Max Rushton

My name is Max Rush and alongside me, David O'Doherty.

Hello, David.

So yeah, he hosted the project for years.

And I suppose a UK version is kind of the one show, but it's the one show with a bit more journalistic chops than that.

And he is, I mean, a sort of, I would say, yeah, an academic.

He is an academic, yeah.

like that's his thing he sort of fell into broadcasting and in this episode i think he sort of he doesn't underplay how smart he is but like yeah just so smart it's ridiculous and i've seen like i've been on the desk most of the time i would only sit on the desk when he was off like the main chair but sometimes i sat on the end like bloke on the end who doesn't have to do anything

Yes.

And like each interview would be, oh, we're interviewing, you know, the Labour MP for Sydney about this.

And then you'd all have your plan questions.

And then you just, well, he was just like, I've got, you know, he would never say it.

Yeah.

He would just, I don't think I've seen a better forensic political interviewer.

I'm trying to think who is like James O'Brien type interviewer.

Yes.

You know, brain that he has.

Exactly.

And he's sort of a philosopher.

But what is very apparent from this episode is that all he really likes is football.

It's interesting to see, you know, when I say, oh, I think I could do Newsnight.