Grand National Festival: The Opening Day
Hawksbee and Jacobs Daily
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4.5 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Paul Hawksbee and Charlie Baker kick off the Grand National Festival by heading straight to the track! We check in with Rupert Bell and Lizzie Kelly live from Aintree for all the colour and insight from a massive opening day of racing.
Back in the studio, we mix the turf with the turf-war of the dugout as Sammy Lander, the world’s first professional Substitutions Coach, joins us to talk about his new book, Finishers.
Plus, we get a very cynical Masters Special from our resident ChatGPT and Andy Jacobs joins Geoff Peters for a special edition of the Birthday Spread.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Paul Hawksby. |
| 0:01.2 | And Charlie Baker. |
| 0:02.0 | And this is the H&J Daily with some of the best bits of this afternoon. You were saying it a little bit, whispery up at the golf there, Paul. Yeah, maybe because the other one upset the players. That was the start of the Masters, but we thought Chat GPT would be a fan of the Masters. But as you'll discover, not so. We also spoke to Sammy Lander was a very interesting. It's very good. |
| 0:23.6 | Football's first ever |
| 0:24.7 | Sunday. Not so. We also spoke to Sammy Lander. Yeah, he was very interesting. Football's first ever substitution coach. Yeah, I liked it. So we chatted to Sammy. Rupert Bell and Lizzie Kelly joined us. Once again, Rupert was the butt of everyone's jokes. But he seemed to take it quite. He probably goes home and cries himself to sleep. We had a big discussion about Lilt, Paul, for a while there. |
| 0:39.4 | We did talk a lot about Lilt, and there was shocking news from the world of Lilt, which we brought you later. |
| 0:45.0 | And we had a birthday spread. Here it all is. |
| 0:52.5 | Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, Chuck. Afternoon, Paul. Lovely to be here. I just want to say, |
| 0:55.8 | I had a lovely evening at the Hackney Empire last night with Mike Bubbins and Ellis James and Steph Guerrero |
| 1:01.2 | and their socially distance sports bar podcast that they did. We did that live last night. |
| 1:07.2 | The Hackney Empire, yeah. Got me tap shoes out, Paul. Did the lot last night. |
| 1:29.8 | Oh, the lot. Bubbin sits there and he just holds him in the palm of his hand with his Welsh lilt. Right. Not lilt. No, he's totally tropical. He's got a hint of leak. It's pineapple. It's totally tropical. The Caribbean and they're just a touch of Caffili in there as well. Yeah, and he holds them in the pine. |
| 1:44.6 | He's a dirty, dirty boy, but, you know, he's a very funny man. Has Lil ever been used as a mixer? Because, I mean, surely somewhere the late great John Sullivan would have had Del by having a drambuian lilt, wouldn't he? Are there any... What have you mixed lilt with? |
| 1:45.7 | We're doing, is it 18? |
| 1:47.4 | 037, yeah. |
| 1:49.6 | I mean, Liverpool lost last night, |
| 1:50.7 | and they may be changing manager, |
| 1:52.1 | but let's decide this afternoon, |
| 1:54.6 | what have you ever mix were lilt and did it work? |
| 1:57.5 | My chip shop order when I was a kid and he used to come home from Newton Abbot's stock car |
| 1:59.0 | on a Wednesday night. |
| 2:00.0 | Yeah. Are they still out there? |
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