This is Truish, your weekly soft news bulletin where broadcaster Daisy Maskell unpack the weird and wonderful headlines, moments, and curiosities of the week with hilarious guests. New episodes every Monday.

Looking for hot takes? We have plenty of them on this episode of Truish! Daisy Maskell is joined by Archie Maddocks.

Archie is an award-winning writer and stand-up comedian. He was named one of The Voice Newspaper’s “Ones to Watch in 2025” and is an alumnus of Soho Theatre’s Soho Rising Festival. He's been a finalist for both New Act of the Year and English Comedian of the Year, the runner-up in the Amused Moose Laugh Off, and the winner of Bath New Act of the Year. His 2022 feature film Gassed Up premiered at the London Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Feature.

On this episode of Truish, Daisy and Archie talk about the stress of security clothes for big moments, the problem with gentle parenting (including Archie’s playground story about confronting a child who bit his daughter) and Daisy shares a Dutch study about putting asthmatics on rollercoasters!

They also debate professional pigeon feeders and city pigeons, discuss dinosaur reconstructions, touch on moon-landing views and Archie’s hopes for an Arsenal title celebration.

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