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 sleeping, four-dimensional colour, metal-detecting bills that are not actually metal detectors, waterproof bottoms, corkscrew equipment and the possibility of drinking salt water through your eyes.There’s also Longboi, a duck built like Peter Crouch, a surprisingly heartfelt song about Conor’s unusual bond with waterfowl, and ten rounds of Duck Duck Goose featuring Arthur Duck, Ryan Gosling, a satsuma and the startling revelation that a pigeon is, in fact, a pigeon. Conor laughs until he feels sick, which is probably the highest possible score a David quiz can achieve. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.After that, things become completely normal. We cover alien abductions at the World Cup, England fans at baseball, a child playing The Pink Panther on saxophone at 10pm, number plates that say MOO, the pros and cons of replacing your arms with buckets, spoons, garden tools or possibly a strimmer, and Dad’s dream-based concerns about duvets, purses and the Arterial Road.Then David sings a love song to his Breville toaster, because apparently toasted bread has become a lifestyle, and Dex Blinko returns with cardboard brothers, bucket mothers, family betrayal and the sort of plot twist that makes Conor question why he ever agreed to write every other chapter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 loosely based on the brief in the same way a seagull is loosely based on a helicopter.After that, it’s time for the Father and Son Days comic book club. We review Peppa Pig’s working-from-home office drama, Marvel’s The Union and its deeply British superhero problems, and a 1983 Beano featuring Dennis the Menace, Gnasher in a leather cat suit, traumatised puppies, naked sea lion butlers, suspiciously dangerous walnuts, and at least one strip where absolutely nothing happens.KAPOW! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Days might, somehow, be a lads podcast. This naturally leads to the important question of how many rabbits David could take in a fight, whether being naked changes the answer, and what the biggest animal either of us could defeat would be.There’s also a What’s in the CREMBAG? involving an 11-year-old who managed to get himself from Manchester to Rome without any documents, a musical protest about Jarrod Bowen being left out of the England squad, and the next chapter of Dex Blinko, featuring quarantine, sentient hair, awkward nudity and a very soggy cardboard problem. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 need several legal checks before recording.Once we finally reach cults, we look at the possible positives, including community, purpose, strong branding, robes, sandals, new names and the joy of never having to choose an outfit again. There are also some minor downsides, such as spiritual offerings, poor exit policies, apocalypse admin, being renamed Dirtbox and the risk of joining a group where you don’t actually like anyone. Conor also asks whether football clubs, gyms, Disney adults, Apple users and podcast audiences are cult-adjacent, David reveals what would recruit him, sings a cult song, and finishes with a quiz about real and ridiculous cults. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 climbs, the fastest zip wire, suspicious room-sharing etiquette, excessive emergency pants and the very important question of whether you have ever pooed yourself as an adult. Meanwhile, Lucy is preparing Conor for Turkey by apparently replacing his entire wardrobe, What’s in the CREMBAG? brings us a terrifying robot wolf, and Dex Blinko returns with buckets of mum, cardboard spaceships and a heroic new head-creature called Colin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. David also sings about zoo animals being spies, which frankly raises more questions than it answers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 touching but deeply silly chat about David and Mary’s first date, a goodbye song for David’s final week as a postman, and another Dex Blinko chapter featuring cardboard spaceships, suspicious smells and the phrase “little todger” being treated with far more seriousness than it deserves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 island is technically lost or just very committed. David also brings a song with police sirens in it, which is either artistic flair or a traffic hazard, before testing Conor with a quiz full of hand grenades, glass eyes, live lobsters, horses in houses and the now iconic possibility of assorted wigs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 bleaching, celebrity cleanliness and male grooming. There’s another disturbing item in the CREMBAG involving chimpanzees, horses and primate civil war, David shares a surprisingly catchy road rage song, and Chapter 12 of Dex Blinko features organic 3D cloning, suspicious moustaches, blindfolded sniffing and a hair creature with boundaries. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.