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David Rees

David Rees

Humorist and cultural critic

Oct 19, 2026

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18:51
can
18:51
get the hair off the floor.
18:55
Mine, mine.
18:56
He's literally saying, oh, we love our old barber.
18:58
It's going to be insane to see him go.
19:00
And then talking, oh, we need to find a new barber.
19:02
Our barber walks out of this barber's over the road and goes, oh, lads, what's up, mate? Literally just talking about needing a new barber.

38 MINS LATER

57:31
side character that kind of like, oh, she had a cool bit where she saved the kids, but then we didn't really hear from her again because she's the lollipop lady.
33:14
I'm curious what a listening test is, 'cause surely you just had the interview and be like, "Yeah, there."
33:17
So what I had to do was speak about something that I enjoyed, and then she would ask questions, and then I had to give a detailed remark about what I was talking about.

48 MINS LATER

81:55
What you doing there?
81:57
Sorry, is it the White Noise and Weird Gogglebox Podcast? Shut up.
45:00
Do you think that's the way you were raised too?
45:02
Well, I was raised in a house with a lot of books and I grew up in a university town, Chapel Hill, home of Arches of Loaf, as it happens.
45:09
And my parents loved knowledge.
45:11
My dad was an academic librarian and my mom was a computer programmer and they were both extremely smart.
45:17
My dad could recite poetry from memory, you know, at the dining room table.
45:22
Yeah, so it was a bookish, nerdy household, and the liberal arts and just the idea of education in general was taken extremely seriously.
45:31
And yeah, I mean, I'm sure, and I'm sure, and it was a quiet house.

8 MINS LATER

53:53
I am curious, how did your political beliefs form? This is something I've been like obsessed with for the last five, six years.

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