Anyway this is perhaps the nicest email I love this email this is from Ben and this is our they're just normal country's guests I believe.
Jun 10, 2025
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20:05 - 20:11
WDWDY #24: A day by any other name...
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Midweek Mayhem
Interruption. You... Yes. What flavour crisps? Or you don't want this much detail in questioning? No, no, no. I'm going to say cheese and onion because it's Ireland.
Dec 22, 2025
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3:51 - 4:02
The Great Christmas Bunny Emergency (Part 1 )
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Interview
Now this could be, they could have an absolute barrel here because it's like $30 for like eight little squares of chocolate, which tastes just like chocolate.
Apr 29, 2025
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36:43 - 36:53
WDWDY #18: C'est la fin du fromage
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Midweek Mayhem
it's one of these ones that a restaurant has where they say our own speciality so you believe you're not ordering a basic curry and it's called something cooler but to all intents and purposes it functions as a chicken tikka masala I had a girlfriend who lived in Putney
Feb 16, 2025
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56:21 - 56:35
S2 EP7: Mark Watson
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Interview
Basque region you know something like this wow let's get some fucking ingredients and then tell me you get a pizza tell me you just get a pizza not a pizza surely I looked at the pizzas there was a deal two pizzas two sides
Jan 18, 2026
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1:10:03 - 1:10:18
S4 EP3: Christopher Macarthur-Boyd
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Interview
Yeah. There's not a bite of that that's going to be a little more sour than the rest of it.
Feb 15, 2026
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17:08 - 17:13
S4 EP7: Michelle Wolf
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Interview
of the posh Kent golf club. They do stink. Yeah, they do stink. Yeah. But yeah, it was delicious.
Dec 1, 2024
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33:44 - 33:49
EP15: Ed Gamble
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Interview
Curdle or Master Rind? I like, because it is very much the wordle. As Rory said, it should be a weekly wordle format, you know, where you have, you know, it's either this cheese is not there, it's there but not in the right place,
Jan 15, 2025
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16:45 - 17:00
WDWDY #3: Right Cheese, Wrong Place
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Midweek Mayhem
It's not full of the UHT stuff that you get in hotter places. Wow. I'm hoping tonight on the way back from the game to be able to pick up a pint of milk.
Oct 5, 2025
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1:01:46 - 1:01:54
S3 EP16: Jonathan Wilson
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Interview
They're really good. They're really good. I know, but are they just, two painted lines basically in the lee of any door that happens to open or are they dedicated lanes like they have in the Netherlands?
May 28, 2025
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34:52 - 35:03
WDWDY #22: Cascade of Negligence
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Midweek Mayhem
They are actually magic. And then they're just two kindly boring old people. Hatin's on full.
Mar 8, 2026
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57:56 - 58:06
S4 EP10: Phil Ellis
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Interview
Chesham is down the pyramid isn't it? It's the sixth tier, I believe so they're good, but they're not that good but they are still really good. Like, you can only imagine how much better professionals in the top tier are, because these were some of
May 21, 2025
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17:55 - 18:13
WDWDY #21: Symphony of the Butt...
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Midweek Mayhem
Is it? I don't know what it is at all. I was looking for some like oat yogurt or something.
Oct 19, 2025
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21:22 - 21:27
S3 EP18: Ian Smith
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Interview
So you'd like it just a hovis really or a mighty white. Bloomer. I mean, I know I've got to, it's better for you, sourdough, but like anything that's good for you, it's not as nice, is it?
Dec 7, 2025
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12:09 - 12:18
S3 EP25: Hal Cruttenden
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Interview
Okay. What was wrong with them? They were just, because now they only do them in narrow size. They don't do them in the normal regular size. I have to go a size up, but
Oct 20, 2024
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32:26 - 32:34
EP9: Jen Brister
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Interview
So while, like as a fetish goes, you would be cheese wire in your butt as you did whatever you did.
Sep 15, 2024
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14:20 - 14:30
EP4: Josh Widdicombe
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Interview
No. There's one that's like cabbage and veg Okay. That clearly psychologically I've just ordered to balance out the freets.
Mar 26, 2025
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37:34 - 37:43
WDWDY #13: A Sad Cardboard Kazoo
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Midweek Mayhem
Yeah, it was from Shiraz in my hometown, which do really... They're quite posh kebabs, actually.
Jun 22, 2025
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31:13 - 31:21
S3 EP1: Sooz Kempner
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Interview
It's David's fault. It is your fault, David. They're just normal baths. They're just normal baths.
Jul 30, 2025
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18:15 - 18:22
WDWDY #31: Lowering The Tone
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Midweek Mayhem
The game being called KSSO, S-O-S-K-S-O. What is this? This is cheese. Surely proves this show is endorsed by Max's parents as the worst idea ever, is in fact genius, in it for life.
Sep 9, 2025
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6:16 - 6:28
WDWDY #37: A differently but equally exciting yesterday...
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Midweek Mayhem
Because it's difficult to eat. And who cares? There's also some frozen flatbreads in there.
Oct 7, 2025
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55:16 - 55:24
WDWDY #41: Five Finger Messages
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Midweek Mayhem
So it's all the goodness of ready egg without the hassle of the bottle. We're really good.
Nov 9, 2025
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25:40 - 25:46
S3 EP21: Ania Magliano
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Interview
Is it just salt? Is that all it is? I don't think there's much to it.
Sep 8, 2024
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12:53 - 12:57
EP3: Alex Horne
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Interview
So they don't look like Freddos anymore, but they taste the same as Freddos. So I had a complex Halloween, which was I had all the lights off.
Nov 12, 2025
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39:33 - 39:43
WDWDY #46: Everyone's a Hypocrite
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Midweek Mayhem
Is she cheating? Let's see. Brie.
May 12, 2026
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23:02 - 23:05
WDWDY #71: I could go on You Bet!
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Midweek Mayhem
It's delightful. What is not delightful is the theme tune to They're Just Normal Countries.
Sep 16, 2025
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16:28 - 16:32
WDWDY #38: Trainspotting
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Midweek Mayhem
Really good. Brian in Belfast writes, dear David and Max, massive fan of the podcast, and I very much enjoyed the right cheese, wrong place special.
Jan 22, 2025
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16:37 - 16:46
WDWDY #4: People Getting a Latte in Brighton
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Midweek Mayhem
Exactly. At a subsidized rate. Yes, while eating crisps. God knows what they're eating. It's mad.
Jan 11, 2026
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44:30 - 44:47
S4 EP2: John Kearns
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Interview
A dairy is what in New Zealand they call a corner shop. Noted. See, I'm just – That was a good interruption.
Jan 4, 2026
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22:28 - 22:35
S4 EP1: Bret McKenzie
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Interview
It's a little deli. I've got some fresh British asparagus is in. So I've got some of that.
May 25, 2025
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18:18 - 18:23
S2 EP21: Gary Lineker
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Interview
Something about the fact that it's Greek yogurt as well makes it a little bit turgid.
Oct 21, 2025
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24:54 - 25:00
WDWDY #43: The A - Z of What Did You Do Yesterday?
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Midweek Mayhem
I put another chicken sausage in. I put cheese over that. Right. And then push fake scrambled egg around that.
Dec 17, 2025
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25:40 - 25:50
WDWDY #51: In Fairness To Lube
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Midweek Mayhem
I don't know. What's your issue with truffles? You're at Zermatt. So the sixth of the seven courses was a truffle cheese with meringue.
Oct 5, 2025
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48:40 - 48:48
S3 EP16: Jonathan Wilson
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Interview
And I'm like, how do you see the, I can only just see there's green and there's a tub of Philadelphia, but those things don't go.
May 31, 2025
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47:50 - 47:56
S2 EP22: Cariad Lloyd
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Interview
I mean, that's, I presume. I think so. I mean, they're relatively, yeah, benign, like the guys.
Jan 5, 2025
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21:23 - 21:27
S2 EP1: Dara Ó Briain
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Interview
lounge cheese toasty. Damn it, you bastards. I thought it would go on forever. It is Kevin McCloud.
Mar 18, 2026
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12:17 - 12:24
WDWDY #63: Faulty Bike Seats
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Midweek Mayhem
There's an ad for cream. Yeah. So like, it's just like, put it on whatever you're having.
Oct 6, 2024
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26:19 - 26:26
EP7: Rose Matafeo
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Interview
Do you know what it is, this? Yeah, that's from 20 years ago. Right. They were called Dunbelievables and they were really, really funny and they sort of looked at aspects of rural life in Ireland such as people eating a big old cholesterol bun in the morning
Jun 8, 2025
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21:48 - 22:10
S2 EP23: Justin Moorhouse
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Interview
It's just, or any noodles in or anything like it. It's just vegetable and fish, basically.
Feb 1, 2026
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14:08 - 14:12
S4 EP5: Richard Herring
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Interview
Everything is showbiz. From Anna. Thank you, Anna. Let's get down to They're Just Normal Countries.
Jan 28, 2026
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24:48 - 24:58
WDWDY #56: All my troubles seemed so far away...
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Midweek Mayhem
i'm going to put on the toast yes david what shape does she cut the toast into oh no these are just three slices all big full slices of sliced bread toast no what do you mean what do you mean like
Mar 19, 2025
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28:04 - 28:18
WDWDY #12: Not your average Monday...
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Midweek Mayhem
normal text yeah they're just normal texts to be clear that's not just a neighbor with no children and we're going to use just an adult's trousers and you know our next neighbors have three young kids so we're like they'll probably have something Jamie then gets I think like
Apr 15, 2025
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42:30 - 42:45
WDWDY #16: They might not actually be normal cheeses...
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Midweek Mayhem
So really, you need just packets of Doritos just around and about. Maybe, yeah. And then in the fridge is a selection of half-eaten things that people wouldn't feel so bad if they ate them.
Dec 17, 2025
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34:57 - 35:10
WDWDY #51: In Fairness To Lube
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Midweek Mayhem
It's literally, that's what we're doing. I love it. Yogurt, all the rest of it.
Sep 9, 2025
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21:36 - 21:40
WDWDY #37: A differently but equally exciting yesterday...
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Midweek Mayhem
But they're in a bowl in the fridge. So I eat two chocolate Freddos that had melted in the sun and have reformed.
Nov 12, 2025
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39:27 - 39:32
WDWDY #46: Everyone's a Hypocrite
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Midweek Mayhem
I was like, I'm going to get macaroni and cheese. You did have gallstones as I call them pearls of power.
Sep 14, 2025
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52:49 - 52:57
S3 EP13: Helen Bauer
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Interview
I'm not. Now, I don't know, David, have you heard the jingle for They're Just Normal Coaches?
Jun 24, 2025
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23:19 - 23:28
WDWDY #26: What Pants Were You Wearing Last Summer?
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Midweek Mayhem
So they have like this incredibly luxurious cat food that's like, it's like real, it's like a breast of chicken that's been like...
Jan 19, 2025
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11:14 - 11:23
S2 EP3: Huge Davies
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Interview
And lo and behold, 10 great recipes come up. The thing that bothers me is all these recipes are often like, and the simple ingredient you always have in your fridge of double cream.
Mar 1, 2026
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1:24:11 - 1:24:21
S4 EP9: Marjolein Robertson
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Interview
They don't have boxes. You know, some supermarkets, good. There's a big box at the end that you can pour your food in.
Nov 12, 2025
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46:04 - 46:09
WDWDY #46: Everyone's a Hypocrite
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Midweek Mayhem