Max FINALLY Reveals His Coming Out Story!!!
The Useless Hotline
Max Balegde & George Clarke
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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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 and Coming Out Story
09:56 First Crush and Awkward Encounters
13:58 Audience Dilemmas and Disappointment
15:34 Pizza Delivery and Confusion
16:24 Exploring Identity on Grindr
18:45 The Moment of Truth: Coming Out to Mom
20:48 Facing Fears and Finding Acceptance
22:41 The Emotional Rollercoaster of Coming Out
24:57 Grandma's Support: A Heartwarming Moment
25:55 Feeling Like a Local Celebrity
27:50 The Strength Found in Coming Out
36:19 Stranger Things Season Four Spoilers
37:24 The Military's Role in Hawkins
38:48 Frustrations with TV Show Endings
42:45 The Impact of Glee and Other Shows
44:09 Convoluted Storylines in Glee
49:24 The Disappointment of Bad Endings
50:26 Pitch Perfect and Its Legacy
51:04 Strange Film Experiences
51:34 The 4DX Experience
55:31 The Era of 3D Films
58:02 Cinematic Revelations and Passes
01:00:11 Diving into Dune and Knives Out
01:01:25 Zootopia vs. Zootropolis: A Naming Conundrum
01:03:00 Reflections on the Strictly Tour
01:05:59 Reality TV Insights and Celebrity Anecdotes
01:09:02 The Future of Strictly: New Hosts and All-Stars Season
01:12:02 Closing Thoughts and Farewells
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| 0:00.0 | And also, for the record, me and George are not the people looking at these emails. |
| 0:03.5 | So a few of you have been sending some pictures of your ass that we've heard of. |
| 0:08.6 | You might notice that I look like if Ellen DeGeneres was a weather map. |
| 0:13.4 | That's because, have I ever told you my coming out story? |
| 0:16.3 | I don't think I have. |
| 0:17.1 | Did it go? |
| 0:18.9 | I'm gay. |
| 0:19.7 | How did you actually say it? Did you sit mother and father down and say, mother, father? I'm gay. Is it, was it? I did it like, I tried to do it in like the straightest way possible. I just wrote like, I'm gay and that's that thumbs up emoji. So much like that. Like, something so ridiculous and attention seeking you like that. Did you show her pictures of her, him pictures of her now? No, I don't know what she looks like now. Why? Are you trying to insinuate that she would have gone downhill? What are you saying there, George? I showed her pictures of her whilst I was together. She was a child. And I was like, look how fish is. And he went four. No. |
| 0:55.0 | Fair play. |
| 0:56.0 | Oh my God. So I'm like, okay, well, and I don't know what came up for me again. I was like, well, come to mind this weekend then. Oh, come to mine this weekend. I'm sorry. Do I have the biggest cock ever? What's gay porn? Like? straight porn or like lesbian porn it's like that except there's two men so there's two men |
| 1:13.0 | so a delivery a piece of delivery guy like, would you know like straight porn or like lesbian porn? It's like that except there's two men. |
| 1:12.3 | So there's two men. |
| 1:13.0 | So a pizza delivery guy knocks on the door of a pizza delivery guy. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello, my name's Max Balegde. |
| 1:21.9 | Oh, go on, finish that mouthful. |
| 1:24.8 | Finish that mouthful. |
| 1:25.6 | You've got it, King. |
| 1:26.3 | You've got it. |
| 1:45.5 | Forward to the audio listeners, George is eating a salad. He's eating a salad and he's chewing before he can get to us on. And I'm George Clark. And welcome to the useless hotline. TikTok walker up. So we set up our own little business. We did. And the useless hotline podcast is a place where we help you with your queries occasionally, |
| 1:48.2 | but we usually don't. We usually just chat shit. |
| 1:51.5 | And you know why we don't? Because your dilemma is a shit. |
| 1:56.0 | Oh, guys, guys, we have to have a strong word. Sorry to get straight into it, guys. Okay. |
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