S3 EP2: Tom Basden
episode
What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
1h 25m
3 speakers
8 chapters
transcribed 3 months ago
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What is the unique premise of the podcast 'What Did You Do Yesterday?'
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 Series 3, episode not sure of what did you do yesterday. David O'Doherty's there. Hey, David. There it is. There's the intro. It's great to be back. It's great to be back. There is an issue, David, that we recorded maybe two or three episodes of this podcast before we realized we'd ended Series 2. So they'll be in Series 3, but we won't have made a fanfare about it being Series 3. But we're now very much, we're really like knee deep in Series 3 now.
I don't think the listeners are as caught up in the mechanics of what number it is as you in particular.
I'm only interested in the listeners who are interested in the mechanics of series two to series three. I did like two people did say, Oh no, come back soon. And then two people said, Oh, We'll see you on Wednesday.
No one else gave a shit. This week, we've got a lovely episode. Good episode, yeah. For the tape, as you always say, we have just recorded, even though no tape is involved at any cost. For the tape, it has just finished, yeah. We're speaking to Tom Basden, who is the writer and star of the same film that Tim Key from recent times is in, The Ballad of Wallace Island. Tom is one of my old friends from stand-up comedy who, it turns out, can do loads of other stuff. He has an amazing acting career. Yeah, where he's been in, well, Peep Show, but stuff like Romance and Afterlife. But I think it's as a writer, he's probably been earning his crust now for the last 20 years. He made Plebs, that was his show, Fresh Meat.
Did he write ghosts or was he just in ghosts? He's incredible. And he's written, yes, this beautiful film, The Ballad of Wallace Island.
he did plebs of course with um my friend sam and tom rosenthal did tom write that as well but you know fame famously the pdf the pdf what did you do yesterday if you're new to the podcast you should go back and find tom's episode uh because it's quite extraordinary the pdf episode
Tom, I think, will also forever hold the unbreakable record of he got up earliest of any guest we've ever had by getting up at midnight.
Yes, that's true. And also, he holds the record for eating the most pineapple in someone else's podcast. Um... Anyway, this is Tom's. And yeah, it's a really great episode.
You just said Tom, meaning Tom Rosenthal.
Now I'm back to Tom Basden.
We're back to Tom Basden again.
It's like you care about the mechanics of the podcast, something you famously said you didn't care about two minutes ago. So yeah, look, we did talk about The Ballad of Wallace Island with the Tim Key episode. The film is still brilliant. Next week when we have Kerry Mulligan on, we will still talk about The Ballad of Wallace Island because it is a brilliant movie. This is what Tom Basden did yesterday.
Tom Basden, welcome. Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday?
Thank you for having me. I know, Max, you booked Tom as you book most of the guests. But Tom is in my phone and I have been communicating with him recently. And for some reason, his name on my phone is Fucky McBasden. And I think you must have put it in there, though. Well, of course I didn't. Well, like, it strikes me you might be trying to get across more of a bad boy vibe.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the unique premise of the podcast 'What Did You Do Yesterday?'
0:02–7:58
2
What notable achievements does Tom Basden have in his career?
7:58–14:45
3
What unusual record does Tom Basden hold among podcast guests?
14:45–22:28
4
How does Tom Basden describe his morning routine?
22:28–28:45
5
What challenges does Tom face with his children's routines?
28:45–30:47
6
How does Tom navigate parenting decisions with his kids?
30:47–31:13
7
What are Tom's thoughts on promoting his new film?
31:13–31:46
8
What humorous incidents occurred during Tom's day?
31:46–1:25:38