What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
WDWDY #28: The Poet Laureate
09 Jul 2025
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Chapter 1: What did Max do yesterday that inspired 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.
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Chapter 2: How does feedback shape the content of the podcast?
And between you, me, and Tom Basden, we should be slightly ashamed regarding the maths involved in Brian Adams' alleged summer of 69.
oh no you're gonna have to tell bastard trish hi guys i'm sure you've got many emails about this but brian adams summer of 69 refers to the sexual position not the year yeah brian adams confirmed on the early show in 2008 listening from juneau alaska while i run often laughing out loud as i trot through my neighborhood i'm sure now the neighbors refer to me as the crazy running woman i've become a sad cautionary tale for their children the jingle for their just normal countries is
terrifying it sounds like a recording that someone's claimed to have made by contacting the dead so the before we chat about it uh yes this one is d-a-i-t-i who's that dahi it's david in irish david oh Okay. Hi, Miles Barr and lads. I always thought Summer of 69 started with the lyrics, I got my first real sex dream in the summer of 69.
I always found the lyrics to be a bit full on, but then thought it's Brian Adams, he can get away with it. It wasn't until many years later I was corrected by my girlfriend. She said, why didn't you just sing and call me a pervert? The relationship ended two months later. I'm not saying they're connected, but I've always disliked Adams since. So the 69, it's pretty lame then.
It's lame, isn't it? It's like the summer of boob touching or something, you know? But also like a whole summer of it?
I don't believe. No one's done that. You might be a rock star, Brian, but come on. Some days you're like, I'm just a bit tired. Can't we just watch Cheers? No, it's the summer of this.
You said. Oh, God. It could have been the summer of 96 then as well. Yeah. Or it could have just been the summer of 11 where they just lay beside each other just talking.
It's the summer of 66 just spooning. What's that one? 77.
That's 77.
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Chapter 3: What humorous anecdotes are shared about parenting?
Love the pod. Everything is show business from Matt. You know, I take that. You know, O'Leary's a talented guy. Okay, I'll put this out there. I'm happy with 50% less handsome than Dermot.
Yeah.
But I think I match Dermot on personality.
Wow.
Imagine if O'Leary and who's 50% more handsome and charismatic than me, Chris O'Dowd. Imagine if O'Leary and O'Dowd start doing one. Oh. Then we'll be in a lot of trouble.
Although, you know, O'Dowd, a listener to Football Weekly, I could text him, get him on. And, you know, I could try Dermot O'Leary. I think I DM'd him once in about 2014. So, you know, possible. Now, on our unpaid Lululemon sponsorship odyssey, Lorna says, Dear David and Max, I saw these discarded men's Lululemon pants while on a hike in Werribee Gorge and have thought and thought of you.
It's a blue pair, it's a navy pair of Lululemons out in the wild, in the wilderness. It was not a toddler or newborn-friendly trail, otherwise I would have wondered if Max had had some sort of mishap. Although I expect not, as that would have been a very on-brand anecdote, which surely would have been top of the list for discussion for the pod.
Anyway, as an Irish person living in Melbourne, I particularly enjoy the combination of David and Max's yesterdays for Melburnian and Irish references. Having previously lived in Edinburgh for years, I'm really looking forward to David's August yesterdays to complete the trifecta. From Lorna, thank you for the picture of the discarded pants. I hope nobody saw you while you were taking that photo.
The question is whether they're L, the classic Russian size, or XL, the O'Doherty size.
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Chapter 4: How do the hosts engage with listener correspondence?
He's shouting in this picture, you know?
No, no. He's standing there looking just like, what are you doing, Fiona? I think that's sort of the general vibe.
well here's my question to you when you look at your wardrobe what is the oldest piece would you say you have that's still in circulation i have a jacket from school whoa do you still wear i keep it now as a historical piece more than anything but the collar is fully worn away it's the original chino jacket but yeah it's quite nice i would have worn it still the odd time until recently
I mean, it's a good question. I've probably got some old t-shirt lying about from 10 years ago that I just haven't quite shifted yet. Not one for clothes posterity, I would suggest.
You don't have a Shed 7 t-shirt that you got at a gig in 1996 or anything.
I don't think I've been to a gig since.
Oh, no, not this again. Me chasing a goose around.
I'll tell you one funny gig. Once England got Kasabian to unveil their England kit ahead of a tournament in France. In Paris... And so I went with them on the Eurostar and was at the gig. Still not quite sure why. I played table tennis with them and then I went home. It was a very early social media days.
Don't think I posted about it, but they thought it'd be good to have Max just coming on the Eurostar with Kasabian. Don't know if I traveled with them, but definitely played table tennis with them. And then they went and did the gig and I sat in the theater.
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Chapter 5: What insights are shared about the challenges of parenting?
So Max reacts to this by leaving. You left a five-star.
No, I mentioned it on the podcast. I named the cafe. And then somebody gave them a one-star review. I felt bad. So then I went and gave them a five-star review. And then I told the guy to take down his one-star review. So now all they've got is a five-star review. and no one-star review.
And so they've got a better rating than all the cafes I really like, but I would never review because who the fuck does Google reviews? I haven't got time to do that. But it turns out the one cafe I've been to recently where actually I had terrible service has got a five-star review from me. It's a disaster.
On the Suze Kempner episode, Sean says, another classic example of Max assuming he could jump into any career in showbiz. Suze suggested David could do a musical and Max is immediately in there with, we could do Joseph. I love the self-belief, he says. Mark says, here's some praise for you. And it was a very good line, maybe the line of the series. What is a horse if not an acoustic motorbike?
Chef's kiss, says Mark. Yeah, I really like that. But, you know, can't just give praise without, it's not a shit sandwich. It's just, it's an amazing five-star review on iTunes, which will make you feel 10 feet tall. Oh, wow. Which leads with, glad I stuck with it.
Yeah.
Been listening since the beginning. I'm glad they got out of the habit of only asking women what they were wearing initially. I'm not an uber feminist guy, but this was a bit weird, lads.
What? I don't remember. Was this an era? Is there an era of this podcast we just don't talk about anymore?
It was a different time. Do you not remember when Fatima Whitbread came on? You know, when we did it in the 80s and we were like, oh, who's on? Linda Lusardi. Do you not remember? Do you not remember those? Vicky Michelle. Do you not remember those years? Anyway, it goes on to say, you'll like this bit, not a fan at all of David's type of stand-up.
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Chapter 6: What funny moments arise during the swimming trip?
He sounds like this person on more tales of jazz promotion in the 90s.
How have we got five stars out of this? He's called us sinister perverts. Then he says he's absolutely no interest in your work specifically or comedy as it is. He does say I'm a fan of Max's sense of humor and I enjoyed the glory days. So there we go. That's Benfo. I'm with you, Ben. Thanks.
Not sinister perverts anymore.
That would be a good heading to that one. Heidi says, I don't know why, but I love this podcast. I genuinely do not know why, but this has quickly become one of my favorite podcasts. I think I even enjoy the midweek mayhem episodes more than the regular ones, which makes even less sense. But we only get four stars because Heidi says it would be five stars.
However, I've had to knock a star off as I now think I fancy Max and I really don't know what this says about me.
So any review we ever get for now on that isn't five stars, I'm putting down to you. Imagine how she feels about Dermot O'Leary, to be honest. Oh, God, imagine.
She can't listen or watch any of his stuff. Constantly giving one stars because he's so handsome. She says, I tried recommending it to a guy I'm seeing, but he wasn't convinced. He does enjoy my excitement about it, though. So somewhat of an endorsement. Everything is showbiz in it for life.
That's almost the definitive statement. Review is just, I don't know why I like it. I played it to someone else who was like, what the hell is this? But it just keeps coming up on my phone and I keep listening. So I guess I like it now.
Somebody called Dylan Tibbs, who was in the year above me at school and has kept the school magazine from 1987, 88, sent me a poem that I had written about dinosaurs. Would you like to hear it? I was in class 2A.
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Chapter 7: How does the conversation shift to food and cooking?
Here's a Max Rushton, an original from 1987, 88. So hang on, what age is... 2A, I would have been 7. 7 or 8.
So let's just give a bit of cultural background to it. 87, Thatcher's second term.
She's still there. Pat Cash is about to win Wimbledon. Stephen Roach is about to win the Tour de France. Coventry City are winning the FA Cup. I cried that day. Is that all of culture? Our references are so shit. Mousetrap is on. There you go. There's a reference. Here we go. I don't have a title. It's just untitled. As all my poetry is. As fans of my work will know.
In the sea, the sauropods lay. Down in the swamp. Whoa! Stop! You wouldn't laugh that quickly for a Tim Key, would you? You'd let it breathe. Sauropods! The sauropods!
What's wrong with you? This is very insulting. Sauropods are a prehistoric sea-living dinosaur. I'm sorry.
You know better than me. As you know, I don't know anything about sauropods. Let's have a look. One of the most recognized group of dinosaurs. Oh, no, the sauropods are sort of your... Your Diplodocus, your Brontosaurus.
But you've put them in the sea in the first line. Sorry, I'll let the rest of it go now.
There wasn't much fact-checking in 87 at my school. I think they're in the shallows. There's a drawing, a pencil drawing of a Triceratops just to the left, but I don't think it's one of mine. I think it's a sort of collage of work.
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Chapter 8: What reflections do the hosts have on their day-to-day lives?
Okay, start again, please.
Untitled. In the sea the sauropods lay, down in the swamps on a sunny day.
The sea and the swamps. Sorry, the swamps are not the sea. I'm only seven years old.
I'm seven years old, David. What do you want from me? They're down in the swamps, in the sea. In the shallows of the sea. It's sort of at the mouth of the sea, and it's a bit swampy. Okay. It makes perfect sense.
Wow. So what's the metaphor here as a sort of lurking danger? Do you see what's coming? Do you see John Major at future political years?
No, I see the fall of the Berlin Wall. That's coming.
That's what this is about. Oh, my God. Of course.
I see the breaking of the Iron Curtain. That's what this is. In the sea the sauropods lay, down in the swamps on a sunny day. Long tail, big neck, rough skin, massive legs, plodding along. Massive legs! Massive legs! Plodding along, swaying aside, dark, dank face, and the earth is crumbling wildly. Oh, my goodness. Is that a haiku, do you think? No, I don't think it's a haiku.
I think it's iambic pentameter that I just naturally discovered at seven.
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