Father and Son Days

David's slippers need to be destroyed. Possibly by fire. That's only one of several pressing concerns this week, as Conor worries about being mistaken for a drug-smoking motorist, David discovers a potentially haunted nursery and a perfectly innocent cow emoji causes a breakdown in father-son communication. There's also the small matter of dinosaurs hidden in school lunches, misleading...

Welcome to Narnia. Please ignore the football conspiracy theories, the dead dog and the man attempting to enter the Olympics as a horse. This week, Conor and David explore the magical world of C. S. Lewis, beginning with the shocking discovery that his middle name was Staples. Naturally, this requires extensive research into office supplies before we can talk about any actual books. Along the way,...

David has been replaced by a robot and he's taking it remarkably badly. Before we get to that, though, there's important business to deal with. Somebody has produced enough cat sick to require primary, secondary and tertiary classifications, David would like his life represented by a big rock, Conor wants a house-sized ball of beard hair at his exhibition and a two-foot African giant rat i...

We're trapped in a cave. Fortunately, we've brought microphones, a health assessment report and a bat called Steven, so this week's podcast can continue as normal. Conor discovers that two curries probably aren't ideal preparation for a health check, David admits to rocking an empty buggy and we eventually remember that this episode is supposed to be about caves. From there, things...

This week we discover that Father and Son Days is at the forefront of audio-based time travel and may also be one of the longest-running least-successful podcasts in existence. Guinness World Records, please get in touch. From there, David remembers his illustrious career as a hair model, Conor reveals his primary-school fashion credentials and both seriously consider their options for a return to...

After bringing together the opening ten chapters of Dex Blinko , we’re back with the next batch — Chapters 11–19, collected into one continuous supercut. As before, Conor and David are still taking turns writing the story one chapter at a time, with neither knowing exactly what the other is going to do next. Which means every new chapter has to deal with whatever problems, characters, revelations...

This week we launch our brand-new series about the senses by confidently declaring sight the best one. Which is excellent news for everybody listening to our entirely audio-based podcast. Before the science begins, one cat disappears, another rubs itself against Conor, David prepares to scream if either bites his legs, somebody kicks a box of Lego and a work desk is revealed to contain shower gel,...

Back on 16th November 2025, we made the questionable decision to start writing a story together. The rules were simple: Conor would write Chapter One, David would continue it with Chapter Two, Conor would have to deal with whatever David had done in Chapter Three, and so on. Neither of us knew where the story was going, what the other person was planning, or quite how ridiculous things would becom...

David has survived a hectic day at his new job involving thirty minutes of robot dancing, while Conor has responded to being incredibly busy by Googling his own podcast and buying an unreasonable number of sauces. We discuss bloody cross-country chafing, carbon-dated freezer food and the Heinz Remix machine, before What's in the CREMBAG? turns Conor yellow and sends us down a rabbit hole of unusua...

This week’s podcast is being recorded several times simultaneously because apparently one functioning recording is now too much to ask. Conor has backups of the backups, David has installed a tape recorder, somebody is transcribing the transcriber, a photographer has arrived and a woman called Wendy is painting the entire thing from the corner of the room. Despite these precautions, the recording...

We should probably apologise in advance. Within minutes, Conor has discovered a poo the size of a human arm, David has provided three additional toilet stories, somebody has paid £3 to use the wrong loo, Pirates of the Caribbean is being performed during a bowel movement and Conor is enthusiastically reviewing the cleansing properties of a Turkish bidet. From there, things deteriorate. We discuss...

We haven’t really seen each other for three weeks, so obviously there is plenty to catch up on. Conor has returned from Turkey with a suspiciously impressive tan, David has returned from Kent with opinions about meal boxes, and somewhere along the way we spend several minutes discussing cookies, sausage and mash, cat-sick curry, frog-shaped tortellini and whether Aldi makes its imitation cereals o...

David is ill, Conor is both in Turkey and sitting in his bedroom, a cat has been accidentally kicked in the head, and there are three entire podcast episodes waiting to be edited. Naturally, we decide this is the perfect time to investigate the international mystery of Tupperware. Before getting there, we learn that thousands of pigeons have been shot at railway stations, windows are apparently on...

This week, David arrives with a sore throat and is immediately rebranded Whispering Dave, while Conor prepares for Turkey by discussing Britain’s increasingly desperate attempts to survive the heat. Lucy’s fan shatters after being dusted, Conor reveals his emergency cooling method involving a damp T-shirt laid across his body, and David recommends the more practical solution of carrying a flannel...

Conor is preparing for Turkey with four-pound sliders, fifty pounds’ worth of shorts and the lingering fear that his stomach may declare war at 30,000 feet. His car has failed its MOT, his aquarium filter has died, and David has paid £7.25 for garlic bread served on a piece of wood. Financially, everyone is thriving. David reports back from his boat trip to the Red Sands Forts, where elderly passe...

England are out of the World Cup, David has become Spanish, Conor has mathematically defeated eight colleagues, and a bear is apparently rummaging around the bins. It can only be our long-awaited episode about Neptune. Before reaching the actual planet, David demonstrates his technical skills with his tablet by revealing that every page is a photograph of his laptop screen, the neighbour expands t...

David is shirtless, a waste-management lorry has POO on its number plate, the neighbour may have bought a tuba, and a child on Amazon is wearing an enormous fake beard. Somehow, this is the calm part of the episode. We then launch Bread-Eaters, the entirely necessary spin-off to our Predators series, beginning with the mysterious and apparently interdimensional duck. We investigate one-eyed sleepi...

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...