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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of the episode with David Baddiel?
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.
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Chapter 2: How does David Baddiel describe his day yesterday?
It's a better way of putting it.
His beautiful brain utterly undermines his attempt to have a nice, relaxing day. David Baddiel, you will know him from one or more of the many things that he does.
Mary Weiss Experience, Fantasy Football League, which was, I loved that TV show so much. They did with Frank Skinner. He's got a podcast out, a football, I'm not really into football podcasts, but...
It's a radio show. I think it's on Radio 4. And BBC Sounds. It's available as a podcast on BBC Sounds. It's called 60 Years of Hurt. And it looks at the English identity through the football team. We even get in an episode of that today while he's trapped in a confined space. That's all I'll say.
Listen to that podcast and any other football podcast you like. This is what David Baddiel did yesterday. David Baddiel, welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Hi, Max. How are you? Very good. And I was thinking about this. Fantasy Football League, if that hadn't have existed, then Soccer AM wouldn't exist.
And without Soccer AM existing, I wouldn't have had the working seasons where I wouldn't have met my wife, and I wouldn't have moved here, and I wouldn't have started this podcast with David O'Doherty. So with all that in mind, I suppose I'd like to know what time you woke up yesterday morning, David. Yeah.
Well, I've now become a kind of god in your life. It's a weird god because basically what I provided for you was your career, the country you moved to, and a podcast with David O'Doherty. If I was the god of your life, that seems an odd third one to go for. I will give this man his love, his job, and sitting around with David O'Doherty asking people what they did yesterday.
I'm not saying it's the greatest bit of my life right now, but I do really enjoy this little oasis in my chair.
Yes, David. If they failed to collect the green bin and it really stinks and loads of flies come into your house, is your first thought fucking David Baddiel? Yeah. If he hadn't done that show, I wouldn't have moved here and been in this, you know, it's never ending. Yeah. I never say thank God for that.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did David face while trying to enjoy his day off?
You know what I did yesterday? I put out the bins. I actually did do that yesterday. Clearly, I did it all wrong. Clearly, completely wrongly. The bin men this morning, they were cursing me. Let's start at the beginning, David. Okay, can I just tell you about what I did yesterday? So here's one thing that went wrong. I mean, a number of things went wrong. Here's some things I didn't do.
Check the time of this podcast. So I thought it was in about an hour, and I was going to go to my office. I have an office about 10 minutes away where I have a much better audio and podcast setup. which is why I don't have a microphone or any of that.
It's also really hot in the room that I am in my house, and that's also because all sorts of things are going on in my house, and so I had to go to this tiny room, so I'm sweating. And the other thing I was going to do in the hour that I thought I had is think about what I did yesterday. LAUGHTER
i would have something to say but that's all gone so we're just flying on this so while max says thank david baddiel for everything good in his life you're like fuck max rushton because you're now trapped in a little room just yelling into a laptop yeah i think i've given him enough in my life
Okay, how does it work? It works like this. Very strict with the brief. And we begin at the start of the day and we go through the entire day and we finish when you go to sleep. And the key here, David, is we're not really interested in what you normally do.
of a day we just want to know what happened yesterday we can draw our own conclusions your job is to just give us exactly what happened yesterday and I understand you haven't taken notes I wrote nothing down we hope your recall is strong enough and it's okay we're not Paxman we'll lead you through it gently It would be funny if you were.
It's like you decided to ask me 14 times, what did you have for breakfast? Richard Osmond wouldn't tell me what I had for dinner. I did do it about 10 times. So let's start at the beginning. What time did you wake up?
Okay, before we do that, can I just tell you one other thing? Yeah, of course. And I don't know if anyone else has raised this, but knowing I was doing this podcast... gave the day a strange meta quality whereby I couldn't quite enjoy the day because I was thinking, is this something I'm going to bring up tomorrow? Is it worthy of it?
This breakfast porridge, is that something I'm going to talk about? And as a result, I'm constantly questioning the value of what I'm doing while I'm doing it. Are you suggesting that this podcast, what it does to a guest is it ruins one day of their life?
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Chapter 4: What humorous incidents occurred during David's attempt to relax?
What time? So I sleep really badly, and I'm presently on a really weird cocktail of... I normally take just supplements to sleep, but the doctors have now given me a new sleeping pill, which is called Dari Dorexant. And I mention it because... Hang on. He played 200 times for Late in Orient. Exactly.
I mention it because... This is a bit of a name drop, but Michaela Cole is a friend of mine and also has problems sleeping. I told her about it, and she says, that's just a bloke, isn't it? Because she thought I'd said Gary Borexant. I said, no, it's a pill called Dari Dorex. And it does sound like a cockney bloke.
He comes over and gently hand jobs you to sleep every night.
Do you remember? Sorry, this is a bit of a sidebar. But in Bullseye, are you young enough, either of you, to remember Bullseye, the television darts program? Okay, so in Bullseye, and we actually did this on Newman and Baddiel in pieces, the show that I did after Mary Whitehouse experience. I always thought as an insomniac, that's one person I would like to help me to get to sleep is Tony.
Now, Tony was a bloke who used to stand by the dartboard and reassure men, mainly men. It was like, they should relax. It's all fine. Don't worry about it. And we actually got him to stand by my bedside in pieces. But he wasn't there last night or the night before last. So as a result, I woke up quite groggily
round about, well, my wife gets up early and she is a screenwriter and constantly working these days. Like, it was a bank holiday yesterday, which, by the way, is another issue. What did you do yesterday? It was a fucking bank holiday, so therefore I mainly did nothing.
as you're meant to on a bank holiday but anyway i got up and yeah it took me quite a long time to feel that i was compos mentis because i had all these sleeping pill stuff in my system but then had breakfast so let's should we start with that what time I reckon it was about by the time I actually came down with the sleeping pills and putting my head in water to try and wake up.
And also it was really hot. Oh, so I tell you what I did. I've forgotten something I did. I went outside to the balcony in my pants. So I have a balcony and it's got a lovely view outside the balcony and it's a nice day. So I thought I'll go outside, but I was in my pants. And then I noticed that the balcony next door was opening their windows and someone was going to step out.
And then I didn't know what the etiquette was. Right. Because it is my balcony. I think I'm allowed to be on it on my pants. But then if someone comes out and it's a woman and they look over, you know, is it a sex crime? That's what I'm saying, me being there in my pants.
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Chapter 5: How does David's relationship with his family influence his daily activities?
Exactly. That would be a problem, I think, because I haven't really spoken to these neighbors.
What we need the listeners to know is that this podcast, because this will live forever. And, you know, in the future, maybe when there's a Voyager type spacecraft goes out into the galaxy, this will be put on it as the one example of what humans could create. The listener does need to know that it was possibly the warmest day of the year so far.
So I feel going out in your pants is very weather dependent. As in, if it's a snowy day and you're standing there in your pants, it takes on a creepier... Unless I'm like Wim Hof.
he is quite creepy but unless i'm like that's a sort of medical okay whereby i love the cold but i don't so you're right it would be creepy and then also the other thing is the exact not that we'll ask you about it but the location of the balcony is important as in if it's saint peter's square in the vatican city you come out in your pants there's thousands of catholics filling the square you know what i mean and yes the pope that comes out on the one beside you while you're yeah
groggily standing there staring at them. That would be odd.
Wouldn't it be absolutely brilliant if the Pope came out in his pants one day on the barbecue? Sunday, how many millions of people are there? And he just thought, well, you know, what's wrong with this? I'm the Pope. I'm infallible.
Yeah, with a coffee in the Sunday mirror.
Yeah. I mean, an important question now, and I wasn't planning to ask this, but what are the pants, David? Well, yeah, they're not skimpy. That's, I think, one thing in my favour.
They're a big bellowy affair, are they?
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Chapter 6: What are David's thoughts on food and meals throughout the day?
Because basically once I've done one, I think, oh, no, there's still sleep. I've got to do another flannel. I'm quite flannel-heavy. How many flannels would you go through for your... Mainly one. Yesterday it was one. Sometimes it's two. Okay, thank you. I have done a thing, okay, of doing a cold flannel followed by a hot flannel. Oh, that's nice. Yeah.
Then I feel like, oh God, I'm right at the cutting edge of wellness there.
could do a great instagram reel this is the life hack cold flannel hot flannel exactly so we're now at breakfast enlighten us david i have a question here because of the the donnie darko that you took to get to sleep or whatever it was called dari dorickson does that now affect your appetite first thing in the morning
It doesn't. It affects my sort of just general grogginess. And one of the things I probably am thinking is I must have something to eat so that I can help myself snap out of it. As you may or may not know is that I am an enormous fan of unhealthy big English breakfasts.
yeah i do for a while when i was on tour i was endlessly posting the pictures of the full english breakfast that i was having and that as david will know from touring in britain that's partly to do with if you tour in britain that's what you get when you come down at the marriott it's there in various trays and you're a much better man than i if you can resist it basically
So every day I'm bloody having this incredibly unhealthy breakfast. And I thought I should chart it as a kind of chronicle of my physical decline. But then what happened was on the internet, the full English breakfast police started getting very angry and saying, the sausages are touching the eggs and the eggs are touching the beans. And oh my God, what sort of mushroom is that?
It became impossible. I mean, not because of that. It's mainly health, but also just generally I was warned off it. So even though that's the breakfast I want, that's the point. Every time I come down, I think I really want eggs and sausages and beans. I don't have it. That is one of the very rare things I've done in my life against my desires. I normally just do exactly what my body says.
You want this, just have it, David. But with full English breakfasts, I don't. I do sometimes, but yesterday... Also, you're exposing yourself to your neighbours.
You do control yourself with that. That's one of the other things that your body is telling you to do.
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Chapter 7: How does David Baddiel handle unexpected situations at home?
Hey, it's a bank holiday, right? You don't have to justify it, David. It's your life. You can live it as you want to live it. I'm going to say something else, which, again, both of you will probably know. It's that, like, for me, one of the key reasons for doing the... for being a comedian, for doing a job where I could be a writer and a comedian, was so that I could get up late.
That was sort of one of the key things because, A, I was an insomniac from when I was a kid, insomniac from when I was six. I gradually thought, how can I have a job where I don't have to get up? Yeah. And this is over a long period of time. It's not when I was six. How can I have a job where I don't have to get up really in the morning because I won't have slept properly at night?
And then I realized, okay, I'll do comedy, which is nuts at some level because then what happens is you go to bed later and later and later. Sleeping after a gig is really hard and whatever. But you can get up if you want at 1 p.m. Now, I don't do that anymore, but I did do that for a very long time. My body clock was probably completely set wrong.
It might have been set right for Australia, Max, if I lived in Britain. You see what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, of course. I still get up quite late is my point.
What I've managed to do is turn quite prime time radio shows into overnight shows by moving here. It's been really successful for taking shows that are on at really good times of the day and ruining them and ruining your social life. What time is your show on? Hawksby and Jacobs who you know very well. I do their Wednesday. I sit in for them on a Wednesday. So that's midnight till three sometimes.
It's ten till one now. It's lunchtime in London or it's afternoon in London. Why are you in Australia?
Great question. I married an Australian, David. And then she lived in London for 10 years. And then she was like, should we go there? And I got the job hosting the Champions League for Australian TV. Then I didn't get that contract renewed. So I had to start this podcast with David O'Doherty to pay for the shed. Oh, you've got a shed. You're not coming back with your shed. That's it.
You put wood down. Yeah, you're right. It's actually on a concrete slab. It's that permanent.
When you ask that question and he does that speech, it's the saddest origin story. You know, every other podcast has, we were always impassionate about food. So we wanted to ask people about their dream meals.
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Chapter 8: What reflections does David have about his career and personal life?
But this one involves the Champions League and a contract not being renewed. And now we're asking you about your fucking porridge.
And the shed. Don't forget, it also involves a shed. He has the shed, yes. So that's the glamorous part of it.
Right, it's 10 o'clock. You're fed. It's a bank holiday. Darius Kabuchi has worn off. Yeah. And you are now ready for the day.
Yeah. So I don't remember most of what happened now. I've thought about it. I think I basically just sat in the garden. I've got a nice garden and I went and sat at the bottom of it. I've got a hammock there. So perhaps I should talk about that. I can tell you another thing.
I don't want to make this whole thing about mortality and getting old, but one thing that is harder and harder to do as you get old is getting in and out of a hammock. Oh, my God. I mean, it's so difficult. I'm only here really by the skin of my teeth. Honestly, there was a point in time where I thought, well, should I just stay in that sleep in the hammock? It is after all the time from bed.
It was very difficult. So just to be clear, you've eaten the porridge.
Nothing has happened between that and you walk into the end of the garden to attempt your first attempt. It's like the high jump, your first attempt at the hammock entry. There's nothing else.
I might have answered a few emails, but I think we can gloss over that. I can't remember any interest whatsoever. It's a very hot day. It's the hottest day of the year. It is, in fact, the hottest day in May ever in Britain due to climate change. And I am dealing with that and the terrible apocalyptic anxiety it creates by going to sit in a hammock.
vaguely into a hammock but i would say it takes me almost as long to get in and out of the hammock as i'm in the hammock so david spends a lot of time and has really deconstructed getting into a bath on this podcast so i would like you to do the same you're facing the hammock talk us through how you enter the hammock what's your approach can i just say if we're going to talk about getting into a bath later in the day i don't want to cut forward too much
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