Father and Son Days
Father and Son Days
Father and Son Days
Two generations, one microphone, and a shared talent for talking absolute nonsense. From Vikings and space to the everyday weirdness of life, we cover it all — badly, but enthusiastically.Father and Son Days is what happens when curiosity meets chaos. Stick around — you might even learn something completely useless! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 200 - The 200th Episode
We've made 200 episodes. Nobody knows how.To mark the occasion, David has fallen over in a forest, bought a piano and consulted a £2.58 Etsy psychic who predicts enormous success for a podcast that still struggles to explain what it's about.Conor prepares for a soaking in Scotland while David presents him with a wooden spoon bearing his own face and a 3D-printed Danny DeVito plant pot. As you do.There's also a special appearance from the CREMBAG, the unveiling of some shiny new pin badges and a celebratory song containing more bleeps than anyone anticipated.Finally, David tests Conor's knowledge of the previous 199 episodes with 20 questions of varying usefulness.Two hundred episodes, five and a half years and absolutely no signs of improvement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 25
1 hr 22 min
Episode 199 - Talking Rubbish #23: A Jurassic Packed Lunch
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 mobile game adverts and a proposed boxing match between Conor and a Scouse comedian that nobody asked for.David sings about being misunderstood, and Dex Blinko takes a dramatic turn involving sentient hair, murderous furry women and some genuinely emotional storytelling. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 18
1 hr 17 min
Episode 198 - Narnia
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, we investigate whether Vinícius Júnior has been replaced by a body double, discuss the logistical nightmare of building a wardrobe out of wood from another dimension and consider whether a talking beaver has better career prospects than a centaur.David then performs a song in which Aslan works at Greggs, prompting an urgent clarification that absolutely none of it should be taken as historical fact.We finish with a quiz that could quite easily have been sponsored by IKEA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 11
1 hr 1 min
Episode 197 - Talking Rubbish #22: Vacuuming Is Good for the Soul
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 is riding around on a moped dressed as a chef.Then Elton John's kneecaps become jewellery and everything gets considerably worse.We discuss skeleton hands, removable ears, preserved baby teeth, glazed poo, suppositories and which severed body parts would make the best household ornaments before finally confronting the greatest threat facing mankind: Sharkira, the robot vacuum.David insists vacuuming is cathartic, claims robots are stealing his purpose and has written a song about his redundancy.Dex Blinko also returns with the Captain's Winky, a wandering sentient hairpiece, PowerPoint eyeballs and the Sisters Tortellini.Technology was a mistake. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 4
1 hr 15 min
Episode 196 - Biomes: Caves
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 deteriorate underground.Wookey Hole has plastic pirates and spare waxwork body parts, David once squeezed through a 19cm gap on a school trip that appears to have had no concept of health and safety, Conor plays laser tag in a Dutch cave and Caveman Dave is trapped underground worrying about his car being parked on yellow lines.Then it's time for Stalagright or Stalagwrong, featuring Nick Knowles' helmet, Beelzebub's hairy ring piece, God's testicles and the Cave of the Masturbating Frogs.Geology has never been so educational. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 27
1 hr 8 min
Episode 195 - Talking Rubbish #21: Soft Office Hands Boy
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 the industry. David has hands, feet and a distinguished older gentleman aesthetic. Conor has a beard, soft office hands and a willingness to lie on a carpet pretending to be part of the deep shag.Then somebody buys good weather from an Etsy witch for £1.50.We also investigate manifesting, the traditional practice of burying sausages, the logistical problems surrounding a cocktail-sausage mass grave, the potential renaming of West Ham's home as the Scrub Daddy Stadium and what would happen if civilisation finally entrusted important geographical decisions to Dave.And if all of that wasn't enough, Dex Blinko enters the unknown, Tiger cleans up a suspicious puddle, Captain Aria delivers an unexpectedly moving speech and somebody called Captain Massif Turd becomes part of official L.A.M.R.D. history.Perfectly normal episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 20
1 hr 16 min
Bonus Episode - Dex Blinko Supercut - Chapters 11-19
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 or complete nonsense the previous writer has left behind.Originally scattered across the following Talking Rubbish episodes, this bonus episode brings the next part of the story together in one place, making it much easier to catch up without having to search through each episode individually.So whether you’ve been following Dex Blinko from the beginning and need a refresher, or you’ve just finished Chapters 1–10 and want to keep going, this will bring you almost completely up to date.Almost.Because the latest chapter is still waiting for you in the most recent Talking Rubbish. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 16
1 hr 25 min
Episode 194 - Senses: Sight
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, Christmas decorations, a pizza cutter and a kazoo.Then Prince George starting secondary school leads naturally to discreet police presences, David’s school in Basildon, missing knives, compulsory spoons, blancmange, bow-tie soufflés and the possibility that half of David’s year group could have been arrested pre-emptively.Eventually we remember the eyes.We learn about pupils, irises, rods, cones and the surprising visual limitations of Rod Stewart. Conor considers turning a glass eye into a glow-in-the-dark torch, David briefly loses track of both his glasses and a cat, and an innocent conversation about eye colour culminates in the two of us staring directly into one another’s eyes before saying “I love you.”Then comes The Man with the Bionic Eyes and David’s new game Better or Worse, in which increasingly specific animals battle for supremacy using something called the critical flicker fusion rate.Educational? Occasionally.Visible? Absolutely not. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 13
1 hr
Bonus Episode - Dex Blinko Supercut - Chapters 1-10
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 become.The result was Dex Blinko.Originally scattered across the first ten Talking Rubbish episodes, this bonus supercut brings Chapters 1–10 together in one place for the first time. Whether you missed some along the way, can't remember what on Earth was happening, or fancy starting the story from the beginning without listening to ten entire episodes to find it, this is your chance to catch up.Expect spaceships, family problems, questionable medical decisions, increasingly strange characters and two writers repeatedly leaving each other problems to solve.This is only the beginning. Chapters 11 onwards will follow in a future supercut. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 9
1 hr 25 min
Episode 193 - Talking Rubbish #20: Special Sauce Machine
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 unusual beauty standards around the world.Then David discovers a woman who spent years unsuccessfully trying to kill her husband, naturally writes a song about it, and returns with Chapter 20 of Dex Blinko.Just another quiet week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 6
1 hr 11 min
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