Chapter 1: What is the main question asked in this podcast?
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
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 What Did You Do Yesterday. My name is Max Rushton. Alongside me today, David O'Doherty. And today's guest, one of my oldest friends in comedy. Yeah.
It still makes me laugh every single time. I think because I'm ready to do a good intro and then you just... I ruin it.
Yeah. When you booked Paul Williams, I thought, oh, the former Coventry centre-back from the 90s. This is interesting. I wonder what he's up to these days. But I was mistaken.
Paul's an extraordinary... So people might know him as the Alex Horn on New Zealand Taskmaster, which among Taskmaster aficionados is one of the hipster ones. People might know him as... So he's a wonderful comedian, has done the Edinburgh Fringe, Melbourne Comedy Festival, all of these several times. But he also has a parallel career as an R&B artist, where he has released...
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Chapter 2: How has Paul Williams adjusted to fatherhood?
Joe Thomas, Tim Key. Rose Matafeo. Yeah, some pod alumni. And Joe Thomas, who was meant to do it, but he didn't turn up on the right day.
This is a lovely yesterday from... He's a man whose life has undergone large changes in recent times. The beautiful child is on the scene. And then you also see what I got from it is how much you lose your mind when you're making a TV show, particularly in the editing process. It's one of my all-time favorite What Did You Do Yesterday bits.
This is what Paul Williams did yesterday. Paul Williams, welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday?
Thank you so much for having me.
This is exciting, David, because now we're really into the low single figures of New Zealanders. So we can really now draw a picture of the whole of New Zealand, depending on how many cows Paul tries to tag during his yesterday.
How many New Zealanders have you had on here so far?
We've had Guy Montgomery, Rose Matifeo, Brett McKenzie, and I think Paul Williams. So I think that's enough.
Oh, wow. Okay, I'm actually happy with that.
And Richard Hadley, Dan Carter, Jacinta Ahern, Ardern, and five people who were in Shortland Street.
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Chapter 3: What unique experiences did Paul have while filming?
Okay.
Because I was running late to the set, but the street was very flat. So I didn't obviously put my handbrake down and the car had very slowly done this after I had left. And I was freaking out. And, you know, we did like probably 10 takes of different angles and I'm looking every time and I see the owner of the house has come out and is like looking at it.
And I'm freaking out and then when I was wrapped and free to go I quickly went up to see the damage and the car had stopped like about a foot short of hitting the house but the owner had left a note under the windscreen wiper and I pulled it out and it just said don't park here.
it's funny because they do say from an acting point of view it was your best work so now you can only act with intense jeopardy of a slow moving car moving towards a suburban house I wish that was the case.
My performance was shocking. Like, cause my main word was Pete, like asking the word Pete, but I was putting way too much of a T on the end. Like it's like Pete, Pete. Yeah.
It's horrific. Which makes it sound more like you need soil. Yeah. From the garden. Yeah. Yeah. And it's trickier when you're finally in the Avengers. I just don't think you're going to be able to see your car where it's parked on set. I just think those, if you put, I demand that I have to park my Datsun Cherry within view of Tony Stark's laboratory, it's going to be tricky, isn't it?
Anyway, none of this, Paul, I'm afraid, is relevant and will not make the edit.
well no that scene was filmed yesterday no good stuff you've worked out the workaround to all old anecdotes yeah so what time did you wake up yesterday please paul i have a question the day starts when i wake up or does the day start at midnight very unconventional when you wake up it's when you wake up well we've lost a lot of the day i'm afraid I technically woke up. Actually, I woke up twice.
Bit of backstory. I have a newborn baby. Congratulations. And commiserations. Thank you. And so I woke up technically, I went to bed extremely late. And that's why I was going to ask because anyway, I woke up at seven something and I changed his diaper. And it was a bad change. He, without getting into too many details, there was chaos, but I changed it. And then I took him back into the bedroom.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of Gonk in Paul's life?
Let's just say that.
Yeah. Okay, love it. So it's important, David, that we check at some point during the day if Paul has washed his hands, because otherwise it's a troublesome day if he's got to be holding that.
If we're going into that detail, I'll say immediately I washed my hands. Okay, good stuff. Extremely thoroughly.
It'd be a terrible day if Paul, because he is so celebrated and loved in New Zealand, was doing one of those ceremonies where... He had to go to Cuba Street in Wellington and press his shitty hand into the cement for all time.
Or if he'd become a member of the royal family and there was one of those walk-alongs where he had to meet the Royal Variety Show and he had to shake the hand of every single light entertainment performer from the 90s through to the present day.
Luckily, at 7.15 a.m. on Monday morning, I was not doing that. Oh, good. I took him back into the bedroom. I kind of was like, put him back to bed, but he was very clearly hungry. He was doing the mouth touching. So I actually did wake my wife, Simone, and I told her... He's hungry. And so she fed him and I fell back to sleep.
Did you get a Domino's? Did you get a, just some sort of pizza, something like that? Like you go on Deliveroo and see if any of the late night places are still going. So you end up getting bang, bang noodle. Game of Pad Thai.
Game of Pad Thai.
Oh, for the baby. I see. I was, I was very confused. No, he's currently, he's a big milk guy currently. Yeah. He loves, he loves the milk and he's not, I've tried, you know, floating other stuff to him, but he's not really interested. So milk was what we gave him and I fell straight back to sleep.
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Chapter 5: How does Paul describe his day yesterday?
So that's kind of our system. It didn't feel like Nirvana because it's just kind of what we've been doing every day. Yeah. But I am sorry. I am sorry. No, no, no, don't apologize.
It wasn't supposed to be a breath. No, no, no. Like just whatever works. There's your baby. He's benching. He's already like just doing his squat thrust.
He's had his third hair transplant already. And do you wake up with the thud of a shitty nappy hitting the top of your head and a lady shouting, get up?
No, not at all. She's been very generous with letting me sleep in the morning. And I woke up just sort of naturally, I think, or I can't actually remember. I either woke up naturally or Simone gave me a hatch. This is not sponsored, but it's a alarm clock that plays sounds like most alarm clocks do. But it also does slow sunrise light and you can choose the color. Nice.
And I have it set to a sort of nice natural sort of sunrise color. And then it plays this. street singers in Paris singing this sort of song. And that's my wake up.
Wow.
But I can't remember if it was that or if I just woke up, but it was one of the two.
Presumably it's Jola Taxi, Vanessa Paradis. That can be the only song.
I do not know the song and I have not managed to figure out what the song is. The loop is quite short though. So it does only play it for about 20 seconds and then it sort of starts up again.
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Chapter 6: What challenges did Paul face during his day?
Because it's sort of lunchtime. I don't know, even if you haven't had like 15 hours sleep, it doesn't feel like the crack of dawn. You know, once you're there, you're like, okay, it's sort of a discombobulating time to wake.
It is, yeah. What did I do? At this point as well, I should point out, I wasn't aware I was doing the podcast today. When David messaged me, he actually said, I think he said next Tuesday. And in my mind, I'm always confused over whether that's like the next Tuesday or it's not the coming Tuesday, but the next Tuesday. And in my head, I decided it was the next one.
But then very quickly at 12 something, I think I did message David to say, is this tomorrow or next Tuesday?
and then you hired a Formula One car and just began having this on a speedboat.
I went straight to Las Vegas.
With The Rock.
With The Rock. My good friend The Rock. Okay, what did I do first? I mean, the first thing is always sort of to go and see the baby's fine. So I kind of located the baby. And I should point out, you haven't even asked location. We stayed the night at my mom's house. And so I go out. I find my baby is being held by my mom. Yeah. And Simone is nearby talking to her. She's sitting...
on the computer. She tells me that she managed to fix my mum's printer, which I'd been trying to do the night before.
Oh, wow. Was it a paper jam? It was not.
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Chapter 7: What are the details about Paul's upcoming show?
I've tried to convince my mom to ask for sort of things. At the moment, she's signing a lot of documents and they always offer her to do e-signatures, but she's always like, no, no, no. We will be printing all of these, signing them by hand, scanning them back on. I'm like, I need to show you how to do like an e-sign or.
Yeah. The thing about DocuSign, I mean, obviously give me any form to sign. I'm not reading it, whatever the hell it is. Yeah. DocuSign especially, I am like clicking through that as quickly as I humanly possibly can. I have no idea who owns this house or who's getting all the money that I might earn. I want to sign it very quickly.
I think printing, I've found it a very valuable resource of getting to know your neighbours. So in London for about a decade, I lived next door to the celebrated photographer Martin Parr. Have I told this story, David? Yes, you've told all your stories. May he rest in peace, passed away recently. I have to tell them all my stories. But I just used his printing.
He had great, because they used to print, had massive printers. Yeah. He wasn't in a lot, but like in his office. And then now I get Frank and Janet over the road to do the printing.
So I, as you know, I am an amateur detective.
Mm-hmm.
And Paul's getting his mom to sign stuff that says to me he may be trying to knock her off today at some point. You know what I mean? He's redone the will, that sort of a thing. So we'll try and keep an eye on that over the course of the day.
I, I'm not going to deny it, but in reality, my dad passed away very suddenly and extremely tragic.
Oh yeah. I'm so sorry.
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Chapter 8: How does Paul feel about the reception of his work?
Knock her off.
No, my mom's, it's actually like an apartment. So there's no garden, but then I suggest, what do we do? I think I might have the first shower. I have a shower and then Simone has a shower.
And then your mom has a shower.
She has woken up probably at the crack of dawn. She's already gone for a swim in the ocean and then had a shower. Yeah. So she's, um, My brother always uses the word tenacious with my mom. She's extremely tenacious. And by the way, it's starting to get chilly in New Zealand. So the fact she's still swimming in the ocean is like impressive.
Very New Zealand. She probably like ran up a mountain and gathered like a basket of apples as well. Just real proper New Zealand stuff.
No, she's been out and she's hunted for her breakfast.
Yeah.
She's killed a boar, a wild boar. She killed Crackle from Snap, Crackle and Pop. She's now slow roasting a minute of it.
So then I sit down, I get on my laptop and I watch the highlights of, well, David in a message reminded me Arsenal played Manchester City. It's a big game. It's a big game. And I say, don't spoil. I need to. So I watched just the extended highlights of that. See that result. And then Simone's finished her shower. I suggest we go for a walk. Interruption.
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