S3 EP23: Andy Zaltzman
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What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
58 min
3 speakers
4 chapters
transcribed 3 months ago
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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? What Did You Do Yesterday? Hello, and welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? I'm Max Rushton, and David O'Doherty is here too.
Hello, and welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Today's guest, alphabetically, is the final... I mean, I guess he does... His name covers the entire alphabet. It's Andy Zaltzman. That's not why we booked him. It wasn't just for alphabetical reasons.
We're desperately trying to get a cue. I haven't booked Nigel Kwasi yet.
Or Quentin from your football team. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Andy is one of my oldest friends in comedy. You may know him in the cricket gear from the last series of Taskmaster. He is celebrating at the moment the 18th anniversary year of the Bugle Club. the satirical, beautiful podcast that he and John Oliver started. And now I do it sometimes, Nish does it sometimes. You may also know him from Test Match Special. Max, describe to the people what Test Match Special is.
I mean, it is heritage sports broadcasting. Yeah, it is. It transcends cricket, is what it is. It is the BBC's cricket coverage, you know, their ball-by-ball test match coverage. And it has an amazing history of amazing broadcasters talking about the cricket, but also talking about buses and cakes. And he is, as you will establish pretty early in this episode, he is the uber nerd that they turn to for nerdy stats. And you will discern from this episode that he is not faking this. He is not bluffing. When he's doing this, I think we established that.
They've got the right guy. Yeah, Andy is never going to appear on Love Island. And you were like, wow, this is different to what I thought his personality was.
He's going on tour. He's doing some shows in Australia while The Ashes is on, which starts, well, this is out. when i think it's out i think that it started two days ago so hopefully england are doing okay wow listeners i've never seen max do that face before his eyes were squinted just performing a high level mathematical yeah that was some thinking it's my thinking phase but if you go to andy zaltzman two zeds as in z-a-l-t-z-n-a-n.co.uk he really wanted to be the end of the alphabet so he put zed zed He's doing a few gigs in Australia while he's over here. And then he's got a UK tour coming up next year. This is what Andy Zaltzman did yesterday.
Andy Oltzman, welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday. Thanks for having me. Partly. There's a part of me, because I presume you're going to come to Australia for the Ashes. Yes. So I was hoping this might be a I was on a plane for 24 hours episode, but I don't know yet.
No, it's not. I'm flying out in five days' time, arriving the day before the cricket begins. Oh, good. Well planned. Because I have a recording annoyingly scheduled for two days before the cricket begins in London. So I'll be working on the stats, aided by significant jet lag. But yes, I will be heading south shortly.
To our listeners who have no interest in cricket, for example, me.
He does this a lot. He explains things that everyone knows about.
When he said, are you coming out for the ashes? It's not a funeral scattering that they are both attending. It's the stupid name for a stupid cricket tournament.
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