WDWDY #41: Five Finger Messages

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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'Doherty.

Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday?

Hello, and welcome to Midweek Mayhem, the offshoot of the very successful podcast, What Did You Do Yesterday?

My name is Max Rushton, and alongside me for the journey is David O'Doherty today.

Welcome, David.

Hello, Max.

My name is David O'Doherty.

Welcome to the What Did You Do Yesterday?

Off sheet.

Oh, God.

Off sheet.

Yeah.

Do you want to start again, David?

Because I feel like we shouldn't start again.

I feel like it's too honest a podcast.

I think my plan there, and I don't know if I was going to do the whole episode, but like, you know, the news agents, like that sort of thing, where I was going to properly present.

What's new this week and yesterday's, Max?

I've been looking through the emails.

You know, I was going to do the whole thing.

Right, I see.

Have you ever wanted to be sort of TV?

Because I used to do this, you know, I was as a radio reporter and, you know, they'd send you to the scene of the crime, but you'd actually know absolutely nothing.

And the prisoner there wouldn't tell you anything.

And so they'd tell you down the line what had happened.

And then you'd say, and what we do know is the assailant was somewhere between five and 85, male or female, black or white, and could have been wearing a top.

What we don't know is when the crime happened and exactly how many people have been affected.

Back to you, Eddie, and hope that they wouldn't answer any more questions.

You want to do it in that kind of style.

That's what I wanted, but then I said off shirt instead of off shoot.

And we are where we are, Max.

It's lovely to be here.

Hello, listeners.

Yeah.

Hi, everybody.

Let's dive straight into the feedback.

Lots of positive reaction to the Chris McCausland episode.

But people especially liked the fact that you were sort of leading, you were being the sensible one.

Alice said, so funny hearing David getting exasperated while Max interrupts to talk about video games.

How the turns table, she she says.

I did feel quite liberated, I've got to say.

It's extraordinary that your specialist subject is specifically football computer games of the, what are we going to say, the early 90s?

I'm going to say 1988 to

probably 1997.

I dropped off before the GoldenEye era began.

What console?

That's the Amiga console through the Nintendo?

We're starting with an Amstrad CPC 6128 built-in disk drive, everybody.

Some real classics on that, Treasure Island Dizzy, etc.

Then we're moving into the Amiga 500.

Then I got a megabyte upgrade.

And then we're through, you know, kickoff to Sensible Soccer, Championship Manager, all these things.

Yeah, I mean, that really, I mean, if we wanted to get into the weeds, I could do hours, probably on my own, having an absolutely wonderful time.

I don't know how well it would do as a podcast, but I'd give it a go.

Actually, on Emin Hughes International Soccer, Adam says, and he calls it the Deon Dublin conundrum.

He says, I don't want to be a pedant, but this is now my third email on this topic that I now call the Deion Dublin conundrum.

I do sympathize with David because Max references so many niche characters who require additional explanation for our international listeners.

However, when Max mentioned Emily Hughes International Soccer, actually it was Chris who mentioned it, David chose not to explain who Emily Hughes is.

Last week, he explained who Chris Akabusi is.

I would mention Chris Akabusi is more famous than Emily Hughes.

There seems to be no logic on who David chooses to explain.

Capital letters.

All we want is consistency.

Nevertheless, I'm in it for life, Adam.

Emily Hughes was a Welsh international footballer who played for Liverpool in the late 70s, early 80s, was then a panelist on, I would say, BBC's first ever sort of funny TV popular sports quiz show team captain no less question of sport where he did show he had a lighter side and was very popular on that jousted famously with bill beaumont while david coleman laughed in the background once we had to go out and my mum videoed question of sport but it didn't record i've not had a tough life that was one of the biggest traumas that i ever experienced was to find the vhs tape had failed to record a question of sport.

They once said,

oh, I tell you what it was, and it must have been so controversial in BBC of the 80s.

There was a shot of a jockey who had fallen in water, I think, who just looked like a swamp beast.

And they all had a guess that it was, you know, David Broom or these famous show jumpers.

And it was Her Royal Highness Princess Anne.

It was.

Like Like you could just see in studio.

It's like in not open all hours.

What was the other show set in a department store?

Where once an episode in the 70s, the lady would make a joke about my pussy has been wet for the last 24 hours.

It's raining outside and my pussy went out in the rain.

And the audience would like peek into the red zone of like.

And similarly, when Bill Beaumont thought that Princess Anne was, in fact, a man, you know, the palace was contacted.

Can't really leave this.

On that subject, is Emilyn Hughes soccer the one where you could sliding tackle faster than you can run?

Well, remember.

Now, that was Striker.

Emily Hughes was a real, it was a sort of, it was a, I'd say, a forefather to, if that's not too strong a word, for FIFA and pro-Evo.

I never got into the football ones.

Dad bought us an Atari 2600, which is the one Pac-Man and Space Invaders on it.

The one game I loved was Yara's Revenge, which was basically just a rectangle chasing a square around a blank screen.

But it was really funny.

The fight of the polygons, wasn't it?

It was big.

But the blurb, if you because I remember the booklet, I'd studied it.

It was like the year 457,

the planet Strogon has fallen to the evil Yars.

It's the hexagon chasing a square.

Susan Walsh, I think, regards the midweek mayhem, the jet-lagged one.

Yeah, more episodes with Max, incredibly jet-lagged, please.

This is good stuff.

It would be a real commitment to the podcast if I flew around the world before every midweek mayhem.

Maybe I was just giddy with excitement.

My friend John has been in touch, David.

John, you're a member, who I happily will shower with naked in a football club, but not in a flat.

Who was I discussing?

You know, it was once again, people seem to think that I don't understand how quizzes and games work.

And I said I'd poked John or Fraser, I can't remember who, on the X5 from the bus that goes from Cambridge to Oxford, but stops at every single place between the two.

John has said, are you sure it wasn't me?

It was him poking me on the bus for four hours.

So I may have misremembered.

I'd like to apologise for anyone who was on the X5 who was going to out me as a potential liar.

So I can't remember if I poked John on the knee for four hours or John poked me.

But either way, they were good times.

We were funny students, David.

You know, we didn't stick to the student stereotype of being, you know, a tall sort of zany back in the day.

Alex has been in touch.

Dear Mr.

Rushton, Mr.

O'Doherty, and Mr.

Barr, my brother Greg introduced me to this podcast with the Ellis James episode on a drive to visit our parents.

We've both been big fans since the start.

He very kindly offered to treat me to to tickets to see the live show as a pre-birthday present.

We absolutely loved it.

On our journey to London, we had actually listened to the first Nish Kumar episode, possibly adding to the notion that this podcast is the center of the universe and had sent us a cosmic message to listen to it to prepare for his return.

Everything about the show was perfect.

The fact that none of the technical setup worked at the beginning, the mountain of prep that producer Miles Barr had put into the intro being almost for nothing, including plenty of callbacks that only us diehard fans picked up on the BOC, Max's coffee orders, Lululemon clothing, etc., and the icing on the cake of Lord Percy of Dingbat bringing out the instruments for you all to play top loaders, dancing in the moonlight, made for a hilarious finale.

We both look forward to many more episodes.

We're both in it for life and everything is truly showbiz.

Many thanks for the last Alex in Sheffield.

But we've had other, I went, I found the

What Did You Do Yesterday Reddit page, which is quite interesting because they get quite deep about these things.

Was he feeling good today?

Do you think he was feeling all right on that episode?

All these kinds of things.

Really, does really, they're really analyzing this shit.

But there was some live show stuff which i enjoyed trolley man said the first half was the most shambolic thing i've ever witnessed it felt like they'd only met for the first time about an hour before the show decided what to do i loved it not only just about an hour before the show but max in that hour had gone off for a pint with some of his old friends

Steph's been in touch.

I will say this now, on the record, for every live show we do, half an hour before we're on air, I'll go to the nearest pub and have a pint.

If anyone's there, that'll be great.

I think it's a good precedent to set.

We don't want to take this thing too seriously, David.

Steph says.

Hi, David Marsba and subpar Dermot O'Leary.

Thank you so much.

Listeners, since the first episode, assume my email lands in the priority inbox.

I always enjoy the way you both frame aspects of your personality depending on the guest.

Emotional intelligence we can all aspire to.

None more so than the Dame Mary Beard episode.

Max, precocious teen trying to impress his parents' friends, multiple basic historic references peppered with football and pop culture takes for the brand.

David, I know books.

Keep up the good work.

I mean, I don't know if I've described I know books as,

and I shuddered when I remembered this the other day, asking Mary Beard about the wanking man in Pompeii,

which is that's like meeting Nigel Mansell and asking him what the fastest car he's ever driven is, I think.

Maybe even worse than that.

yesterday on talk spot I interviewed world heavyweight he's not champion but he will be one day Moses a Talma it wasn't my finest interview but he recently knocked out Dillian White in like two seconds and for like the previous four weeks every 15 minutes we'd had to trail this damn fight I have no interest in boxing I once said on air, I could easily knock anyone out.

And it's always brought back to me

listening, because I could, I should deck anyone.

And anyway, and I said, look, I thought it was a good line.

I said, hey, mate, he couldn't have let that fight go on a bit longer because we trailed it for ages.

It only took about 25 seconds.

I thought that was quite a good question.

And he said, and there's a massive delay in Nigeria.

So then we wait like 10 seconds of silence.

And he just said,

God, if I had a pound for every time someone had said that to me.

I'm pretty sure I would come in the heavyweight division at the moment, even though this health kick is absolutely reaping dividends at the moment.

I haven't yet started to move down through the classes.

You know, I'm not cruiser weight or bantam weight or whatever yet, but I will let you know when I

before each podcast, we'll both have a wee in where we stand there at our undies.

Yeah.

And then trash talk each other.

Yeah, you don't want to be a weak heavyweight.

That seems like the worst position to be in.

Yes.

However, I am friends with a listener to the podcast, Andy Lee, who's a former middleweight champ.

He came on Talksworth the other day.

Genuinely charming and smart and funny guy.

And I've put it to him in the past.

I've put it to some of his friends who are also proper boxing people.

My theory, which is I'm pretty sure I would beat up professional boxers, like smaller ones.

I got it.

Maybe up to middleweight something like that up to those

i think aggression is a key part of it and i i don't think you have you know on your stats yeah aggression is low aggression wild but i've got tackers have you yeah yeah i could raise the guard and pull it down and because i've got big hands they're not getting in there yeah but a few body shots

i fear for you against manny pacquiao i mean i'm i'm here to watch for the next live show

right at the end it's david versus manny Pacquiao.

Your guard's up.

He can't get you in the chin, but I think he could wind you pretty quickly, David.

This is what I think.

Anyway, I will maintain that I could beat up everyone up to the middleweight division.

And I've been told by numerous people, even the lightest heavyweight, such as their knowledge of the ballistics of a punch, would end me after maybe three seconds.

Yeah.

But also, I mean, if you ever punched a punch bag, but occasionally at the gym back in the personal trainer days, they would make me do it.

And then they say, you know, do 30 punches.

Yeah.

And by the end,

I mean, the word punch is really generous.

You know, I'm sort of, it's like a kitten with a ball of string.

I'm just sort of gently caressing the punch bag thinks he's having like a light massage.

That's what's happening by the end of this.

No, Max, you know, the, I think it's a Muhammad Ali quote, which is, everyone's got a plan till they get punched in the face.

And I also believe that that may work the other way, which is these various bantamweights would be like, I'm going to beat up David Adardi.

This is going to be no problem.

In fact, I'm going to say I'll take on a few of them as well.

I'll take on the entire featherweight division.

Just me.

Oh, I see.

As soon as I start sending out these five-finger messages

TM, that's

they will start falling like skittles.

I'll pick one up and like an arrow, I'll just throw it into another five of them.

So maybe I fear it's you know, float like a butterfly, sting like a butterfly.

I feel that's sort of what, in fact, I don't think you're floating like a butterfly.

I think you're float like a butter dish, sting like a

sting like a whelk.

There's no sting.

That's what it is.

Tristan in Washington State says, David, Max, and Marsbar, while listening to the most recent midweek mayhem, the discussion of Sarah Pasco's dad's new jazz album segued into a listener correction about whether or not Jabba the Hut was in the Moss Isley cantina.

And David talking about how the cantina music often gets stuck in his head.

It's reminded me of the tortuous fact that according to the 2017 junior novelization of the return of the Jedi, the style of music being played in Jabba's palace is called jizz.

And the musicians who play this type of music are called jizzwailers.

Since the members of the band are all aliens and the Star Wars wiki is mercifully devoid of information on their individual species output i am not able to hazard a guess as to how long it would take for them to fill a bath everything is show biz tristan in washington state thank you tristan

Maddie in Yorkshire says, hello lads, big fan of the pod, also a big fan of the medical drama The Pit, which Max was forced to half-watch via the woman watching it nearby on his journey back to Australia while she was asleep.

While Max believes an episode was playing on repeat, it could be the case that the episodes were simply auto-playing after each other, as the premise of the pit is an entire emergency room shift in real time over the course of a whole series.

I see.

So I actually, I watched so many episodes, I just kept thought I was seeing the same one with the same bloody mess of a man being brought back to life by quite a dashing hero figure of the whole thing.

This is no doubt very boring, and I could be wrong, but worth a daft email to see if it gets read out.

Everything is showbiz, Maddie and New York.

You know, it's important.

We'd like to get these things right, don't we?

Yeah, the real-timeification of since adolescence, maybe they're all going to go real-time now.

Neighbors is going to go real time.

Just

the shot of Clive brushing his teeth

for 10 years.

I mean, essentially what this podcast is, isn't it?

So we shouldn't criticize the idea.

But yeah, live Mrs.

Mangle doing an online Kohl's order, you know, just taking hours and hours going replace single potatoes with a two-kilo bat.

I mean, I'd watch it.

I can't, we can't criticize Those in glass houses cannot throw stones.

Such a mundane idea.

Robert Jay says: New Zealand are continuously awarded credit erroneously on your pod.

Please do your due diligence.

Bungee jumping originated on Pentecost in Vanuatu.

The origins of what we now know as the Pavlova are still hotly disputed between the Anzac nations.

Little Brother can have the electric fence and jet boats.

Credit where credit is due, says Robert.

The electric fence.

Yeah, that's a pretty good one.

My brother, he used to do stand-up comedy, and he was a proper one-liners guy.

The Tim Vine of the O'Doherty family.

Yeah, very much so.

The one of his I always remember was: if you touch an electric fence on purpose, does it still count as a shock?

That's a lovely joke.

That's a nice one.

Yeah, well done, David's brother.

What's he called?

Mark.

Mark.

Well done, Mark.

Jonathan in Brooklyn says, Hi, in Brooklyn.

People love it if you do that in Brooklyn.

I know that for certain.

Why, I honor.

Hey, Max and David.

Your story about playing Shout by Lulu and the Lovers four times in a row at a Scottish pub reminded me of a game we used to play called Infinite Jukebox.

This was in the early 2000s in New York City when the CD-based music players prevented you from playing any one song more than two times in a row.

We kept testing this out in bars all over the city until one day we found one with both hits from the 60s and the best of the Marvelettes in the same machine.

We got very giddy when we discovered that the electronics didn't stop us from playing the same song if we alternated alternated our choice between two CDs.

By the time we heard Please, Mr.

Postman, start up again for the fourth time in a row, it was pretty easy for them to figure out which table to kick out of the bar.

The joy of it all, everything is showbiz.

Jonathan in Brooklyn, I'm glad it's not my story, it's my friend Nick.

Just the

shout comes on again, it's angry.

If shout comes on again, you're out.

Way, yeah, yeah.

Oh, so good.

Hey, should we do their just normal countries, David?

It's time.

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?

We hope she's alright.

The singer of Thanks Jingle.

Previous guesses.

Madagascar, Namibia, Costa Rica, Uganda, North Korea, Guyana, the Northern Marianas Islands, Bhutan, Brunei, Nepal, Eswatini, the U.S., Virgin Islands, Equatorial Guinea, Samarino, Kret, Liechtenstein, Turkmenistan, the Seychelles, Mauritius, Georgia, and Vatican City.

To the listeners, it's only three more months till the cheeses start up again.

So, do you think we could simultaneously have this, the cheese?

The cheese board.

Wow.

And who did I see in London?

We can't drop the Teddington quiz because because you trust me, someone will get it right in about eight years' time and we'll lose our minds.

Davis in Ohio says, hi, David, Max in Marsbaugh.

During Thanksgiving a few years ago, I got into an argument with my brother about how many countries I could correctly name on a map.

Great family argument, that is.

I confidently said I'd get all the countries in the world correct with only three to four errors, something like a 98% accuracy rate.

He was certain I'd lost my mind and argued how well I could for about five minutes.

Then we got distracted with dinner, drinks, and general family fun, the conversation long forgotten.

The next day, still high on my supply, I found a website to test my knowledge on.

I was quickly brought down to earth, getting something like 85% right.

Still high, but obviously nowhere near my goal.

I started quizzing myself each night and can now accurately get 100% on every continent, except for the small islands in Oceania.

So when I heard about this contest, I knew it was right up my alley.

My guess is that, wow, that's such a ski gun, you bet.

Yeah, guaranteed.

Imagine South America, where you know you've got paraguay and the little ones costa rica and the little ones at the top but they're central america i don't think south america is the tricky bit if you ask me i think the south pacific islands that sorts out the wheat from the chaff anyone can say brazil and uruguay sure i know but okay what about chad and you know yeah that's in africa No, I know that.

I know it is.

I agree with you.

Well, I think I'd struggle to get all the African countries, but I would definitely get Chad.

In fact, I think if I was to name all the countries, I'd probably start with Chad.

You know, Chad is never getting forgotten by anyone because he's also like a jock student who runs the hurdles and is the quarterback for you know Maryland University.

Okay, here, my guest is the country of Oman on the Arabian Peninsula.

I hope to email you again.

Everything is showbiz, Davis in Ohio.

So we go to producer Will, who is, you know, pressing the buttons as producer Marsbar is probably on a roller coaster.

Uh, Will, is Oman correct?

Ah,

oh man, listen, Will.

I don't know if you have the same technicals.

29 listens.

Oh, wait, he knows it already.

29 listens in Oman.

This is big.

We're so big in Oman.

It'd be nice to be able to suddenly just see the split screen of all the 29 lessons.

If it's one person, or we could just go boo-ba-ba-ba-ba, see 29 people.

That would be lovely.

I wouldn't have put Oman on.

And as we've just found out, I don't know where Chad is.

But Oman, I'd say we've got some Gulf listeners.

Oman's in the Gulf, right?

Yeah,

of course it is.

It is.

Now, David, it's the end of my working week.

Can I get another beer before your yesterday?

Yes, I will fill the time.

Oh, great.

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Okay, Chad.

Today you're going to drive the all-electric Toyota BZ.

But my electric vehicle phobia.

I'm not ready, Dr.

Ross.

I believe in you.

Oh, my God.

Oh my gosh.

We're inside it.

Try to take deep breaths, okay?

Move the ventilated seats.

They're touching me.

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Drive the car.

How do you feel, Chad?

I feel cured.

Woohoo!

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I'm doing it.

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Listeners, it's great that I finally have this opportunity without Max here to advertise my forthcoming gigs.

I am performing.

Well, this won't be out for a week.

So I've got two shows in Vickers Street in Dublin next week.

And then two shows in...

Soho Walthamstow in London in November.

I think the others are all sold out, but there's still tickets available for those.

And now I return you to Max Rushton.

I think that was a bit self-indulgent because I had my headphones in.

You could just plug all your stuff.

You could have talked about what a good, nice guy I am, or how much fun the podcast is, or all those kind of things.

But you just, once again, you just went after the money.

I know.

Anyway, David, what time did you wake up yesterday?

8.10, Max.

Quite decadent.

Yeah, that's nice.

Slept in, if I'm honest.

No Pilates for the helicopter?

No Pilates.

She had done a class the evening before, so that was taken care of.

So you knew you had a win.

You had a win there.

You were like, yes.

Normally I do wake up.

I mean, in Edinburgh, I was still waking up at half seven some mornings.

She, however, is in charge of the alarm setting and just let it go.

And consequently, awoke slightly out of time at 8.10 because she needs to leave for work you know whatever before nine anyway so it meant that you couldn't take things at its leisurely pace there was a rush there was a rush in the morning a stress maybe the first time this household has ever experienced stress and can i just say i'm delighted to hear it

So I have been woken at a very dank point of the sleep cycle.

Unfortunately, I'm unable to get up to make breakfast of any kind.

So Helen agrees to go down and reappear.

Sorry, interruption.

So you just wake up and go, I am too desolate to make breakfast because this is not the right time of my sleep cycle.

I'm a sad.

Are you like droopy?

Are you just

okay?

I put the back of my hand on my forehead like a French aristocrat lady from the 18th century, and I tell her that I couldn't possibly deal with any of that.

I understand

because Helencopter's work is more pressing than mine, which is an episode of What Did You Do Yesterday at 10 in the morning.

She goes downstairs and reappears.

I close my eyes and then I just reopen them.

And there's a pot of coffee and

delicious banana on it's usually a bagel but it's a bread that the Helen Copter has got out of market the day before it's got a peanut butter under it it's got a little salt and some honey on it it's a lovely way to wake up and thank goodness the awful stress is over good I'm delighted because it's also worth pointing out for the tape that Helen's work actually matters for the world.

So not only she got to get to work earlier, what she has to do is important.

And you just have to find out what Ian Smith did yesterday in about two hours time so she rightly makes the coffee and the breakfast look

while what Halla does is very important laughter is the best medicine Max and you're absolutely right people really need us we are doing a regular episode of what did you do yesterday with Ian Smith, a really good comedian, guy I really rate, who was nominated for the big award at Edinburgh this year, Who the constant joke was that you thought you were talking to Ian Smith, who plays Harold in Neighbors.

Correct.

Then, with this in mind,

Max, I did because I've never asked you if there are other Max Rushtons.

I don't think so.

So I decided to have a little snoop, but I didn't get far down the list.

I was just really delighted by the drop menu, the things that

the most popular things which I think varies by person to person like okay I don't want to give away too much about myself like you know when right-wing politicians are like why do I keep getting ads for butt plugs in my

in my feeds and it's because you keep searching for butt plugs but I was not expecting the Max Rush and Natalie and Bruglia that seems to be one of the most searched items.

Is there any reason for that?

There's no reason for that.

I suspect at some point back in the day, I had a crush on Natalie Imbruglia, who didn't in the 90s or the early 2000s.

I don't think she had a crush on me at the time.

I don't know where that.

I mean, she's Australian.

Jamie is Australian.

Yeah.

She's pretty.

Jamie's pretty.

But I can't think of where that came from.

I mean, is it possible that you searched Natalie and Brugulia so many times that that's now entered Google's mind as one of the key elements of your personality?

I mean, I will say this.

Big Mistake is an underrated song, and not enough people listen to it on a regular basis.

You know, of course, we all love Torn, but Big Mistake really has its place on a playlist.

That didn't want to leave you with my last impression.

Didn't want to do it with the wrong.

No, it's and you're down.

It's got much more attitude than that.

On your knees,

it's too late to dance the butter.

Do you think if we got Imbrulia?

I actually have a contact, I have a friend who does know Imbrulia.

Melbourne's so small, she probably lives with my father-in-law.

Like, honestly, but if you have a more direct contact, it's a good idea.

You'll fall to pieces in that episode.

You'll be even quieter than you were in the jet lag episode.

Of course, I fancied Natalie Imbrulia, but if you got Bronwyn suddenly, well, then I would lose my mind because she was who I really fell in love with.

Bronwyn from Neighbours, or even Plain Jane Superbrain from

Neighbors.

Imagine.

This would be too much.

You made this head.

Although, hang on.

For the record, who was it who said they fancied Helen Daniels?

Oh, God.

That was me.

That was you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was you.

And you said you felt when you were 12 years old, you fancied Helen Daniels.

You could have fancied Bronwyn or Beth or Plain Jane or Kylie, but you fancied Helen Daniels.

Did you?

She was 255 years old.

The amount of this podcast that's taken up talking about old episodes of Neighbors, or just rather an incredibly specific era of neighbors.

Listeners, Google Helen Daniels 1989, and tell me if I'm wrong.

Because if I'm wrong, I don't want to be right.

Podcast call to action.

You know, there are the podcasts where they say, now, look, if we all do this, we can save the whales.

And David's saying, Google Helen Daniels 1989.

So, the most intriguing Max Rushdon Russian in the dropdown is Parallel Park.

That's one of the top searches from your

you did a lovely bit of parking a few months ago.

Well, we did get an email to Football Weekly about the Parallel Park where now this guy works in advertising and he's it's a great use of viral content because apparently the Parallel Park Instagram has you know went completely wild because it really struck a chord with so many people.

And even now, a few months later, I would say once or twice a week, someone will send me me a photo of a good park they've done.

And I say, well done.

Well done, Dave.

It was good.

Well done, Brian.

What an incredible niche.

Almost as niche as Ian Rochdon's videos of tube trains coming into stations.

Yeah, I would say even more niche.

People really love trains.

Some people love trains.

Yeah.

You know, there are train spotters with books.

No one's standing watching people Bay Park with a little list going, I've got a Sierra Cosworth.

This doesn't happen.

Okay, so it's good to know that's there, Parallel Park.

Does it not have net worth?

I like it when it says, you know, net worth.

Oh, yeah.

Million dollars.

That's, I don't, where is it?

For God's sake.

It was a really ambiguous one where it was 100,000 to 5 million,

which is that's a good thing.

Which is accurate.

I'd say it's in that ballpark.

It is in that ballpark.

If I get all my assets together, it's between £100,000 and £5 million.

So I enjoyed the episode.

Listeners will definitely enjoy it when it comes out.

Oh, yes.

decided to make.

I was going to go to the cafe and get the eggs I like, but then the chef once told me how to make the eggs.

So I decided once again to try and make the eggs from the Fumbly Cafe.

Right.

So you chop a garlic real small.

put olive oil in a pan, you fry the garlic for a minute, then you put three eggs, you whip them up in a glass and throw them over it i mean this is the problem i think they use gabine cheese which is a very specific irish one it's just a normal normal cheese if you ask me just a normal cheese and all we had was not parmesan but what's the other one that's like grana padano oh granopadano right so i furiously grate that into it and then the key to these eggs is you fold them you don't whip them around so i'm folding so you're sort of nearing an omelette.

You are nearing an omelette.

Yes.

And if I'm honest, I don't really know where one starts at the other ends.

Very ambiguous.

I forget that Helen's got this nice bread because that would have been nice.

Although I've had some of that already.

Like, I do feel a little tired after the omelette.

I mean, you had breakfast about.

Oh, this is after the podcast, right?

Yeah, this is.

But with the jigs and the reels, it can take two hours.

And Art chats with Marsbar and asks him if the podcast is still going well.

Yeah, that's true.

And so I am peckish.

I end up doing a brown pitta

and just running it under the cold tap.

Do you know this trick?

And then put it in the toaster so that it opens.

And then I pick up the whole thing and throw it into it like

a hot pocket.

Yeah.

Food on the go.

Really good.

Okay, well done.

I'm happy this is going well.

Then

decide to view a house.

Whoa, what's happening here?

Nothing really.

Moving out of the flat.

No, there is an intriguing.

Just imagine, sorry, interruption.

Imagine, you know, if we were to move house, I'd have to tell Ian.

Obviously, presumably, Jamie would be in the decision-making process.

You would have to tell me.

You would have to tell her.

Willie is okay, but you'd have to sit down with each one of every of the 18 bikes

and say,

we're going somewhere else.

It'll be fine.

Okay, so you're viewing a house.

The podcast is so successful.

You're going from a flat to a house, David.

Look at this.

Like, how high up my list of reasons for doing this would potentially be a home for the bikes?

Like, the bike, I haven't bought a bike in a year now.

I mean, this is like someone at AA, isn't it?

You know, just round of applause.

Well done.

Bikes anonymous.

But there's still six bikes in the sitting room.

You know what I mean?

There's still two in the hall, four in the office, two behind me.

Got it.

There's still too many bikes.

And it would be lovely to liberate those bikes by giving them a place of their own, really, where they could all sit in a line.

Like, imagine that.

A shed.

What about a bike shed?

I have a shed.

It's full of bikes.

And then, if you had a bike shed, you and Helen could get off behind it.

Oh, wow.

Sporting lovers.

Start smoking and stuff like that.

Start smoking and snogging and doing all the things that you do behind the bike shed.

I wonder if that's a thing.

Do our American listeners, do they understand what that means?

Generally, illicit things in Irish and British schools took place behind the bike

sheds.

Yes, absolutely.

No, I've done this in the past.

We've done this in the past.

Just keep an eye on things.

You know, this is very much the genre of an old lady house.

Is she passed away or is she downsizing?

We don't know, and I didn't ask.

I just felt the estate agent may not have been forthcoming with that information.

Because I went to look at a probate sale of a house and in the house, they hadn't really done it up.

And there was a bed,

at least a single bed, I would say, and I'd say almost every room, which gave such a lovely impression that this guy, you know, as he was nearing the end of his days, he was quite sleepy.

He'd just have a bed in every room.

So if he wanted to have a nap, he could have a nap.

And I was like, this is a brilliant idea.

What a brilliant idea this is.

Every room should just have at least a single bed.

So if you just think I'm a bit tired and you can't be bothered to go to the next room, you can just tuck yourself in this one.

I'm a big fan.

Yeah, like I'm not that spooked by

any house over certainly 100 years old.

People have died all over the place in it.

You know what I mean?

You can't say to the estate agent, I'm looking for a house that no one's died in.

So, what's the weird thing to say to an estate agent?

Is I don't think they're looking for that, are they?

Has anybody died in this room?

No, okay.

What about this?

No.

I do that.

And then...

Interruption.

Are you looking at a house?

You've worked out what you can afford and then you've just added 300,000 euros because the numbers are so meaningless that you think, well, I can't afford any of this because the houses are expensive.

So I can't, I'm looking at houses I can't afford.

And so look at this one.

Exactly.

And sometimes you just see a house and you see there's a viewing on or there's a viewing later today, and you just go, I'll have a look at that then, really.

Do you know what's fun here is like they have a little sign saying auction 2 p.m.

And you're like, wow, and do they just have it outside it?

Yeah, they're just all standing outside.

And there's people just standing there.

And then it's, you know, it's like a cattle auction, but for a house.

And then, you know, there's an estate agent and they all look like estate agents.

And then they're like, come on, 1.4, right?

1.4, 1.5, 1.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 1.5.

You know, they're going, God, imagine I sort of think, you know, if we ever auctioned this house, I'd just be so stressed.

It'd be absolutely so stressful.

People are, oh, come on.

Let's go for it.

Go for it.

God.

This is very basic, but I don't really understand the point of auctions.

Like, surely you're better off just having a sale whereby for the next month we'll try and sell it.

And you tell me what you would pay.

And then I get back to you and say, well, someone else is willing to pay a little bit more.

Is that not a sort of slow motion auction?

Maybe, but maybe there's sort of ego involves, you know, and you get lost in the moment.

And you're like, yeah, okay,

1.25 million.

Is your fear then not when you're cycling around Aaronsboro with Ian Rushton on the back that he just raises his hand and shouts?

Every time he does, he buys another house.

Well, fortunately, like he struggles around.

Once we get past 17, 18, he's not quite on board with what the numbers are.

So at the moment,

you know, we'd actually, he'd pick us up a bargain.

He would be absolutely fine.

Haven't we got someone to begin of the bidding?

Begin of the bidding.

He's straight in with $16.

$4.

We'll be like, oh, yeah, I got a two-bed house in Fitzroy Normal for $4.

We got this in a private sale.

We, you know, we just said, well, what about this?

And they went, okay.

So that just makes me think we paid far too much for it.

You know, why did they say yes?

Look, I'm happy here.

Nothing may happen, but

let's just see.

Maybe we'll have an Ian Rushton moment where we end up getting a house for $4.

Good for the pod if you buy a house and you move in and we have all that sort of stuff.

That's kind of

content, isn't it?

Are we at that point now where we're trying to jazz up our yesterdays?

But

you go and punch Trump.

Yeah, I ate a live raccoon yesterday.

I forgot it wasn't my yesterday.

I really regret it now.

So then I need to do the incredibly self-indulgent thing of listening to myself.

I'm going on tour around Ireland and doing some gigs in London too for the next while.

Yeah, I know you've advertised them when I was getting a beer.

I really had the show down in Edinburgh.

It's no harm to listen back to it a bunch of times and then critically say what could be better and etc.

So I have my own show playing in my headphones.

This is not while looking at the house.

We've now moved on.

Where are you listening to this?

I do it on the bike

and then I go to the cafe where I'm attempting to listen to myself.

But then I meet my old friend Maria, who moved in about 2005, moved to America.

And she's there with her partner and we have a lovely chat, but that does end up breaking up my listening to myself.

I see.

I see.

And unfortunately, kickstarts a period of intense procrastination then.

What time is it?

Sort of three o'clock?

Yeah, we're about three now.

Okay.

My job is to make dinner for the helicopter.

Yeah.

So surely after a hard day's work, after making breakfast, she should come home and make dinner for you, surely.

So I decide, I'll do some of the sweet potatoes.

So then I go to a couple of places to get some nice sweet potatoes.

And then I notice my bike bike has a click coming from the crank, which we correctly identify.

I know someone who can fix it.

Do you know?

I know someone who can fix it.

Process of elimination.

It's one of the pedals is a tiny bit loose.

So we take that out, grease it, and put it back in.

And then I think this might be the ultimate like boss level of procrastination.

What do you think boss procrastination is?

The very highest level?

That is,

for me, is opening the cupboard with all the letters that I know I don't want to look at,

getting them out of the cupboard, looking at them all again, and deciding they should be filed in a more sensible way,

and putting them back in the cupboard.

Mine is defrost the freezer.

Ah, really good.

I don't think I've defrosted a freezer in 20 years.

Well, one of the drawers of frozen produce is struggling to shut.

You have to karate head it with your palm to get

the middle.

Or it's a bit of an in-out, in-out job.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Right.

I see very clearly what it is.

The thermostat's frozen over, and then the back of the freezer is starting to.

So initially, it's just like, oh, yeah, you should deal with that.

And so I just pull out the drawer and I sort of touch it with my hand.

And then

I decide if you're going to do this, you're going to do it properly.

So I get the hair dryer.

Interesting.

That's the best way of doing it.

It's the environmentally best way to do it for sure.

Rather than do well, you can do it.

You can just get some towels and open the freezer, get all the stuff out, and let it thaw.

Yeah, but all the stuff's going to thaw, and you shouldn't refreeze stuff that's thawed.

Okay.

I'm pretty sure that's one of the golden rules of not getting botulism:

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Ten famous botulism rules.

Also, the stuff in that freezer from when I moved in.

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The freezer was left by Cochrane, the former inhabitant of my house.

So it's just always been there.

There's mackerel in there and stuff that you don't even want to think about it.

So I go at it with the hair dryer.

Hair dryer.

It's such a good...

It's actually the hair dryer of my first girlfriend ever from,

yeah, 1996.

It still works fine.

Does she know you've got it?

Yeah, she does.

I send her photos of it occasionally.

But it's now been demoted to the defrosting of freezers.

I see.

Like, he's like, I used to be a big player.

I used to dry the hair of, you know, the future Mrs.

O'Doherty, and now look at me.

So it's going well.

It's very satisfying.

It's like global warming because you heat the big lump and then at some point,

a huge lump falls out.

The glacier.

The glacier splits apart.

The polar bear is left abandoned.

This is good stuff.

So we've now just got a bit left at the bottom, which funnily enough seems impervious.

Or maybe the procrastination is just building in me too much, which is just, you've basically done it.

But I'm like, no, I must get all of the ice out.

It's only taken 15 minutes, so the stuff is still frozen.

Generally, I'm checking that.

And I do the number one thing you're not supposed to do when defrosting a freezer.

I get a sharp knife.

Yeah.

And we know this.

Just don't do it.

Do not do that.

Just use the hair dryer and maybe a wooden spoon to knock the bits out.

Of the knife block, you've got little

thin

fat cleaver, unnecessary cleaver and bread knife.

What are you going for?

in cludo terms i've got the dagger serrated or unserrated unserrated because

he needed to slide under but i push it too hard under

kneeling in front of the freezer surrounded by frozen things that are starting to defrost

i uh hit a main line and immediately

starts coming out from the freezer.

If it's your leg?

Oh, your freezer, right?

Okay.

Yeah, I've fucked it.

Well, hang on.

You're in the drawer.

You've gone through the drawer.

I've taken the drawers out.

Oh, you're just on the back.

It's a white space and I'm just hitting the back.

Like it's the last bit.

I've done a great job getting all the rest.

Do you think it's going to explode?

Because if you hear that, you think, oh, no, I don't want to get blown up by a freezer.

So I'm kneeling in front of it, like in a prayer of sorts, and I go straight onto my phone and just put in the keywords: defrost, freezer, knife, air.

Then you're like,

is the freezer deflating like a balloon?

Is it flying around the kitchen now?

The internet is unanimous.

This is a dangerous CFC gas.

Okay.

Immediately and put it outside, basically.

Yeah.

How easy is it to get, do you have one of those wheelie trolleys to get the freezer outside?

It's beside the back door.

Okay.

So I move 3,000 bags for life to clear the space and I haul it out into the garden.

Hang on.

Interruption.

Is it a fridge freezer or is the freezer independent of the fridge?

The freezer is beside the washing machine.

And so now it's a situation where I have a lot of work to do.

I was procrastinating.

And now

I am destroying certainly, what's the monetary value of everything in the freezer?

Probably like 150 quids worth.

Good fun price is right, that isn't it.

Good fun price is right to play with your friends is to go around their house and say, What's the monetary value of all the food in the freezer?

Maybe they've got a pheasant in there.

You don't know.

Keep the door closed, have a guess, and then we'll might play that later.

No, that's too, it's not 150, but it's certainly 50 or it's a sizable amount.

Can I have a little guess?

You got some, you've got one Tupperware of stock.

Oh my God.

I do.

Yeah, unidentifiable stock from five to six months ago that you will end up dropping in the sink and watching it pouring the hot water tap on it and watching it go down.

So spooky, yes.

I boiled out a chicken carcass about six months ago.

Yeah.

And have it in the north.

Yeah.

So, like, how do you put a monetary value on that?

That's priceless.

It's priceless.

It's priceless.

You can't.

It's surprising they don't go up at Sotheby's more often.

Frozen stock from Mary and Nuneaton.

Made between eight months and 12 months ago.

Will never be used.

Will just be poured into the sink to make space for Tupperware.

What else is in there?

You've got some peas.

Yeah, two bags.

I'm going to say you do have one oven chips, but not many chips left in the packet.

You're not a regular chip eater.

One full.

One full chips.

Okay.

One full.

Yeah.

You've got two Tupperwares of dinners made made by the helicopter.

One you can easily identify, one you just do not know what it is, but it's probably mince-based.

Yep, they're in bags, though.

Not tough.

Okay, but they're in bags.

Maybe you've got one frozen berries because you, you know, someone's thinking about having some smoothies.

Yeah.

Okay.

So many ice packs.

Yeah, yeah.

So many ice packs.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

As in, every time I've sprained anything for the last five years, ten years, I buy one of those ice packs that's got a gel thing in it.

I think probably the chemist sells it as in you'll need this because it's hot and cold and they all just live in the freezer.

So it turns out...

You could provide for the Irish rugby team for the next six nations all the ice packs they need.

Yes, I could.

put it around a dolphin and transport it around the world.

You know, it's that level of ice pack.

There's a bunch of steaks in there.

Oh, really?

Thor steaks.

Some fish that you'll never eat.

I mean, no one ever thaws fish and eats it.

They thaw fish, look at it, and go, not sure about that.

Loads of ice pops from the summer, probably from years and years.

A few ice creams, a Ben and Jerry's.

Now, some of it we get into the ice box in the regular freezer.

Right, sorry, is Helen back now or not?

No, the Royal Wii.

The we was me and my team, which is aka the you, Ernest Shackleton.

He's good in cold climates, so he's good in this.

cold.

He is.

One of his crew did once get his Mickey stuck to the steel mast on the Endurance, though.

And the lads had to like pull him off, basically.

Yeah, with a hairdryer.

They used your first girlfriend's hairdryer.

Okay, right.

So you've got some in the ice box.

That's good.

So I've put in as much as possible.

So the reason I do feel stressed here is because I'm supposed to be listening to the show, but now we have an actual crisis, and it's approaching rush hour now.

So, I decide to drive to an electrical goods place near me.

I'm just going to buy one.

I'll buy a

freezer.

Well, this one ain't coming back.

It's done.

It's done.

Get there, and they have the perfect one.

Biko, the brand named after the late Steve Biko, who the movie Cry Freedom is about.

I would imagine that's who it's named after.

I think so.

Yeah.

So I say, I want want that one.

And the lady rings it up and everything.

Great.

Super.

That'll be delivered in the next five days.

No.

I have stuff like toying in the back garden.

I can't wait for this.

So I go home and it's a brutal moment because.

So hang on.

Did you say I can't?

That's not good.

No, I can't.

That's no good.

You're not just think, okay, I'm just going to lose.

Surely the neighbor who you power washed his patio could fit a few steak in.

We've got the high-value goods in the freeze box of the fridge.

Now, I don't think that's as cold as a freezer,

but it'll keep it going for a few days.

I arrive home and have to break the news to some of the stuff that it's going in the bin.

Understood.

Things like old fish, prawns, etc.

are starting to thaw.

You couldn't like cook like an absolute feast for Helen.

So you don't want her to know that the freezer is broken.

So you cook like course after course.

It's the prawn course.

It's the fish course.

Now we're just going to have a pint of stock each.

And then it's peas.

Yes, that's what I do.

I create one of the most chaotic meals that anyone has ever.

It was my intention to make something nice.

We have a full bag of frozen sweet potato chips.

I have a thing of mints that I just put in a pan with onion.

I put a burger into it and break that into it as well.

Good stuff.

Try and make it flavorful with garlic, a full bag of peas that end up just throwing into the mince then as well.

Like it's the native meal of some country that it's like a Moldovan stouch.

Helen, have you never had a Moldovan stoosh?

Why am I eating it with an ice pack?

Why is it served on an ice pack?

That's what I don't understand.

And Helicopter arrives back.

And I tell her that I've stabbed the old freezer with a dagger.

Everything's fucked, Helen.

I've done it again.

Does she have like a phrase for this now?

She's holding your head, sort of loving me.

And she says, what will we do with you, David?

No, she's holding the hair on the back of my head and just pounding my head.

She's slamming my head using the door of the freezer.

Never stab a freezer.

So look, Helen finds it all hilarious.

We eat this dinner.

It's actually fine.

Do you know what we end up doing?

Because it's difficult to eat.

And who cares?

There's also some frozen flatbreads in there.

They've defrosted now.

So we end up just wrapping this chaotic meat/slash chips dish, making it sort of like a burrito or something.

Okay, okay, it's actually pretty nice, to be honest.

We all have a laugh about it.

Helencopter has to do some studying, so I decide I will ride 20K on the bike behind me connected to the uh Wahoo trainer.

Yeah, okay, and I cycle around, It's just called Australiana, the course.

Okay.

I'm going past kind of Great Ocean Road of Melbourne.

Oh, no.

And then Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Like, it doesn't make any sense.

It's just a sort of.

There's continuity issues, but

kangaroos are bouncing past.

It's such a different time because I'm.

I'm sitting here in the background.

You can see the bike that I ride

connected to the home trainer.

To the listeners, that's connected to my laptop, the thing that's on the back wheel, Bluetooth's to the laptop.

And so that's where I'm watching the images.

I'm also racing against some other people.

And there's one guy called King of Brexit.

Like, you get to put your name in.

So I take it upon myself to chase down the King of Brexit.

Oh, well done.

Yeah.

Does he have a really red face?

And he's got like Union Jack outfit.

Yeah, he has a Union Jack cycling top on.

But you get to design your own avatar in it and because i've put in my actual height and weight they have made a realistic lord davidy avatar but king of brexit has obviously told them that he's nine stone he's johnny bravo absolutely ripped yeah yeah

And so I chase him for 40 minutes.

It's how long it takes to ride 20k.

Like it's so, I'm putting so much effort into this.

Because it's the king of Brexit.

I mean, that certainly helps.

Yeah.

Like the image, where this camera to be on.

I'm on that bike and I'm just in not even cycling shorts.

They're the undies that go under regular shorts with a padded ass in them.

And 10 minutes in, I rip my t-shirt off.

So it's just me on this bike with the little shoes with the clicky things under them.

And there's points where we're going up hills in Australiana.

And I'm like, ah, ah, ah like it must be absolutely insane yeah and it must be I would say essential that Helen doesn't see this yes she must never ever see this she is upstairs studying away fine I get out immediately like there's no option other than to have a shower do you know that sort of like squash wetness where kind of like zinidine zidan water there's a tap at the end of your nose that's just dripping.

But then you have a shower and you get out and you're still sweating.

It's that's the problem.

I get out and I know because I'm finally get to do the work that I was supposed to do hours before.

And I'm dripping from the tip of my nose with this.

Yeah, you need to add in Buxton.

You need to go cold.

And who wants to do that?

Oh, yeah.

Maybe that is what I need to do.

I'm sitting naked because there's no point in putting on any clothes in the kitchen.

And Helen comes down and that's the sight that she sees instead just a man working away I do the work that I had planned we decide we'll watch the telly it's about 10 30 now just for half an hour Helen doesn't like it when I watch the telly in the nude I don't think she likes balls on cushion the couch got it yeah if I ever come around I'll remember it

I put on a knee do you think she'd tell me straight or do you think she's David David in the kitchen can i have a word it would be a gray area if you were in a kilt right because she'd be like has he got anything on under that kilt but i don't have a kilt if i arrive in a kilt you'll know that's exactly i'm just trying to see if helen cares more about balls on couch or you know the sort of courtesy of you know i think it's balls are on the couch We're going to just watch Telly for half an hour, but then we end up getting stuck into an Irish home improvement show where they're building a house on the cheap and the gable end collapses on it.

It was actually a pretty good one.

And then we should definitely go to bed after that.

But Jessica Ennis's Who Do You Think You Are?

is on, which in many ways rips off this podcast.

Of course.

It's a more thorough what did you do yesterday?

No, that's true.

Going right.

What did you do on numerous yesterdays?

Well, what did other people that related to you do yesterday before that?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was the original title of it till Mars Bar sued the crap out of them.

And what's it?

Has Ennis got an interesting backstory?

Yeah, Ennis has a really interesting backstory, and she's learning a lot about her great-grandparents in Jamaica and then her other great-grandparents in Birmingham.

I think there's odd stuff in it where, like, some people were just sent off to what were called asylums for 60 years, and no one ever spoke about them ever again.

It's good gear.

You're not expecting it.

And

Ennis is not expecting it either.

I do wonder how they make that show.

Because I guess they just say, can we have you for a week?

And every day we will go to Jamaica for two days and then we'll go to Solihull for whatever.

You know what I mean?

Sadly, I don't think everyone gets to go to Jamaica.

I wouldn't and I'd be nice, wouldn't it?

You'd have to like crowbar that in going, I think I have a

funny feeling that my great-great-uncle is from the Seychelles.

Ran a water slide park in Mauritius.

If we could go there, I'll just see if it feels like that's the case.

I think my great-great-great-great-granddad, he ran an all-inclusive, no kids allowed, high-end

hotel

on the Amalfi coast.

I'm pretty sure that's what happened.

We start to feel sleepy.

We go up to bed.

There's no crosswords.

There's no anything and that is what i did yesterday it's a lovely day i have one question david

a few months ago i was in teddington and

i saw a comedian putting up posters for his show and then a couple of days later the hotel i was in a footballer walked past me do you know who they are yes yes i do do you want to have a guess Or are you going to keep it to yourself?

No, it was Jon Joe Shelby and Mickey Flanagan.

Okay.

Producer Will, I don't know if you're contractually allowed to talk, but would you like to have a guess?

This slightly exposes a lack of knowledge on football, which I'm slightly nervous about.

Stanley Matthews.

I'll go Stanley Matthews and Joe Pasquale.

He's got it.

Would you believe it?

Finally, the quiz is done.

It was the Stanley Matthews.

May he rest in peace at Joe Pasquale.

Now I'm afraid, in incorrect, I'm afraid, but thank you well.

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Hey, thanks, David.

I think you had a nice day.

I really tried to keep this under an hour.

Because I know that's the goal of this podcast.

The day, as we say in Ireland, the day got away from me, which is normally what you say when you go to the pub and have six pints in the afternoon.

Well, there is a common saying that if you stab your freezer, the podcast will be longer.

And that is a, that's definitely, it's quite a new saying.

So hang on.

What's happening with the...

Did you order a freezer?

There's a nice electrical goods shop that I don't know how it hangs on still in the era of the big box stores.

That's nearby.

Oh, okay.

Oh, it's an independent artisan.

They've chiseled this freezer themselves.

So I'm going to go over there with a hand trolley now and buy.

I mean, I think all freezers are the same.

I doubt there's any, the way with something like a washing machine or a Hoover, you might go, what do the different ones do?

All freezers do are freeze the shit out of everything.

So I think I'll just get a cheap freezer.

I look forward to hearing about the new freezer, David.

And I'm i'm not in the freezer for life that's a different that's a different podcast that's a true crime one isn't it but i'm in it for life thank you david thanks max