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We were saying last week about how evident it was wasn't it in terms of the fact that obviously beat Brentford away which was great and then they beat Villar in the Cup and obviously then had Luton at home and that was going to be the one that was going to be a guarantee three points it wasn't. Which then made us then worry about obviously last Saturday against Bournemouth who were a better outfit than Luton and then they played really well when they thoroughly deserved their victory. So I tell you what you wouldn't want to be a bookmaker at the minute would you with Everton bets going in because you just don't know which team you're going to get week in week out. It's really weird in it because if you want to be ultra positive right now we can turn round and two stats we can use to be ultra positive is Everton have won 75% of the last four games. Big thing and also if you were going to if we weren't going to win both home games we were going to lose one and win one Saturday was the one to win going in Ned. We are joined by Ned Dave. I think I need to build this up because this won't be a regular the care and I can guarantee you. But we are joined by Ned. We've lost one ginger this week. He is Vuley Vuh and himself all over. You've lost a ginger but you've got D ginger. The same telling ginger. He's picked himself up but Ned if being ultra positive if we weren't going to win and Everton very rarely win back to back home games like in a week when we had two games on the run at home. So if we were going to lose one and win one we done it in the right order didn't we? Yeah I think the thing for me losing it as good as down personally I think I think Borm if I think they're genuinely terrible and I don't think that the manager will last a roller. But I think they'll one of the teams that we battled with and we've already rolled it. Is it what his nickname? Skate. Skate a roller. No roller skate. It could be a long half an hour. We've already dropped points against the likes of Wolves. It will be battling with following what I thought we would off but I think they'll be above us now anyway. By the end of the season I think they'll be points safe. But I think the Borm I think will be in a similar boat. I think they'll end up stacking the manager anyway. So they're probably a team that's going to improve. I think for us if you look at the pattern you know beat Villa worked really hard. The Luton is a team that come to Goodison will not have a lot of the ball and that doesn't suit how we want to play. And I think for Everton we've just got this way of playing now that's just it is what it is. Some teams it will suit the way they play in terms of you know not having a lot of the ball and we can counter and grab the odd set piece. The odd three and it will be amazing but I don't think that's going to happen more often. Remember when I said like the start this is ultra positive. I feel as though you don't rattle on the positivity. I think they'll win games this season when it suits us and then they'll just be games. But I think in those games it will come down to you know winning every battle with every second ball. I think when we beat Villa we worked really hard. It suited the way we played and then Luton it just we didn't suit the way they played. We just worked them in our battles. I think if we had a long enough break they suit the way we played because they wanted a lot of the ball and we won our battles and it's as simple as that. I think it was the intensity to be honest. I think and having Jack had us on back because Dave compared to the other home games. Everton were on it immediately in this one. I never let up. Obviously the goal helped because we got it in the first 10 minutes. But did you feel as well it was a bit more like you know we on a hard back to like the David Moisey type home games. That intensity of just being on top of a team which goodness and then helps us get a stronger home record because we've moved away from that in the last few years. That's how it felt to me on Saturday. I mean I don't disagree. I mean but the other way of looking at it is the fact that they were just clinical in their chances as well. Because don't forget that against Luton the first 20 minutes they were on it and they were all over them and actually had they converted one or even two of those and it would have been a very different picture. So yeah I think it was more intense but I think they just they took their chances. I mean Garners took his chance fantastically well I thought. He knew exactly what he was doing. He knew where he was putting it. You know Jack Harrison's goal was great. I mean really really good. I mean the technique to get that right was I like Jack Harrison a lot actually not just because of that. I like what he's about. You know I've since I've seen him you know of the few games that he's played. I think he definitely makes us a better side. You know and when you think about potentially having him on one side and Danjima on the other side I think that you know it's an exciting attacking option. You know it doesn't normally work out like that because he doesn't normally play them both together but you know what I mean but I think potentially that would be good going forward. Now listen it was a good performance. It was an important three points and yeah we just need more performances like that. Absolutely. I mean Dave's right isn't he obviously. We got the goal and that settled everything on Dan. Harrison's goal was brilliant. We could have had more sec. You know we got more in the second half but we should have scored more goals as well. We bit the bar. So it's been you know it was good from that. I don't think Everton let up this week either. I think he did continue to do what was working for them the whole way through. But Jack Harrison just on him. He's exactly what we need isn't he. He's a lad who plays off the right and he works his plums off on him. It's just nice saying. I remember last season every two that would come to good was saying they just looked so much energetic and so much livelier than Everton. And like he's not like he's not like rapido but he's got so much energy. Rapido what that show that was on Channel 4 was really really fast. He will remember Rapido. He's using the reference me you know. But you know it wasn't the 70s. What when was it? It was like 90s. Before I was born. That's what I said but you referenced it. What I'm saying is it's just nice having someone who's lively and intense and just gets the ball on. Just wants to attack and wants to take plays on. He's a proper Everton winger I think. No you're right. I think you're right. If they get Patterson in that side as well on the overlap or eating James Coleman. He gets back like they said it'll give us other options. And then of course he doesn't do anything. There's rumours and they are rumours. I'm a manager of a little bit of a fall out. But I'm quite sure he'll work his way back into it. And if he does then that gives us another attack and option as well to have. But McNeill was also. McNeill they play well. They both work really really hard. So it was good. We go on to that break now. Is there an extent now whereby we're praising the way that they were on Saturday. And they played well and they got their just rewards. But is there not an element in terms of the fact that on Saturday they were doing what they should be doing. They were doing their job. They were playing with intensity and press and focus and commitment and guile and all these other positive words that we haven't seen enough of. So is this not what should be happening week in week out. Because if they played like that week in week out we wouldn't have any problems. No we wouldn't be looking over our shoulder the whole time and worrying what chef you have done and worrying what Luton have done. Burnley you know but that's a frustration for me. Is that you know we're not actually as a side and as a squad. We're not actually as bad as we've perhaps felt we are in recent times if that makes sense. You know I think we've all been you know there's been a lot of doom and gloom and stuff like that. And then you see things come together and you kind of go well actually do you know what we're not a bad side on our day. You know we're not going to we're not pulling up any trees and stuff like that. You know we're not going to sort of worry worry the top four anytime soon. But we're not that bad aside and there's no reason why we can't be comfortably sitting in the mid table. No I think you're absolutely right. I mean I've said it on the air and sometimes people have disagreed with me and other times they're like okay but this team and squad is better than what it's performed. And you know me and we often have this means John Blaine especially after this is like is the manager getting what he should be getting out of the squad. And we can apply that to Frank Lampard apply to Rafferbyn he says whatever whatever whatever. On Saturday and over the three of the last four games they've proven that they are a capable squad. But for me I said on Saturday in the after match stuff and that's the bar now. That Saturday's got to be the bar. We should have beaten Luton, we should have beaten Wolves, we should have beaten Fulham. But for me those three performances weigh in at the intensity of Saturday and therefore Saturday is the bar. If everything can repeat that more often than not a good decision in particular they'll have no problems this season. They'll win more games than they lose I would suggest. I think they come out in these games looking confident. Like I said to you against Luton you could tell that every player in every position was better than the opposing player in their position. We had like on paper you know what good they are anyway but even watching them you can see how much better than they are. But then that confidence just seems to drop as soon as that first goal gets in. So I said the other day it's about getting the first goal in the games. I don't think we've lost a game under Sean Dites where we've scored the first goal. I said yesterday that's that isn't it? It's something like 70% of the teams you showed the first goal in the Premier League win the game. So it's key the first goal is always key. I just think with our players it comes down to confidence obviously. You have to be set up right as well. I still feel a bit nervous sometimes when I watch them on the ball but ultimately that's because it's not our game. Every win we've had we've had less possession. So like I said before it's about the games that suit us so I just think it's a confidence thing. So getting the goal early like we did against Bournemouth you could see we can continue to do what we're doing and it works when we get more goals. Well hopefully listen hopefully we take that forward now and like I said we've won 75% of the games of the last four. That's the metric we used this week because it's a positive one. We now go into a block of four games which are very difficult. But we've got two weeks off before that and we can all you want now as you play is to come back from international duty in good shape. Obviously we play Liverpool a 12 on the next time we jog up. We don't have to worry about that right now Dave do you think? We've got that over there but you know you bend the bully. It's nice going into a break off the back of a win and a good performance. That's what I'm saying if we had to win one of those two own games Bournemouth was the one to win wasn't it? Yeah and I mean the other thing that I was making myself feel a bit better about the other day with regards to the Luton thing is I think I said a couple of weeks ago. I kind of said you know we should be winning both of those games at home but we need to be taking a minimum of four points out of those possible six. Now we've taken three from six so I was trying to console myself about the fact that well it's only one point less than I had kind of said was necessary. So maybe that's a positive. It's not really because we should never have lost to Luton at home. But if we had our first one more for you, if we'd have drawn a Brentford and drawn a Brentford and drawn with Luton and beat Bournemouth we'd be three games on beating in the Premier League but we'd have only won one of them. We've now got more points. You can't just take wins from people. Yeah I'm just saying. I'm saying you know that there's another way to look at it. I like to go back to your point before Barry about the fact that you know if they play anything like they played on Saturday more often than not a goodness and then there will be no problems this season and I think that's a generalisation but I think it's very true. What do you think of this one day before we move on? I said yesterday I've just got a feeling watching. I've seen the three team and Bournemouth with Treffel on Saturday looked at them and thought that he might be. They were, I mean they're not a great sign but even by their standards they had a shock around. Well it's that you know emprison you close trying to play out from the back when you're not good enough to do it and then keep giving the ball to the opposition that's bizarre but there you go that's up for them. But looking at the three promoter teams I actually not convinced Luton and Sheffield United are getting into the 20s with the points and I don't even know whether Burnley will post more than mid 20s points. For the simple reason that when I look at all three of them they're all like they're all Luton the tightest of the three but they just haven't got a goal in them. They passed up three open goals of the weekend and I'll give them two but one was a charge in the clearance down the flu in the top corner and the other one was a set piece. I look at Sheff United I just don't see them scoring any goals at the any goals and I look at Burnley and they can't score goals and they're letting them in. So I just wonder if you know from an Everton perspective this would be the season where you can all and I don't this is not going to be a bar I judge Everton by by the way. I was going to say I mean yeah yeah they are but isn't isn't a tragic state of affairs though the fact that you know we're making ourselves feel better by the fact that there are three significantly worse. Oh that's not my bar for 17. No no no I know I know I know I know it's not I know it's not I know it's not but you know that's that's how far you know we've fallen in many ways the fact that we are consoling ourselves by by how bad they are. Yeah I think it's more to me it's just more I can sleep a little bit easier. It almost looks like the three teams have like not prepared to go down but they're okay to come up and go down and they'll be fine. We look at like a forest last season or like following a few seasons prior come up spend loads of money try and make sure you're saying the Premier League. You might you're not building towards something not like creating a like a really cheap really good team from the young players put together and like like Burnley look like what they're doing to spend loads of money get some quality get some old players experience and stay in the Premier League it might look ugly but you stay in the Premier League and you build from there but if you go down you know you're financially stuffed. It looks like Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United it looks like they're not quite ready yet and the buildings if they go down they can be financially okay and come straight back up if they can. Well it's the plan for your club isn't it? Burnley I think I don't think they want to do that they might be going well if Welsh comes the Welsh we can be alright. But I think Luton and Sheffield United that it's absolutely about developing their clubs going even if we go we've got a big slug of money next year will be better and then if we get back up the year after them we're in a better place and we'll have more money to shoot through at it then. I'd actually say that they're two very different clubs as well though I mean you know Sheffield United is a big club. It's big debts that's why I'm trying to clear it. Oh yeah I understand they've been in this situation before you know this is very much new territory in recent years for Luton. So I think you're right I think from a Luton perspective they would probably not fancy their chances any more than about 50-50 in terms of staying up and if they don't stay up and there's every chance that they won't then it will have been a learning exercise it will have been financially beneficial to the club. And as Nez says you know they've not gone out and gone and overloaded themselves with players that they can't afford should they go down and you know they're not facing financial ruin. So they come up they give it their best shot if it's good enough it's good enough if it's not it's not and then they go back with no shame whatsoever. You know and as you say they're in a better position then to build again whether it be next year or the year after or certainly in the next five years to then come up in a better position. Absolutely. But yeah I'm not so sure Burnley have that attitude I think Burnley you know obviously they've spent that many seasons in the top flight you know in recent times that they won't see they won't have that same attitude I don't think. No and new owners obviously they've had relatively new owners that last year they'll they'll want a different outcome on people we'll have to wait and see. Dave moving on you made the public announcement on this forecast a few weeks ago. Quite a quite a definitive one I would say quite an affirmative one that the paddleboard season was over. Yeah. Looking at your Instagram over the weekend you were back out on said paddleboard in delicious weather. It was it was unexpected. You know for me as much as it was you and I did I said I said about whatever it was three maybe even four weeks ago I said well that's it you know that's paddleboard season done. As the weather was changing and then suddenly it's got better again. Fortunately I didn't deflate said inflatable paddleboard and I didn't put it in the garage which I should have done but I still out in the garden. And then Saturday was beautiful and then Sunday was even nicer and I said to my brother-in-law I said should we go for a little paddle on Sunday it's like 23 degrees or something here so we went out and we paddled for about five miles or something and we came back and then we stopped off for a little pub on the river by us and we had a couple of pints in the sunshine and then we came home and it was it was a thoroughly pleasant day but yeah very much unexpected because I thought we were done for the season. I do think we're done now. I mean it's sunny here today now at the time of recording right so we're recording on Tuesday but I think this is it supposed to rain tomorrow so I think this is I think we finally have it but we'll see you never know. You never know your copy right? I hate it. You hate what paddleboard? No I hate the sun in October. Why do you hate the sun in October? Because it's climate change. Is it climate change? Yes. Go back and look over the history books. It was different climate from last year. I want to wear my coat. Hang on pause, pause, pause. I don't like rain. I don't like being wet. Don't get me wrong. Don't get them wrong. I was in a coat in a hoodie and I was like I'm comfy. But why though? I like cold weather. But Ned, you're going to have plenty of weeks and months coming up where you can wear multiple hoodies I would suggest. I'll enjoy those multiple months. But you will, you'll have plenty. And listen, I'm not taking away the seriousness of what you're suggesting in terms of climate change and that's a bad thing. And that the weather at the moment would certainly give way to the argument that the climate is a bit screwed at the moment and it shouldn't be like this in October. However, it was so bloody cold last winter, I think. It certainly was in my house. That I'm in no rush to get the snug rug out and be sitting there in two hoodies in the evening watching telly and stuff like that. I'm quite happy in my shorts for now. Knowing that I will get full use of my entire autumn winter collection very, very soon. Dave's nailed it. I don't pay the gas bill. Exactly there you go. I can't even go out and sun down. Never mind the sun, look at me, I'm see through. I get burnt very, very, very easy. So this is in October. I haven't been able to go out and do anything for months. Tell you what though. I did one gig outdoors and I slept for about three months. That was because you didn't put sun cream on. You didn't have a hat on. You had jeans on. Nobody told me I'd be singing in the sun. Mate, there's a little, there's a thing on your phone that tells you hour by hour temperatures. At the one time I did take sun cream somewhere. I accidentally took the sun cream I took to America. That was jammed and I was at the top of a mountain at 30 degree heat hiking like that. Please come out. I mean please stop doing it with your hand. Yes, don't do this again. Especially when we're not talking about sun cream coming out on the other hand. Exactly. It's a really unsavory image. There's two things to pick up on here, Ned, I think. Firstly, in terms of the sunscreen, I think that goes down as user error for sure. I think so. And then the second thing is that as you rightly pointed out, you don't pay the gas bill. And I think the risk of sounding partially patronising and maybe old is that if you did pay the gas bill like myself and like Baz, you'd be in no rush for that weather to turn because as soon as it gets cold, you start costing old people like me and him lots more money. And don't forget, cold people die in the winter. Exactly Ned, so you're trying to bring that on for people. I just think that our government should give people free heating. OK, but at the moment we're not. So therefore you can understand why Dave gets his paddleboard back out at any opportunity. Why I like to, you know, I'm up on a sat in Sunday morning, the cracker door and watching my lad play football. And it's the grass is wet because it's that type of time of the year. It's a bit cool Ned, I want sun, I want one. That's what I want. Last year it was like the longest winter ever. It was freezing from about November till the end of April. It was freezing. Let's settle for about 10 degrees. We'll meet halfway. No, we won't meet halfway. Me and Dave will welcome warm days throughout the year. The only time I'll accept freezing weather and even snow is the 23rd of December for four days. I've allocated four days for a bit of snow. Bit of snow. We can just all sit in with our double hoodie on. We can have a little bit of more chocolate than watch TV. Just chill Christmas films, wherever. Evidence box and day game can be off so we don't have to worry about football. We'll have a few days and it's lovely. Then it can go back to 20 degrees and we can be warm again. The worst thing about leading up to those halcyon days is when it's freezing in the morning and you put a hoodie on or a coat. And then by the afternoon work or whatever, you're like sweaty. But you can't take it off. Or you walk out your house and five minutes later, you're sweating. But then you're like, oh. That's when layers come into play Ned. That's why you, you know, for me, you know, you go for a T-shirt. And if it's been, you know, today, as you can see, it's T-shirt weather. It could be a T-shirt. It could be a T-shirt with a shirt over it. It could be a T-shirt with a hoodie. I mean, all of these items are removable and therefore you can apply the right amount of clothing for the weather conditions which you find. You're getting life lessons. We're sure cutting you. I mean, you're sitting there getting all Greta Thunberg, you know. And me and Baz are actually, you know, we're giving you an education in the school of life. Solutions, Dave. What are you bringing in solutions? I've just got three thin layers. And then I felt like an onion. Second them all off and then put them on. I was like, what's that in the pictures? Again, like I would say, Dave mentioned it before. Use your error. I don't put three layers on to go. Where were you the cinema? The pictures. Why would you put three layers on to go to the cinema? Just get cold in the pictures though. Three layers though, Dave. That's too much. I mean, I was cold in Tesco the other day as well to be honest with you. But I was stood by the fish fingers in the frozen. But it was particularly chilly. And I was in my shorts and I felt a little bit, you know, like I could have done with a bit more beef. The way I look at it, well, but that was probably the different aisle of beef. The way I look at it, you know, Wim Hoff ain't going to be contacting you to do the Iceman challenge anytime soon if you're worried in Tesco because you're a bit cool. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable, Dave. I have a cold shower every morning in the cold. Do you? I have me warm, get washed under me hot shower and then I do two minutes of cold when I finish. Yeah, every day. Every day. I built up for ages and got more and more time until I got about six seconds and I just fought and I'm like... Six seconds? Yeah. I do two minutes every day, every day, freezing cold shower. Do you though? 100% every day. Never miss, never miss that. Yeah, but what do you do in the cold shower in two minutes? You don't wash yourself in two minutes. So I will stand under it. For two minutes? For two minutes, yeah. Because what it does is it releases shock proteins in your liver which then go to all your mitochondria. Shock proteins? Yes. You can make up things. Beins, bram, fat, which would be good for you. As well. So there you go. There you go. Because I asked on a premiere for some questions for Ned which I think Dave can interject as well. Some random questions. But obviously it's going to be for both or for all three of us if we're going to do that. Now you've asked a question for Ned. It's going to be a little difficult. No, no, it's not. It's going to be fair. It's for all three. It's for all three. I just said you were on it. Let's do it. OK, so where we go. Mikey says... OK. I'll read it. I mean it's a little bit math but let's go. Is it broadcastable? It is broadcastable. It's just a little bit. Let's go. Should a person who is in the electric chair about to be executed be given first aid if they have a heart attack or waiting for the switch to be switched on? I had to probably said no due to the outcomes probably. Not always. Yeah but you know I suppose the thing is though it's all to do with at what point their human needs must have been getting all deep here. At which point their basic human needs are not required to be fulfilled. So here's a scenario for you. It's a little bit like you know when you go to the airport and you can either be kind of like ground side or air side. In other words, you've passed that point where you're now flying. So it's almost a bit like is there a point when you go to the electric chair where suddenly you've gone through the x-ray machine and stuff and then you're kind of death side. Point of no return. Absolutely. You can't go back because you've forgotten something from boots. Absolutely. They've already checked your bags and stuff. And at that point then do you not qualify because you're then just waiting to take off to heaven. Cos it could be argued that you've brought the heart attack on to get first aid to prolong yourself being put in the chair. It's an electric chair. It's not going to be pleasant. It's not euthanasia with lethal injection, which may just send you to sleep and then do it. So it's more humane. It's not great anyway. See, I think there's a technicality there that you don't. I think if it was for euthanasia, if they were giving you lethal injection, I think that's more humane apparently. It's not meant to be great though, is it? No. I mean none of the options are great. No. I mean great is not a word that I put for anything. It's not synonymous with the subject matter. I'll put myself in that situation. If I'm getting in that chair, I'm hoping that until that grong. I'm hoping until that millisecond where the man goes. Yeah, it could be a woman. It could be a woman. When you did that though, you reminded me very much of, I don't know whether you ever watched Graham Norton, but at the end of the Graham Norton show they have the red chair. When you were doing that, the first thing I thought of was Graham Norton, which is less execution and more just public humiliation, but it was a similar action in terms of how you would end there. If you had someone then, just to layer on to this question. If you had someone who did pull said gong and you wanted a ham pick someone to kill you, who would it be? Who would you like to see last night following the gong as you put it? Someone I really like. No, of course, but no, you'd get to choose. Stephen Pena. You'd want Stephen Pena to pull the gong. I'd be like, I love you lad. What I was going to say is, before that millisecond where he goes gong, if I have an art, I'm hoping up until that point that someone could still walk in and go stop. We've got this. We need him for 1878. He's been part of this. He's going to pull a cat record in 20 minutes. I'm like, help me. I could still be innocent. You know what I mean? OK, OK. But if it wasn't, you'd want Stephen Pena to be the person that pulled it. Dave, would you have any preference for anybody? Hang on, hang on, hang on. You were just about to say, Dave, have you thought about this before? Was what you were? And the answer, the simple answer is no. Weirdly, I haven't thought about who I would choose if anybody in the world to be my executioner and the final face that I see before I car kill. But if we're going to go for this theme, then I don't know, Peter Reid, because you know, I also reckon that Peter would bring in a nice bottle of red or something like that, you know, and would be the sort of bloke that would share it as well. Have a quick glass with you. Absolutely. If you're going to go have a nice glass of red with Reedy. That would be all right. That would be all right. You can be like, I'll be shocked if this doesn't work. And you'll be like, oh. That's good. Fair play. Two great shots. I'm choosing a man to hold. Danny Staples says, did you ever borrow a long play VHS and try to play it on a short play VHS player by mistake? This is, I guess this is more to me and you, Dave. Ned won't know what VHS is. No, I used to have VHS. I just don't know what a short long tape is. There was two different types. You're not entirely alone there, Ned, because I don't, I mean, I've heard of both of them. I don't really, was a long play, did that play slower? Yeah, I think so. And I think it was just, it was to give you more recording time. I think. So, but it was the same. I think the heads went round slower maybe. Maybe, yeah. The answer to that, Danny, is no. I'm afraid for me. It's a no for me, Dan. It's a no for me. And a no for him, Ned. Not so pair palach i wedi ni. Apparently it's still alive. Apparently. There was rumours that he'd met his demise the other week, but apparently that's not true. No, pair palach i. No, not so pair palach i. No, I'm not so pair palach i. Quite clearly it's still alive. Because he's message us. Because if he's message us from the grave, haven't had the thing pulled by Stephen Pena, then fair play, it's all, you know, the circle of life or not life. If you went on a date who was perfect in every way, then you found out that they were a raven Torriec. Could you work this issue towards a long term relationship? No. No, okay. No, no. There you go. Quick answer, no. Marcus says, if you could only eat one colour food for a whole year, what colour and why would you choose, like brown, like chocolate, sausage, steak, et cetera, white, chicken, rice, polo, mint, he put polos in, tremendous. So one colour food, what food colour would it be? I want to think outside the box here. Go on. Blue. What is the blue then? Blue cheese. I don't know any blue food. So every time I eat I'd be surprised. I'd be like, oh, I've never had this. Berries, yeah. I've never had a blue berry. Blue smarties. Blue smarties. I could be like, I could not. I don't know the chocolates inside, but they are blue on the outside. Well, you know. Dave, if you had to choose one colour, what would it be for a year? Well, interestingly, I've actually just given up eating red meat only as a Friday. But this is a new thing for me. Okay, yeah. So I'm now going to just eat chicken, turkey, fish and veggie stuff. Okay. As a new initiative. So I don't know. I mean, if you had to choose one colour, it's difficult, isn't it? I mean, I suppose the one that would look the most impressive and look the healthiest would be green. But yeah. And that will be the healthiest for you. Probably would be the healthiest. So I suppose green would be the answer because you wouldn't want to say, you know, you're thinking about chicken. You wouldn't want to say white, would you? I don't want to just eat white food. No. But then I wouldn't say brown either because all of the fun brown things, you know, I'm not really on. So. So we're going with green. Let's go with green. I think so. My answer. Peter says it. Does Ned think he could take Dave in a cage fight? Dave Viti. Yeah. Probably. Yeah. Because he's just a fountain creator. I think Dave's had enough experience because Dave couldn't even take on a hole in the wall. I see what he's done now. I do. I see what he's done there. See what he's done there. I think Dave did take the hole in the wall on first. I think the question we need to ask could Dave take on two giraffes? No, I can. So I'm obviously more tougher than Dave. Would Dave take on a seagull because you are obsessed with fighting the seagull? Do you know what? I'll back Dave against like 10 seagulls. Obviously I could take on about 100. But I reckon Dave could take a few seagulls. I don't think he could take 10 or? No, I don't think so. You've spent enough time. I'm not saying I'm not saying you get the better of Dave. I just think the awkwardness of trying a battle with that many seagulls. It's a mob mentality. This is a problem, you know, and this is when they go for people on the beach with their ice creams, is that obviously one comes in and take them then the others, kind of attack it and use it and all this. I mean, genuinely, they know what they're doing. It is a team sport. It is a team sport. Also, on the subjects of seagulls, is it just me or are they getting statistically bigger as time goes on? In other words, are the seagulls now bigger than they were 10 years ago and 20 years ago? Because they seem to me that some of them are almost the size of an average-sized dog. Are we just getting smaller? Maybe. No, but I do shrink if we get older. I'll be honest. I do think you're probably right, Dave. I think they are getting bigger. Some of them, you see it. They are, hence. It's not just everything that can fly is getting bigger. Bees are like that. I don't think they're quite that big. Are we playing to get them bigger? Yeah, that's true. I mean, you know what I'll do as a special gift is maybe I'll do some research on the size of seagulls over the past 30 years. I think they're getting bigger. Sorry, not next year. We can't wait until next year, next week, even. That will be a long study you're doing there. There might be a lot of information. For a year. Like a seagull thesis. It will be a thesis, but literally a dissertation on seagull size. Seagull size on paddleboards by David Vitty. Mick says, what is the strangest food combination you enjoy? Now, this will be you more than I think me and Dave. Last night, I had an omelet and four potato waffles. See, that works for me, I think. That's amazing. I always like a pizza. Sometimes if I can't decide between a kebab shop or a Chinese, I'll get both. You'll get a Chinese with a kebab? Not a kebab, I'll get a burger or a cheesy garlic bread. And a Chinese with it. You do have some strange combinations. You are the man who eats just rice. Is anybody else not eat rice? Just rice. You had a burger and rice once before you went to play football. I couldn't decide whether I wanted salt and pepper chicken with egg fried rice or burger chips. You didn't get it. What you did was you got fried rice and a burger. That is not a pre-match meal. It's protein, carbs and juices. It's the dryness that comes to me with that. If you had some sauce involved, for example, if you were having the rice, but then you had some, I don't know, sweet and sour sauce or black bean sauce or teriyaki sauce or something, and that would make it all right. But it's the dryness of just plain rice, which would be my biggest worry. It's potato. When I see it on the plate, I'll be honest, it unsettled me. But it's egg fried. It unsettled me. It looked. It gave me serial killer vibes. The fact that you were having dry rice. You wanted to kill me because I was eating dry rice. I thought that you were a potential killer. I'm there for somebody to be concerned about. I would kill you if you tried to kill me. Just fried rice. No-one was trying to kill you, but it looked worrying. I did say to see it at the time, and you did then sit there complaining that you didn't feel very good when you were going to play football. No-one's ever had a bake for a pre-match meal. That was because it was 30 degrees outside. And you had three layers on. You didn't know what layer to take on. On your paddle board. I didn't film a footy pod that day. You didn't. Anyway Ned, I'd like to say it's been a pleasure having you on. But it's been alright. I'll be honest. It's been okay. I was hoping you'd bring a little bit more comedic value to it. But you were up against obviously someone who was known as Comedy Dave. So I understand why you realised. That was an entirely ironic title anyway. Well, you say that. Nothing to fear here. I think you are quite amusing Dave. My comedy is not for an afternoon show. I won't lie. It's not for any show I'll be honest. When all the cameras are off, it's when you come through. Right. That is us for this week. We will be back next week. But we won't be talking about any event games. We will be looking ahead to Maisie Side Dabia. You're matching for about four seconds. And we'll be talking about Peds Trip to France. We will. Peds Trip to France. And Dave Siegel study. Oh yeah. I'll present my thesis. The thesis next week. It'll be amusing. And England. Yeah. Like you said, we'll be talking Peds. And Dave Siegel study. We will be on the agenda next week. David Witty. Thank you very much. As always. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for everyone who's listening. Subscribe. Comment. Like. Five stars. Share. Do all of that good stuff. And we'll see you next week. Bye.