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The Useless Hotline

Max & George Discuss All The Highs & Horrors of Uni-Halls!

The Useless Hotline

Max Balegde & George Clarke

News Commentary, News, Comedy

4.8701 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

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 they are. This week we have a special bonus episode made possible by Student Roost! If you're looking for student accommodation a little less chaotic, find out more at studentroost.co.uk. 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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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is Max Belegday.

0:02.0

And I am George Clark. And welcome to the useless hotline. TikTok wasn't working after us, so we decided to set up. Uh-oh, little business. Yes, we did. And the useless hotline is a place where we help you with your queries, no matter how we're discussing or embarrassing they are. Perro, it won't always just be us. Some weeks will be joined by a very special guest. In fact, this week we're joined by the most special of guests,

0:23.6

because this episode of The Useless Hotline is brought to you by Student Roost.

0:28.6

Student Roost is you sorted with a range of places to live across the UK,

0:32.6

all with bills included 24-7 on-site teams and some seriously good social spaces. Oh, and there's an event calendar packed all year round.

0:41.3

Oh my gosh. Honestly, even just the 24-7 on-site people, that would be life-changing for me.

0:47.3

Do you know how many times I got locked out on my student accommodation?

0:50.3

No, I feel that would be weird if I did know that.

0:52.3

That is very true because we didn't even know each other.

0:55.0

But it was hell, horror, despair.

0:58.0

Oh my God, sleepless nights on the streets, because I couldn't get in to my bed.

1:03.0

If only you could do with some help, which actually is what we're going to be doing this episode because Student Roost has asked us to find your worst uni accommodation horror stories,

1:11.7

which is exactly what we've done.

1:13.6

All thanks to your submissions via our Instagram story that we posted a mere few weeks ago.

1:19.2

That's right.

1:20.2

We put the ask out calling on you to share your most unhinged or hellish uni halls experiences.

1:26.7

And later we'll be breaking them down asking ourselves

1:29.7

what we would have done in your place but george before we get into that let's take a little

1:36.0

trip down memory lane back to hour on uni days now i personally max um i think i had quite a good

1:43.8

time at uni.

1:44.5

I enjoyed myself.

1:45.4

Right.

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