My day, it's a Monday. Yeah. It begins at 8am, which is late. And it begins with the helencopter placing a tray before me and on it is...
Apr 23, 2025
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29:49 - 30:05
WDWDY #17: A confession from David...
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Midweek Mayhem
Yeah. That's too early. Well, were you with Helen? Because that's when she wakes me up every morning to reserve a space on a Pilates class.
Sep 14, 2025
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5:51 - 6:01
S3 EP13: Helen Bauer
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Interview
Did you get a yard glass? Spinning the yard glass of water. And I refill it, bring it up to Helen, and she has got the same situation.
Sep 23, 2025
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24:26 - 24:36
WDWDY #39: Georgia on my mind...
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Midweek Mayhem
Helen just said to me, you could actually trade it in if you've only had it for a couple of weeks because she saw that most of my life was me making these agonizing decisions of which photos of dead people I was going to have to delete from my phone.
Jun 27, 2026
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35:26 - 35:39
S5 EP2: Kyla Cobbler
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Interview
Very interesting stuff. Yeah. We need to work. So the next thing is we do is we buy leggings for Helen.
Jun 18, 2025
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44:09 - 44:15
WDWDY #25: Why are you telling me off?
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Midweek Mayhem
At this point, you have what's dinner. Helen has done a thing with she's fried pork mince and put in garlic and oyster sauce and fennel and stuff like that.
Jun 18, 2025
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1:02:01 - 1:02:14
WDWDY #25: Why are you telling me off?
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Midweek Mayhem
Did you have a nice day, Helen? It was quite a stressful day, but you got some stuff done.
Sep 14, 2025
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1:04:22 - 1:04:30
S3 EP13: Helen Bauer
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Interview
She's slamming my head using the door of the freezer. Never stab a freezer. So look, Helen finds it all hilarious.
Oct 7, 2025
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54:58 - 55:11
WDWDY #41: Five Finger Messages
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Midweek Mayhem
And I only realize that because when Helen subsequently wakes up and reads the news, she says headlines to me and I tell her exactly what happens in that story.
Nov 5, 2025
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26:56 - 27:08
WDWDY #45: Chainsaw Lube
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Midweek Mayhem
And so I think it might've been. And that's sad for Helen because it's, it's not warm.
Jan 29, 2025
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36:18 - 36:25
WDWDY #5: Batch Cookers of the World Unite
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Midweek Mayhem
And Jamie just said, I'm going to call her Helen. Hey, let's play They're Just Normal Countries.
Jun 18, 2025
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28:30 - 28:39
WDWDY #25: Why are you telling me off?
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Midweek Mayhem
Do you have friends now? Some. Okay, good for you. That's nice. Thanks, Helen. You're welcome.
Sep 14, 2025
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25:55 - 26:00
S3 EP13: Helen Bauer
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Interview
And then Helen wakes up and sees what I'm looking at on my phone and... I have to explain. No, a roofer was singing it. But it's definitely the case, Max. He was singing...
Jun 18, 2026
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45:18 - 45:29
WDWDY #75: New Listener Drive
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Midweek Mayhem
Question, yes, Max? Feels like this is the first mistake that Helen, the adopter, has made since we've started discussing our days.
Jun 4, 2025
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34:43 - 34:54
WDWDY #23: Room Temperature Yoghurt
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Midweek Mayhem
Yeah. The brain goes, ping, great, phone it. Alan, I blame Helen, my partner, because she gets up for 7.30 for work.
Sep 7, 2025
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6:39 - 6:49
S3 EP12: Alan Davies
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Interview
What you really want is, look, there's Dale Winton, a helicopter rip. What she does, she is that guy.
Nov 2, 2025
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1:00:42 - 1:00:49
S3 EP20: Angela Scanlon
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Interview
And that's when I reach out to Helen Clark and say, do you want to come and watch this show?
Mar 15, 2026
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42:41 - 42:47
S4 EP11: Tom Cashman
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Interview
So it keeps knocking the headphones out. It's terribly frustrating stuff. I have to go up to Helen's old place now and she's getting a boiler service.
Dec 3, 2025
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40:47 - 40:59
WDWDY #49: USB Tongue
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Midweek Mayhem
You know exactly how long it's taken to get here and you can therefore, because me and Helen, I'm going to Helen's friend for dinner at seven.
Jul 16, 2025
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52:14 - 52:23
WDWDY #29: A Day Of Relentless Accomplishment
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Midweek Mayhem
And I did have to talk to Helen Clark about what she's comfortable with regarding me talking about the day and stuff.
Mar 15, 2026
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1:06:30 - 1:06:38
S4 EP11: Tom Cashman
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Interview
So we have just coffee, me and Helen, because we are still full from a large Chinese the night before.
Jan 7, 2026
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26:40 - 26:48
WDWDY #53: Do yesterdays dream of electric cheese?
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Midweek Mayhem
Al Winton in a helicopter and you're like what really? Oh wow She knows that one gets me every time Okay so you've done the drop off so now it's quiet. Quiet time Done the drop off quiet time. What did we do?
Nov 2, 2025
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34:27 - 34:44
S3 EP20: Angela Scanlon
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Interview
And me and Helen desperately just trying to sort of, what's the small talk in the ad breaks that's going to just sort of keep these guys going?
Sep 7, 2025
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32:28 - 32:34
S3 EP12: Alan Davies
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Interview
Now, this is from Helen Marino. Happy New Year, Helen Marino. Hi, Helen. You don't say right cheese, wrong place.
Jan 7, 2026
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42:27 - 42:33
WDWDY #53: Do yesterdays dream of electric cheese?
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Midweek Mayhem
We do connections. Helen insists on doing the New York Times mini. I am just dozing off to sleep when I hear from the garden the sound. Initially, I think it might be in the room of meow, screaming.
Jul 2, 2025
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1:08:55 - 1:09:15
WDWDY #27: Are you thinking of frogs?
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Midweek Mayhem
Helen's friends start to arrive and then I say hello to them. I've got some beans back, but I need beans because at 7.15, I have to do a radio interview on Midlands 103 to promote a gig I'm doing in Mullingar,
Jan 21, 2026
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48:29 - 48:46
WDWDY #55: A Soapy Explosion
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Midweek Mayhem
But yeah, I'm excited to do that. And then at about six o'clock, Helen's having a tough day and work.
Nov 5, 2025
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42:48 - 42:57
WDWDY #45: Chainsaw Lube
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Midweek Mayhem
Copter's lot over oh yeah and cooked a big turkey salted in a bag for ages the veggies when people brought different stuff I brought some cheese yeah Owens E. Helen's brother brought some cheese we blended the cheese board into a five cheese board and I
Mar 11, 2026
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48:44 - 49:03
WDWDY #62: Dublin Show Post Mortem
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Midweek Mayhem
I don't know. I just need all the engine to keep me going here. And Helen's made a sort of miracle porridge type concoction that has blueberries and various seeds, etc. in it, which is a very nice thing to do.
Jan 21, 2026
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27:46 - 28:03
WDWDY #55: A Soapy Explosion
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Midweek Mayhem
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?
Jul 8, 2026
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11:51 - 12:02
WDWDY #78.1: Le Grande Gazpacho (Max's Yesterday)
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Midweek Mayhem
But it's the holidays, guys. Is Helen rolling her eyes? Is she like, this is fun?
Sep 9, 2025
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26:19 - 26:23
WDWDY #37: A differently but equally exciting yesterday...
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Midweek Mayhem
And then I listen to various. And Helen's not listening to the Guardian Football Weekly?
Jan 7, 2026
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39:11 - 39:15
WDWDY #53: Do yesterdays dream of electric cheese?
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Midweek Mayhem
That is unbelievable. A bunch of Helen's friends are staying here. So how big is your mansion?
Sep 9, 2025
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20:54 - 21:02
WDWDY #37: A differently but equally exciting yesterday...
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Midweek Mayhem
Now, Helen, so it's 7.30. Talk us through the moment from waking up to leaving the house to get the last.
Sep 14, 2025
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10:28 - 10:35
S3 EP13: Helen Bauer
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Interview
So what time did you get up at yesterday, Helen? It was pathetic. And it was also the enjoyment he was receiving from each shoot was insane.
Sep 14, 2025
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4:34 - 4:45
S3 EP13: Helen Bauer
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Interview
Yeah, me and Helen, so our coffee table, it's just a normal coffee table, but if you pull out both sides, it extends like boom.
Feb 9, 2025
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50:37 - 50:47
S2 EP6: James Buckley
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Interview
But we do our best with that. We are going off to meet Helen's friend in Abbotsford Convent.
Apr 14, 2026
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27:27 - 27:37
WDWDY #67: I HATE NATURE
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Midweek Mayhem
I've been talking to it. I mean, one of the big questions I have about podcasting, Helen, and you are a legendary podcaster, because I've only ever done this remotely with Max, as they say.
Sep 14, 2025
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8:33 - 8:47
S3 EP13: Helen Bauer
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Interview
thing she sees, she'd be like, oh, no, he's in trouble again or whatever. And it's like, Helen, you've just been asleep for 20 minutes.
Oct 19, 2025
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10:15 - 10:22
S3 EP18: Ian Smith
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Interview
Good. I'm delighted because it's also worth pointing out for the tape that Helen's work actually matters for the world.
Oct 7, 2025
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27:06 - 27:12
WDWDY #41: Five Finger Messages
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Midweek Mayhem
as the whole O'Doherty family were flagging Helen arrived from her family do and really brought a fresh energy to it we did a quiz we did some who am I's we tried to think of better punch lines to Christmas cracker jokes and
Dec 30, 2024
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34:35 - 34:53
WDWDY #1: Max and David's Christmas Bonus Episode
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Midweek Mayhem
D.O.D.? Well, first thought, I don't think Helen's worn that necklace. It was received with a lot of fanfare and you know me, you get what I like.
Feb 18, 2026
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6:40 - 6:52
WDWDY #59: Fun Facts and Days Before
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Midweek Mayhem
And, Helen made a delicious curry type thing with sweet potato that turned out to be entirely vegan.
Jan 15, 2025
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35:55 - 36:05
WDWDY #3: Right Cheese, Wrong Place
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Midweek Mayhem
I decide I'm going to go and visit my parents. Helen's gone. It's about half 10.
Sep 23, 2025
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32:36 - 32:43
WDWDY #39: Georgia on my mind...
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Midweek Mayhem
Is it Peter Hesketh? Are they bombing the Hooties and they're telling you about it?
Apr 2, 2025
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29:59 - 30:03
WDWDY #14: Concrete Jungle Where Dreams Are Made Of...
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Midweek Mayhem
swaggering around the tiny village, charming locals, though not seducing Marion Cotillard due to the copter.
Sep 23, 2025
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7:24 - 7:30
WDWDY #39: Georgia on my mind...
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Midweek Mayhem
the propeller we'll call it
May 19, 2026
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30:11 - 30:13
WDWDY #72: The Montenegro Tease
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Midweek Mayhem
And so kind of half asleep. Helen Kupter does shower and I have to go.
Feb 18, 2026
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24:11 - 24:19
WDWDY #59: Fun Facts and Days Before
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Midweek Mayhem
a taxidermied cat with everything is a cat. That looks like Meow, the cat that me and Helen copped her mind in last summer.
Feb 11, 2026
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19:41 - 19:48
WDWDY #58: Y.E.S.T.E.R.D.A.Y.
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Midweek Mayhem
Yeah. What did you make for breakfast? Because you made breakfast for Helen, but you didn't tell us what.
Jan 8, 2025
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24:05 - 24:10
WDWDY #2: Midweek Mayhem
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Midweek Mayhem