What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
WDWDY #35: Everything Is Showbiz
26 Aug 2025
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Chapter 1: What did David 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? 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?
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Chapter 2: Why are there so many podcasts and what makes this one unique?
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?
Hello and welcome to today's What Did You Do Yesterday? Midweek Mayhem. Max? Just doesn't feel right, David. I have an issue whereby, because I'm still in Edinburgh living in a share house.
You have to talk like a snooker commentator.
Through this very thick Georgian wall is Celia A.B. And apparently, if I'm too enthusiastic during this podcast, it infiltrates her dreams and She was saying she incorporates elements of whatever we're talking about into her final fitful dreams.
Now, question. You can whisper for the whole podcast. I think that's fine. Because it will be people thinking like, you are on the green and Justin Rose has this 15-foot putt for birdie. But you can then, as the putt is, when Celia wakes up, you can then talk and go, and then it is in the hole.
Have you, because I think most listeners are very keen to know the latest on her key fob situation, how much discussion has been about key fobs with Celia? Don't say none because no one will believe you.
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Chapter 3: What interesting experiences did David have at the Edinburgh Fringe?
What a full life she must live if that is not. Because the first time I ever see her, the first time I ever meet Celere B, I will do 20 minutes on key fobs. See how it's going. She's like, oh, I thought that was just a thing for a thing.
No, no, no, no, no. She did tell me a funny thing. We're still at the Edinburgh Fringe. She may have seen the ultimate Edinburgh Fringe show last night. I mean, just get this. Especially as a French person coming to the... She's been here before. She knows what to expect. There's a show called How Much Toast...
where two people are on stage and calculate, using probability and mathematics, who in the audience has eaten the most toast in their lifetime. I mean, that's a show, isn't it?
Well, I did have an idea that I approached Dave Gorman with after a Celebrity Six Aside football tournament, so he was a bit tired. It's called Life Statistics. And I guess this is not dissimilar, where I was saying it'd be really useful that you could do an experiment over a month
to do all your life statistics, like how many peas you've eaten, the weight of beef you've consumed, the number of steps you walk, just everything, and then you extrapolate it over times, how much toast you eat. It would be interesting to do all of that. But obviously, every time you wake up in the night, but then you'd need somebody in your room watching you in the night.
That might affect your sleep because there's like Norris McWhirter with a ticker. In your room. Yeah. Anyway, Dave said he was quite busy on other projects. He said it in a...
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Chapter 4: How does David manage living with other comedians?
He said it in a polite way.
You had just been kicking him for the previous hour and a half and maybe he was thinking, maybe I don't want to work with this guy.
I'd be saying, he doesn't fucking want it all day, all day. I'd be saying to him, it's your shit, your shit, Gorman. Interestingly, I almost got to that very famous Tuesday comedians football game. When I say almost, I didn't because A, it wasn't on because there were too many comedians at Edinburgh and B,
i'm doing too many podcasts and not enough parenting as we established on the last week mayhem so i didn't run it back can i go two hours south to play football for two hours jamie you know it was mentioned with uh alumnus ellis james and also the fact that you're is it your knee or your hip which ones make a sound like a haunted door like the portcullis in a haunted castle yeah
Every time I turn. What I did like there, David, is your haunted portcullis is actually a forebearer. The Middle Ages version of bejoying. Actually, I can see where it came from. Now, we are recording before the Mary Beard episode goes out, but this will go out after the Mary Beard episode.
So we don't have any feedback from that episode, but I do have some feedback because I did WhatsApp my parents to see if they had mutual friends. Do you know what my parents thought? My parents thought I was trying to book her for the podcast through them. Oh, wow. I was like, could you get me Mary Beard? They were like, no.
But it turns out my mum, one of her oldest friends, Penny Wilson, knows Mary Beard very well. They used to share babysitters. And if more was needed to my, you know, from the streets credence, The first violinist in my mum's string quartet is at the same college as Mary Beard. So they probably know each other. But the first violinist is a very private person.
So mum said, I'm going to have to ask if you can use her. I said, I don't need. I don't need. This is enough information.
It would be funny if your parents took over the booking of guests for this show. The whole thing would take a lot of people interested in very mild hiking and things like that.
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Chapter 5: What are the challenges of performing at the Edinburgh Fringe?
You would skew it for a bit, I think. But we've had so many lovely emails about the John Robbins episode. Amy says, just a note to say thank you for this glorious episode. I listened merrily to them all. Through the turds, Brighton breakfasts, cum baths and other shenanigans. I've even shamelessly stolen your format to write, yes, write letters to a couple of pen pals.
But last night I listened to John's episode and this morning I listened again. Wow, that's good commitment because it was a long old ep. What a beautiful day to share. Thank you to him and you guys for wallowing in so many moments and sharing them with the rest of us.
I also love that Mary Oliver poem and get irrationally annoyed with its rebranding as a bumper sticker slogan without context and welcome the reminder to engage in my moments and cut myself some slack and embrace the things that bring me comfort, however lame they may appear to others. I'm waffling on. This isn't a very eloquent rambling, just a heartfelt thank you.
They are just normal cheeses, Amy.
Just small note that that's brought up. I was really interested in John's passionate defense of mindlessly looking at your phone. Oh, yeah. Because that has been one of the topics that has come up time and time again in the year that we've been doing this. To have someone just put the brakes on that and be like, no, it actually can be a really enjoyable, wonderful thing.
You know, socializing with people and sending stupid memes and all the rest.
Yeah. And I definitely have that when I'm in Australia. Obviously, I'm miles away from most of my friends. I obviously, we have established through this podcast quite how shallow I am. How lacking in depth. Not shallow, that's not fair. But just how, what you see is what you get. And I was thinking, could I ever say, there's a poem, right? And then say a poem without people going, come on, Max.
I was chatting to Jamie about this.
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Chapter 6: What funny anecdotes arise from David's daily life?
I could never go, there is a great poem. And people were like, yeah, all right, mate.
Your poem would be like, oh, I know a poem about this. Lefty loosey, righty tighty. And it's just, hey Max, is this how to open jam jars?
Yes. Yes, that poem is about jam jars. Alice on Spotify says, hilarious to see that the AI that labels the sections of this podcast has decided that BOC must be bath of custard. If only. If only. If only. I mean, I suppose in consistency terms, but even still.
I went to a gig the other night and a fella came up to me. And let me just say this. If you had imagined what the guy who wrote us the email about how when factoring in the filling of the BOC that you had to take in evaporation into it. A man who's dealing with secondary integers or whatever you call that thing in mathematics. That was this guy.
And he came up to me and he said, yeah, I was the guy who wrote that email. I'm not saying I would have gone up to him and just said, excuse me, did you once write an email to my podcast? But it was the guy.
I've met him. He had all the hallmarks. Oh, well done. That's great. Danny, on Toploader, I was shouting Achilles heel at my phone, says Danny. Anonymous, Toploader have 6.2 million monthly listens. Think they're doing all right, thanks to Max. Thanks to you. Think how well they are doing, Lululemon are doing. We're not in this for business.
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Chapter 7: How do David and Max prepare for their live shows?
That's the point, David, isn't it?
Interesting little wrinkle in Lululemon. Helen Copter admitted to me recently, for a long time, just due to the first way she'd read it, she thought it was called Lululemon.
Ah, Lululemon. Lululemon. You would know a great, won the Tour de France in 1979. is related to Greg, obviously.
Greg Lamont and Lululemon.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good stuff, Max. That's good cycling knowledge. Thanks so much. Interestingly, and this is honesty, but it's not great for our Lululemon sponsorship, is Jamie bought some Lululemon underpants, doesn't like them.
What's her beef with them? I don't know if they wedgie a bit.
Yeah. I'll have to check. I'll check. What podcast is this? I will check why my wife doesn't like the underpants she's wearing. Okay. Hey, Steve says, I found Juan Patino. If you remember Juan Patino, I stayed in his flat in New York many years ago. And you have to say I'm friends with Juan Patino. And he had platinum discs of Lisa Loeb's back catalog on the wall.
It took me all of 10 seconds, says Steve. Lisa Loeb tagged him in a photo. They're still friends. That's lovely. He now does photography and headshots. If we want some headshots, imagine the spike in his website because of this podcast. You just go to JuanPatinoPhotography.com.
It's an interesting thought, isn't it? Now that's what I call music. We're to release a hit of this podcast. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? A playlist for this podcast. That's what we should have playing at the live show. Yes, that's a great idea.
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Chapter 8: What reflections does David have on his career and future?
Lisa Loeb, stay, I miss you. Yeah. Obviously, Top Loader. Obviously, Sigur Rós. Medieval version of Top Loader.
The Baja Men's version of Top Loader. The original King Crimson, but not King Crimson version of Top Loader.
To the listeners, what other songs would be on that ultimate playlist that we will definitely then play before the live show in London in September?
Yeah, that's a great idea. Ben in New York writes, Hi, Max, D-O-D and Miles, but this is on the subject of what did you do yesterday, being the center of the known universe. More proof, if it were needed. Long-time listener, first-time emailer. Been faithfully tuned in since episode one, having followed Max from his football pods and banal radio quiz wizardry.
Yeah.
Well, I've always enjoyed the show. I remain healthily skeptical of the oft-repeated claim that what did you do yesterday is the center of the universe. I mean, come on, it's a podcast, not the Large Hadron Collider, or so I thought. Unbeknownst to me, your influence was already creeping in. I began ordering coffee with the complexity of a neurotic barista.
I slipped into Lululemon underwear like a suburban dad rebrand and started playing Quartle daily as if it was a moral obligation. The signs were there. But the true revelation hit me on a recent three-day holiday to Bermuda with my wife. Picture the scene on poolside, cocktail in hand, basking in the sun, when I discover the Charlie Baker episode has landed in my podcast app.
A moment of pure, possibly inappropriate joy. Charlie and Max's radio show is my absolute favorite. I've always found Charlie such an uplifting and funny guy.
He is.
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