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The Useless Hotline
Max Balegde & George Clarke
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
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Welcome to The Useless Hotline hosted by Max Balegde and George Clarke. A place to send your queries and dilemmas no matter how big, small, weird, or embarrassing. We can’t guarantee good advice or that you will leave a changed person, but we can guarantee that this is a useless hotline.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the Useless Hotline
02:51 Fashion Choices and Personal Style
05:38 Health and Illness Experiences
08:34 Red Carpet Experiences and Celebrity Encounters
11:34 Stranger Things Premiere and TikTok Awards
14:22 Behind the Scenes of Celebrity Interviews
17:25 Live Stream Mishaps and Misunderstandings
22:29 Stranger Things and TikTok Fame
25:47 Reflections on Mental Health and Therapy
28:06 The Journey of Strictly Come Dancing
29:40 The Pressure of Competition and Performance
32:32 The Excitement of Blackpool Week
38:25 The Fun and Challenges of Dance
43:26 Celebrating Personal Milestones in Dance
50:41 Judging and Feedback in Dance Competitions
52:27 Exploring Iconic Venues
54:28 Anticipating the Australian Tour
56:17 Travel Plans and Excitement
58:00 Dilemmas of Daily Life
01:01:56 The Thrill of Gambling
01:03:37 Balancing Witchcraft and Love Life
01:04:19 The Gendered Perception of Magic
01:07:55 School Memories and Embarrassing Moments
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Max Balegdei. |
| 0:02.0 | Yeah, it is. It's so Max Balegdea right now, and it's also George Clark. That's me, the one with the beanie on. And this is the Usest Hotline, because TikTok wasn't working out for us. It wasn't. So we decided to set up this freaky, freaking business. We did, and the Usless Hotline is a place where we help you with your queries, no matter how we are discussing or embarrassing they are, |
| 0:21.4 | except today we actually are doing dialemones. |
| 0:23.4 | Yes, you are. |
| 0:24.0 | We're going to do it. |
| 0:24.7 | Yes. this hotline is a place where we help you with your queries, no matter how we are discussing or embarrassingly are, |
| 0:21.4 | except today we actually are doing dilemmas. |
| 0:23.5 | Yes, you are. |
| 0:24.0 | We're going to do it. |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah, so well done us personally. |
| 0:26.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.9 | Congrats to us. |
| 0:29.2 | Sometimes I'm joined by a guest. |
| 0:30.8 | Most of the time are not. |
| 0:32.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.4 | You look like a New Yorker today. |
| 0:44.4 | I look like I sell fish. |
| 0:45.8 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:48.5 | I feel like I look like a fisherman in some. |
| 0:52.3 | I would look at a place down Billingsgate fish market. |
| 0:58.7 | Who's Billing and why we're his gate um how are you expecting me to answer that question tell me who Billin is it was quite straightforward actually George |
| 1:03.6 | Billingsgate fish market and fish market done Billingsgate don meaning in in French you go there early hours of the morning. I believe it shuts at like 7am. Oh. It literally runs from like 3 to 7am if you ever want to go down and get yourself some cheap fish. No, I'm good, thank you. I've got fish at home. Anywho. Open my legs. What the hell have you been doing, Blue Boy? So first blue boy dressed as a dress his outfit i'm dressed |
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