S6 EP1: Rob Rouse
episode
What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
1h 27m
2 speakers
8 chapters
transcribed 12 hours ago
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What did Rob Rouse actually 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?
Possibly, but not us. We're here to ask the only question that matters. We'll 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'Daherty. Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Welcome to what did you do yesterday? My name is Max Rushton, alongside me David O'Doherty and also Willie Rushton, because as you'll see, you may have seen No, that's the mic of the listeners.
Willie has taken over the uh direction of this intro.
So the thing is, you may notice from the duration of the podcast, that's the bit I need to talk into. It's quite a long one. And if the pod goes long, JP hands me a small chart.
Today's guest, I'll take over this, is uh Rob Rouse. Such a funny man. So he had a key role in my co-worker's
pandemic.
Pandemic radio. See, it doesn't really matter which of the rush duds I do this podcast with, it's a very similar vibe. Rob Rouse, yeah, I think he's so funny. Check out his website. He's on tour, funny bones from the twentieth of September, all over the country.
Willy the trouble is for the tape he doesn't for some reason he doesn't react to the word the name Willy and I don't know why. I'm taking you over here. Listen, I love Rob Rouse. Can I just say I love Rob Rouse so much. And I love this episode. But I can't add any more because I'm because I'm trying to feed granola to a eighteen month old. Eat this. Eat this and be quiet.
Rob Rouse, welcome to what did you do yesterday? Thank you very much for having me, gentlemen. It's a treat to be here. I'm ready to be interrogated.
It's worth saying, David, that during COVID, Rob Browse saved the radio show I do with Charlie Baker by bringing us live chicken racing from, I presume, the garden outside the house you're currently in, Rob. That is correct, yeah. That was a few years ago. And are all the chickens, especially Janet McFeathers, dead? It's a sombre foot to start on, isn't it?
And it didn't happen yesterday unless It didn't happen yesterday. So we're not opening up raw wounds. The grieving uh has been done. Uh and I can now look back at them as five of the the finest poultry athletes I think the world's ever known. Just to paint the picture for any of your listeners who might not be across the world of live chicken racing as it was on. There was a period, wasn't there, where um I'd started racing the chickens on social media at five PM or or whatever time it was they read up the COVID figures. I hadn't realized there was that clash at the time. Very early days. And I discovered our our chickens in the back garden would chase me round for the feed. And then kids were little and we invented this sport of chicken racing.
And then we just we just Record it and bang it out at the same time again. Didn't realise as the COVID stats were being read out. As Chris Whiskey was there going, fifty thousand. Yeah going. Yeah. Where's everyone gone? Next slide, please. Why is there a chicken on it? It gained a a degree of cult, cult following. And um there was these two young guys working on a on a hip radio station who who were just alive to stuff that was happening, weren't you? You were just looking We are a
Finger on the pulse, of course. We were looking for live sport of which there was none. You secured a contract with me, didn't you? You you got the rights until you sold it to the Saudis.
I believe there was a period where it was the only broadcast live sport happening in the UK.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What did Rob Rouse actually do yesterday?
0:06–11:27
2
How did the pandemic chicken‑racing story start and why does it matter?
11:27–22:48
3
What does a weasel in the garden reveal about the mouse infestation?
22:48–33:50
4
How did Rob fix his motorbike’s back wheel and what went wrong?
33:50–43:48
5
Why did the trip to Atkinson’s become a shopping adventure?
43:48–54:51
6
What’s the debate over football boots at Sports Direct?
54:51–1:05:26
7
Which books are Rob reading and why do one‑word titles matter?
1:05:26–1:15:25
8
What are the final reflections on the day’s chaos and creativity?
1:15:25–1:27:43