Spencer Matthews

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.5 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What’s it like to be hunted by the son of a murderous Libyan dictator? Spoiler: it’s not a Brilliant Thing, but it is an incredible story from this week’s guest Spencer Matthews. There are tales of desert marathons, growing up on an island paradise and what it’s like when reality TV thrusts you into fame before you’re necessarily ready for it… A fascinating chat that goes in many interesting directions. 🏋️‍♀️ You can hear more of Spencer on his new weekly podcast Untapped, which he co-hosts with Jake Quickenden. The podcast explores how far you can push the human body. Whether it’s embracing fitness challenges, mastering new productivity hacks, or exploring lifestyle changes, Spencer and Jake will try it all, and share what truly makes a difference in their lives. 🏋️‍♀️ 🎤 And Russell’s about to embark on a mini-European tour including live dates in Porto, Gibraltar, Berlin, Athens, Sofia and more - check out russell-howard.co.uk for dates and tickets. 🎤 ✨ And if you are enjoying the podcast but get fed up with the adverts, you can get the whole thing advert-free forever, and get access to our second weekly show, and get it all a day before everyone else… and for a very small amount. Click here to find out more. ✨ Thanks for being you, keep being you until you can you no more. Byeeee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello there, welcome back.
0:10.0	My guest today is a man who's gone from made in Chelsea to becoming a TV star, a podcaster,
0:14.0	and last year he ran 30 marathons in 30 days.
0:18.0	It's Spencer Matthews, and these are his five brilliant things.
0:29.3	First things first. And which did you run at the weekend?
0:32.4	I ran 171.3 kilometers in 24 hours at the weekend.
0:37.7	So I started running at 5pm on Friday night until 5pm on Saturday night.
0:41.9	Yeah.
0:42.2	And was that, you said it was unplanned?
0:44.6	It was, it's something that I saw someone's Strava one day.
0:51.2	And I'm always game for a challenge.
0:53.6	I love kind of experimenting with pushing yourself and stuff. And I'm always game for a challenge. I love kind of experimenting with pushing yourself and stuff.
0:57.1	And I found, I saw a guy called Alex.
0:59.7	Is it Alex Savotkin or something?
1:02.3	I should really know his name.
1:03.5	But he's a, turns out he's a very famous 24-hour runner and holds the record for 100K and 100 miles.
1:09.4	And I can remember looking at his Strava and seeing that he'd ran like loops of where he lived
1:16.0	for 24 hours straight at a ludicrous pace.
1:19.4	I love running.
1:20.4	And I just couldn't, I literally couldn't understand.
1:24.1	Like it was like he was on a bike or something.
1:25.9	His neighbours must think that they've gone mad.
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