Ellis James

No.

Day before yesterday, Max?

Nope.

The greatest and most interesting day of your life?

Hello, David.

Hey, Max.

This is pretty exciting.

I think you've just written a big old children in need size check that we will never be able to cash.

But I do think there's something in our sort of high performance world-class basics culture that needs this podcast because this is a low performance podcast.

Yeah, so to the listeners, Max told me about this incredible idea he had for a podcast two years ago.

And it was very much in the realm of, like, how do you like these apples?

If I were to ever do one, I'm sitting on this golden egg.

So initially I thought it was just going to be you and the guest, leather chairs, maybe filmed, you know what I mean?

Real classic prestige television.

And then over time you did nothing about it.

And I would be like, how's the great idea coming along, Max Rushton?

And it's fair to say you did nothing about it whatsoever till I hassled you to do something with it.

Max, there's a glimpse behind the magician's curtain.

And then there's seeing the magician's ball bag, big old pendulous ball bag just swaying in the wind.

And I feel this intro has utterly ruined the mystique that I was trying to build around this podcast, that it was this labor of love.