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The Useless Hotline
Max Balegde & George Clarke
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 62 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.
Subscribe and join us every Sunday as we tackle your problems head on and on occasion will be helped by some faces you may recognise on a trial shift.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the Useless Hotline
02:56 Hotel Room Shenanigans
05:59 The Evolution of Influencer Events
09:00 Memorable Experiences with Brands
13:36 The Sports Direct Event
14:51 Reflections on Past Experiences
17:21 Looking Back on Influencer Life
21:12 Dreaming of the Future
23:59 Nostalgia and Reflection
26:07 Touring Down Under
31:04 Strictly Come Dancing Journey
39:07 Emotional Connections in Dance
40:15 Creating Lasting Memories Through Performance
41:29 Raising Awareness Through Personal Experiences
42:23 The Anxiety of Premieres and Public Events
44:41 Reflections on Film and Adaptation
46:53 The Humor in Celebrity Encounters
48:46 The Joy of Reading and Personal Growth
53:08 Experiencing Hollywood Glamour
58:11 The Excitement of Future Interviews
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Max Belike Day. |
| 0:02.3 | Hello, Max Belike day. I'm George and I'm also here. |
| 0:07.2 | And this is the useless hotline. |
| 0:09.1 | Because TikTok wasn't actually working out for us, we decided to set up this. |
| 0:12.2 | It's our own little business, don't you know? |
| 0:14.7 | Yes, we did. |
| 0:15.8 | And the useless hotline is a place where we help you with your queries, |
| 0:18.8 | no matter how we are discussing or embarrassing they are, except from the fact that most of the time nowadays, we actually just Skype each other |
| 0:26.5 | and talk about dancing, talk about me probably being ill again, and whatever else I'm getting |
| 0:32.6 | up to. |
| 0:41.9 | Yeah, no, I'm quite disappointed. |
| 0:44.6 | I'm in a hotel room and you're not here to join me and give me snuggles. |
| 0:51.8 | Well, usually you always request that as part of any booking, I am there, |
| 0:55.8 | like the Kimball, just wait. |
| 0:58.7 | Usually people get the towels, |
| 0:59.2 | don't they? |
| 1:01.8 | That like people kind of make into a swan, |
| 1:05.9 | but you actually request that I am origamied into a swan. |
| 1:08.7 | Except, yeah, they try and make you out of a towel, |
| 1:11.4 | except they actually have to get like a full-on duvet. |
| 1:16.1 | They get a second duvet and they fold that up. |
| 1:19.8 | Before I went into I'm a sled, they used to use a mattress, |
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