The Athletic.

People of the audience, please welcome your host for this evening, Joe Devine.

Hello!

Good God.

Hello there. Welcome everybody. Welcome to the Leicester Square Theatre. There's so many of you here, isn't there? Goodness gracious me. Welcome to the Leicester Square Theatre. This is the TIFO podcast live. We've got a fun evening for you this evening. That's a bit of an over-exaggeration. We've got a football podcast for you this evening. There will be actual podcast football stuff discussed in the first

time, so sorry about that for anyone who's here just for fun. But let me tell you what's

going to happen this evening. They told me I wouldn't be able to see any of you, but I can see

all of you. Look at you. Hello? Who are you? I don't care who you are. Please stop talking. Okay. It's the beginning of the show. Please don't interrupt the show. There's two halves to this evening's performance. The first half will be a football podcast. Yeah, we're going to talk about football. It's the Champions League final this weekend. Is anyone excited? Yes, that's exactly how we feel also. It's very exciting, isn't it? Hello. There's women here. That's nice, because when I look at the YouTube analytics, I don't really see any women. So it's good that there's some in the crowd. That's nice for a gender balance. First half is a football podcast. Second half we'll do a Q&A. So you can see on the screen, I think, behind me. Look, there's a hashtag there. Are you familiar with hashtags? Do you know how they work? They stopped sort of existing two years ago. Explain it. Well, on your social media application, on your mobile phone. On Twitter, please, specifically, because we won't be looking at any others. I don't have any of the others on my phone. But if you want to ask us a question for the second half of the show, please tweet with the hashtag TIFO Live. Yeah? Ask us a question. And producer Steve Hankey will be checking those throughout the course of the first first show So in the second half, we'll do some of those. Very exciting. Soon I'll introduce some of the guests that we have here this evening. But if you all look around behind you, just over there where that clock is, you might be able to see him. It's Mr. Baby Boy, Ruben Pinder. Give us a wave, Ruben. Yes. Hello. Are you okay? Have you eaten?

That's good. Ruben's got very important job for us this evening. Occasionally, he's going to hit the

right or left key on his laptop. We've practiced that, haven't we? Yeah. We did want to have him

on the stage, but unfortunately there are some theatrical union laws that prevent having a human

baby on a stage. It's a shame, isn't it? Who'd have thought that? I didn't think that. But,

yeah, I can't believe you've paid money to come this is being recorded

I know some of you here won't work in media

or entertainment like I do

I'm good at aren't I good at it

what do you think is it going well so far

bit yeah 10

it's going 10 that's really really good

okay exciting but what you say and when you cheer

it will be picked up on a microphone and people will listen to it later and they'll really enjoy it

if you enjoy it so i'll do my best but also if you do your best it'll be very much appreciated

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