What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
WDWDY #13: A Sad Cardboard Kazoo
26 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: 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? Hi, everybody. It's Midweek Mayhem. David O'Doherty is here. Hi, David.
David O'Doherty here, co-host of the What Did You Do Yesterday podcast.
Yeah. I'm pleased you are, by the way.
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Chapter 2: What did David do yesterday?
No, you ain't no clown. An easy chair, it requires a different thought process. I'm just getting us into the news. You're the one asking the interesting stuff. In many ways, there's more pressure on you than there is on me. What's great is there's no egos in the dressing room. That's what I like, David.
Yes, it's like the recording of We Are The World with Quincy Jones from that documentary that I watched recently. But like, for example, the listeners, you know, people want to know the nuts and bolts. Max has probably looked at the feedback of the last week, whereas I haven't. So I will react to it in real time. So there's our different roles.
Yeah. That is peering behind the curtain. Welcome now to the Inner Sanctum. Speaking of feedback, people like Joe Wilkinson, Noah, the way I was listening to this at 2am, but I was so tired, but so excited. So I was fighting for my life to stay awake. But now I don't remember any of it. Time to re-listen.
I do love the idea that someone is that tired, but they can't tear themselves away to find out how good a robot Hoover actually is. Just one more minute. The slow cooker's on. Hang on. I've got work in the morning, but I just can't.
Yeah, I can relate. I mean, I think I've done it with something like an American presidential election when you're really trying to stay awake to find out. Exactly. Just call Pennsylvania.
I'm dying here. Well, it's like that with Joe's Roomba. Craig says he doesn't know how to make a sandwich.
Agreed. I felt like such a boring, plain Jane. Me saying I would have just liked the bagel on its own or maybe with a bit of cheese in it. But when he went Marmite and pickle.
and cheese like what is that that's four different sandwiches at the same time it's so much vinegar like everything is in pickled in brine yeah his fridge is actually in a jar isn't it with like little bits of dill just around the bottom of the fridge that's what it is and actually i did think joe made a good point that we've spent so much time on this podcast discussing how you get in a bath and he was just like well how else are you getting in a bath and he's already
You do just lower yourself into the bath. So in many ways, maybe we made the most of that piece of information. But, you know, some good content.
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Chapter 3: What are the highlights of David's day in Bristol?
Smoked applewood cheddar. Compta. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Wow. It's a two cheese board now. It's a two cheese board. Let's find out. Jarlsberg. Okay. So it is a two cheese board. We know Cashel Blue, Manchego, Compta. They're just normal cheeses, guys. But this is very exciting.
I want to do the clue, but you won't let me do the clue. Can I say the clue and then producer Mars Bar can redact it if needs be. Yeah, OK. The mistake. These are just normal cheeses. Great. Thanks for that clue.
Chapter 4: What cultural references are made during the episode?
Got it. We'll see if he takes that out.
Let's do yesterday, David. Tell me all about it.
It's St. Patrick's Day yesterday, the patron saint of the nation. It's actually St. Sheila's Day today. She's the patron saint of Australia, isn't she? Of Australian women, yes. Look, I need to state, St. Patrick's Day, I've never felt a great affinity with it. As in, I'm Irish enough and I live in Ireland and that's enough Ireland as far as I'm concerned.
Can I read out a WhatsApp group that Steve put into my football team's WhatsApp group? He's an Irishman, so he wanted to send a message. On Sunday at quarter to one in the afternoon, he said, Paddy's Day drinks at the Limerick Castle in North Melbourne tomorrow. Happy hour, five till seven, $10 pints of Guinness, $6 shots of Jameson. I'm not working, so we'll be on the right side of the bar.
He sent this to a group of middle-aged men with children. Who is going for shots of Jameson at 5pm on a Monday afternoon?
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Chapter 5: What interesting facts about pineapples are shared?
I admire his optimism. Even a thumb? Anything like that?
Any sort of placeholder responses? The stony silence to that message was very funny. Oh, no. Even an Irish flag. You could have responded with just an uncommitted Irish flag. There was no take-up. But, Max, St. Patrick's Day is for Steve. Steve misses Ireland. He's away. I... live here all the time. I'm quite literally swimming in it. Every day is St. Patrick's Day.
Although not yesterday, because this is an exciting yesterday. This was a day of activity.
Chapter 6: How does the discussion shift to listener correspondence?
I spent St. Patrick's Day with the helicopter in the city of Bristol. Here we go. Woke up at about eight o'clock. Still woke up a little bit early. Eaten too much the night before. We don't care about that. So woke up with just a slightly indigestive naan bread rising inside me feeling. Did you go to the curry house that Mrs. Rushton recommended? I can't go into it. That was the day before.
I understand. Sorry. Sorry. Well done. Well spotted. I was just testing you. So the tour had finished the night before and we decided to stick on in Bristol and see what the place has to offer. Yeah, nice town. Really good stuff. And that's why I'm excited to deliver this day. So that's hanging over this day. You and the helicopter have woke up with similarly leathery behinds.
We'd hired very comfortable bikes and I had adjusted my saddle. A lot of this is about saddle adjustment and I had put it in the perfect place. So I woke up with my undercarriage feeling like a little baby's undercarriage. You understand what I mean? I do, yeah. Very routinely covered in a light brown poo, as I would say. Yeah.
So I have not had a single hotel breakfast on this entire tour, which, you know, because a lot of the chat beforehand when we had Ed Gamble on, for example, it was like, what do you get? Where I get a hotel breakfast, I have to have the six courses of it, which kind of stodgifies you up for the day then.
Yeah. It's got me thinking doing this podcast that we're the only two middle-aged men who aren't
on like a wild fitness show we're gonna die in a week the only two people just not eating hemp seeds solidly from eight till midday and then fasting for the rest of the day the helen copter is the sort of person who will have a notes app that she has been putting interesting things to do in bristol into it for the last few weeks I think it's why the thing works.
Right. So she's in the hard chair, and you're once again in the easy chair, just asking tangential questions occasionally. You occasionally go, interruption. Should we go over there? And she looks at her notes and goes, no. And you go, okay, sustained.
So the helicopter has decided we should go and look at Clifton Suspension Bridge. Ah! Hang on. Have you had breakfast? No, we elect not to have breakfast because we're still full of an Indian meal from the night before. Thank you.
Okay.
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Chapter 7: How do they play the cheese game?
I mean, he must be noticing. I've also made the point of leaving my jacket on such that it is annoyingly hanging down into his area here. And you're wearing one of those Sergeant Pepper's tasseled ones, aren't you? So... Then just as the plane is about to take off, there's a moment where we're just sitting there. We've enjoyed the safety briefing.
Helen Copter reaches forward from two rows behind. I think she might have had to call out. Actually, she's not like Mr. Tickle from the Mr. Ben where she can just reach forward several rows. She says, spare a seat beside me. So I grab my gear. Oh, wow. Wow. I don't want him to think that he's won. Of course. Because this is probably his dream was for me to go away. So. Okay.
I say something like love calls. Please say you said that. Then just go back, sit with the helicopter. We have failed to download any puzzles or crosswords. How long is a flight? It's what, an hour? Yeah. We have a drawing contest instead. Ah, okay. Mine is the first choice. which is horses. We both draw horses and then review each other's horses.
She's drawn not a bad horse, but it's in profile and her far legs, she makes them too small. So it's like the horse is maybe 30 feet wide, which is a terrifying animal. Like it's a horse, the width of a Land Rover. Yeah. The flaw of my drawings is I give everyone the same eyes. So I give this horse kind of gormless eyes. So then I give it sticky teeth then as well.
We put the pictures on the show notes.
Sure. Wide horse. And then I did weird horse. Then we both drew bananas. That was her call. It's a good game, this. Yeah. And then we did portraits of each other. Hers was sort of photorealistic, her one of me, which is probably a safer way to go. Yeah. Because once you venture into the realm. Once you go full Picasso.
Of cartoon, then it does seem like you're an actual cartoonist and you're emphasizing. So I gave her sort of Garfield droopy eyes just because I draw a great Garfield. Yeah. And she wasn't happy with that. She was wearing a light leopard print scarf that I tried to draw. And then she asked me if I'd given her a hairy chest. Does she have a hairy chest? Yeah, she really does.
Yeah. She's got a full life. Richard Keyes, isn't she? During the ambiguous years before me and Mrs. Rushton actually got together, we drove across Italy and we went to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, I think, isn't it? The Birth of Venus, Botticelli's Birth of Venus is there, I believe. Great. So we bought sketch pads there. And sat there and drew the birth of Venus.
And what's funny is if you see someone in a gallery with a sketch pad drawing something, you think, oh, well, they're an art student. Jamie's actually really brilliant at art. Quite a lot of her pictures are up in the house. I believe I have creative talents. I don't think they're best placed with art. It's really funny.
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