S2 EP9: Tom Rosenthal
episode
What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
1h 6m
3 speakers
8 chapters
transcribed 3 months ago
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What question do the hosts ask their guests at the start?
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? Welcome to season two, episode nine of What Did You Do Yesterday? I think that's what it is. David O'Doherty is here. Hello, David.
Hello, Max. I believe, I don't care. Who cares about the numbers at this point? It's just, it's entered into the culture as maybe the most important artifact of the 21st century so far.
Yeah, it's interesting you mention artifact because this is the first episode that actually has potentially a physical artifact. We're honest on this podcast. We have just finished recording with Tom Rosenthal and his yesterday. And there are two important things to point out. One is his dog at some point gets excitable. So you may hear a dog in the episode. The dog is mentioned. It takes part in the day. You will hear a dog at some point, which is fine. Yeah. The second point is that Tom documented his day with a PDF, which he sent to us. So in most episodes, David, we're asking people, and then what happened next, basically. Whereas in this episode, we are talking through the PDF that is sent to us.
We are referring to images, diagrams, slides, screenshots. What I like about this episode is we want this to be about the guests. And of course, we are but here to facilitate the guests. And this could not be more Tom Rosenthal. You know, this is basically if you were to zoom in on his DNA, on his double helix, you would see this PDF document. I'm pretty sure. Yeah.
Look, for those of you that don't know Tom Rosenthal, he was in Friday Night Dinner, in Plebs. He's done lots of live shows. He's, of course, in the Rhys James episode, eating a lot of pineapple. He has a play out, by the way, called The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol. I mean, the culture, you know, probably knows it. A new adaptation by Phil Porter, which is at the Chichester Festival Theatre. And he's on tour in 2026. So please follow him on Instagram. But... If you are a completist of the podcast, you should have the PDF while you're listening. I appreciate some of you jog or drive while listening to this, so it might be tricky. But we will put a link to download the PDF on the page on the podcast.
I think we'll put it on yesterday pod, the Instagram page.
There will be a link to it there. But we're not going to do screen grabs. We're going to do, you have to download it properly. But Mars Bar, producer Mars Bar says, if you want a printed copy of the PDF, If you send a stamped address envelope to Keep It Light, P.O. Box 81668, London, N1P 3WW, Marsbar will send you a PDF. Hard copy.
Just thinking of Morris Barr, his little fingers writing addresses on the fronts of envelopes. It's just it's not the podcasting we know. It's the new podcasting that involves stamps, letterboxes and writing. Can I just quickly caveat that with first five only if I get 400 requests for a PDF?
First five only. Okay, first 5,000.
First 5,000. As he said, first 5,000 we'll get.
I think it's worth saying no guest has gone above and beyond as much as Tom did to document his entire day in a PDF. And here is me and David acting very much like it made me feel like we were the two lawyers in the O.J. Simpson trial. LAUGHTER May I refer you to slide one? The first time you said it, like slide five, I was like, this is ridiculous.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What question do the hosts ask their guests at the start?
0:02–6:23
2
How did Tom Rosenthal document his day for the podcast?
6:23–7:08
3
What unique elements does Tom's PDF include?
7:08–14:54
4
How does Tom feel about sharing personal details in his day?
14:54–22:13
5
What reflections does Tom have on the podcast experience?
22:13–23:01
6
What challenges does Tom face as a new parent?
23:01–27:18
7
How does Tom incorporate humor into his parenting experience?
27:18–30:41
8
What insights does Tom share about his career and creative process?
30:41–1:06:05