What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
WDWDY #37: A differently but equally exciting yesterday...
09 Sep 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? What did you do yesterday?
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Chapter 2: How does David's yesterday compare to Max's?
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 What Did You Do Yesterday? This is Midweek Mayhem. I'm Max Rushton. David O'Doherty is there. David, it feels like I saw you just moments ago.
Does it feel like I'm in an exotic French Gaelic-type place, and at any moment, asterisks and obelisks, your faves, could just wander in behind me? Because it should, because I'm in France.
Absolutely. Gerard Depardieu is behind you, just eating a chicken leg, just slobbering it into his mouth.
He took a wee on an Aer Lingus flight a few years ago. I think they said you can't get up to go to the loo. So he just did it in the old corridor.
Which is in the aisle?
From his seat.
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Chapter 3: What interesting events happened during the podcast recording?
Yeah. I don't think he's a great bloke.
I thought you were about to defend it there. You were going to go, nah, nah. You see, the thing about Gerard is... You've got to see it from both sides, haven't you?
So this is the day listeners will possibly listen to this on the way to What Did You Do Yesterday Live. Wow. So that's exciting. So if you get in touch with the podcast because you're coming to the show and you've got anything you want to tell us, do it.
We might read it out on the show because we've got a production meeting WhatsApp group where David and I put in different ideas and then we just put in different ideas.
Yeah.
So to the listeners who are or are not attending the live show, me and Max have never done this together. In fact, we have done this entirely separately with a tiny delay usually because Max is in Australia. And my fear is that that delay will transfer into real life. That as soon as you say anything, I'll count to 1001. And then I'll say something sassy back to you.
When I'm back in the UK and I'm doing talk sport shows in the studio with Charlie Baker or Barry Glendening, people always say, look, you've got to be in the room, guys. To make these things work, you've got to be in the room. So I make a point on air of saying, I need to make these shows a bit worse than the ones where I'm not in the room. So the bosses go, you can't be in the room.
So then I'm allowed to carry on doing the shows from Australia. Have I seen you...
in the flesh since we started doing the podcast no the last time i saw you was when we went to a small pub in melbourne and what's the name the guy with the song about the shoes didn't turn up palinatini Paolo Nettini, old shoesy boy, did not turn up. And that is two years ago, probably.
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Chapter 4: What funny anecdotes arise from David's time in France?
No, she's hoping to come. She's hoping to get her babies to come and then the babysitter will message her. What we could do is she could sit on the stage with her phone and then as soon as Ian or Willie wake up, she'll just leave and everyone will know what's happened then. She did say thank you to David for thanking me for being a good mum, she said.
And regards the quiz, the insane quiz at the end, Paul Merson is a terrible guest because I would have said hello to him because I worked with him for years and we went to his wedding, she says.
Oh, okay, fine, fine. Well, I'm trying to get the helicopter to come over. Ah, that'd be good. I know, but she does very important work in the human rights field. I know. So sometimes it's difficult to talk her into coming to listen to us going on about cum in a bath.
She not tried to bring that in to the human rights field. Next slide, please. Click. We have had some BOC feedback, which we'll get to shortly. Don says, Don Mateo, long time listener, first time caller, really enjoy the show. Bit late on the feedback. I wanted to share the impact What Did You Do Yesterday has had I live in the UK. My children, ages nine and eight, live in Spain.
When I went to see them some months ago, I introduced them to the world of curdle. What did you fondue yesterday, et cetera. It was an instant hit. It was adapted for the age group. Sometimes it was pizza toppings, favorite Disney characters, best saves by Denmark's third goalkeeper, et cetera.
To such an extent, even the amazing Mars Bars opening sequence had to be played each time before gameplay. Striked by the magnificence of this, the game was introduced to the playground of Collegio d'Education Infantile San Juan Seip XX... I, I, I, 23. Los Galados in the dry sands of Andalusia. Even now can the noises of enjoying and bing, bing, bing, bing, bing be heard.
The game being called K-S-S-O, S-O-S-K-ZO. What is this? This is cheese. Surely proves this show is endorsed by Max's parents as the worst idea ever. Is in fact genius. In it for life. Don Mateo. He's already bastardo the Lord Percy of Dingbat.
Wow. I wonder if at the live show, Lord Percy of Dingbat will make an appearance.
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Chapter 5: What challenges did David face while recording the podcast?
I doubt it. I don't know. I think you just might see 1500 people sitting in the stalls and you might decide this is the time to launch your improv career. My improv career. Yeah. You do a straight hour of different cod pieces.
And I'd like to do, you know when impressionists just have like a tray behind them? Yeah. Like a trolley. And then they just put some glasses on and go, who's this? Who am I? I'd really like to do this.
You'd be a variety of obscure 90s footballers, though. You'd be like, I'm Mitch Davre of Ipswich.
I'm Paul Goddard. Look at me. Oh, of course you are. Paul Goddard is sensational. Matt says, hi, Max and David. BFOTP. I don't know what that means, but should I know what that means? BFOTP. Big fan of the pod. There you go. What? On that subject, one of my favorite musical artists is Boards of Canada.
However, I can no longer listen to their singular brand of hauntological esoterica without conjuring some particularly visceral mental imagery. Thanks, Matt, that BOC is BOC everywhere. Oh, yeah. On the same note, Dominika says, I've long accepted that everything is showbiz, but was hesitant to admit that what did you do yesterday is the center of the known universe until today.
Or at very least, it appears to be the center of my universe. As I was strolling along the road, listening to, dare I say, another podcast, I was stopped in my track, which appeared to be a shop offering baths of cum. I stopped and looked around me to see if anyone else was seeing what I was seeing.
But lo and behold, none of the city office folks seemed concerned about the BOC sign dangling in the wind. It took me far too long to realize BOC could, in fact, refer to other things. In this case, it was the Bank of Ceylon.
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Imagine how long it would take to fill that place. Yeah. Speaking of how long it takes to fill the bath.
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Chapter 6: How do the hosts engage with their listeners?
And I'm so glad this, I'm just reading this to you and not to Mary Beard. John says, dear, what did you do yesterday pod? Hello, David, Max and Mars bar. a short but significant email to say that the average blue whale ejaculation contains around 20 litres or 10 to 20% of the volume of an average bathtub. Wow.
I will leave it to you to judge whether it's easier to fill the BOC by collecting the ejaculate of 10 blue whales or 11,500 gig attendees.
I respect that, but I don't want to wank off whales either. So, yeah, I still don't think either is the answer. Wow, that is... I did once see elephants at it in Taronga Zoo in Sydney. And, yeah, I was...
struck by it was like a water main had burst okay let's let's not go on about this anymore you do wonder if we keep talking about being the center of the universe and then people keep writing in with these incredible coincidences does that go to our heads and do we become cult leaders
I suppose, because really the podcast began from thinking that everyone is insignificant.
Yeah.
So nobody is significant. And if the actual conclusion is that you and I are the most significant people on earth.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Chapter 7: What humorous moments occur during the quiz segment?
Let's think about it then. Maybe we'll launch it at the live show. Good idea. Lock the doors. That's it. Who's on after us? Cirque du Soleil, they're not performing because we're here forever. Stuart Aberdeen writes, Hi, Max. Hi, Barry. Hi, Marsbar. I hope you're both well. First time. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You just said Max, Barry, and Marsbar. That's what it says here. Fuck's sake. What?
I've been doing this for over a year now. How quickly are you not the center of the universe? It's just a matter of seconds.
So to the listeners, Barry is the genial Irish guy that he does his sports stuff with. A lovely man, but not me. Are we just all interchangeable? Could it just be Dara, Patrick Kielty, WB Yates, Seamus Heaney? Just any Irishman and Max equals a podcast.
AOI, any old Irishman. That's what I say. My agent says, who do you want for this? I just say, AOI, hang up. Hi, Max. Hi, Barry. Hi, Master Bath. Hope you're both well. First time, long time and all that. I'm from Awfully and my dad is a vet. Yeah, that's good stuff. I've been bothered into writing by EverythingIsShowbiz.com.
It's a wonderful resource, brilliantly put together, but I'm worried now that your knowing about it is going to be its undoing. Recently, a few mentions of EverythingIsShowbiz.com have been followed with a reference to friend of the show, Ernest Shackleton. Now, I worry since you're mentioning him as a result of how often you're mentioning him.
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Chapter 8: What unexpected facts are shared at the end of the episode?
It's artificially boosting the number of times that Mr. Shackleton has received, thus making the website statistics useless. I'm loathe to write this as I feel I may skew them further, but felt it needed to be done before it got any worse. Love to you all. Keep up the good work. Lots of love, Stuart from Aberdeen.
Well, friend of the podcast, Sir Ernest Shackleton, who tragically left us in 1920, maybe somewhere around then. But he did love the pod. He knew it was coming. And in his long trek to the South Pole, which... And in a way, this is one of the most heroic things in the history of Antarctic exploration. He was 100 miles from the pole, which would have made him the first before Amundsen.
And he elected to turn back because he calculated they may not have enough food to get all the way there and back, thus putting the crew in jeopardy. So it's a delight that, to me, that he is such a fan of the pod. Thank you, Sir Ernest. Tragically died whacking off a blue whale. In the words of Alan Brazil, I've heard different things.
Lynn says, Hi Max, David, love the pod. The cycling shirt delivered to Flat 2 reminded me of my birthday this year in Brisbane. My best friend from Bristol Uni in the 80s asked gently if I'd received a bunch of flowers. A bit more investigation and we both realised she'd sent them to my old flat. It's only a couple of kilometres away. So I went round later that day. A nice lady opened the door.
I told her my name and I said, just wondering if you had any deliveries for me. She said, not even looking embarrassed. Oh yeah, I was about to call you. This was four days after the flowers had been delivered. She took me into the flat where the flowers are on the table as far as possible from the front door as they could be with her two elderly parents looking at them.
I'm an intensive care nurse and also look after mum and dad. They've enjoyed them a lot, she said.
Fuck.
I was wondering, holding up the card that said, Dear Lynn, lots of love on your birthday from Ellie, with my mobile number written just under that. Is this your mobile, she said innocently. Not caring about the obvious tug at my heartstrings with the intensive nurse elderly parents, I marched over, grabbed the flowers, said thank you so much for looking after them, and left in rage and fury.
I wanted to say, obviously that's my number, and in four days you couldn't call it, but I wasn't brave enough. I hope you get the shirt back. Surely you're showbiz enough that they won't try to keep it. Keep up the fab pod. Say hello to Mars Bar 2. Cheers, Linz.
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