S3 EP9: John Robins
episode
What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
1h 42m
5 speakers
8 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? Hello and welcome to today's episode of What Did You Do Yesterday? I'm Max Rushton. Alongside me, as always, the mighty, the pioneer of comedy, the man who invented it, David O'Doherty.
It's me, the inventor of comedy. Well done for doing that. Yeah, no problem. It's about giving something back. And boy, what a guest we have today, Max.
Yeah, John Robbins, obviously known from Edison John, his podcast, How Do You Cope? I would say this is the... episode that we have done. I mean, the bar is not, it's low for that, let's face it. And you think about it.
Like there is a spectrum of John Robbins and it runs from the hilarious clips you may have seen from the Alison John BBC radio show and podcast, then to the incredible intensity of how do you cope his own podcast where the guests are. In fact, we get into that today. Hmm. And I feel we do get that spectrum here. We brought the spectrum out of him, I think, Max. I think so.
I think we probably, I wouldn't give us too much credit in bringing out, just this is his day, right? He lived his day and we lived it with him. And I think it's probably why he is so loved, right? Isn't it? Because of that, when we talk about sort of what honesty is, right? We do get the meaning of life in this podcast, which I guess we don't normally, we normally just get to how many times you go to the toilet, but we do get to the meaning of life. And I think it was really interesting for us as well to be sort of taken on that journey when normally we sit on this and just go, oh, so do you like chicken?
Yeah, there's an authenticity to John Robbins that I feel it's something that he's really thought about in the last few years. Look, you'll get all of this. I think it's a great episode.
Yeah, this is what John Robbins did yesterday. And look, he touches on addiction in this episode. And obviously, some of you have been affected by that. So it's worth us letting you know that. And we'll put some helpline numbers and information stuff on the show notes in the description of the pod page.
How does John Robbins describe his daily routine?
But here's what John did yesterday. John Robbins, welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Hello, everyone. A star, David, of a previous episode, of course, because John starred in the Alex Horne episode where you met a man on a golf course who only ate bison or something like that.
Yes. Well, we went to play at my golf club and... A guy who I played sort of like competitions with was there. And he said he'd only eaten meat and eggs for two months and had lost a lot of weight. And I think, you know, suffered enormous changes to his digestion.
Have you seen him since? Because, I mean, it'd be great to get... I know this is your day, but I'd love an update on the meat and eggs man. Is this why you're here?
No, I've not seen him since, but he does... I think he works in the... water company spends a lot of time down the sewers. So I think in a sense, he's able to cut out the middleman in terms of any sort of extreme dietary effects on his digestion.
Ironically, my main memory of it, and this was said by Alex Horne in that episode, he's down to 12 shits a year. He shits monthly.
Yeah, which I don't... I mean, I've spent a lot of time Googling this over the years.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–3:03
2
How does John Robbins describe his daily routine?
3:03–6:49
3
What insights does John share about his experiences with addiction?
6:49–10:12
4
How does John Robbins balance humor and seriousness in his work?
10:12–12:47
5
What role do online meetings play in John's life?
12:47–16:44
6
How does John Robbins cope with anxiety and stress?
16:44–19:50
7
What reflections does John have on his past relationships?
19:50–23:21
8
What are John's thoughts on authenticity in storytelling?
23:21–1:42:37