What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
WDWDY #36: I had such an exciting yesterday...
02 Sep 2025
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Chapter 1: What did Max do yesterday that excited him?
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? Hello and welcome to Midweek Mayhem from the people that bring you What Did You Do Yesterday? My name is Max Rushton and David O'Doherty is there. Hi, David. Bonjour, mon ami.
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Chapter 2: How did a bicycle crash become a funny story?
The killer is where it's your yesterday and I've just been like skydiving or something the day before and you've been, you know, trying to fix a skybox for six hours. Sorry.
This is from Hansi. This is lovely. Dear Max, David and Marsbar, during the COVID years, my partner Laura, a What Did You Do Yesterday ultra, and I lived on the outskirts of Dublin City next to the Phoenix Park. On our walks through the park, we would often spot comedian David O'Doherty cycling around. Ha ha!
We saw him there so often, in fact, that we began referring to it between ourselves as O'Doherty's Hill. I always imagined he was up there concocting some killer jokes for his next show or possibly a new concept for a children's book.
I now know that it is probably likely that David had chosen one of the most secluded spots in the city of Dublin to relieve himself of whatever gassy food he'd had for lunch and let rip such toxic farts that they were unsuitable for public toilets. Love the pod.
I know exactly what that person's referring to. I cycle to the same tree pretty much every day for a year and a half in the Phoenix Park. And the reason I liked it was because, so it's this giant park in the center of Dublin. You couldn't see any modernity. You could see some church steeples from the 18th century.
So I would imagine I had time traveled there and yeah, let off a few sweet farts also.
Do you want a spontaneous quiz? Because this didn't happen yesterday. So breaking our own rules. I've had three really good celeb spots since I've been in London. One alumnus. James Acaster. No. Oh, hang on.
yeah no i am two one down now i've got one i've pulled one back against jamie and james acaster watch i was at mini golf and ian was throwing golf balls around so i didn't have time to get him over and say look hi you don't know me but you did google me once yeah so i let him be okay i mean i don't know if we how long you want the quiz because you know some people think my quizzes i don't give enough clues you don't understand what quizzes are yep
No, I don't. I feel like maybe I shouldn't have brought it up this early in an episode since I'm not going to reveal the answer. No, should I tell you? Should I tell you?
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Chapter 3: What interesting events happened during the bread slicing?
Then we got the lift for 17 floors. Great. And then her show ended at the same time as my show ended. So we got the lift 17 floors down. And I said, I said, oh, you've got your house in Margate. She's like, well, how the fuck do you know that? I was like, because John Robbins told us.
Oh, yeah. Lou Sanders on TalkSport would be, they would really run out. If you hadn't said her on another station there, I think I would have tuned in for what she thinks about Ruben Amaram's future with Manchester United.
Now, I also, you know, I should have mentioned this two weeks ago. Just when we arrived, I cycled past the man who is 40% better looking than me with 30% better personality.
Who? The guy with the very, very long name who goes on this morning and talks about consumers?
No, not Dr. Alexander Tugentok. Dem O'Leary. Oh, yeah. And he was filming something and he did look good, to be fair.
Yeah.
And, like, I don't really know him, but we've met. So I'm cycling past. So I whipped off my cycle hat as I cycle along, and I went, Dermot, it's Max Rushton. Hi. He did look interested. It was like, oh, and then I just carried on. I didn't stop because he looked busy. It looked like he was, do you know, it looked like he was filming the postcode lottery.
I mean, I don't think he was, but it had that vibe. Oh, right. Suburban street.
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Chapter 4: How did Max handle the unexpected bike shop situation?
He's about to knock on someone's door. I think he's too good for that.
An interesting phenomenon with, because when you film stuff on the street, one of the most annoying things is people cycling by going, oi, oi! And they normally shout, like, gonna win an Oscar? Or something like that. Yet, whenever I cycle past people filming a thing...
i immediately just want to shout you know up yours yeah whatever no i announced i was full name because i thought derma he's a busy guy we've not seen each other for 10 years he doesn't know that actually we're the same person he's just like a percentage better at everything than me he doesn't know that reality because i was gonna i was gonna ask him to be on this max
Yeah, I'd love him to be on.
I know, but it seems like you've got such an inferiority complex.
You'd fall to pieces. You'd be like, what time do you get up at? Oh, that's such a stupid question. Why do I always ask people that? Oh, Dermot, I'm so sorry. Do you like things? My voice would break during the O'Leary episode. I'd be like, I'd just be a quivering wreck.
The other one, the other day I recorded Sounds of the 90s with Fern Cotton, mainly because I mention it on this podcast all the time. Okay, you might as well come on. Wow. I was at Broadcasting House at the BBC and Bob Mortimer walked past very slowly. And I thought, I should ask Bob on this pod, but I just didn't. Yeah. Was that the right thing to do? Because I think he liked the concept.
I think he'd be probably the best guest we ever had.
Yeah. Could you imagine how many crappy podcasts are currently trying to get Bob on?
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Chapter 5: What challenges did Max face while parenting Ian?
I don't know if he got the right order. I had to go. But it elicited two thoughts in my head. Pret coffee is pretty strong. So I imagine the customer was trying to clean himself out, homage to Lily style. Amit has no idea what he has become in this podcast. And I never noticed such precise coffee orders until I started listening to the pod. Everything he showed me is in it for life.
Self-joliling there without the, whatever the name of that mythical tea is that we have mentioned so many times. Like it's possible we've mentioned it as many times as Lou Lamont, winner of the 1989 Tour de France, that could be another sponsor.
Let's have some Mary Beard feedback. This is Adam. As a big fan of Mary Beard's work, I must admit I spat my coffee out when I saw she was coming on the pod. People were surprised, David. I was in eager expectation to hear what nuggets of history would be discussed. Of all the famous and influential names from history, I was amazed that the name that was mentioned the most was John Beck.
Keep it up. In it for life. Adam, who's John Beck? John Beck? Who's John Beck? How dare you? John Beck was the Cambridge United manager in the early 90s that played long ball football that got us from the fourth division to the cusp of the Premier League and the quarterfinal of the FA Cup two years running with Dion Dublin up front.
Mary and I bonded on that as we bonded on many historical things. Andy says, after listening to your episode with Mary Beard on the way to Heathrow to pick someone up, I made my way to Terminal 5 arrivals to meet them. Who should come through the arrivals doors and walk towards me but Mary Beard and her husband? What are the chances? It freaked me out.
Is this some kind of weird coincidence or something else? Hmm, emoji. Keep up the good work, chap. It's my favourite part.
You know they go to Ibiza every weekend during the summer, so it's not that surprising. Well, she has a residency. She does. Manumission.
She always begins with You Sure Do by Strike. Then Set You Free by Entrance.
She plays a little bit of a David Starkey audiobook and everyone boos. And then she plays Make You Feel Good by Hammer.
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Chapter 6: How did a low-stakes bicycle crash unfold?
Some more Mary Beard feedback from Paul. Another fantastic episode. Thanks. I only feel more could have been made of the way the wet finger anecdote landed as badly as any anecdote has landed.
on any podcast keep up the great work is that you when you said there's a there was a dude in pompeii who was masturbating when the volcano hit no i think that was how me and sam campbell went to a neolithic tomb and when the guy made it dark i wet will eat him and mary beer didn't need to hear that
Do you know when you're searching your brain for anything to do with the classical world, and the closest thing you can come up with is wet-willing a comedian in a passage tomb?
Sorry, Mary. I just had one thought on the Sarah Pascoe episode. Now, for the tape, we're recording this before the Pascoe episode goes out, hence not a lot of Sarah Pascoe feedback. We didn't drill down on the fact that for breakfast, she just had on its own one vegetarian sausage. And I just felt there was mileage that we just didn't drill down on how that's served, how to prepare that.
It was a regret I have of mine.
Yeah, eating it straight out of the pan. She just stabs it with a fork, pops it straight in.
It just needs something, doesn't it? A sausage on it, it just needs, it needed a bun, needed something alongside it, I thought. James says, just got up on this despite finding it hugely entertaining. I'm still none the wiser as to what Ross Noble did yesterday. Aside from put Ray Dox up his bum and eat chicken legs.
We have recorded a few episodes that haven't gone out. One of our exciting future guests once phoned up Ross Noble and said hello and an hour later realised he hadn't spoken. So it's not just in podcast form where Ross can really ride the riff train. Should we do they're just normal countries? Sorry, I'm still thinking of Waylon Jennings so much. I know, it's so good.
When I do something stupid, even on my holidays here, it's like, well, looks like David didn't pack any suntan block and now he's going to have to buy, I'd say, his sixth bottle of the last two years.
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Chapter 7: What was the significance of the epic knot untying session?
Yeah, there was a TV show I used to watch called, I think it was called The Adventure Game. It was a quiz show on TV. Yes. Where at the end of it, there was like a diamond lattice board. Oh, yeah. And you were playing against a pot plant that growled. And this was commissioned, which is sad when I think of all the ideas I've pitched that haven't been commissioned. Anyway. Yeah.
When you were caught by the pot plant. Because you couldn't see where he was moving, you had to kind of anticipate. You were CGI'd, probably wasn't CGI was it? You were like zoomed off the screen and just sort of into the ether. And I actually, as a young boy, thought that was the end of your life.
I thought you'd die. I don't remember anything else from that show except the lattice, sort of really early green-blue screening, where you were almost strobing against a background.
And yes, I thought grown-ups, because there would have been grown-ups on it, or maybe older teens, yeah, were simply gladiator style, just killed for the pleasure of people who happened to be watching at 5.30 on a Tuesday.
Yeah. And that's what we do with the incorrect guesses of they're just normal countries. So Eric and Cork is dead. Here we go. This is from Ben. Brave to enter. Now these rules have come in. Love the pod. I was listening to the start of the Ross Noble episode while in bed recovering from pleurisy.
This turned out to be a terrible error as I lay in bed crying with laughter and wincing in pain as each belly laugh was met by searing pain in my bag as my inflamed lung pressed and rubbed against my back. Wow. It was both welcome light relief and audio torture all in one. We'll put that on the post. We've got 100 tickets to sell for the live show.
Come on, we need 100 more of you to fill it out, The Hackney Empire. Go to thehackneyempire.co.uk. And you too can have welcome light relief and audio torture all in one. A more sensible listener may have stopped listening, but I mean, it's alive, so I powered through. And also, that was a long episode, Ben.
Like, you know, there are other ones where you've got relief earlier, but, you know, you picked the Ross episode. Anyway, my guest for the catchily abbreviated W-I-T-W-C-O-L-B is Turkmenistan. Cheers and thanks for the much needed entertainment. Everything is showbiz. Over to Mars Bar, Turkmenistan. Don't tell me 58,000 listens in Turkmenistan. I'd say none. Zero listens in Turkmenistan. Zero!
What are we doing wrong? Why are the Turkmenics not into this?
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Chapter 8: What reflections did Max have about his day at the end?
Yes. Okay, it's not a disaster. You know, expectations change. It is a disaster because the night hasn't been good. Anyway, I'm in Ian's bed with Ian. Jamie calls for a swap deal. The transfer window's open.
Yeah.
The offer is an awake Willie Rushton for a sleeping Ian Rushton. And it is non-negotiable. So I take the trade.
She's been topped up or you've been topped up or whatever. I just know somebody's doing a topping up.
Fabrizio Romano sent a tweet saying, here we go. I'm off to Willie's room. Well, he's in our room and he's awake. So I'm a bit sad about it, but it's probably right because I've been asleep with Ian for an hour or so. And I think...
willy's been up for an hour fine so there's 20 minutes of me sort of sort of trying to engage with willy while being horizontal with my eyes closed so sort of putting my hand above his face so he hits my hand a bit i think this is a gentle way to wake a baby up you know i probably should be singing him lullabies and you know reading him very simple books but i'm just doing the hover hand eyes closed
I'm going to do that till six. Is peekaboo happening yet? Or are we too early for classic peekaboo? I'm too tired for peekaboo. I'm too tired for peekaboo at this stage. But yeah, we're, you know, we're entering into, I would say the peekaboo months. We're pretty close. I'd say, you know, 15 minutes of that. And then he gets a bit annoyed. So I have to like pick him up and hold him.
And then I think, well, maybe this is incidental fitness. I can do some sort of little bench presses, sort of sing him zoom, zoom, zoom. We're going to the moon a few times. So he's pretty happy about this. Ian wakes at six. So Ian and Jamie come in to the room. There's some lying about.
Ian wants to hug Willie Rushton, but he can be a bit, you know, he's not always totally focused on not like crushing his brother. So there's a bit of just watch out, that kind of stuff. We go downstairs. Jamie makes toast for Ian. He says, do you want some toast? There's only the ends. So all that's left are the two crusts.
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