Ellis James

You have to bring all this mundanity about baby food into it and nappies.

Yeah.

I mean, I think you're talking this down already because there's two ways this could go, okay?

One, we learn incredible life lessons from these cultural touchstones who, at least for the first few episodes, happen to be people in my mobile phone numbers.

We either learn or what we do is we get solace in the fact that these people, these megastars such as Alice, their lives are just like mine.

This is absolutely awful stuff.

And I think there could be consolation in that.

And while you see that as a small, tiny thing, not as important as, you know, this American life,

I see it as possibly more important than those things.

The merch we do will be of the highest quality.

Those What Did You Do Yesterday hoodies will not be made by children in sweatshops.

That's for sure.

So, listener, that really exemplifies Max's references.

Max is like, do you remember a few years ago, a warrior was defrosted from a glacier?

And Ötzi, I think was his name, and he was 4,000 years old.

He'd gone out hunting in the year 2000 BC.

Max is like that, except in 2006, he just received a bang on the head and he's just come around now.

I've had to explain to him what a podcast is and he's going to fill us with references to Top Loader and The Good Life and the glory years of Soccer AM.

The other thing that I would like the listeners to know in terms of my commitment to this podcast, I have been doing my little comedy concerts and I didn't have much of a voice yesterday.

So I've spent the last 24 hours in preparation for this.