. Anyway. Okay. So we do three minutes at the Polar Institute.
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Yeah, we got three minutes. So all we get to see is the stuff that's in the foyer. Cause I don't, I'll save it for another time and I go around it properly. So I see Scott's waistcoat is there.
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It's a mistake, isn't it? He should wear North face. That is one of the problems. If you're just in a waistcoat, famously no sleeves. Absolutely.
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He was really into Mumford and Sons.
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He loved Gareth Southgate. He absolutely loved Gareth Southgate.
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There is a school group there. Maybe not a school group. Maybe it's as possibly a sort of orientation thing going on.
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I don't know. English wasn't their first language and the tour guide was doing her best to liven up the tale of Tom Green, the Irish explorer, getting them all across,
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saving the lives of Shackleton and the others.
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None of them give a shit. They always, just do not give a shit.
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They are staring at their phones. Now it's possible they do have some sort of app open where they're reading what she's saying translated, but I bet they're not.
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It's a hot day and maybe not the time for the Polar Institute, but I enjoy my three minutes a lot.
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I go back to my hotel where the air conditioning is on and that's nice. I take off my trousers and just,
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this is getting a bit saucy.
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I just let the air air up there for a little while because it's six o'clock and I have to go for the sound check.
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So I pick up my novelty keyboard and I go back to the big tent, big circus, big top in something place.
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It's just near the Polar Institute. It's that big park with the zigzaggy paths along it that walkers and cyclists are supposed to share, but no one is exactly sure what order.
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And yes, that's where I learned to ride a bike. So I learned to ride a bike. So I learned to play football. I grew up just down the road from there.
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Yeah. The statues to all of these things. It's beautiful.
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First ever rules of football were put up there. Do you know that?
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When they standardized association football,
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the middle lamppost is called reality checkpoint, I think. And that's where the first ever rules of football were put up.
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Cambridge is crazy. Every single thing,
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everything,
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everything is everything at Cambridge. I got to do a little sound check.
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So this is a setup with about 10 food trucks outside the tent where we're going to be doing our quite warm comedy. So someone's printed out all of the menus that they have. So as a performer, you can pick whatever you want.
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Yes. What are you getting?
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Yeah. I get a lamb kofta wrap with halloumi fries, which I don't think I've ever got before. And which are basically, they're big lumps of halloumi cut into rectangular fry shapes. And it's too much.
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It's a block of cheese. It's delicious.
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Yeah. You can't have Gorgonzola chips. You can just cut them like chips. You can't call them chips just because you've made them shaped like chips. I was having a, oh, actually I know that was on my yesterday. That's the bit I've remembered from my yesterday. Food based thing, which is quite interesting.
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Oh, I did put it in my yesterday. Yeah. Something to listen out for, for the subscribers. What a tease.
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John Robbins and Jamali Maddix are there. They've arrived early. We're doing the gig together. So the other, the other members of the cast are arriving. Then Kyla Cobbler comes, Harriet Dyer. It's a really good group.
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It's a good lineup. Yeah.
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John and I are, we believe strongly in a medicated shampoo called Dercos and like to send each other quite erotic pictures of ourselves with Dercos in our hair as if a still from a sexy Dercos ad.
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So we review some of those. It's Wednesday, but the, still like a thousand people come out to see us on a very warm night.
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It's quite magical to be honest. Yeah. John Robbins is hosting and there is a really high class of what do you do when he speaks to the audience?
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And maybe this furthers my belief that everyone is working on a PhD because instead of the usual kind of work in a meat processing factory, the guy is working on large language model AI.
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He's holding, like covalent bond structure. He's just got that there.
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And he thinks of the equation midway through the gig. I just started kicking chairs over so we can write.
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There are blackboard immediately. Yeah.
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Then the camera pads back and it's full of pipe smoking dons. When he's finished writing it, half of them walk out shaking their heads. It makes a mockery.
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We do the gig. Gig is fun. Kyla is great.
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It's our first time in Cambridge. And immediately everyone loves her. I do time. There's a temptation sometimes if a gig is fun to go over, Max. I don't know if you know about this.
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But it's bad form at a gig like this because people are trying to get trains back to London.
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John Robbins has to hit this specific train. So I do my exact time.
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Yes. To the second.
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It's very impressive by me. Pretty much.
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Yeah, yeah.
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At one point I give out to them for laughing too much.
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Because it's taken up too much of my time, you know what I mean?
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Do you stop mid-sentence, mid-song?
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Yeah, walk off stage. Yeah. I did hear that. My friend booked Chuck Berry once and he did.
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Get an hour of rock and roll. There's a guy at the side of the stage who shone a torch on stage. So he's like, the big cat went to the dibbity bum. Thank you. Good night.
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And just straight off. We go for one pint, one refreshing pint.
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Where did you go for a pint?
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Oh, no. You see, I don't know what it's called, but it's the. The nearest. We're in that corner of whatever that park where they invented football is called.
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And it's a pub where the whole front is a summer beer garden. Like there's probably 30 feet, 40 feet of solid beer garden there. It's really nice. There's some drunk students in it, but that's fine.
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Yeah, great.
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There's no one else who's been involved with the gig around, just the people who've put it on. Because closing is 11 o'clock on Wednesday. I'm Cambridge, but that's ideal because that is a very well-enjoyed single pint.
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And I walk back to the hotel where I'm staying and I have a moment of, because it's been a really busy week since I got back from my potentially Birkenstock fatality holiday,
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which was wonderful, but I've been working my ass off since then and I think to myself, that's all gone pretty well. I'm fairly pleased with that. You know, one of those moments in Cambridge as well.
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So it's a beautiful place to have that moment. I do my stretches then. These hips need to remain open.
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And it's funny because footage has emerged recently of various World Cup squads doing very similar stretches to mine.
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You could be the next Pico Lopez.
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I'm doing a thing called the Cossack stretch. It's almost like you're doing Russian dancing. You go right over and you really feel the hip moving around and the ball and socket.
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And yeah, I'm reasonably pleased. It's not too warm in the room. The AC is on. I consider having a bath, but that would be utter madness on an evening like this.
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I get into bed. I decide to listen to a little of the What Did You Do Yesterday podcast.
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Oh, good for you.
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And for the first time ever, I doze off to sleep listening to that. That's what I did yesterday. However, much more interestingly, Max, I'm curious, what did you do yesterday?