WDWDY #29: A Day Of Relentless Accomplishment
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What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
57 min
2 speakers
8 chapters
transcribed 3 months ago
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What did David do yesterday that was so productive?
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?
How did David's mattress shopping experience go?
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, everybody. Welcome to Midweek Mayhem from the people that bring you What Did You Do Yesterday? And those people are me, Max Rushton, and David O'Doherty. Hello, David.
What interesting feedback did the hosts receive from listeners?
The Guardian this week. They're talking about Gary Lineker, one of the columnists. I heard The Striker talking about the transfer recently on the excellent What Did You Do Yesterday podcast. Oh, that's good. Hosted by David O'Doherty and generic broadcaster Max Rushton. Bracket, perhaps the second best podcast he hosts. Well... Someone said that in their Guardian column this week.
I... Look... I thought, well, listen, I was just, I was staring at the blank laptop and I thought, I'll write about transfers. Now I remembered that chat we'd had with Gary Lineker about Chris Waddle and how, you know, transfers were different back in the day. And then I thought, well, I've already got one, what did you do yesterday reference in a column. And it seems a bit, it seems a bit self-indulgent when you have a column in the Guardian. How many people want a column in the Guardian? I'm staring at a laptop going, oh God, I've got to write something else. And then I thought, if I said,
What are the challenges of painting railings?
I'd have to reference the podcast I also do for The Guardian. Yeah. So that's why it said Second Best David. Very neatly done. Got a name check in The Guardian, so that's good.
Yeah. I can use that as a pull quote on my Edinburgh poster. Great idea. Should we have some feedback? Hang on. I'm just trying to find, is there anything in this I can remove out of context and have a sentence?
Yeah.
You could just say the excellent. What did you do yesterday? Podcast the guardian.
What unexpected events happened during the painting process?
No context that it was one of the podcasters who'd said it.
actually years ago right when i was i was at bbc london i used to watch films and for junk it's like 10 in the morning and then someone said could you do a no i did a voiceover for a movie are you doing the uh in a world time of war yeah yeah once a millennium a prince comes along Anyway, I think they asked me, because I then watched it for BBC London, and they said, could you give us a quote? So I just went, outstanding film, because I just wanted to have my name on the poster on the tube. So for a few months, I would just review any movie going, outstanding movie. And then I would just be there on a billboard at Finsbury Park, my name tiny. And then I think someone got, I was just like, oh, Mate, I don't even have to watch the film.
I'm just so excited. I was only about 25. I'm so excited to see that. I might have gone down in Mark Kermode's estimation.
There are tiny linguistic differences, semantic differences between things that Irish people say and English people say just on a few words. One of those words, there was a review for an early Gabriel Byrne movie called The Courier. which is one of those real tough, someone gets glassed in the first five minutes.
How did David's day culminate in a dinner outing?
One of those movies where you're just anxious the whole time. And an Irish publication called Hot Press, I think it was Hot Press, didn't like it at all. But they used a very Irish term, which was one word review, brutal. Just like absolute shite. Brutal. And then when it was released in London, they wanted to lean into the sort of urban edge of it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What did David do yesterday that was so productive?
0:02–0:38
2
How did David's mattress shopping experience go?
0:38–1:10
3
What interesting feedback did the hosts receive from listeners?
1:10–2:05
4
What are the challenges of painting railings?
2:05–2:35
5
What unexpected events happened during the painting process?
2:35–4:04
6
How did David's day culminate in a dinner outing?
4:04–4:44
7
What humorous moments occurred during the dinner?
4:44–5:37
8
What reflections did David have on his day of accomplishment?
5:37–57:46