Father and Son Days

This week we attempt to talk rubbish and, against all odds, succeed almost immediately. Conor runs Race4Business while England are busy causing stress against DR Congo, Dad tries to watch the football on his phone, cheer from the sidelines and retrieve the earbuds that have just launched themselves off the roof of his car, and the marshals are now the official way of receiving football updates. Af...

This week we attempt to talk about comic books and accidentally create the longest episode we have ever recorded, which is either impressive or a cry for help. Before the comics, we cover the World Cup, Father’s Day, David’s birthday, England shirts, waffles, paninis, and the ongoing family sport of guessing what David has put inside toasted bread. Then David performs a comic book song, which is l...

This week’s Talking Rubbish begins with an introduction that takes several attempts, which is always a promising sign. We then get into the World Cup, family sweepstakes, awkward kick-off times, and David’s discovery that one of his old Turkey quizzes may have accidentally been sent off with official WI accounting documents. Conor checks the podcast demographics and discovers that Father and Son D...

This week we attempt to talk about cults from the lighter side, which is obviously a perfectly normal and sensible thing to do on a father and son podcast. Before getting anywhere near the actual topic, David updates us on his not-retirement, his new life as a household facilities manager, an alleged x-ray machine/easel, short-armed children, musical days, and a suggested future episode that may n...

This week’s Talking Rubbish begins with the obvious Episode 180 darts joke, before immediately abandoning darts altogether. David discusses leaving his life as a postman and entering what Conor insists on calling partial retirement, which somehow leads to a live limbo competition on an audio-only podcast. There are also tales from David’s charity challenge in Wales, including technical mountain cl...

This week, David is no longer a postman, Conor is officially the family Fantasy Premier League champion, and takes possession of Terry’s Big Spoon. After that, we attempt to discuss conspiracy theories and accidentally uncover bird drones, fake stars, dinosaur spaceships, animatronic ravens, saltwater tampering, suspicious mattress shops, and Mum’s mysterious relationship with the little shed. Dav...

This week’s Talking Rubbish has everything: Southend winning at Wembley, Conor getting an earbud lodged in his ear like a workplace medical emergency, a shirt ruined by Mexican food, someone driving off without their driving examiner, and David discovering that anniversary planning can somehow lead to Pearl Harbor, ragdoll husbands and people marrying Ferris wheels. There’s also a surprisingly tou...

This week’s episode is about lost and found, although for the first fifteen minutes we mostly lose the point entirely. David returns from Copenhagen with a ridiculous marathon PB, Conor learns that colleagues are willingly listening from episode one, and we somehow end up discussing jungle children, missing letters, stolen toy guns, legal treasure, loose change ethics and whether a whale on an isl...

Conor has bought a barbecue and David is readying himself for the ceremonial passing of the tongs to crown him the new Barbecue King. We then discuss exotic meats, American breakfasts, Cracker Barrel gift shops and whether bringing a VR headset onto a plane is clever, weird, or both. Ben Shephard also returns to the podcast in a conversation that begins with respect and ends, inevitably, with anal...

This week we continue our very serious and educational journey through the solar system with Uranus, which goes about as maturely as expected. Before reaching the planet itself, there’s talk of whether the podcast could survive without David, ghostly seances, UFOs, aliens learning Earth culture from British soap operas, and the worrying possibility that David might one day be asked to represent al...

Conor is back from Ohio after supporting Lucy at WGI 2026, which means tales of colour (or color) guard, American arenas, confusing scoring systems, blocked toilets and a flight so uncomfortable his stomach apparently inflated like an emergency life raft somewhere over the Atlantic. Meanwhile, David has been keeping busy with marathon training, eating several breakfasts, writing charity songs and...

This week we’re talking about work, which starts off with sniffer dogs, Ohio facts and whether this podcast technically counts as a job, before moving into office small talk, strange professions, jobs that probably shouldn’t exist, and the kind of workplace banter that definitely can’t be repeated in full. We have yet another debate, this time about whether mixologists are basically just people po...

This week we’re talking inventions, which starts off sensibly enough with underrated everyday masterpieces like mugs with handles, shorts, clippers and sat-navs, before drifting into unnecessary gadgets, a surprisingly fiery argument about e-scooters, and a quiz packed with inventions that sound too ridiculous to be real. There’s also a song, some very avoidable scrotum chat, heroic dogs on the ru...

This one starts with David failing to become a household name via The Wheel and Conor revisiting a childhood belief that he might one day have to change his name to Colin. We somehow end up discussing dog mayors, dog MPs, family decision-making otters, owl photo shoots, running while making butter, and a genuinely horrible image hidden in the CREMBAG. Add in a heartfelt ballad about dog poo on a s...

David renames himself Ray, fails to click his fingers properly, nearly starts a domestic over timing, and then somehow becomes the spokesperson for all rays offended by nicknames like “majestic sea pancake” and “flat flap.” Along the way we squeeze in running waves, seasonal depression, Southend vs Gateshead, mystical postman greetings, barbecue sauce grievances, ray anatomy, Steve Irwin, and a fu...

Two men. Two road rage incidents. One completely unnecessary argument about supermarket chicken logistics. There’s a very serious debate about why chicken breasts come in packs of three, and What’s in the CREMBAG? arrives in all its baffling glory alongside a blue Avatar-based medical misunderstanding. There’s also a song about the soul-destroying process of choosing dinner, some catalogue-modelli...

With the Winter Olympics wrapped up and the Paralympics underway, we take a trip onto the ice and snow to talk about some of the strangest and most impressive winter sports, from curling and bobsleigh to skeleton and cross-country skiing. Along the way we discuss why Team GB tends to struggle more in winter events, why the Paralympics might actually be even more inspiring, and whether curling real...

Conor returns slightly worse for wear after an engagement party while David reports back from a pediatric first aid course where he discovered the awkward realities of CPR practice and being the only man in the room. From there things drift, as they often do, into discussions about strange historical facts, including Henry VIII’s unexpected tennis skills and Mozart’s love of a good rude joke. Alon...

Conor is going to Turkey this summer. He doesn’t know where. He’s never done all-inclusive. This feels sensible. We start with BSL lessons, Danish pronunciation confidence, and first aid qualifications before somehow arriving at hazelnut production statistics, Santa Claus being Turkish, and the national sport involving oil. Dad shares practical (and slightly dramatic) tips on how not to get arrest...

This week we spiral from West Ham appearing in popular culture (again) to crying with laughter at Dad’s Jack the Ripper “paint the picture” moment. We consider launching a spin-off podcast reviewing this podcast… then a sub-sub-podcast reviewing that. There’s a surprisingly heated debate about AI art (including bananas, urinals and scrolls we wish we hadn’t mentioned), a heartfelt Colour Guard upd...

We promised a Talking Rubbish. We did not deliver a Talking Rubbish. Instead, we bring you a Pancake Day Special… because priorities. We dive into the history of pancakes (yes, actual facts), international versions from Blini to Swedish Raggmunk, and then descend into a full-blown debate about flat things after a clear misunderstanding of what this episode was supposed to be about. One of us resea...

This week we celebrate growth by receiving our first negative TikTok comment and immediately over-analysing it. There’s talk of new merch, Dad’s charity song commissions, and why Saturn might float if you had a big enough bath. We cover Saturn’s rings, moons, habitability (or lack of), radiation problems, future missions, and then completely derail everything with pistachios, a song about being ig...

Conor wires his car like a man who’s watched three videos and gained full confidence. David pitches cars that won’t let you drive if you’re angry, bored, or “being a knob”. We talk Artemis, the backside of the Moon, insults that aren’t insults, and endure a surprisingly catchy song about a bathroom. Dex Blinko returns, Bucket of Mum wakes up, and things somehow get more complicated. Hosted on Acas...

We start with Dad’s ears, anniversary flowers, and the bleak realisation that most men only receive flowers at their funerals, before hearing a genuinely horrific Christmas story involving crushed tablets, squash, and accidental laxatives. Then it’s on to hippos — whether they really count as predators, why they kill so many people, how they ended up roaming Colombia, and the time they lived in wh...

Talking Rubbish returns with Dad proudly revealing his 9th-place ranking in the East of England for red pesto purchases, immediately redefining what success looks like. Along the way we cover Storm Goretti, anniversary dinners, dashcams bought out of mild panic, concerns about Dad’s ears getting bigger, and a brand-new chapter of the Dex Blinko story written by Conor — featuring space toilets, str...