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Podcasts, there are millions of them.

Some might say too many.

I have one already.

I don't have any because there are enough.

Politics, business, sport, you name it.

There's a podcast about it.

And they all ask the big questions and cover the hot topics of the day.

But nobody is covering the most important topic of all.

Why is that?

Are they scared?

Too afraid of being censored by the man?

Possibly, but not us.

We're here to ask the only question that matters.

We'll try and say it at the same time, Max.

What did you do yesterday?

What did you do yesterday?

What did you do yesterday?

That's it.

All we're interested in is what the guests got up to yesterday, nothing more.

Day before yesterday, Max?

Nope.

The greatest and most interesting day of your life?

Unless it was yesterday, we don't want to know about it.

I'm Max Rushton, and I'm David O'Daugherty.

Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday?

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to Series 3, episode

of What Did You Do Yesterday, midweek Mayhem.

David O'Doherty's here.

Welcome, David.

Bringing you all the news from around the world in the last 24 hours in Lebanon, Arkaspa.

It's a change of tack.

It is a change of tack.

Lise Doucette joins us

with all the latest from Trump's Washington.

Although, actually, actually, on that subject, a friend of mine who is in the who's in the advertising world, David, he's got his toe in the door with, I'm sorry to bring them up so early.

I wasn't planning to.

It was lower down the running order with Lululemon.

He's fishing around to find out what our numbers are.

Obviously, I said they are, you know, they're stratospheric.

Stratospheric.

And he was like, sorry, I'm a bit behind.

Because I was saying last Mayhem was quite heavy on this.

And people will start emailing saying, could you please go to talking about shitting again?

Because I just don't want to hear that.

And he said he was a bit, you know, behind because of world events, you know, and those sort of podcasts taking up his time.

And I said, well, look, I, you know, we fixed Iran last week on midweek mayhem.

Didn't we?

And he said, was, was the supreme leader for the guest.

Sad,

said, you have Cheerios, Ayatollah.

Do you, after that?

You do the school run?

He's like,

then I've got to take there at different schools.

It's a nightmare.

I never learned to drive.

Just like Mark Watson.

I listened to the Mark Watson pod in preparation.

Oh, did you now?

Anyway, anyway.

Should we get some feedback?

Oh, no, for the tape, this is worth, this is good for the listeners.

Just before we came on air, David said he had an amazing day yesterday.

So something he said, don't you worry about a thing.

He's got a day for the ages, which we will come to.

I did use those words.

Just before we begin this, how much correspondence do you have there, Max, regarding BBC Morning Live, which must be there

at New Breakfast Show?

Has a guy, I don't have his name, but I've been saying

I've got some info.

Don't worry.

He's some sort of the clip that they've shown is him talking about what temperature a washing machine needs to be at to get out various stains.

And he looks exactly like you.

lots of people saying default man four

and here's the thing his name is alexander gerald van hugenhock tullaken right

he's a doctor and he's best known for presenting the cbbc children series operation ouch with his identical twin brother chris default man four and five clearly

But here's the thing.

I mean, for a default man, he said he's descended from Jan van Hugenhock

a Dutch rear admiral who was later raised to the nobility with the title Jonkhir, it's the equivalent of a baronet.

Um, so he has that title, he's a baronet, he's not a default man, he's a baronet, for goodness sake.

But I don't know the thing that I found funny was I was genuinely interested in what temperature you should be washing your clothes.

I was like, I don't know about you, I'm a 40-degree guy, I'm just like 40, yeah.

And in the clip, he tells you that 40 is madness, It's neither hot enough to really, really, you know, bust the stains, but it's not cold enough that you're.

I'm now repeating what Deepa Mad 4 said.

But it's like, if you even go 10 degrees colder, you save a lot of money in terms of the energy and it's good for the environment.

So I have literally just put a wash on to go on the night.

And I went down from 40 to 30 because of Default Mad 4.

We're a tribe.

We follow each other.

Yeah, I thought we were going to just acknowledge that he looked like you and move on.

But instead, you're absolutely wrapped by the stuff that's crazy.

Maybe, maybe, because I just, he looks exactly like me.

He's just one of those generic-faced men that you can get out of a box.

I was just like, oh, this guy sounds intriguing.

There's also a kid's entertainer.

There's an absolute spitting image of me.

I'll find someone will know who his name is.

I get that message all the time going, I see you've worked drying up, mate.

And it's like, you know,

a clown nose and some puppets.

You're like, okay.

Anyway, here's some good feedback from Robbie McKinnon, who says, hi, Max and David.

Yesterday, my beloved dog, buddy, sadly died while surrounded by his family and loved ones.

You have our sincere condolences.

He says, he was an old dog of 14, and he went quite quickly in the end.

I was very sad throughout the day, but I thought to myself, it's Wednesday, and I know what will help.

Cue my second favorite of Max's podcasts, which I, which I knew, which I knew would give me a good laugh.

It was only a few minutes into what did you do yesterday, number 26, when Max brought up putting people's dogs to sleep.

How this pod was the perfect soundtrack for vets.

This cruel twist of fate took another turn when Max mentioned the time, 8.19 a.m.

to describe something else he did, which happened to be the time yesterday that Buddy died.

It's the podcast.

Literally the center of the known universe.

Keep up the good work.

Everything is showbiz.

Thank you, Robbie McKinnon.

Thank you, Robbie.

It is because let's not forget you taught your son, who at this point is a sponge of knowledge, that the sun travels around the earth.

You didn't want to get into the complex astrophysics of it.

So, yes.

And at the very center of this earth, which is the center of the universe, is this podcast.

So rest in peace, buddy.

The trouble, rest in peace, buddy.

The trouble is having first sent him down like the wrong way scientifically, within a week, Ian is now a mad conspiracy theorist and an anti-vaxxer, which is a problem.

But, you know, we've got work to do to bring him back round.

We spoke of Chris Holton last week, David, the man who made the spreadsheet of Wake Up Times.

Yeah.

But he recently posted a graph of when did you wake up yesterday.

He's worked out, he basically, it's like, you know, those sort of weird flow videos you sometimes see on Twitter, which is, you know, like producers of cocoa beans through the ages, and, you know, Venezuela goes up and goes down.

And, you know, you're like, oh, I'm just completely mesmerized.

I can't stop watching this.

Like, why do I care?

You know, where cufflinks are designed.

You're like, oh, Switzerland's up.

Anyway, it's got one of like, he's progressively worked out when all our, by which time all our guests are awake, which is obviously, you know, 11 a.m.

Jamali Manics.

But he says half past seven is the most popular wake-up time.

This is from series one and two.

By 7.30, 52% of all guests are up and about.

By 8.30, 84% of guests are awake, which is not unimpressive for a bunch of comedians, I think.

You know, I think that's good.

7.30 is the time I wake up.

That's when the helicopter gets it up.

And don't start.

I'm saying nothing.

Someone said, David, who's mild focusing on Blue Sky, sent this cartoon that I can't stop thinking about that perfectly sums sums up our relationship and the Midwick Mayhem versions of this podcast, which is a Will Macphail cartoon, who's I've met.

He lives in Edinburgh.

He does cartoons for The New Yorker.

And David has rebranded the three characters or the four characters in it.

One is a couple with a pram.

So they've written

you, Mrs.

Rushdon, Ian as the three of them.

And they're just walking with with the pram.

And I am in a top hat and no trousers.

And I'm standing beside a goose.

And I'm saying, well, I'm going to follow this goose for a while and see where I end up.

That's our lives, Max.

That's so funny.

Eamon says, this is some Tim Key confusion.

Hey, while I'm really enjoying the recent Tim Key episode, I thought you might enjoy how he and and my daughter completely managed to confuse each other.

While I live in the small seaside town of Betty's Town, just north of Dublin, my daughter now lives and works in the thriving metropolis known as London.

She knew of my fondness for the work of Mr.

Key, and coming up to Father's Day last year, she saw an opportunity to get me a gift I would greatly appreciate.

She went and bought Tim's latest at the time book and then went to one of his shows with the intention of getting him to sign it for me.

The first I knew of this was later in the evening when she rang me, totally confused, wondering how Tim Key knew me.

It seems that when she approached Tim and asked him if he would sign the book, he was more than happy to oblige.

He asked who he should make it out to, and my daughter replied with my first name, Eamon.

Tim then used his knowledge of famous Eamons to equip, it's not Eamon Martin, is it?

Referring to the English long-distance runner from the late 80s, some of my daughter had never heard of, and a classic Tim Key reference.

The confusion then kicked in off in earnest, as my full name actually is Eamon Martin.

So my daughter replied with a surprise, yes, how did you know?

Tim did not expect that reply.

So I sought confirmation by asking, the one who used to run marathons, As coincidence would have it, about 15 years ago, I did a couple of charity runs.

So my daughter could only confirm that I was the Eamon Martin who used to run marathons.

Tim was not surprisingly shocked that he happened to guess the right Eamon Martin and asked my daughter to send me his best.

My daughter obviously said that she would, but had no idea how Tim knew me or guessed the right name.

So 10 minutes later, my daughter called me, very impressed that Tim Key seemed to know me, but that I'd never mentioned it.

I'd also like to think that Tim Key later might have said to someone, you'll never guess who asked me to sign a book tonight.

Keep up the good work.

Remember, everything is showbiz.

They're just normal cheeses.

All the best.

Eamon Martin, not the long-distance runner or the Archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland.

Yeah.

It's not beyond Tim Key to know everyone in the world.

Like, he's such a curveball personality in some ways that for him to have a photographic memory of everyone he's ever had any encounter with.

But a good base, you know, like a good base level of of middle distance runners is very useful to just have at the back of you to have Peter Elliott, Steve Ovette and Brian Whittle at the back of you.

I mean, to be fair, Whittle majored on more of a 400-metre runner before the pedants

get in touch.

Well, Ireland's golden event in the 80s was the mile slash 1500 meters.

And let's not forget there were 10 Irish winners of the

landmark Wanamaker mile, the big indoor one in Madison Square Garden in the 80s.

You've got Eamon Cochlin, you got Frank O'Mara, you've got another guy who I can't remember.

Ah.

And you all had to just run around Zoe Wanamaker until you'd done a mile.

Craig says, hi guys, this is road testing the what did you do yesterday sleep method.

My wife had an early flight today and had to wake up at 4 a.m.

I got up with her, but when she left at 4.30, I went back to bed.

Even though I was tired, my mind was quite alert.

So I thought I'd run through my yesterday as advised by the pod as a going to sleep method.

Yes.

When my wife woke me with a text at 7 a.m., all I can recall from my reminiscing about yesterday was that I'd gotten as far as breakfast.

The system works, says Craig.

Yeah, you have to assume our voices to truly interrogate the day.

Because if you just do it on your own, you'll be like, I woke up, had some toast, coffee, you know, whereas you need interruption.

You need full-on, what socks.

I think it is, hopefully, it's only if you think of your own yesterday do you fall asleep, not if you are ever listening to anyone recounting their yesterday because that does have an implication for this podcast.

This may risk our Lululemon sponsorship, David.

Oh, shit.

Comedian friend of the pod, Barcel Jim, has been in touch.

And you may bleed this parental advisory.

I've started listening to Midweek Mayhem as I work.

I've always wanted to say this.

If you have any children in the car, maybe it might be an idea just to leave them at the side of the road.

Just to pull wherever you you are just pull over the car and just tell them to stand there and make their own way to wherever you're going okay great max continue i've started listening to midweek mayhem as i work opening the lulu memhem website and checking the boxer short page you pair of toory

while the quick drying fabric does have an appeal to men of a certain age 60 pounds for three pairs can get fucked

bars of jim i got five pairs but only four arrived and then they refunded me the wrong value of the missing fifth pair yeah so while they were expensive they were still probably only a tenner each which is not far off what you bars of jim are no doubt paying for just regular marks and spencer's ones that do not dry and when you urinate yourself keeps it close to the skin which makes a baby unhappy, as I know from Pamper's house.

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Killian in Cork.

This is more life synchronicity exhibits 2,

following the buddy RIP.

Hi, Max and David.

I love this podcast so much.

Thank you.

I was listening today as Max was talking about doing connections.

Well, I was also doing connections.

And look at what the first line was.

Blue, goat, jack, Swiss.

Kinds of cheeses.

All just normal coincidences.

says Gillian.

I feel I should just raise Anthony Cozart.

Yes.

Have you seen his correspondence in San Francisco?

Listeners, if you are near a desktop or laptop computer now, too fiddly on your phone, go to Anthony Cozart, Anthony with TH, Cozart with the Z

dot github.io.

He's gone back through every episode of our podcast and what he has found like this is PhD level sociology every single guest he divides them into 10 things they do with their lives personal care and hygiene family and child care meals and food work and professional activities a house of maintenance entertainment media sleep and rest social and cultural transport and travel and you can check everyone has like a colored line of it probably it probably has a name and graphing what he's done but it is a sensational piece of PhD level research and yeah that's why he has won a scholarship to the recently chair the recent chair of yesterday at Cambridge University he said it was took him 10 hours of coding but when you we should we should put it on our you know Insta page or whatever if you scroll along or maybe just go to the PO box and you can find it.

If you scroll along at each point, so if you scroll along, Nish Kumar and it says time 10 p.m.

to 11 p.m.

Duration, 60 minutes, exclamation mark, time estimated, category, personal care and hygiene, original category, personal hygiene.

Nish took a shower using Sanic soap and curl shampoo and conditioner.

There's so much detail.

It's absolutely mad.

Yeah, so thank you, Anthony.

I got you and Chris muddled up with the nerds, with the sort of nerds who are doing the donkey work here.

So like if we could bring you guys together, it would be like the Large Hadron Collider of yesterday.

It would be mad.

But I'm all for it.

Aileen says, hi, Max, David, and Marsbar and Jamie, Ian, Willie, and the Helencopter.

Thank you for involving, including the whole family.

I was listening to the brilliant Justin Morehouse episode when he mentioned a fact about Vimto named from Vimtonic with Vim meaning vigor.

This interesting fact made me think of another podcast I listened to, the Jason Manford show on Sunday morning on Absolute Radio, where he has a hit me with your best fact segment.

I thought I'd send in this to see if he would read it on the radio.

You should be listening to talk sport at that hour.

I would just point out.

That's okay.

I excitedly sent an email with the Vimto facts and mentioned that I got this from your What Did You Do yesterday podcast.

Lo and behold, he read it out.

I was so excited to hear my name on the radio.

So thanks to your podcast and Justin.

He didn't, however, give credit to this pod or Justin.

So I wonder how far this cross-pollination could go.

You might want to pull him up on this submission and reclaim the fact for yourselves and read my name out again.

He pronounced it correctly.

Love the podcast.

Please do some live shows and please, please come to Glasgow.

All the best.

Aileen.

Do we have beef with Manford?

Well, we haven't asked him to be on it yet.

I just figure he's always gigging.

He's always playing paddle.

On his Instagram, he's just playing paddle.

He's obsessed with paddle.

We could certainly ask him, but...

Well, now, I don't know if we should have.

Maybe he should be our first lifetime ban for not bringing us up on his Max.

Moorhouse, I was looking at Justin Moorhouse's Instagram this week.

The Citroen, adorable coffee van that plays accordion music as the dog leaps in and out of it as he drives in morning traffic, people and Land Rovers trying to overtake him and beeping at him, needs a new gearbox.

Yes.

Unfortunately, there'll be no van on the park for the next few days.

She needs a new gearbox.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

So, yeah.

It's not buddy levels of rest in peace.

The van will be back, and it's a van.

It's not a dog.

Poor buddy.

Oh, buddy.

Oh, buddy passed away when

Justin Moraz drove it.

Joe says, Dear David and Max, I'm a big man of the show.

It's the perfect background podcast while I'm cooking.

So good that I even pause it while the kettle is boiling so I don't miss anything.

Oh, how exciting.

I've just listened to the Karyad Lloyd episode where Max introduced the newest character to the pod, Lord Percy of Digmat.

We'd love to know what he got up to yesterday.

It'll be a perfect midweek mayhem episode to ask Max to perform on the spot and really test his improv credentials.

Anything to not have to listen to him complain about his coffee order again.

Just order a normal coffee.

Lord Percy of Digmat has begat two children, a three-year-old and a 12-week old who rise considerably early.

Max, sorry, is this just your regular day in a stupid voice?

No, that was a.

I felt like you'd taken me back to the Dingbat era.

A couple of quick things before we get to they're just normal countries.

On the lyrics to Antiques Roadshow, in the Suze Kempner episode, you were speculating, do they have lyrics?

Well, a lot of people got in touch.

Adam and Joe did this.

Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish did this.

Oh, wow.

The funny thing is they did it on Six Music.

And like, it's really funny.

If you go and we'll put it in the show notes, we were.

It's the sort of thing Adam would do, but we won't.

But just go and find it.

It's really funny.

And it's good because Adam does sort of like raps a little bit, you know, at the bridge.

But actually, the version that we just improvised sounds quite a lot like it because, of course, they both sound like the Attic Road Show thing.

Anyway,

Charlie says, hi, Max and David.

I'm a gardener.

And after getting Mark Watson to sign my chainsaw bar, aka Mark Chopson, for reasons I decided to rename my tools after other comedians, mainly out of boredom, allow me to introduce you to Strim Key and David Ho Doherty.

And

Doherty, excuse me.

And yeah, they are, I mean, they look very much like normal tools.

They're just normal tools, but they have comedians' names.

David Ho Doherty

and Strim Key,

which is nice.

I'm sorry, Max.

I'm sorry you're not in there yet.

No, no, no.

I'm not a comedian.

It's been well established.

I'm happy with that.

You know, otherwise, I'd demand a tool to be named after me.

Okay, they're just normal countries.

Welcome to Incredible Jingle This, AI Chesney, to the Just Normal Countries.

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

okay so previous guesses so far Madagascar Namibia Costa Rica Uganda North Korea Guyana

let me just just repeat

be aware of what this is we're looking for countries around the world this is like when you explained who Deion Dublin was but you know everybody knows carry on

this would be like what's the most basic game show?

They still do explain whatever the incredibly

on every episode of Pointer.

So you're right.

I'd say you are right to constantly stop and say, for people who don't know, Nigel Havers is this person.

But I quite like the assumed knowledge.

And if you don't know, you would just go along with it anyway.

Okay, fine.

I won't explain it to them.

David suggests there are six countries that at the time of when this was established by producer Mars Bar, they've only ever had one listen to this podcast.

One listen.

And so you can guess your country and its winner stays on.

So really, you don't want to get the first one right because then you have to stay on and get.

Imagine if one person got six in a row.

Anyway, Jody O'Sullivan.

Hi, Max, David in Marsbar.

I'd like to prefer my guests for one of the countries for your soon-to-be titled segment that, as of yet, has no proper name, but does have a marvelous sting.

I write to you from the glorious tropical Pacific island of Saipan.

As I was running along the seafront last week past the football field that cost Ireland glory at the 2002 World Cup, I was listening to the pod and wondering where these countries could be.

Then it struck me that I have a VPN on my phone.

So normally it would look like my downloads are made in Japan.

However, maybe one day I had inadvertently turned the VPN off and it actually registered as a download from the northern Marianas Islands.

So that's my guess.

And the only Irish person on the island, I'm not sure the only English person would be au fai enough with Soccer and Glory years to give the pod a listen.

Though I may be wrong, and if I am, I'm going to start the Saipan branch of the podcast fan club.

Love the pod, keep up the good work.

It's very topical, isn't it?

Just before we get the answer, yeah.

So this is the week when the trailer of a movie based on the biggest thing that's ever happened in Irish sport, the Irish football team were really good in 2002 and we qualified for the World Cup.

And our best player was the temperamental Manchester United midfielder, Roy Keene, and in blazing rows with the manager in the pre-tournament warm-up camp on Saipan.

He left and went home.

Ireland ended up doing pretty well still in the tournament, but you do think how much better we could have done if he had been there.

It remained.

We lost in a penalty shootout to Spain.

We would have got that and then beaten South Korea in the quarters.

I can't remember who we would have.

And so it's this tiny island that is etched in the consciousness of a significant portion of the Irish population.

Also, the other fact that I know about it is, so it was the only thing anyone was talking about in Ireland at the time.

It was leading on all of the news bulletins.

Bertie Ahern, the Prime Minister of the time, said he was going to talk to Roy, try and get him to go back.

It was massive.

And the team were all in this island and they had no idea.

They'd get phone calls from home, but it was impossible for people to get across how huge a thing this was.

But there was one computer in the foyer of the hotel that connected to the internet.

Set a queue up.

This is 2002, so none of them knew how to get on the internet.

There's a scene in, is it Zoolander where they have a Mac and they're all just hitting it.

They're all just punching it.

And then it turns out there was one player, Matt Holland, I believe, who knew how to do computers.

And he simply put Ireland news into Ask Jeeves or whatever the big search engine was in 2002.

And what came up shocked the entire team because it's leading on every bulletin.

It's the entire front page of every Irish newspaper with six separate stories on it.

So that is all I know about the internet on Saipan.

And now we will find out if anyone has ever listened to what did you do yesterday.

We will.

Yeah.

Matt Holland, who I've spoken to many times, I'm not surprised that he was the player who knew how to use the internet.

We should get Roy Keen on.

I think it'd be a good guess.

Let's get Roy Keen.

Okay, so over to producer Miles Barr.

The guest is the Northern Marianas Islands.

Thank you, Mars Barr.

What I will say very quickly is I think it's the best guess we've had so far in that

it did have listens.

So the ones that have got zero, I think, don't really count.

That's a miss.

But

that area of the world has only had four listens in total.

They're probably all imp.

They're probably all Jodie, aren't they?

So hang on.

Just as regards future guesses, Bars Barr, should people be thinking in terms of archipelago?

I don't know.

Come on, no clues, Daddy.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Strike that question from the podcast, or I will never.

You must know better than that by now, David.

How long have you known Max?

I just want to know.

I will be no part of this podcast.

I will walk away from this thing, which has become quite important to me if we're to get a clue about archipelagos on their just normal countries.

They're just normal archipelagos

okay it's your day david before we do it uh here is an email from lawrence in cambridgeshire who says hello david generic man three and michael i've been a listener from the start i love the pod can't help feel as though i'm chasing those heady days of richard osmond's undisclosed dinner as a purist of the format and the oath to tell the full truth.

I was appalled by Mr.

Osmond's refusal to share.

But I've since realized that when this anger dissipated, it turned into an appreciation for the mystique of aspects of our everyday lives.

This has often led me to wonder what David or Max have got up to in their fallow week.

I have a controversial suggestion for the midweek mayhem episodes, random selection.

Max and David could give a tantalizing overview, a kind of theatrical trailer of their day, then toss a coin to determine which day we hear about in full.

You might think this sounds like a terrible idea, but I have three compelling reasons why you should adopt it.

One, it will introduce an obvious but small quantity of peril, which can only liven up what otherwise sounds like a quote, pretty boring podcast, Wife of Man from Halifax.

Two, Jamie will never know whether or not it's Max's turn, which guarantees the it's my podcast week treatment on a weekly basis.

Three, producer Marsbar no longer has to make massive sacrifices like planning the specific date of his proposal purely to help massage the rotor between Max and David.

In fact, the only argument I can think of against this idea is the massive jeopardy it would bring on Boxing Day 2025.

Thank you for your attention to this matter, Lawrence and Cambridgeshire.

Very interesting point.

Yeah, all I I will say to it is based on your last 10 yesterdays, it'd be hard to come up with a trailer for that where people would be going like, ooh,

I wonder if she breastfed a child sitting on cold concrete on a miserable Melbourne morning, as opposed to my life where I'm just chasing a goose around a field.

You could say, did I cycle around Phoenix Park or not?

You find out.

Anyways, David, it's your day.

6-11.

Whoa, this is big.

Yep.

I

wake with, yes, we are still minding the cat.

Good stuff.

That will be the big theme of this one.

Mial, French word for honey.

Interestingly, mial, mall, is one of those words.

It's the Irish word for honey as well.

And so towns in Ireland like Clon Mal are the place where the honey was made, etc.

Mielle,

who I think might be behind me, is

had a slightly reddish hue when she was a kitten.

Now it's just standard green, lizardy, greeny brown cat.

You're led to say lizardy cat, but you know what I mean?

That sort of thing.

Green cat.

Camouflagey.

Yeah, greenish.

I don't know any green cats.

You know, loads of green.

They're not solid green.

They're that.

Are you thinking of?

David, are you thinking of frogs?

I woke up with 300 tadpoles

in my bed.

You're wondering why this frog doesn't want any Sheba.

Miel is operating on a different time to us.

Miel's very mysterious.

While we have got closer, over the last week, it's kind of, I bet there is a cop buddy movie where a cop who doesn't like dogs is given a dog, and the dog slowly, what was the one with Tom Hanks?

Was that Turner or Hooch?

Is that what happens in that film?

Turner's.

I can't remember.

And Hooch presumably is the dog.

Yeah, you wouldn't call a dog Turner.

Robert Turner.

This is my dog.

Yeah.

Yep, Miel's just sitting there making this kind of like the

sound and feeling is it ribboning

that a uh phone makes a nokia makes when a text is coming in

on silent yes okay

so

yeah like that okay so got it i don't mind it to be honest it's something lovely it's a lovely it's very comforting but it is 6 11 nonetheless and we are there for awake now i seem to be poor at getting back to sleep when i'm awoken with a start like this so i just decide to lie there beside the soft breathing helencopter

and go through uh this show i am working on for the edinburgh fringe that is coming together but i'd done a run through the night before

Not great.

It was, we'd had a big step up the previous week.

This one wasn't great.

So let's just try and think our way through it.

Alarm goes off 7 30 helencopter it's her turn so hang on sorry interruption that's sort of 90 minutes 80 minutes of just going through this show yeah i mean i might have dozed off for a bit

that doesn't bode well for the show

not in the show the the uh the cat also every time i think it senses that I might be losing interest in the cat.

Like the cat doesn't like to be petted particularly, but the the cat likes to be kind of crushed very gently with your hands on either side of it.

And sometimes it'll walk, weirdly, it doesn't seem to want to wake Helencopter.

So it does this walk around my body above my head in that tiny gap between the headboards.

And yeah, it's lovely because it's only for another week or two, I think, before Helencopter's brother comes back from his holidays.

You won't want to give him back.

Well, we'll see over the course of this day.

Helencopter makes breakfast.

It's a pitta.

It's got peanut butter on it.

It's got banana on the peanut butter.

It's got some honey on that.

And then Helencopter's secret little touch, a little

of salt on it.

Delicious.

Great stuff.

The way you made the salt noise, it did make me think she just grollies up some phlegm.

I was like...

Grolly.

I've never heard that before.

Is that what we're calling it?

It did sound exactly like that.

Could you just...

I love the pizza.

Could you just...

Yeah, just leave the...

Just leave the gob, would you, Helen?

Just hold that.

Can I have that on the side?

I'd like to gob on the sides, please.

Yeah, like a disgruntled fast food employee who's undermaid, she gobs in every bit of food that she makes for me.

Clunk, clunk.

What's that?

Something's come through the letterbox.

I go down and it's a parcel that they've been able to push through the tiny letterbox.

Yeah.

Six pairs of socks.

So the same thing that's happening to my balls and dick and ass is now going to happen to my feet as well

going to be absolutely just dressed up to the nines in new socks where are we getting these socks from

uh

similar to the underpants from an unnamed brand no no no i didn't get them from them the i don't trust them with socks i don't trust julie lemon with socks i think don't tell that don't listen to that bit sponsors

they're you know, they're an athleisureware brand, but the sock is a different thing.

The sock goes in a shoe to be punished throughout the day.

So

I ordered it from a famous German sportswear brand.

That's all I'll say.

Fine.

Six pairs of Adidas socks.

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They're in three different colors.

There is a dark blue, a light blue, and one where I do wonder why they made it in that color, a sort of porridge-colored sock.

Yeah, yeah, another one.

It just looks like someone has has strained, you know, a cake through a sock.

Which, yeah, I guess was the plan.

That

the

helicopter goes off to.

Sorry, do you immediately put on a pair of the new ones?

No, that'd be mad.

Because

I think that's exactly what I'd do.

Because I have a podcast coming up, and I would never podcast in socks.

Ah, is that right?

Yep.

I have a podcast outfit that which is generally

slip-on slippers.

Yeah.

A trouser because I podcast in the basement where it's always a few degrees cooler than upstairs.

And then I enjoy a zip-up kind of not cardigan because it's like high-performance Patagonia thing.

And then I unzip that.

You'll know the podcast.

It's like when you're coming on the pitch, you take up your train top, turn it to one side, take a swig of, you just spray some water over your face, throw that over your shoulder, and then you're on.

Yeah, I rub, I'm real early 2000s, and then I rub Vicks on the sort of chest plate of my jerseys.

You've got one of those Robbie Fowler nose things on as well.

Huge preparations to this podcast.

Helencopter goes to work.

I'm excited to record our podcast that we recorded yesterday, Max.

Boy, am I excited.

I'm in all of the gear.

You've organized a great guest who I don't think I will mention because it'll be nice when

he or she comes on.

Yeah.

Because

so it's never happened before, but it's me and Maris Bar in the whatever the software we use to record this.

And then the guest arrives.

And this has never happened before.

And we, dark humor sets in that you have been taken by wildlife on your way from the house to the shed.

An anagonda.

Well, there are brown snakes in Melbourne.

There are, yeah, yeah, they are.

You risk life and love by coming out here to do this podcast twice a week.

It's true.

It's true.

And so there was a discussion then of whether we would all go to the funeral.

Look, I'm sorry.

We were just discussing topics.

Like, I would would have to go, but I could probably read a message then from our guest who you had booked, Anne Marisbar.

You know what I mean?

I'd probably be buried in the UK.

I don't know.

Would I?

It's a lot of effort to repatriate a body.

I was, sorry to interrupt your day.

When I was flying to Australia for the first time to try and woo the current Mrs.

Rushdie.

Just were you pretending to her that...

That's funny.

I'll actually be in Woolla Maloo next week.

That's amazing.

I don't think I'm

trying to book it like Matt Holland.

She was aware that I was coming.

I had two weeks off the way Saturdays fell during the glory years.

And then Heathrow froze over, right?

So I got to Heathrow and it froze and all the planes were grounded and they were just like, go home, go home, nothing's leaving.

I was like, oh, it's annoying.

But on that day of soccer AM, Graham McDowell had been on, right?

Golfer.

Golfer.

Irish golfer.

Yeah.

And I like, I just said, because the snow was bad, and he was like, oh, I'm going out of town later.

And I was like, oh, well, if I don't, if the flight doesn't go, I'll text you.

So I texted him and said, look, what are you doing?

He went, oh, I'm going to, I'm going to Nobu.

And I'd never been to Nobu.

And I was like, wow.

I was like, all right.

And I said, you never know.

I might get this for nothing too.

And like, Graham McDowell seemed like a nice guy.

But there was no way to get, there was just no way to get back into London.

But I ended up jumping in a taxi with this family who were going back to Wembley because they were planning to fly to Lahore

with their uncle's body.

So they were so they were trying to repatriate the body.

Fortunately, they didn't have to take the body back to Wembley.

That was left.

That was left in storage at Heathrow.

So just so.

So you know, Leicester, they just wrapped in cellophane, one of those,

just one of those ones.

So anyway, I jumped off at Wembley and then went into town and went to Nobu.

And it's still not my place.

It was a bit fancy for me.

But me and Graham and Dale got quite drunk.

Wow.

so no you're probably right i'd probably i'd probably repatriate my ashes you know i'd do the ashes here and then send the urn back few things i love the idea that in the soccer am glory years

still the only person you knew who could operate a computer to see if there were any other flights was matt holland and so

you have to get him out to to Heathrow to check because there's only like three computers in all of London.

I did think you were going to say Graham McDowell had a jet and he was like, I'll fly you

non-stop to Melbourne.

You just party all the way there.

Wow.

Just eating

the wagu beef solidly.

And then creepily turn up at the kindergarten where Mrs.

Rushton is teaching and enroll yourself in as a student.

And then like, oh, I'm so sorry.

What a mix-up this has been.

Just turn up and just say, this is, do you know Graham mcdowell and she'd be like no say well he's i'm afraid he's part of the group now and uh we've been living together the three of us ever since um

anyway so look so so yeah so you're having these conversations with chevy i'm still nowhere to be seen but it's your day i know where i am and i'm sitting right here but there's a you know but it's not my day yeah so Word starts to filter through because it's actually difficult to get in contact with you because it turns out there's been a storm, some sort of flash flood

the lord is unhappy that uh what's the show called what's the what uh six six o'clock show of australia the lord is unhappy that the project is ending so has sent a great storm to melbourne which means that the internet is effectively not working there is an outage there's an outage yeah yeah and i've and i've got like backup wi-fi is nothing's working and i'm i'm not frantic because I'm like it's David and he's all right and it's guest who we won't name he's all right Marsbar's fine it's like there's nothing we can do and so

yeah and then Marsbar brought the axe down on the record yeah we sat there for about half well our guest was very patient and we he has some amazing

kind of golden age of showbiz cannon and ball little and large type tales so we were talking about those i have my one one anecdote that's about Cannonball and Hair Flick from LOLO.

And I told him that maybe it'll come up when we record.

We're going to try and record it again next week.

Yeah, MarsBar

axes it at about,

I'd say, a half an hour of checking on you.

Sorry about that.

I'm sorry for the internet outage.

It's fine.

Melbourne's in a north.

I

believe you.

The others didn't, Max.

That's all I'm saying.

I believe you.

So I decide I'm going to get a haircut.

That's what I'm going to do now.

Yep.

Okay.

I've got big plans for this day, and I have an unexpected hour now.

So I go to two places and they both have, because I don't have an appointment, obviously, and I'm not prepared to DIY like yourself.

No.

They have

men sitting on the bench.

They have men in the seats and men sitting on the bench.

And I can't bring myself to joining the queue because it could be 45 minutes.

Like, they're always a bit shady as to how, like, they'll never say it's going to be a 45-minute wait.

You know, so you just

sit there for ages looking at a copy of a car magazine from 2018.

Thinking, really, I could do 2018, David could do with an Astra.

Well, it's interesting interesting that you mentioned that because the next task is me and dad are going to get him a new car.

Great.

A new car.

Wow.

A second-hand car, but a new car, nonetheless.

Okay.

This is good for you petrol heads out there.

Hybrid heads, please.

Hybrid heads out there.

I had done the hard yards the week before.

I had found the car we want, one that comes with a warranty, low mileage, 2018, 1.5 liter.

Yeah.

Feel the power.

Yeah.

It is cool.

So we get there and yep, it's all been organized and the car is there.

The boss of the dealership

very kindly does the deal.

And

does he know you?

Does he like, does he want like you to like take a photo for his uh his tickets

yes we i i take a photo with my dad for the

i have to see if it's if they've put it up yet or did you ask for copy approval or are you just happy with any old photo this is exciting Because your dad's also a thing, you know, you know, he's a mover and shaker too.

So it's Jamal Odoherty.

This could really see Toyota Prius's flying off the showroom floor.

My dad wrote many of the TV theme musics of our childhood

and

he's very nice.

And get this, is there any greater endorsement for a car?

The boss of the dealership says, dad's like, is it a good car?

In the same way that we always ask Mars Barr, is the podcast good?

Dad said, is the car good?

And

the car has got like 30,000 miles on it.

And boss of the dealership says, is it good?

Well, let me just say, it's my mother's old car.

Wow.

Yeah, yeah.

It's really good.

It's got, it's tricked up.

It's got many of the great accessories.

We're shown the various things that my father will never use,

like explaining Bluetooth to my dad as my dad just turns the fan up and down, like absolutely delighted.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And why does his mom want to get rid of the car?

Well, I couldn't ask that now, Max.

It's possible we have a buddy, buddy-type situation.

Yeah, we don't.

I decided.

My fear would be that that was because the brakes had failed, you know, and this would, you know.

What's the

spike melee line?

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, not like the other passengers, not screaming like the other passengers in my car.

Exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's an absolute beauty the car is cool.

I would say it's got many of the functions that are just come standard on cars now.

It's got a camera that comes on when you're reversing.

Does the COVID-19?

It's the BBBE.

It's the BPBB age, isn't it?

I know it's the BBBB age, but with the camera as well.

Like,

you could film a sketch using it.

I mean, yeah, a limited sketch, but you're right.

Absolutely.

absolutely

as you're driven oh because i think you have to be reversing it would put a real time constraint on whatever the sketch is um it's got does the subaru do this when you lock it with the button

and the wing mirrors automatically go in as well is this all cars now are they all i don't know if that happens with the i don't know if that happens with my wing mirrors i'll have to check i'll check and get back to you do you want me to check now nope it's fine no okay um i drive us my So my father's very conscientious and he has organized his insurance on the car that kicks in at 2 p.m.

Well, you need to get it home from the dealership.

But I have an open insurance that operates on all cars.

So I say I'll drive it.

And then my dad says, pull in.

And I look at my watch and it's like one minute past two.

And I'll take it from here.

Yeah, it doesn't just turn this into a car podcast.

She, I think, do we call the car she?

If you call it whatever you like, they will say they.

They don't have much poke the car from an acceleration point of view.

But I will say this: those 1.5 liters mean that you're going faster than you think.

Yeah.

And it's all you need, really.

I mean, what's your dad trying to do?

He's not trying to win the, you know, the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

It's unlikely to tip up there, is he?

At Bahrain, he's fourth on the grid alongside Max Verstappen.

It's Mr.

O'Doherty.

We showing

Max Verstappen the little camera that comes on when you reverse.

That's an old trick in Formula One.

They're like, here, throw it in reverse and let's see if it has a camera.

Just as it's about to start, everyone else goes forward, and my dad shoots back.

But we do get to see a graphic detail: the carnage as he reverses into Ralph Schumacher.

Rubens Barrichello is furious with him.

Tries to rip his helmet off.

We drive back.

It's a sensitive job done.

Absolutely delighted.

Yeah, well done.

This is great all round.

Yeah, we take an adorable picture for the Odari family WhatsApp of mum and dad beside the new car.

Oh, lovely.

And the only other transport-based picture that that I can ever think of my mom in

my mom was a hot lady.

My mom is a hot lady.

I've never wanted to say it, but I've always thought it, Dave.

My mom is a hot lady in the

60s.

Her father was a dealer for

Lamberetta mopeds, the classic, the not Vespa, the sort of cooler ones than Vespa that the mobs used to drive.

And my mom appeared in promotional material for Lamberetta.

And

it's her sitting on a Lamberetta in, and

you wouldn't have these anymore, a tiger skin coat, of course, holding a baby tiger.

Fuck off.

Fuck off.

Really?

Yeah.

So killed the mother, wrapped it around your mama and then said, hold the tiger, baby tiger.

It's a Netflix documentary that

mother raised that tiger.

And that's who you're talking to right now.

A fully sentient tiger.

Great.

Job done.

New car.

Got to work on this show.

We've got to work on this show.

Come back here.

Sidetracked.

Miel, the cat, is very much ruling the roost

and is doing figure of eight still between my legs.

I've been told Miel doesn't want to play.

So

in an attempt at procrastination, I get a twig, I tie some string to it, and I get a small piece of polystyrene and just bob it up and down for a while.

Cats love this shit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Miels have just discovered things that cats like.

No, Miel has no interest

whatsoever.

Yeah.

Miel's just watching, like, what is he doing?

Does he think that

this is what we enjoy?

I get a text from my niece, who is in university.

She lives around the corner.

She says, football now.

Oh, that's a great text.

One of the world's one of the great text messages.

Yeah.

She's really good at uh football she's good at keepy up beat and so that's that's what we're gonna do i sent her a picture of the cat just look staring at the bouncing piece of polystyrene and she responds oh my oh mg she suffered a cat bereavement last year so she's like thinks i've got a cat and i explain we're minding the cat she goes i must come over and meet it she comes over so my brother is in the park at this point waiting for us.

And she says, I've come over.

I just want to meet the cat.

The cat, when she arrives, is gone completely.

We go right around the house twice.

There is the fear that I have lost the cat.

My niece then fails to believe that I have the cat, and I just photoshopped.

You know how good I am at Photoshopping.

You are good at it.

It's true.

Yeah.

Photoshopping.

Have you tried shaking the cat biscuit?

The cat doesn't really have interest in food.

This is what I mean.

Raised by dogs, everything about me is wrong.

So I'm like, Mielle!

Like, come on.

And shaking her bowl and stuff.

And she's just like a little French cat that's like, no, no, no.

So,

yeah, Millie fails to believe that this cat exists.

But we go to the park then with the football.

Right.

So you're like, we might have lost a cat, but don't.

Yes.

But

there is a window is left ajar for the cat

because the cat poops in the garden.

So, but the cat isn't in the garden.

It's a small garden.

It's a mystery, but not what I text Helen Copter, and Helen Copter is just like, don't worry about it.

You know, it's fine.

She's very familiar with the game.

We're off to play football.

We're going to football.

In football, three people in the park.

Classic games include someone stands with their legs open a distance away.

you have to roll it through their legs.

Nice.

Clap.

Headers and volleys, headers and volleys, or yeah, we'll just keep you upy generally.

Oh, yeah, yeah, good.

The rule that we have is we're trying to get 10, but 10

only counts as one if you shuffle it around to yourself a few times.

It's got to be one touch.

This has got to be one touch, guys.

10 transfers of ownership within it.

Okay.

That's the goal, which we only achieve when we're not counting.

You know, there's something about the aspect of counting that brings a little too much pressure.

We then kick it really high up into the air and try and trap it, which I have the one that I always like to do, which is ball goes up really high.

Rather than just trap it under my foot, I bring it down onto my foot.

Yeah, yeah, lovely.

Which

causes the ball to bounce off towards various people who are just trying to have a nice sit-down on this nice day in the parking lot Interruption.

Just in case

our man who surreptitiously films me,

he would want to know that on Sunday, and I've said to the gaffer, if I play, if you take me off, I can never come back on again because my body seizes up.

Play holding midfield, first half, we're 3-0 up, job done.

We've won the game.

Come off at halftime, sitting in the sun.

It's a really lovely winter's day.

We're 4-0 up, whatever.

And then I'm like, I really want to play a bit more.

So I come on up front for the last 15 minutes.

In the last minute, in the last minute, I cross comes in.

Michael Owen, not that one, goes for a diving header.

It evades him.

It's a ball's a bit away from me, but I stretch to get it.

Come on.

Do I score in the last minute?

Or does my hamstring, does my hamstring just go, but dwind!

And do I collapse like a sniper has shot me?

And I roll off the pitch.

And maybe my season is done.

That is a possibility.

No.

Hamstring.

hamstring i think it's i cycle today i think it could be all right got a game in two i've got two more games before well i'm not going to play this weekend um but then after that there's two games so it's possible

i could get one game in before coming back to the motherland did you by any chance make contact as your hamstring

drained and then that was the noise you score the goal and then have to be taken off on a stretcher just arms raised to the crowd Yeah, there was no stretcher.

There was just some limping.

And I think it was safe to say, no sympathy when I returned home.

In fact,

I was doing a pram walk half an hour after getting home, which is, I would say, suboptimal.

But you know, them's the brakes.

Anyway, your day.

I'd love if you were doing the pram walk with two members of your team on either side of you who are just holding you up as you really slowly.

Still in kit.

I'm still in kit like that.

Yeah

the pram's basically just against my belly and they are just there.

I'm just hop hopping with them, crying, weeping, knowing that my season's over.

We uh we have a lovely kick around on a beautiful day.

On the way uh back, we pass a pet shop.

So uh cat niece says, get some cat nip that will entice the cat back

so I get a small duck that has I don't really know what catnip is but I I just know it from the phrase like catnip as in a thing that uh cats like i bring it back and the cat's just there in the hole just like oh hello good to see you again you know like just pure mystery pure absolute mystery fine i'll do a little bit

work.

At six o'clock, a terrifying thing happens.

This is the first time I've been here at six o'clock.

Mielda cat has an automatic bowl that you put a big sack of cat

pellets into it.

And

it turns out,

and like I said, I haven't been here for this any other day.

A recording of the cat plays as it knocks down

whatever half a pound of fresh cat pellets.

It goes like meow, meow, meow, meow.

It's her that they have recorded.

And

yeah, I don't know what to think.

Part of me is because it's clearly a recording of a cat.

So it's like the cat's been running a ham radio or so.

The cat's been using this podcast equipment to record podcasts with other cats.

Does by any chance, Nadia Shireen just pop out of the food dispenser?

Morris Mara, it turns out, is producing this

podcast for cats where they discuss what's new in cats this week.

Great.

I

have

a dinner date at 6:45

with the helencopter and Connor,

my friend, listener to the podcast, of course, who

lives in New York and is back for the summer.

He

we're going to a concert.

We're going to see

like probably one of the seminal figures in my life, Max, before I met you was when I was in university.

Yeah, is it Noah and the Whale?

It's from the jazz realm.

So there we go.

Branford Marshall.

It's someone who

would be up there.

You won't know his name, but the small proportion of our listeners who like jazz will know who Brad Meldow is.

Probably

the most innovative piano player in jazz over the last 20 years.

When I was in university, he

found himself in Dublin and

my friend Ben and I befriended him and we used to get him to play these tiny crap gigs in the university.

Like it was so clear.

He is touched by greatness.

I don't know what genius is,

but

he could hear a thing and play it and then improvise around it and immediately have an innate understanding of everything.

He had recorded one record

at this point

on a tiny label in Barcelona that my dad had got somewhere.

And just because jazz is full of these seminal figures who bring the art form in a slightly new direction, your famous one, Jim Roquai, brand new heavies

being Louis Louis Armstrong,

you know, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and well the names may be less well known because jazz probably isn't as popular as it once was.

You got Chick Korea, you've got Keith Jarrett, and you've got Brad Meldo.

And this is the point where he was just forming as an incredible artist.

And

he is now one of the biggest names in the music.

He was playing in the national concert hall

like 12 1200 people and we're in touch

You know, we we we took the odd time

and

He said come and let's hang out and so yes, we had

me the Helen Copter and Connor had a a ramp delicious ramen around the corner from the place and then went I love like I I this is just my thing I mean obviously I love this podcast this is my thing but it would be difficult for me to watch a live version of this podcast because I would be in it you know

yeah until Ducovany assigns of course it would be spooky as well were I to watch me doing well it'd be annoying with Ducovany in it but it would be uh because i'd be like this is very like my yesterday as well i would be thinking thinking that uh what the the the program of the concert i mean i'll stop talking about it now but he just he puts so many different moods like it was an hour and 20 straight through two encores people absolutely loved it all stood up at the end you know i realize it's this it's the story of my life i hated jazz when i was little i realize it just sounds like wank to most people but when your ear kind of attunes to it and you know what they're like, every night they're trying to turn this music inside out and put it back together and have fun with it and react to each other doing it.

I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I absolutely love it.

And we

go backstage afterwards and reminisce about when I was his promoter because I then put on his Irish concerts.

My friend Ben and I did for a few few years, and we were the worst promoters in the history of promoting.

I mean, the most memorable one was Diana Krall, who's now married to Elvis Costello and is the biggest singer in jazz.

Her and Booblay would be the two big dogs.

We booked her for her first Dublin gig.

The rider was very clear.

You hire a Mercedes van with blacked out windows, and Diana needs it parked outside the terminal building of the airport so she doesn't have to walk with, and she has all these boxes of outfits and everything.

And

I am in charge of logistics, and I go, Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't worry about that.

So I hire a Toyota minivan and park it in block F, level three.

So me and me and Diana are in the lift.

I've just got like hundreds of dresses under my arms, crushing them all together.

She's like, what's going on here?

And I'm like, yeah, sorry, just couldn't park it outside.

And then I forget what color the van that we've hired is.

So it's me walking around block F with the bleeper, just hoping the lights will come on on a car.

She realized in fairness that, oh, this is what I'm dealing with here.

A well-meaning, passionate music fan that is a terrible promoter.

We ended up having a great time.

She did two concerts.

Anyway, Brad, we have similar tales of just absolute slackness on my part.

The time we got him to do a masterclass in Dublin, and every young, aspiring jazz musician in Dublin was there, expectantly holding their flutes and trumpets.

And we had failed to get a key to open the piano.

So,

yeah, I'm better as a podcast/slash/comedian than I ever was as a promoter.

We

say goodbye to Brad

and

say goodnight to Connor, my friend, who combines, he's a professor in a fancy university in New York, but he's also a killer DJ as well.

Back from my

Atkins.

Like that guy who does the BBC Explainers and Glastonbury.

He is exactly like Ross Atkins.

He can explain what's going on with Hezbollah, and he can really knock out some Groove Armada on the

Mountain Pyramid stage.

We get back here.

It's been a busy day.

So we go to bed.

We fail with the simplex Irish Times crossword.

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 Miel

screaming.

Oh, wow.

Making scream meowing.

and yes i uh bounce up out of bed and go down

she is standing on the back wall now and she's looking down into the lane behind her house where i think foxes live

so

i don't my worry is that she has been murdered by a fox but she seems absolutely fine and i say meal you have to come in and uh

meal says shut up, you piece of shit.

I'm standing on the wall.

So Helen Copper says, just leave her there.

She's doing her thing.

And yeah, I mean, she is fine in that she woke us up again this morning.

Many foxes are dead.

Sam Fox, Dr.

Fox.

Rule Fox.

They're all there.

Not rule fox.

Strewn across the garden.

It takes a long time to get back to sleep after you've heard the terrifying sound of a cat's like,

I think,

I think she was just territorial pissing more than anything else.

Yeah.

And that was my yesterday.

Hey, it's a big day.

Nice day.

It did go on a bit.

Well, I was looking at the clock, but that wasn't.

Only because Marswell says a tight hour and it's 1.15.

Not because I wasn't entertained.

And then I was thinking, I wonder, because I was enjoying your love of jazz made me almost think I should listen to some jazz.

That's how far it was.

I'm going to look up this guy for my next pram walk.

Should I do a pram walk to Brad Meldo?

That's what I do.

So listen to...

He does a version of...

A good place to start.

He does a version of Blackbird by the Beatles.

Listen to that.

Okay.

That will ease you into his oeuvre.

Does he do a version of I'm Like a Bird by Nelly Fertado?

Then I can go, that would be a gateway for me.

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Hey, thanks, David.

Let's do it again.

I'm in it for life.

Now, I'm Like a Bird by Nelly Furtado is just going around.

I'm like a bird, I can fly away.

Yeah, just add up.

Thank you very much.

I uh, unlike Nelly Furtado, I know where my home is.

It's on the What Did You Do Yesterday podcast.

Thanks, guys.

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