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The Hook Up

Dumping Over Text, Romantasy Smut & Mummy's Boys w/ Comedian Daniel Foxx

04 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What controversial dating advice does Daniel Foxx give?

0.031 - 12.833 Daniel Fox

I don't want someone that's bad at texting. If they're a Neanderthal on the text, fuck off. The horniest I've ever been in my entire life. And you're fighting every other past its sell-by date twink in London. There is a world where I'm a furry.

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13.294 - 13.955 Pip Rasmussen

Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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13.975 - 20.807 Daniel Fox

For sure. You're going to break my heart over pasta. Yeah. And I'm going to be like sobbing into my burrata. No, thank you.

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29.073 - 44.597 Pip Rasmussen

Hi, it's Pip Rasmussen here. Dee Salmon, my co-host, is normally with me on a Tuesday podcast, but she's not here. She's promoting her book on tour. So I've brought in a very, very special guest all the way from London. I have with me Daniel Fox. Hello.

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44.657 - 46.56 Daniel Fox

Hello. So nice to be here.

46.62 - 52.89 Pip Rasmussen

Yes, it's so good to have you. So let me tell people a little bit about you or you can as well. You're a comedian. You're a podcaster.

52.95 - 53.13 Daniel Fox

Yes.

53.511 - 54.152 Pip Rasmussen

What else do you do?

54.132 - 55.736 Daniel Fox

I write musical theatre.

Chapter 2: How does Daniel Foxx's background influence his comedic style?

58.563 - 68.85 Daniel Fox

I should advertise it more, but I think I've sort of hit a decent amount of gay publicly. I don't know if I need to tell people I've also written an Ursula the Sea Witch musical. Shut up. Which is coming to Australia, I think.

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69.303 - 98.314 Daniel Fox

kidding yeah we're talking to a couple of australian producers so i'll let you know when it's here is this like a scoop did we just get a scoop that's crazy well you do have pipes because like occasionally on your podcast like you and your co-host dane will like have a little moment and i'm like wait daniel can sing hey yeah um yeah i did in my last show it was like i put songs in it it was a show about like villains and i was like i've got to do some villain musical theater songs because they're always the best songs and i started putting them in and then after a while i was like

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98.716 - 115.272 Daniel Fox

Is this actually just like when the kid at school, you know when you, a kid, the annoying kid, at school would like sing and someone would go, you've actually got quite a good voice. And then for like the rest of term, they're just in the corner like, singing Colby Kaye's Tingle, whatever it's called.

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115.292 - 120.397 Pip Rasmussen

Yeah, or they do like a really big sneeze and then they end it with like a full like trill. And I'm like, okay.

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120.417 - 127.744 Daniel Fox

When you get the musical theater kids together and someone sings Happy Birthday and everyone's trying to fucking harmonize.

127.724 - 138.016 Pip Rasmussen

Yeah. I'm actually the, I'm the hip hip. I'm not like the harmonizer. So I need to jump in. I'm always, because there's always one hip hipper, right? And have you ever had a showdown with another person on that?

138.116 - 139.858 Daniel Fox

Yeah. When you lock eyes. Yeah.

139.918 - 140.939 Pip Rasmussen

And you're like, it's me.

141.06 - 143.202 Daniel Fox

It's me. It's obviously me. I'm the performer.

Chapter 3: What are the challenges of modern dating apps according to Daniel Foxx?

169.203 - 170.125 Pip Rasmussen

Oh, okay.

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170.225 - 171.728 Daniel Fox

And they're just joining in.

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172.149 - 172.87 Pip Rasmussen

Yeah, yeah.

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172.891 - 184.534 Daniel Fox

And they'll be like, you're trying to tell a story and they're like, no, wow, no way. Then what? And you're like, you're ruining this, but I can't stop you because then everyone will think I'm so horrible.

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184.855 - 200.423 Pip Rasmussen

Can I admit something? Yeah. When I saw your show, it's called How Lovely at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. I was that person, but I held back because I was like, your stories were so relatable. Everything you were saying was like, I've been there. Like, I know this. I've had friends go through it.

200.683 - 205.711 Pip Rasmussen

And you'd say something and I would go, oh, and I'd be like, don't say it too loud, though, because I don't want to interrupt the flow.

205.811 - 207.393 Daniel Fox

I take it all back. I love it when people do it.

208.515 - 213.202 Pip Rasmussen

But like, you want people like doing that. Because you take people along the journey, which is beautiful.

213.382 - 219.932 Daniel Fox

Thank you. Yeah, I'm trying to like make it because it's about relationships. And then it's like kind of

Chapter 4: How does Daniel Foxx view the impact of rom-coms on relationships?

262.155 - 271.544 Pip Rasmussen

For anyone who doesn't know about it, you know, you sort of said, like, you kind of structured it around the rom-com. Could you start off by being like, rom-coms have fucked my view of love?

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271.804 - 290.403 Daniel Fox

Yeah. Well, I think, like... And I sort of say in the show a bit, but I think some people are really sniffy about rom-coms and will be like, rom-coms are just chick flicks. And they think of it as a lowbrow thing. But really, it is just... narrative about relationships, right? And it's like, where do we get our concept of what love is?

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290.464 - 304.729 Daniel Fox

The modern idea of love as being like, you have one person and they provide everything for you is from rom-coms and like movies and romantic books and stuff. So it's kind of that thing of like the expectation that was set up

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304.709 - 329.118 Daniel Fox

what a relationship will provide and how it will go is like not what most of us actually get yeah and i just went through like the biggest breakup of my life after like a six-year relationship ending about a year ago and having to kind of re-emerge into my 30s now and be like what does dating look like now both in 2026 but also as a 30 year old yeah Oh, my God.

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329.499 - 329.96 Pip Rasmussen

Yeah.

329.98 - 330.661 Daniel Fox

Diabolical.

330.821 - 331.522 Pip Rasmussen

It's changed a lot.

331.643 - 337.733 Daniel Fox

Yeah. And the people that are in relationships, I think dating has changed since lockdown and like 2020.

337.933 - 338.193 Pip Rasmussen

Yes.

Chapter 5: What insights does Daniel Foxx share about navigating breakups?

385.231 - 390.621 Pip Rasmussen

Well, that's what I was going to ask you about. So you've had like, what, say a year or so back into dating apps?

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390.641 - 392.384 Daniel Fox

A year and a half of being back on the dating apps.

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392.404 - 394.548 Pip Rasmussen

Yeah. So we had the horrendous breakup.

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394.809 - 395.049 Daniel Fox

Yeah.

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395.57 - 421.105 Pip Rasmussen

Your life has shifted. It's post-COVID. What is it like for you right now on the apps? Like, tell me about it. Because Dee and I were talking about this and we were like... You know, we haven't been on the apps, like I haven't been on the apps for basically like a year and a bit, like basically a year. And before that, embarrassingly, I put into it, because I had a massive breakup too, right?

421.405 - 429.934 Pip Rasmussen

I had like a five, six year relationship, was literally just like ended that. And then I was like, time to figure out myself and like what's going on out there as well.

430.714 - 433.457 Daniel Fox

Were you like regularly dating during that period of actually trying?

433.497 - 442.111 Pip Rasmussen

Yeah. But it's different, though, because I feel like as a woman, there's a different experience compared to, especially as a gay man.

442.352 - 465.193 Daniel Fox

I mean, that is a uniquely bleak thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I've got the hottest female friends that can't get first dates in the UK. I don't know. It's so rare to match with someone now. for me and for like a lot of people I'm talking to where you even want to go on the first date. And I don't know if it's that we've all got more picky or if they, I think, okay.

Chapter 6: How does Daniel Foxx describe his experiences with heckling?

505.535 - 514.587 Daniel Fox

And like, it's just this. And then I think the social thing has changed. And I'm in my 30s, which means that it's like you are dealing with like the crumbs of who's left.

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514.567 - 527.259 Pip Rasmussen

Yeah, there's a few things happening. Hey, it's all of that. It's you also having like the app burnout as well and being more guarded with your feelings and you're being more picky because of those experiences. So then it's like this secular thing.

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527.419 - 532.043 Daniel Fox

And I am not willing now to meet someone who is not funny.

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533.004 - 533.305 Pip Rasmussen

Right.

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533.325 - 537.669 Daniel Fox

And I'm not willing to meet someone who's bad at the dating app or texting bit.

537.689 - 538.029 Pip Rasmussen

Yeah.

538.329 - 560.498 Daniel Fox

Like I had a friend recently who was like, oh, but you know, my boyfriend, Charlie, anonymous, My boyfriend, Charlie, he was really bad on the dating apps. He was just like one sentence at a time. But when we met up, it turned out he was just bad at phones. And I really liked him in real life. So you should just meet them and see. And I'm like, no. I don't want someone that's bad at texting.

561.039 - 571.634 Daniel Fox

I love when someone's good at texting. Nothing's more fun than being like out and about and having like a little guy in your pocket to be like, and I have a funny little thing. If they're a Neanderthal on the text, fuck off.

571.714 - 572.215 Pip Rasmussen

Yeah.

Chapter 7: What unique perspectives does Daniel Foxx offer on kinks and fantasies?

607.818 - 633.37 Pip Rasmussen

isn't that the fuck thing isn't it it's like i have a a standard or an expectation and this is where i'm at and this is great and it's good that you know that about yourself and then there are the people who are saying like but you know i gave this person a chance and now they're like they're loving my life and you're literally like where do you draw that line it is so hard and it's so hard when it's like again in the modern day there's so much like we're so used to texting and our voice noting is the thing oh my god

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633.35 - 634.552 Pip Rasmussen

We voice noted before we came here.

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634.572 - 652.843 Daniel Fox

I was about to say we've started voice noting this morning. It's getting serious. We're going steady. But like you get to... I recently had a guy break things off with me after like three months. And we'd only been on like a handful of dates because I've been touring. So I'm like not around a lot. But like... But...

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652.823 - 672.115 Daniel Fox

we were voice noting and like video messaging and video calling every day so intimate all throughout the day yeah and it's so weird to then like end and it was not official or anything like that and it's fine but like it's weird to then because you're telling friends about it and they're like oh but it was only like a handful of days like four days whatever and you're like

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672.095 - 688.073 Daniel Fox

Yeah, but like the equivalent of four dates now is not the equivalent of our parents' four dates. So true. Their four dates, they only knew four dates worth of information about each other. Yeah. So they're like just getting on to like, what's your favorite color or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

688.093 - 698.646 Daniel Fox

Whereas like four dates across several months of voice noting and all that stuff, it's this weird middle ground where it's like, yeah, of course you don't know them that well because you've not physically met that many times.

698.846 - 698.946

Yeah.

698.926 - 710.289 Daniel Fox

But at the same time, you know so much about them. Yeah. We were like, well, I know what your sister felt about her first marriage or like whatever. You have all this intimacy with them. It's a really bizarre time that we live in.

710.469 - 728.765 Pip Rasmussen

And I think what you said before as well about the way that these dating apps kind of have locked down on things and they've gotten people used to their services, I guess. Yeah. It kind of reminds me of like AI, right? Yeah. So right now AI is like largely free. Like you don't need to pay for it. You can get a premium version, but you don't need to pay for it.

Chapter 8: How does Daniel Foxx suggest handling difficult family dynamics?

775.966 - 787.671 Daniel Fox

Like, yeah, I'm trying to, I'm joining some, like, little groups and, like, little clubs and stuff. And I'm going to start, like, joining, like, a tennis social and stuff to just, like, try and meet people normally.

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787.731 - 792.328 Pip Rasmussen

Yeah. And get maybe a hobby out of it too. Yeah, maybe get a hobby out of it too.

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792.348 - 793.069 Daniel Fox

Who cares about that?

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793.089 - 803.644 Pip Rasmussen

Who cares about that? We just want to meet the hot tennis boys. When you meet people and you're dating, do you tell them that you're a comedian? Because I feel like you probably don't want to say anything, right?

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804.184 - 804.245 Daniel Fox

No.

804.285 - 805.226 Pip Rasmussen

People go weird about it.

805.246 - 822.048 Daniel Fox

It is gross as well. On both sides, I know some people who straight up are like, I'm a comedian. Or they have it on their actual bio and I just think of it like... And also, like, you don't, what, you want to, like, get people immediately to go and search you on Google and watch a clip of you? Oh, my God.

822.068 - 834.303 Daniel Fox

But also, like, I don't want them having assumptions or knowing things about me more than I know about them before we go on a date. So, like, I don't want them to go and see what I'm saying. And also, what I'm saying on stage is me, like, class clowning it. Yeah. And it's, like, a version of me.

834.583 - 835.124 Pip Rasmussen

Totally.

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