EP1: Elis James
episode
What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
59 min
3 speakers
8 chapters
transcribed 3 months ago
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What unique question do the hosts ask their guests?
Podcasts, there are millions of them.
Some might say too many. I have one already. I don't have any, because there are enough.
Politics, business, sport, you name it, there's a podcast about it, and they all ask the big questions and cover the hot topics of the day.
But nobody is covering the most important topic of all. Why is that? Are they scared? Too afraid of being censored by the man? No.
Possibly, but not us. We're here to ask the only question that matters. We try and say it at the same time, Max. What did you do yesterday? What did you do yesterday? What did you do yesterday? That's it. All we're interested in is what the guests got up to yesterday. Nothing more.
Day before yesterday, Max? Nope. The greatest and most interesting day of your life?
Unless it was yesterday, we don't want to know about it. I'm Max Rushton. And I'm David O'Doherty. Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday?
Hello, David. Hey, Max. This is pretty exciting.
Yeah. I mean, there's huge pressure on these next two minutes of our podcasting career because this is the first time that people will hear us together. And people have short attention spans these days. And it's incumbent, I think, on you, because I'm asking you the question, to really sell this podcast now. I mean, basically everybody on earth can relate to what we're doing apart from one day old babies. And I feel that we are going to change podcasting forever. But I just think you can articulate it better than me as to what people are about to hear now.
I think you've just written a big old children in need size check that we will never be able to cash. But I do think there's something in our sort of high performance world-class basics culture that needs this podcast because this is a low performance podcast.
Well, you say it's low performance, but in my mind, I believe we'll learn more about humanity from this than in all podcasts combined that have been made to date. I can't think of one good podcast doing the rounds at the moment. And people have been begging me for a long time to get involved in podcasts, and I haven't wanted to. But ever since you approached me and begged me... We should, for the record, say that I did beg you, David, to do this, didn't I?
Yeah, so to the listeners, Max told me about this incredible idea he had for a podcast two years ago. And it was very much in the realm of, like, how do you like these apples?
How does Elis James describe his morning routine?
If I were to ever do one, I'm sitting on this golden egg. So initially I thought it was just going to be you and the guest, leather chairs, maybe filmed, you know what I mean? Real classic prestige television. And then over time you did nothing about it. And I would be like, how's the great idea coming along, Max Rushton? And it's fair to say you did nothing about it whatsoever till I hassled you to do something with it.
Well, I lost quite a significant work contract, and so I really had to get things going. This is not an act of desperation, I'd point out, but I feel like the time felt right. And certainly my mortgage repayments on this small townhouse in Melbourne, they felt right to start delivering a podcast that hopefully will, you know, I'm not in it for the money, David. I'm in it because I enjoy your company. That's the main thing. I don't really know how we ever got to know each other, but I enjoy your company. And I did come up with this idea, which was simply, what did you do yesterday?
Max, there's a glimpse behind the magician's curtain. And then there's seeing the magician's ball bag, big old pendulous ball bag just swaying in the wind. And I feel this intro has utterly ruined the mystique that I was trying to build around this podcast, that it was this labor of love. You have to bring all this mundanity about baby food into it and nappies. Yeah.
Well, there was one review of some work that I think it was during the Soccer M Glory years where somebody who wrote a review said they turned the volume down whenever I spoke and turned it up again when Alan spoke. And so the people who want mystique, right, they can just turn it down when I'm on.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What unique question do the hosts ask their guests?
0:02–2:42
2
How does Elis James describe his morning routine?
2:42–8:57
3
What challenges does Elis face during the school run?
8:57–12:10
4
How does Elis balance family life and work commitments?
12:10–15:47
5
What does Elis reveal about his lunch choices?
15:47–19:01
6
How does Elis prepare for his podcasting sessions?
19:01–23:20
7
What insights does Elis share about his personal reflections?
23:20–28:28
8
What are the final thoughts on the day's events?
28:28–59:44