WDWDY #26: What Pants Were You Wearing Last Summer?

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Rules and restrictions apply.

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 guest 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'Daherty.

Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday?

Hello, welcome to series three,

episode two

of sort of bonus midweek mayhem episode two.

I know that I know where we're at, David, now because that jumped to series three.

And people have

said that series three has jumped the shark, but I just think people say that about series three all the time.

I don't think people actually know what it means.

So I feel like we're still delivering high-quality stuff.

And I believe, and there is a caveat on the end of this, I believe this is the first time where both of us are broadcasting where everyone on the podcast is wearing Lululemon pants

are you wearing Lululemon pants yeah I've I've slipped I slipped on my Lulus this morning they're pretty good eh how are you finding them I'm really having a good time with them and I think it's this is the most like spawn con we have ever like this is an exact conversation that a company like that would dream of getting and we have paid a large sum of money for these undies.

Can you retrospectively ask for sponsorship?

Could we like play this to them?

And rather than waiting for them to give us 50 grand to say, isn't Lululemon good?

Because I'll let you know another thing, David.

I'm also wearing Lululemon tracks and trousers.

And they're really comfortable as well.

Now, it is important to say we did record an episode with Tom Basdin from the excellent Ballad of Wallace and Grommet Island.

And

we didn't ask him if he was wearing Lululemon.

So there may have been another episode where all contributors were in Lululemon, but we can't be sure.

And I don't know him well enough to message him to ask him what pants he was wearing on that podcast.

Yeah, yeah.

It's it's we could retrospectively go back and ask every guest what pants they have been wearing, but that would be a tough ask for people, say from a year ago.

And the main curiosity would be Kumar and what poor pants have to withstand the traffic as they go up and down, like a yo-yo.

Yeah, and while I think while we both completely believe in equality,

I would find it harder to ask a woman who I don't really know, who you booked, who I interviewed a year ago, what pants they were wearing.

Lou Sanders,

what pants were you wearing last summer?

What pants were you wearing last summer is the worst horror film of the franchise

hey john some feedback uh well i will just drop this in and this will bring a lovely chaos element to this uh me and the helicopter are minding a cat

and i am not

i grew up in the dog realm raised by dogs effectively and so this cat is not responding to any of my uh anything i'm saying in the night the cat was just like, meow, meow, meow, meow.

So I was like, cat's in trouble, must check.

And I went down and the cat was just happily licking its leg, just making nice sounds.

So this is a language I do not speak.

And who knows how the cat's going to react to its first episode of What Did You Do Yesterday?

Well, that does add a certain freissant, doesn't it?

A certain level of jeopardy to what people genuinely, you know, generally feel is a sort of low jeopardy pod and now we've added this into the mix jasmine writes uh 27 years old from bourne lincolnshire on this is on the increasing importance of the podcast as we have established we didn't quite realize quite how important we would become oh my goodness but it is you know it is starting to appear that we are in some way you know last week of course i was added to samuel peeps for example as great chroniclers of our time

to max and david after listening to the most recent episodes of What Did You Do Yesterday, number 24, a day by any other name, you have now answered one of my lifelong questions.

At school, I was taught about the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Ice Age, but I could not work out what age we would all be part of.

Now, thanks to you and your fabulous wisdom, I know we shall be known as the Beepie Beep Age.

Not only does this refer to cars and their parking assistants, but to everything else in our life that now incessantly beeps at you from the microwave to the washing machine.

machine everything in our life seems to beep so i think that this is the perfect name for our generation thank you for answering one of the most important questions of our generation i'm sure you will receive some kind of award or honorary doctorate for doing so and i cannot wait to watch the ceremony where you're acknowledged for your services wow on a final note thank you for keeping me company through my final year of veterinary studies and exams and i look forward to continuing to listen as i start work who knows i might be able to convince the rest of the team that this podcast would be the perfect sound to have playing whilst whilst doing surgery, says Jasmine.

Or I presume, you know, while putting down a dog.

That's the sort of message we get.

I was very sad about Rover, but then I listened to Midweek Mayhem about David, you know, lowering his balls into a bath.

And everything felt fine with the water.

Thank you, Jasmine.

It's important.

We're making, it's groundbreaking, David.

As I slid my arm inside the cow's rectum,

Max was talking about his football match and it really made me feel happy.

On the football match,

the team were excited to hear, you know, the, well, they all knew I got booked.

They were there.

But Harry, the guy who sent the email, also took a video of me being booked.

He sent it to us on Twitter, didn't he?

Yeah, you've been absolutely done there.

It's lucky that you came clean and you didn't try because the video arrived a week after the email had.

If you tried to paint it in some other light, also

just to say that the picture one has of a football match one is playing in is the you know objective truth to you.

And then you see it

shot from the side on a camera phone.

Hang on.

You've only got four, you've got five seconds of footage of no football being played and jogging away smiling as a referee box miss.

But it is funny funny when you're on the sidelines and you're watching you're what this happened this weekend i was on the bench to begin the game and i was like god this is so rubbish these guys we're useless this is right and i came and i was like oh actually this is they're quite good this is harder than i was and i you know it just doesn't matter on the sidelines it looks so easy and then when you get there you realize you've got no lungs and no knees and no ankles anyway

Tim Key was a popular episode.

Thank you, Tim, for doing it.

Sean says, the image of Maitlis turning up in Vicky Park with a four pack of Hofmeister, 10 BNH and a Kit Kat with a dog will stay with me.

I think you put forward the idea that Maitlis was a faxy.

Yeah, faxi drinker.

And faxy to people from overseas is, I wonder where it's Danish.

Danish.

It comes in a one.

The one liter can is the only one that I've ever known of it, which is too big.

Like the

lower two-thirds has gone flat and warm.

And that's why it's incredible that Maitlis shotguns it.

Maitlis gets a big pen, rams it in the side, holds it over her mouth, and then opens the lid as Sopal and Key shout chug, chug, chug.

I reckon I could get Maitless for this.

For this?

Do you want Maitless?

Yeah, I think Maitless would be...

I think you need to sound more positive about it.

If she hears this, if she's a listener, I'm not sure.

I'm not sure she's now going to be buzzing to come on.

That very much sounded like a, no, I don't think so to me.

It'll be a whole new realm.

You know, we wouldn't be enjoying the dilemma of, you know, what clothes the person is going to wear, et cetera.

It's maitless.

She's up at half five.

She probably does a Pilates class.

She's speaking to Boris Yelson at quarter past eight.

You know, this is Maitless.

On we go.

But I think she might surprise us.

Maitless might surprise us.

You don't know.

More Tim Key feedback from Adam.

Hi, lads.

Poor Deion Dublin.

In the Tim Key episode, Max mentions Barry Moore, both Gary Stevens, Trevor Stevens, Bill Werbinet, Tony Mio, Nigel Havers, and a number of BBC radio commentators.

And yet, David feels the need to let the audience know who Deion Dublin is.

Please explain who these people are

who know all of the above, but have no knowledge of Dion and his magnetic far post headers or his extensive knowledge of terrorist housing in Gloucester regards Adam.

Nigel Havers,

he was

Dr.

Latimer.

Was it all creatures great and small?

No, no, no.

No, it was a doctor's practice.

And he was Dr.

Latimer, and his dad was also Dr.

Latimer.

But I couldn't tell you what the show was called.

Ever Decreasing Circles?

No, that was Briars, I think.

Oh, that was Briars.

Yeah, because Havers goes to Briars.

To listeners who don't know, they're sort of pro.

Hugh Grant is like a son of that vibe of frightfully English kind of well I well I don't think that's appropriate kind of uh

havers wrote the book for that vibe is what I would say I did try and book Hugh Grant for this show because we had went out for dinner once and I've been in a taxi with him

so through a friend of a friend I said would Hugh like to come on and she has been ghosted by her friend who knows Hugh Grant so we haven't got I've got I'll go again now we're popular because I think Hugh's day would be good.

I think he'd lean in with Grant to this.

Yeah, I just think he's too busy.

I just

I don't think he's busy at all sometimes.

I reckon he'd have a day a bit like Nish.

He just lied, I didn't do anything at all.

What have we got together?

Hugh Grant and Emily Maitless.

The first time we get two people on to compare their days.

What if they're the same?

And then I opened a can of faxi and downed it on Clapham Common.

On life synchronicity and the Tim Key episode, Kay says, Dear David and Max, thanks for the great interview with Tim Key.

I thought you might like to hear about my incident of podcast serendipity.

It was Father's Day here, and my older kids were with their dad.

So I had a rare day to myself.

I slept in late, listened to your podcast, boiled four eggs for breakfast, and beyond, ate two.

Wow.

So boiled four, ate two.

Yeah.

Baked a cake, Victoria's sponge, and took myself out on a trip.

What an idyllic day.

So an English day.

It's a Hugh Grant movie day, isn't it?

Four boiled eggs and a Victoria Sponge.

Made some real tennis and went to Hampton Court.

I caught a number 46 bus to the Everyman Cinema in Hampstead and watched the ballad of Wallace Island, followed by QA, which was mentioned in Tim Keyes yesterday.

The film was wonderful, as was the QA.

Tom Basdan had just come back from a day on the heath, and Tim Key had been watching hockey, but forgot his sunblock.

The questions were quite wide-ranging.

I think some of the the audience might have been a bit drunk at this point.

One woman interrupted the on-stage part of the interview to say, sorry, but she had to go now because she and her husband are really tired after watching Little League football all day.

One lady objected to Tom Basdan's sunglasses in the film, and another said she didn't believe someone could win the lottery twice.

Tim Key agreed.

It was pretty unusual, but Tom Basdan said it has actually happened.

Thank you so much for the wonderful podcast.

I hope you really do do it for life.

Best wishes, Kay.

Thanks, Kay.

A fascinating thing to do.

I mean, we have gone deep on the Ballad of Wallace Island, but I went even deeper because the original short that inspired it is on YouTube, where none of them are quite old enough to play the characters that they are playing in it.

They're all just

25-year-old, handsome boys.

You know, life experience doesn't necessarily come from them.

It's not exuded the way it is in the feature film, but it's still

a lovely short if you're looking for something to look at.

Although we're not going to release, because we don't want to do too much on it, the Basden episode we're going to put out

in 10 years' time.

Now, this was an iTunes review from PEC771.

Meh, three stars.

Yeah.

Harmless enough fluff.

Yeah.

Harmless enough fluff.

Seems to have taken a turn for the lavatorial, which is always a bad sign.

Hope Hope it picks up again.

So, we have made a conscious decision to only read one turd-based email per episode of Midweek Mayhem, haven't we?

Yes, it seems like the podcast was becoming their receptacle for people's turd-based anecdotes.

We don't want to be known for that.

No, although they're quite funny, yeah, they are.

This is from another Jasmine.

What does it say about this podcast that we have more than one jasmine listening?

And this Jasmine is in Brighton.

And this is right in our wheelhouse, isn't

Dear DOD, Generic Man 3, and Master Buck.

I love the pod and was bereft when I caught up entirely, having discovered it a few weeks ago and binged it all too fast.

It's the thing I listen to when I'm doing absolutely everything.

Washing up, cooking, going for a walk, going around Tesco, having a bath, driving about.

You're with me for all of it.

The only answer to fill the void was to listen to them all again, obviously.

What?

Wow.

This is when I caught something that I missed on my first binge.

On what did you do yesterday, Midweek Mayhem, episode 19, at around 17 minutes and 30 seconds?

Oh, yeah.

You know that.

Yeah, we know that.

DOD talks about having the Norovirus.

Then Max declares when he has it from both ends, he's sick in the bath and shits on the floor because he needs to be on all fours or he can't be sick.

DOD just moves on without any acknowledgement as if Max was merely talking about his stamp collection.

Is this what people mean when they say Max has a boring vibe?

He can say outrageous things and no one will notice.

I didn't notice the first time either, despite finding him delightful.

Imagine no one noticing you, admitting to shitting on the floor and puking into the bark on purpose.

What a useless superpower.

Max, at least be sick in the toilet on all fours while you shit on the floor.

Then you're only creating one problem rather than two.

Love you all.

Your laughs bring me joy.

Everything really is show business.

Jasmine in Brighton going for a latte and taking my kids to school probably.

Thank you very much,

Jasmine.

I don't know what I was supposed to.

Like, if you've said you're on all fours and

you're double you're double expelling what's the follow-up to that well no the point is she's making is you should have said why not throw up in the toilet it's a very good point it's happened to me twice and twice i've ignored the really obvious idea of at least getting one thing in the toilet you've got two chances i mean the the the ideal is sit on the toilet hold a bucket but it just doesn't work for me yeah oh my goodness yeah now we have an issue here david uh no not another one of these

Yeah.

Last week, you remember, I had the why do you keep telling me off incident from the cafe?

Yeah.

I named the cafe, right?

Oh, shit.

I thought that might have been a mistake.

John, who is a listener in Melbourne,

he's done a one-star review for this place.

Saying, told off Max Rushdon for drinking coffee and eating a sandwich, and for that you earn one star.

Oh, shit.

That's John's put one star.

So I felt terrible.

So now today I've had to give this place a five-star review just to make it up.

And on my Google reviews, it has my full name.

I've only ever done about six.

I've written,

I've given them five out of five for food, five out of five for atmosphere, and four out of five for service.

And I've said

three great coffees, one great sandwich, two interesting interactions about cafe etiquette.

Would go again.

You have made a mess out of the star rating system if being told twice to

not stay there all day as you eat a $60 sandwich still gets you four stars.

Like, what would three stars possibly be?

Yeah, but what this was, you know, when, I don't know, Ian Poulter or someone tweets, British Airways, you've lost my luggage again, you assholes.

And I think, well, I never want to be that.

And that's exactly what I was.

I was like, I was using my credible power to make John give this cafe a one-star review.

Now I feel like I need to keep going back.

Yeah.

You know, and like every time I go, I'll give them five stars because now they've got, they've got a one-star and a five-star.

So that's like two, three-star ratings.

You don't want

to keep going and keep getting it up to get it up to a four because, you know, the guy's running a business.

I don't want to be.

I get it.

But then it does raise the question, are we talking about how much we love Lululemon Underpants?

Because in a previous episode that we don't even remember, we were incredibly rude about Lululemon underpants.

So we're trying to build the star rating back up again.

No, we just were surprised that Lululemon did underpants for men.

But, you know, Carl Montgomery, episode to be released, he showed us the way.

And I keep sending him pictures of, you know, updating him, you know, the tracking order thing.

Don't know the guy.

He seems quite receptive to this sort of stuff, David.

I'm enjoying it.

lisenshire says uh sitting on the tarmac delayed flight to pharaoh a coffee anecdote is the only thing that will keep me sane thank you and then update i was on the tarmac for two hours listening to this while there was a medical emergency when we landed rio ferdinand was taking a picture with the six paramedics who saved the guy crossover between football and what did you do yesterday yeah When were we, what was the crossover we were trying to do with Rio Ferdinand?

I can't remember now.

Oh, Joe Wilkinson was listening to Rio's podcast.

That's right.

And then we were wondering if Rio would listen to Joe Wilkinson's podcast.

That's exactly right.

As yet, we don't know.

And if only, if only Liz and Scheer had the same attitude to this podcast as Jasmine, who's listened through twice and has noted every moment, he would have gone up to Rio Ferdinand and said, Do you listen to Chatterbix?

Because for my records, I need to know.

And he didn't do that.

This is from Joanne.

Dear David and Max, David, I'm so sorry.

I had a bathroom emergency at 8 20 p.m on the 18th of june 2025 and in my haste to get to the loo i mowed you and your tiny keyboard over on the stairs of ancio love you

it's that's beautiful it's called uh unsha here

in in irish which is the bar that is very close to where i live in dublin where i do all my tryout shows

okay i do think i remember this because the stairs are too narrow for two people to go up and i was heading up and a lady barreled into me and literally not your own

no

she was obviously had it somewhere to get to and that's absolutely fine but yeah that's uh she had a bathroom emergency at 820.

so was this after was it 8 19

that she barreled past you yeah that that makes perfect sense time wise wow okay thank you joanne thank you joanne it's starting to come together this show that's That's all I'll say, which is about time now, because for a few weeks, we've been not wilderness.

There's good gear in there.

But now, for the first time, it's starting to click together a little bit.

The offer is here that if you want to meet me in the Affizi underneath the birth of Venus, I'll take a look at, I'll take it, I'll have a listen, I'll take a look, I'll bring some notes, you know.

I'll add some improv.

Jason Halifax from West Yorkshire.

Oh, no, I think it's probably Jason from Halifax, West Yorkshire.

But he may be Jason Halifax from West Yorkshire.

By the way, what's the amazing?

It was my favorite ever blooper from those Christmas blooper shows was from Bullseye in the 80s.

I think it's Jim Bowen says, where was JFK murdered?

In Texas.

And he stops and he goes, oh, no, that's the answer.

He just did it, Jim Bowen.

Hi, listen to the Gary Lineker episode, Laying in Bed with My my wife.

I had the volume up on the phone.

She must have been listening in when she made the comment, why are you listening to this?

It's boring.

I found this comment hard to defend,

even though I was enjoying it myself.

She then followed this up with, are they seriously asking what shops he goes into?

Again, hard to defend.

I don't think I'll try to convert her.

It is mundane stuff, but I find it amusing.

Keep up the good work.

Yeah, it

If you just came to it, certain parts of some episodes would be like, you know, when you lose your keys and your mum says, try and think back everything you did.

I mean, that is essentially what our podcast is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's just.

And then I got...

asparagus.

Yes, yes.

I got British asparagus then.

I was on the phone to Guardian cartoonist David Squires the other day.

And he is a big fan of the podcast, but he was saying he was walking around the town he lives in and was listening to the james buckley episode just as a friend bumped into him and he was like oh what are you listening to and and at that moment james buckley just described how he used wipes his backside with anisol on a wet wipe and david squattes was just too ashamed and said oh just football i'm not

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Now, I don't know, David, have you heard the jingle for their just normal coaches?

It's really strong, isn't it?

It's really odd.

Do you think it's your voice that no, I don't know whose voice it is, Roman, but

it's AI, uh, generic, generic man 3 voice?

Could be, yeah, I don't think it's Chesney Hawks, I don't think that's what he sounds like before they, you know, they fiddle about in post with his voice.

I don't think he'd have made it as a song personally.

But anyway, it's time for their 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?

Thank you, Chesney.

Okay, so here we go.

Previous guesses.

Madagascar, David.

Namibia, Max.

Costa Rica, Katie.

Uganda, Ben.

North Korea, Dave.

And that's it.

And that's it.

Okay.

This is from Ali, who says, Dear Max, David, and producer Miles Bar, I have a submission for a name of the new cuddle-style game.

My 14-year-old son, Josh, came up with this one.

Great.

What did Tuvalu do yesterday?

Oh, no, what did Tuvalu yesterday?

Either way,

in case it's helpful, this is one of those, David's.

Tuvalu is in the South Pacific.

It is an independent island nation within the British Commonwealth.

Tuvalu isn't my guess.

Imagine if Tuvalu was right and it wasn't your guess.

As I think it might be one one of the zero listens countries.

My guess is Guyana.

Love the pod so much.

Thanks, Ali.

Now, this is exciting because producer Mars Bar is not here because he does not care about this pod.

Don't say that.

Like Jasmine 2, who's listened to everything twice.

The only person that beats her is Mars Bar, who's had to listen to everything

so many times to take out all the times we go,

and also we have established that he got engaged at a specific time so he could work out when,

so your episode would land on Boxing Day, so we would get Kirtle 2025-26.

So, yeah, maybe he does care.

Imagine all the time he has to spend trying to edit out your little Sam, the Samuel Peeps coming from

your other end.

That's true.

That is true.

So, anyway, assistant producer Will is here.

What did you do yesterday?

What time did you wake up?

So, Will, your one job is this.

Is Guyana a one-listen country?

So there we go.

What did you do yesterday, Pod at gmail.com?

We haven't got any of them yet.

I'm enjoying the game.

It's winner stays on.

That's the idea of this one.

So if you do get it right, you have to get six in a row to win the star prize.

I'm not even...

I'm not even

a um

a green Ford Fiesta filled with all of our old underwear.

We'll try that wherever you are around.

We will, absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What has gone on?

What a road trip that would be.

Imagine that.

Imagine if the winner is in Paraguay and we have to meet and get in this fiesta full of our undies.

That would we could pitch that to Dave.

We should get Osmond back on and say we've got an idea, Richard.

This has been going on so long with no one getting a single one of them them right.

I don't even know if I could bejoin anymore.

You think you've lost your bejing?

I just.

It's like an advert.

I've yet to Viagra Advert.

Have you lost?

Roy Walker should do this advert.

Have you lost your Bejing?

It's my day.

It's my day.

Max Rushton.

David Odahoti.

What did you do yesterday?

What time did you wake up at yesterday?

It's a great question.

6:15 a.m.

It's a pretty good one.

Okay.

Puts you mid-table.

I'm not saying it's the greatest night we'd had before that, but 6:15 is the official wake time.

Jamie's in the bed.

I'm in the bed.

Willie's in the bed.

Ian's in the bed.

We're all in.

Ian's woken up and he's come in, and that's when the day begins.

He likes to give Willie a hug, and then he likes to sort of jump around, tells me to go away.

He's interested in it being dark and not light.

He has a book where it's dark, but the sun is, you know, just going down.

So then I have a discussion.

The first discussion I have, a bit like sort of Carrie Ad Lloyd with her son, you know, what is fire made of.

I'm trying to explain, you know, the way the sun goes up and down.

But I basically say the sun is constantly moving, which I know isn't true, is it?

We're spinning.

But I didn't want to get into axis.

This, you know, the earth spins on its axis.

Yeah, one day.

He's going to read the works of Galileo and he's going to come back to you and he's going to be, you've sold me an absolute pump here with this moving sun bullshit.

Yeah, so I do the moving sun.

He wants to play cars, so we get out of bed and we play, we get, he's got loads of cars out, so that's fine.

I cut him up some apple.

He loves apples.

Yeah, sure.

And I make it.

Yes.

Yes.

Does he get a deprize for not waking you pre-6 a.m.?

No.

Here's the interesting thing.

You put out the incentive deprize and then it just sort of dissipates.

And so he doesn't even.

Now, the only time he also depries is if he's weeding the potty.

And we've given up on deprizes for that.

He's yet to do a number two in the potty.

So, you know, there's a big deprize for that, but he hasn't happened yet.

I make him a porridge.

He rejects it.

Oh, dear.

Okay.

So there's a bit of playing.

I think he's probably watching Justin Time on the...

on the TV.

With Justin Morehouse.

With Justin Morehouse, yeah.

It's all the Justins.

and uh do a bit of playing 7 15 will he need the nap walk right so i'm gonna do that and it's hat gloves and scarf it's you know roll a six cut up a miles bar with a knife and fork temperature you know it is it is really chilly out there and so i've got my hat my gloves and my scarf big ear he's got he's got a little yeah he's got a little um

a little yellow hat on, which is quite a sweet little beanie.

he's in the pram and I'm listening to a preview of the women's Euros.

Let's get across that.

So that's good.

Oh, great.

Now on the walk, I'm early.

And given the plans that are coming up, I'm thinking, I'm going to get a coffee on this walk.

It's not normal, but I go, I get a takeaway, three-quarter strong, flat-white, and it's good.

Oh, great.

Yeah, really good.

But as I'm trying to pay, Charlie Baker, comedian, radio co-host, tries to ring me.

And so he's ringing me and my phone's not working on the tappy-tap.

You know, when you're a middle-aged man, you just start looking to these young people a bit like a boomer, don't you?

I think that's the phrase.

What Jamie calls me a lot of the times.

I can't pay, and the phone's ringing.

I'm trying to cancel the phone, and I just tappy-tap, and it won't tap.

And then it's like double-click, and I don't double-click it in time, and then it all goes off.

And so, that's you know, I mean, that's a bit of an it doesn't take long, but I'm definitely aware of my own incompetence, you know, surrounded by you know, the young hipsters who are serving me.

Yeah, they are, so that's an issue, but that's okay.

Pay all pay with crypto.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, with their eyes.

Yeah.

Okay, so I walk, I talk to Charlie about life, which is nice.

It's always nice to have a phone call, isn't it?

It's interesting because I'd rung him and he just thought it was a butt dial because now we just presume anyone calling is a butt dialogue who answers the phone.

But I was like, this is not a butt dial because it's too cold to type when I'm walking the prem.

So, you know, if you want to talk to me, you've got to talk to me.

Yeah.

This is like Shackleton.

It is like Shackleton.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

On his famous nap walk around the endurance.

Around Melbourne's inner north.

Will he wakes up after 10 minutes?

This is a disappointment.

We needed more than that.

He's just eyes are peering through what is called the snooze shade, which is kind of like a blanket over him.

It's got a little zip.

He's freezing.

He's freezing cold.

Yeah.

He's bright blue and he's naked.

And I don't know why.

Should have thought about that.

So anyway, we get home about 8.15.

So I've tried to get it down for an hour, basically, and he just won't.

There's a bit of trains, a bit of train work there with Ian when we get back.

A bit of cars.

We spend a bit of time looking up various characters from the movie Cars.

He's got some toys.

So you're Lightning McQueens

and your Madas and so and so forth.

Now, I've got a work laptop that Talksport.

accidentally gave me and I took to Australia.

It's issue.

I've just said that because the head of Talksport likes this podcast.

But Ian thinks it's his.

He's a bit young, but he says, Can we look at my laptop?

And I sort of think, I just don't know if a three-year-old, you know, when you just don't want to out in a cafe, him to say, let's just get my laptop.

He's three.

Sure.

To have a MacBook air at three

seems too much.

He's got his Excel spreadsheets with

all his favorite various shows on it.

Who's been nice to him?

Etc.

Sophie arrives.

We love Sophie.

Sophie's looking after Ian for three hours.

Jamie and I have got a big plan.

We're going to walk to a cafe.

Willie's going to fall asleep.

We've got a lot of admin to do.

We're coming to London in a couple of months.

Got work to do on the house.

We've got a shitload of stuff in sewage in London.

We've got to book things for London.

Blah, blah, blah.

We're excited about this meeting.

We're going to get a lot done.

Jamie's going to take Willie in the carrier.

We're going to push the pram.

He's going to take him in the carrier.

He's going to fall asleep in the carrier.

It's going to be great.

We walk to the cafe.

What's the carrier?

Like a baby Bjorn type of like a baby Bjorn.

Exactly.

I think it may even be a baby bjorn i'd have to check but um when i wear it he's sort of quite low on my hips and if he's facing me he hates it but he doesn't mind facing out but it if you drop something you have to squat down it's quite

it's just really tough on the knees and then sometimes i think i just should have had these kids at 28 and now i'd be out of the woods i wouldn't i wouldn't have been a carrier he'd be 18.

so anyway uh he doesn't fall asleep but jamie's i can rock him to sleep in the cafe we go to the cafe we order some coffees he is not going to sleep.

We cancel the coffees.

We leave the cafe.

We decide to walk to another cafe.

I know we haven't thought it through.

And

halfway to that cafe, we're just on a cycle path.

And Jamie's like, I'm just going to sit on the floor on the concrete, the cold concrete and feed him.

And so we just stood there feeding the baby and thinking.

I'm just thinking, I think I say, we haven't thought this through.

Like, this is one of us could at least have breakfast.

Jamie hasn't had breakfast and it's now half past nine and Jamie needs breakfast.

Without a Jamie without breakfast, it is not as good as a Jamie with breakfast.

I think that's fair to say.

I mean, that's totally, but Jamie just sitting on the cement, bleak, it's bleak, feeding a baby, and you being like, I should have had used when I was 18.

I didn't say that about it out loud.

Um, I was just thinking about my knees.

I did say there's a bus shelter over there we could feed, she's fine, she's in the zone.

Oh, real touch of luxury there, yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah.

The really the warm metal seats of the

365 bus shelter to Mooney Ponds.

But anyway,

is the day heating up, though?

That's, I mean, it strikes me that cold mornings

slowly but surely, but it's not, you know, it's not like, isn't it nice just sitting on the concrete?

That's not the vibe.

It's, you know, we've got something to do.

But anyway, Jamie masterfully rocks him.

He goes down.

We're pushing the pram.

He's asleep.

We decide to go to a cafe that we don't often go to, but we see around and we think, oh, we'll give that a a go we sit outside i get a long black uh and i get a blat bacon lettuce avocado and tomato with a sriracha mayonnaise oh yeah uh jamie gets a strong three-quarter flat white good and she gets a kind of chickpea it's kind of like a shatshuka i would say and she wanted for the record sorry she wanted for the record for me to say that she got the better brunch she just wants people to know that the you run all this pie here first the

yeah yeah yeah yeah of course the

the strong three-quarter flat white thing that came from her that's what i've just learned for the first time yeah i think so when we first met i was a large cappuccino man back in 2013 and uh that's the that's generic man three in old street yeah generic man three large cap that was me in old street in 2013 and slowly but surely she's increased the coffee and she's reduced the milk that's i owe her that you know and i would never go back.

If I ordered, the thought of a large cappuccino makes me feel sick to my stomach.

Let me tell you.

Yeah.

In Italy, you know, it's just a morning thing, and you have a tiny one.

And somehow we, the people not in Italy, have taken that to, could I have a waste paper basket full of chocolatey milk with some coffee in it, please?

Now, we're sitting down.

There has been some bickering.

It's low level,

but there's been some, because because we're, you know, we're both a bit tired.

It's mainly surrounding a weekend away that I have booked with my friends in September.

Oh, shit.

This is a bone of contention because she, at the moment, can't go away for a weekend because she's breastfeeding a small baby.

And there is an unfairness to that.

And I see that completely.

I've lived in Australia.

I get homesick.

I miss my friends.

She sees that.

So there is a...

Stop doing this.

Stop flying.

These are called flying kites in political where you get like a backbencher to go on the radio just put it out there i don't want your agreement i don't need any this is just like these are the two these are the two positions that don't quite meet but you know we're we're you know we're working it out the issue is The night before at 3 a.m., when

everyone was up and it was a bit of a traumatic moment,

she said, look, this is going to be really hard that weekend.

And I was like, it's three in the morning.

This is not the time to discuss it.

And I should have said, oh, yes.

But it was three in the morning.

You know, 3 a.m.

is no time to discuss anything.

I think.

Once again, I'm not seeking your approval or your rejection.

I don't want you to take sides because you're going to take her sides because you are a suck.

Anyway, the issue we have is our table is right by where people are ordering the takeaways.

So

we have to keep stopping because people keep...

coming up, you know, and so you just, you want to look like you're having a lovely time and then you can't get into the conversation.

So it never really gets going.

But we are both firmly of the agreement that there's nothing greater than seeing a couple arguing in a cafe.

So you owe it to, you owe it to everyone else to occasionally be those people because when it's happening next to you, you cannot, you are just both so excited to listen, right?

So

we understand that.

And so we are giving back to society.

Yeah, but it's okay.

The other intriguing one is couple in their probably 50s who just say nothing for an entire meal.

Amazing.

Really amazing.

And maybe they're both looking at their phones and at the end they just go then.

Oh, actually, no, an entire family, an entire family all on screens is a really good one, isn't it?

An entire family.

You just can't not.

You end up watching one of the screens because you're like, this is mesmerizing.

I need to step in there with this.

I suspect the bone of contention here, maybe what you and the lads are doing on this weekend is it's something really frivolous.

Go on.

I mean, it's frivolous, but it's not like she's worried that the strippers are coming.

You know, we're going to play some table tennis and, you know, not at all, but if you were going to...

Going to the points of bitter, a literary weekend or something like that.

No, she, no, that is not the point.

The point is I am away from my own enjoyment.

I think if I was going to a literary festival, she wouldn't, I don't, she wouldn't be like, oh, that's fine.

You're, you know, you're expanding the absolute, you know, the symmetry of culture that's your mind.

I don't think that would affect it.

This would be a great time to check out our sister podcast, Jamie and Helencopters.

What did they do yesterday?

Where they stingingly critique

what we've been doing.

Mike and Alyssa are always trying to outdo each other.

When Alyssa got a small water bottle, Mike showed up with a four-litre jug.

When Mike started gardening, Alyssa started beekeeping.

Oh, come on.

They called a truce for their holiday and used Expedia Trip Planner to collaborate on all the details of their trip.

Once there, Mike still did more laps around the pool.

Whatever.

You were made to outdo your holidays.

We were made to help organize the competition.

Expedia, made to travel.

It's okay, we're very much in love.

And

so anyway,

we get down to business.

I book a meningitis jab for willie um

i book mold checks for me and jamie

uh

it's good stuff this isn't it you know this has warming point

but you know you might as well be alive to enjoy life so like we've got to we've got to do these things that's a good couch phrase i'm writing that down you might as well

you might as well be alive to enjoy life

yeah

i think it's a really salient point we've got a slight bike issue in london i've got a bike with one seat on the back i'm not sure if i can get another seat and willie will be six months old like he's still a bit floppy do i want to get him on another bike seat is that too many bike seats for central london or do we get a big cargo bike in which case does any listener have a spare one that i can borrow for two months ah now i see where we

listen to 10 minutes of drudgery

we walk home we walk home we look at the big houses we talk about how much it would cost to knock our house down and rebuild it which is one and a half million dollars we don't currently have one and a half million dollars if any listeners have us spend one million dollars

what do you think you would do ideally a swimming pool in the basement you know and then a cinema below the swimming pool a pool is a pool is a disaster because you have to maintain the pool okay yeah it's a waste of your garden no we just need that really we just need we're gonna we've got two boys They will grow up.

We need more than one toilet, David.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's so.

We might as well knock the whole house down.

That's the only, we decided it's the only thing we could possibly do.

Yeah,

I was leaning into more sort of oligarch type stuff with underground garages, whereas what you meant was two toilets.

Yeah, I mean, two toilets.

Yeah.

I cut my hair, have a haircut.

Oh, yeah.

It looks

what do you think?

Yeah.

I don't give us a little twirl there.

Yeah.

What do you say?

Do you just say this, this again, this two months ago, please?

Here's the thing.

Did it myself?

What?

Yeah.

I sometimes just get the urge, because in COVID.

You had to do it yourself.

And like the first time you get the clippers, you're a bit nervous over your own head.

Now, just put on grade six, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, everywhere.

Grade two on the sides.

And I think

I've probably missed a few bits.

No one's going to tell.

It's not bad, is it?

Did you get Mrs.

Rushton to have a look at it then?

No, she didn't notice for about six hours.

Even though she was in the kitchen, I was in the bathroom there next to each other.

And I was making it.

I was going

for like 10 minutes.

But it's really quite satisfying.

I vividly remember my first pandemic self-haircut because I did it outdoors.

Because I just didn't want hair going anywhere.

But I did it with a beard trimmer on top.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm using a beard trimmer.

Look good.

Yeah, it did.

Yeah, look good.

What I'm saying is, much like locksmiths,

hairdressers is a total racket.

There's no need for them.

Do it yourself.

I do some Hoover and clean the toilet.

Hair everywhere.

Ian and Sophie return.

We discover that Jamie's book, Dog by the Bakery Door, is in Steph's local library.

This is exactly a friend of Jamie.

I have half a slice of banana bread.

It's time for Willie's big nap.

And it's a two-hour one, hopefully.

And Jamie's going to do it.

So she goes into the pitch black bedroom.

So Ian and I have two hours.

Great.

I said, do you want to go swimming?

He says, no.

So then we go through all the things you can do at home.

We do some play-doh.

He's got a fire engine that you can sort of, if you twirl it around, around, around, the play-doh comes out like a poo at the end.

Oh, yeah.

Is he of an age where he would enjoy if you got a big bed sheet and turned the sofa into a sort of hut/slash base.

Yeah, we're getting there.

We're very much getting there.

He likes going in the dark now under the under the duna, he likes that, and he likes hide and seek, sort of that sort of moving the cushions about.

Um, but hide and seek is quite interesting.

Yeah, that was an Australianism to it.

My apologies, it really is.

There's a few really curious ones, like in terms of bedding, when you go to what we would call the sheets department

in Australia, Manchester is just written there.

Yes, Manchester is a term to describe sheets.

Yeah, well, Jamie was telling me today when she moved over and she's a teacher and she was doing like supply teaching and she would say yes to nursery and yes to year one.

And in between those two is reception, but she'd say no to reception for about three months because she presumed they were asking her to be the receptionist.

And she was like, I'd be really bad at that.

And so they didn't understand why she was capable of teaching two-year-olds and four-year-olds, but not three-year-olds and saying, I honestly wouldn't know where to start.

Hang on.

There's a class called reception then.

Yeah, in the UK, yeah.

What?

Oh, my, I'm Jamie here now.

The Aussie one that there's two that blew my mind.

One is the calling of road cones witches' hats.

Oh.

Where?

Yeah, like...

They look like it.

One time.

Yes, I know they do, but it's a silly.

One time

someone said we were playing football, and there were some cones in the corner of the park from Roadworks that weren't active anymore.

And someone was like, go steal the witch's hats from over there, which I just laughed at because I thought, what an adorable way to describe it.

And then everyone kept calling them witches' hats.

And the other one is, I remember once being on stage in Melbourne talking about a strimmer and how good I was at gardening.

People were going, what the hell are you talking about?

And someone

described it with like a piece of fishing line that spools around at the bottom.

And they were like, that's not a strimmer.

That's a whipper snipper.

Oh.

As if a strimmer is a fundamentally ludicrous name for a thing, but a whipper snipper isn't.

But then what adds to it is there was an American in the crowd.

And so I said, what's it called in America?

Is it a strimmer or a whipper snipper?

And she she said it's a weed whacker and they are all silly names thank you yeah um okay so we do some play-doh uh then we go outside and there's some blue goo in a sort of a big tub so we play with the blue goo then i make an obstacle course that we both uh take on there's some little sort of raised hexagonal polystyrene things that we jump across and then uh we climb up a ramp yeah do that a bit then we get two pairs of scissors Is the I don't like where this is going, two pairs of scissors, and

we decide to liven it up and make a pact.

Are you is it the game, which was my favorite game I used to play with my brother, which was the ground is lava?

And therefore we haven't got that far yet.

We just have a garden by putting things down.

But shipwreck, shipwreck is the same vibe, isn't it?

Is it?

What's the basis of that?

Well, there are shark-infested waters, and you have to stay, you know, that's sort of more in a room on the sofa, you know, on the mantelpiece, that kind of stuff.

But no, I haven't really, I'm not sure he's really across lava yet.

So

I'll bring some in.

I'll get some and I'll say, hold this.

And now you know you don't want to stand on this.

You've already started to introduce the curvature of the earth and the movement of the spheres to him.

So it's a hop, skip, and a jump to magma.

You're absolutely right.

We get the scissors, we do some pruning.

He likes pruning, so we go and just, he has quite a sort of gung-ho attitude to it.

I would say he just likes to cut flowers and, you know, bits, bits of things.

So I'm trying to sort of steer him towards the things that would be good to be pruned.

But it's a good, it's like, it's good fun.

You know, it's out in nature.

We then start pruning all the little things that are poking through the fence.

like next doors plants that are poking through the fence and then we go outside the front and we prune all the things that are sticking out of our fence then he starts pruning things that are sticking out of other people's fences.

And I'm not sure we should be doing that.

Then we draw around some aeroplanes on paper with some felt tip pens.

That's sort of so.

That's during this time.

I have a cup of tea and two wheat picks with the flax seeds because I didn't have that for breakfast.

So I like to get my flax seeds in.

Yeah.

And eat your sandwich.

Your big fancy sandwich.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then I have toast and peanut butter.

because I want something nice and one square of lint mint intense.

Good stuff.

2.15.

It's been two hours.

I swap with Jamie.

Willie's still asleep.

So I sidle into the dark room.

I slide my hands under Willie.

I sit down on the chair.

Jamie goes into the sunlight and I say, you know, I'll just see you when I see you.

And two minutes later, Willie wakes up.

So I haven't done that.

Brilliantly.

And so Willie requires some physical contact for him to remain.

Or movement.

We can push him in the pram, but at the moment, he can't just be left.

At night time, he can.

We're sort of working on these.

It's a sort of very much trial and error.

If something works, you just repeat it the next day because

you're just trying to get through.

It's a real bomb disposal vibe to that changeover.

Yeah,

there is.

I've clicked the yellow wire by mistake and the whole room has exploded.

And Alan Rickman is laughing somewhere because he's got his way.

So then we're all together.

We're all together.

We're all up.

Jamie is reading Ian a book called Hickory Dickory Dock, but it's got like a twist on the original.

And it's got quite a nice scan to it.

It flows and it's a bit singy.

So I start reading it in a singy way.

And Ian really does not like that.

And he bursts into tears because he does not want me singing.

So Jamie takes Ian to the park and I take Willie for a walk

because he needs another nap.

I mean, mean, he's a bit tired.

He's not 100%.

I buy a bottle of wine.

It just seems like the right thing to do.

Great.

As you're pushing him along, you are just slugging from it.

Swigging from a $17 bottle of Shiraz.

And

so I walk home.

I then read the Hickory Dickory Dog book in a very sort of monotone way to Ian.

And it's a kind of rapprochement.

We bond over the correct reading of the book.

You've got to trust the text, I think, in these situations.

You know, it'd be like to

be

or

not to be.

You know, you're just like, this is good gear.

I'm just going to read it pretty flat.

It's called Hickory Dickory Dash by someone called Tony Wilson, if you are looking for it.

It's good.

It's good.

I enjoy it.

Tony Wilson, who set up the Hacienda Club and

of the Manchester music scene.

Totally, totally.

And actually,

you can get the audiobook is done by Bez from The Happy Mondays, which is a weird choice.

But he once, Bez once came on Talksport because someone said he's a massive Man United fan or something.

And me and Barry, Glendon, we weren't 100% sure.

We're like, oh, yeah, we'll talk to Bez.

You know, it's like, you know, so you just go,

okay, a tricky trip for Manchester United, then to Goodison.

Let's talk to Bez from The Happy Mondays.

Big Manchester United fan.

Bez, how are you?

And then he just did 10 minutes on how bad fracking was.

And the producers were like,

can you get in here?

And I was like, no, I'm quite enjoying this.

There's something really good about this.

I don't know.

I'm not sure this is what the audience need or want.

We didn't really get Bez's view on how Louis Van Gogh was doing as Madge United manager, but we certainly got his views on fracking.

To the listeners.

I'm going to have to do it.

Back on Mondays, popular band of the early 90s, lead singer Sean Ryder

was backed up at all times by a man called Bez who played maracas and took three steps forward and then three steps back.

And I thought that was his thing, but turns out he's against fracking.

He is against fracking, unless he was for fracking.

And I've missed.

No, I think he was that.

I think he was against fracking.

The cat's just come in.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

That's

miel.

The cat's called Mielle, which is honey in French

because it's a got a slight honey vibe.

Whoa, what is going under the stairs?

I don't think anything else.

You really don't know what cats do, do you?

I mean, that is literally just like, that's just a cat

being a cat, isn't it?

I know.

I just, I'm used to the dog thing, which is just like, I need to pee or I want food.

Yeah.

Or just pat me on the head quite hard.

And so last night, Miel came up and sat with me in the helmicopter.

And I made, I mean, all I did was brushed her or patted her the wrong way against

a great buffoon.

And Miel, obviously, yeah, we've given the French accent to you is just like, this is the sort of thing I expected from an incompetent like you.

Well, I totally agree.

Okay, so it's bath time.

So they both have a bath at the same time.

Ah, cute.

Yeah, it's cute.

Ian's in the bigger bath, Willie's in the smaller bath, but they're both sort of pushed into the shower in these baths.

That's nice.

We get out.

Ian wants to watch Cars, the movie.

He's watched it before, and he doesn't like Jeopardy.

There's a bit of it, and he's bursting tears before, but he's getting older, so we give it a try.

Now, Willie is too young for screens, but if there's a screen on, he will turn his head like 180 degrees like an animal.

Oh, no.

So I have to have him on my lap and hide, just put a a massive cushion in the way.

It's not really fair on him, but that's what happens.

So he is just staring at a cushion, like arching his neck all the way around.

It's probably probably a chiropractor already at five months old, but he's got the cushion.

Um, I go and read him a story about you know, things that go.

It's not a classic, but you know, does the job for a five-month-old.

Jay comes in, feeds him to sleep, one down, one to go.

Great.

Uh, Ian, then we watch a bit, we get off cars and we watch some of the classics what happens in cars

lightning mcqueen we haven't got very far into it but there's a three-way tie for the piston cup between lightning mcqueen who's sort of the the the star

an old guy called uh dineco

and a green car with a moustache who's always comes second he's a bit of a he's a bit of a dick uh but but lightning mcqueen is a bit young and a bit cocky and i think you know i think he

you know he's sort of sacking his team.

He thinks it's all about him.

So we're going to learn.

I'm not going to predict what happens, but we're going to learn along the way that he needs a good team behind him if he really wants to win the Pittsburgh.

And

how far into it are we?

Is this presumably the setup of Act One then?

Yeah, we're about 20 minutes in.

And then we just, yeah, then Ian just wanted to watch Sticky and Dirty.

Okay, so Jay returns.

She's got Willie down.

She then says there's no hummus or crackers or chocolate in the house.

What's the point?

So I get in the car and I drive to IGA and I buy chocolate, hummus and crackers.

I park well.

I think it's for the for the tape.

I park really well.

I also get a small bottle of apple and ginger defender gutten immunity booster for $5 and I neck it in the car because I just think I need this.

I get home.

They have made a game, Ian and Jamie, of cars and balls.

And Ian says, on no account can I join in.

I sit a bit too close and he bursts into tears.

We eat hummus.

Jay fries some chicken schnitzels so they're golden.

I say to Ian I'm doing bedtime.

He says you're not doing bedtime.

Jamie goes and does bedtime.

Jamie's in the room with Ian.

I open the bottle of wine.

I pour a glass that tastes like sweet nectar.

I put the fries in the oven.

I see the Premier League fixtures out.

Spurs home to Burnley.

I can see them fucking that up.

Jay comes out.

It is dinner from a box.

Of course it is uh there's a really nice fennel and apple salad because we wouldn't be able to buy a fennel and an apple yeah without it arriving in a box the chicken schnitzels have a like a aioli underneath the uh panco breadcrumbs they're really good uh

no criticism you'll notice there is after after the day that you've just had um yep this is the time for dinner in a box yeah yeah yeah we watch we're on series three of only murders in the building have you watched it no oh so good is it steve martin is so funny the whole thing is so funny and it's good like we are we need easy watching these days you know we're not

we're not watching like heavy documentaries about you know nothing that's difficult to get into we need and it's it's really great i have half a cadbridge breakaway i have three glasses of wine i'm in bed by 8 22.

i regret 822.

I know we're up around like 12, 30.

We end up six episodes of it.

Now, here's the thing.

Can I reveal this?

As a spoiler for the Tom Basdin episode, he tells me something about connections, which means I'm lying in, I'm in the day bed because Jamie, Willie doesn't like two of us in the bed.

So I've gone to the day bed to start the night.

I'm looking at connections, but because of something Tom Basdin has told me, I'm too paralyzed to attempt it.

So I just leave it and I go straight to Squedal.

And so that's fine.

I drift off.

I wake up an hour or so later.

And

Cambridge United have released their new shirt and they've done a video.

They've got a new crest.

And it is, the video is a host of absolute legends from Cambridge United.

Deion Dublin, of course.

But I do the little intro.

I'm doing a radio show right at the start of it.

I'm really excited to be part of that.

Like, if you told me as a 10-year-old, you know, even though I wouldn't have known what these were,

because they didn't really have those sort of things, the fact that I am like, they asked me, the club asked me to do a little bit for that is great.

So I love it.

Take us through the shirt.

What brand is it?

Who's making it?

Because we were Human for a while, but

I don't know what this one is.

I'll just hang on a second.

It's yellow.

Is that the club?

Yeah, black.

We're amber and black.

That's what we are.

Sometimes it's quite yellow, but the new crest looks quite a lot like Intermilan's, but I really do like it.

Oh, we're Umbro.

We've gone to Umbro in the last, maybe last year we went to Umbro.

So like, very excited to see that.

Um, interruptions: were Cambridge United ones sponsored by Wang Computers?

No, Cambridge United were Wang.

Oh, I'm sorry, I've mixed Football 86 in your sticker book.

We never got to sticker book because we've never been in the top flight, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's just said Wang on the front of the tray.

Wang, yeah, what was Wang?

But yeah, we've never been Wang.

For about a decade, we were sponsored by a skip company, and at halftime, the youth team would bring on a skip for fans to kick the ball into.

But I think it was a real skip, I just don't think it was good for the backs of like the academy.

Um, but we're no longer sponsored by a skip, we're sponsored by Brooks Running Shoes.

This podcast is brought to you by Brooks Running Shoes.

Great, um, so yeah, and that was it.

Then I sort of drifted off, and then the rest of the night is for another day.

Yeah, it's thoughts.

Thoughts are, did we heal the rift that we had over with you, Mrs.

Rushton?

Just there was a little bit of tension

when we were in the cafe that time.

It didn't really, we just

both went off to say that it was entertaining to see people arguing, but then I should have stepped in and there, said, but we did sort it all out, didn't we?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, the,

we will never sort out the root of it, but we are, we were very much in love while we were booking the mold checks, yeah,

and the men and jellies jab.

Um,

So I don't want you to put me to bed, etc.

When Ian Rushton says, not you, mate.

I do not want you to do this.

Do you take that badly?

Or are you?

He's three.

I think if he's like that for his whole life,

at some point I'll be thinking, oh, mate, this is, you know, I put some effort in it.

I've done, you know, a lot of pruning.

Yeah.

If mum's not around, you know, we get on famously.

But, you know, I'm happy to be number two.

Sure.

Very much to Sammy Lee.

To his Lightning McQueen.

Yeah.

Sammy Lee was the assistant manager to Lightning McQueen throughout the 80s and 90s famously at Liverpool.

A very honest day.

A day that I was.

I should say Jamie then in the evening was annoyed that once again, it was my yesterday.

Are you sorted with this trip back to England, which will be exciting when we're back on the same tour.

It'll be great.

It'll be great.

And no, I need a cargo bike.

That's, you know,

okay, we'll say that again.

I think there are places in London, aren't there?

We'll be fine.

You know, we'll pack too much of stuff and not enough of other stuff.

And then the flight is honestly the worst.

If we record my yesterday, the day after the flight,

that will be an episode.

I would love that.

Yes.

We should try and do a live show while you're back.

We've put one.

No,

I was trying to build it up there,

just like we'd had the idea here.

Why?

I'm sure you know, David, you're in the WhatsApp group.

I would pencil in September the 10th in London if I were you, David.

Pretty sharpish.

It's a good idea you've just had, but you know,

I'm trying to put Gary Lineker to eat a wagon wheel on stage, David.

I don't know what you're doing.

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No, thanks, David.

Hope you enjoyed it.

I feel we've got a lot off our chests in this episode, and we'll move forward now.

And we have a great guest coming up this weekend.

I don't know who it is because we have a couple

of three in the can.

In the can of the can,

three in the can.

Yeah, great.

Yeah.

So exciting, isn't it?

Yeah, it is.

It's a good one.

And also, I've booked us.

I don't want to spoil it, but the next few weeks, I have booked a former neighbor of mine.

But no,

I'm not going to tell you who it is.

Cheers, David.

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