Mar 17, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min · 12 segments
Tracing the left-to-right political trajectory of the unfunniest man in British comedy. **Support us:** Hear bonus episodes on PatreonWatch Aubrey's documentaryBuy Aubrey's bookListen to Mike's…
Michael HobbesHost
Aubrey GordonHostis born in 1975 in Essex.
When he's six months old, his parents separate.
So he's basically raised by a single mom.
It sounds like his mom is like really nice and like a really positive presence in his life.
His father is this kind of mercurial presence where he will like disappear for months or years on end and then like come back and like shower Russell with gifts and do the like...
Hey man, it's great.
I'm going to be around a lot more these days, you know, and then disappear again.
Yeah.
Kind of classic deadbeat dad shit.
Yeah, exactly.
So the book is framed around his treatment for sex addiction.
So the book starts kind of in a like record scratch.
I'll bet you're wondering how I got into the situation kind of thing where he's in sex addiction, inpatient treatment in Philadelphia and, And then the book kind of rewinds to be like, well, how did I end up in sex addiction treatment, right? I've never read a celebrity memoir that has this much fucking sex in it and this much like womanizing.
But also I guess his excuse is like, well, that's sort of the theme is that like I've been struggling with sex addiction.
So we start getting like really worrying sex stuff as early as like the first chapter of the book.
aunt who like, I don't know, is like busty and like has big boobs and he's kind of like obsessed with big boobs throughout the book.
And he sort of schemes as like a four or five year old to be in the bathroom while she's showering so he can like watch her shower.
remembers this is kind of like, ah, ha, ha.
is born in 1975 in Essex.
When he's six months old, his parents separate.
So he's basically raised by a single mom.
It sounds like his mom is like really nice and like a really positive presence in his life.
His father is this kind of mercurial presence where he will like disappear for months or years on end and then like come back and like shower Russell with gifts and do the like...
Hey man, it's great.
I'm going to be around a lot more these days, you know, and then disappear again.
Yeah.
Kind of classic deadbeat dad shit.
Yeah, exactly.
So the book is framed around his treatment for sex addiction.
So the book starts kind of in a like record scratch.
I'll bet you're wondering how I got into the situation kind of thing where he's in sex addiction, inpatient treatment in Philadelphia and, And then the book kind of rewinds to be like, well, how did I end up in sex addiction treatment, right? I've never read a celebrity memoir that has this much fucking sex in it and this much like womanizing.
But also I guess his excuse is like, well, that's sort of the theme is that like I've been struggling with sex addiction.
So we start getting like really worrying sex stuff as early as like the first chapter of the book.
aunt who like, I don't know, is like busty and like has big boobs and he's kind of like obsessed with big boobs throughout the book.
And he sort of schemes as like a four or five year old to be in the bathroom while she's showering so he can like watch her shower.
remembers this is kind of like, ah, ha, ha.
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