What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
WDWDY #39: Georgia on my mind...
23 Sep 2025
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Chapter 1: What did the hosts reflect on from their first live show?
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: What unexpected challenges did the hosts face during the live show?
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, it's a midweek episode with me, Max Rushton, and this man, David O'Doherty.
Midweek Mayhem! Mayhem!
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Chapter 3: How did David's day involve a punctured bicycle tire?
Mayhem! This is the first time we've done one of these since we have done it in person. Yeah! Following the great, as people are calling it, first ever live What Did You Do Yesterday, Max. The show that changed theatre forever is what people are saying. So apparently the front page of the Times of London the next day was a star is born and then brackets two and our faces.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you to everyone that came and I hope you had a lovely time. People did notice that some of the technicals, brackets, all of them didn't work. And most of my friends thought this is all part of the show. Yeah.
It's a real advantage of being a total shambles because, for example, so Mars Barra had made a beautiful montage of the stars. I mean, we can say what it was now, which was Sugar Ross plays as. shots come up of people saying certain key things from the history of this podcast. Yeah.
Chapter 4: What humorous anecdotes did the hosts share about their experiences?
And it wouldn't output at the last minute. So you told him just to have Suga Ross playing and the word montage written on a big screen at the back of the stage. Then to add to that, the audio wouldn't output either. So Suga Ross was playing from a tiny speaker, smaller than you'd have in a car, back of the stage in an enormous Victorian musical.
So maybe the first two rows could slightly hear it. And what's funny is we were just standing there laughing and Mars Bar was like sprinting around the back of the stage going, nothing's working. Anyway, what's good is maybe we have set expectations so low on this podcast that people were like, this is their plan all along. It's just going to say montage.
Not only that, there's going to be no music. So basically the people, anyone who wasn't in the first two rows just saw the word montage for two minutes. And then we wandered on going, okay, we're digging uphill. We're digging uphill here. Thank you to Nish Kumar, who was our special guest. Yeah. And he was excellent.
Chapter 5: What was the significance of the guest Nish Kumar in the episode?
It had to be him, really. It did. He set the tone for, although it was the 19th one, I think, that was released. It was the first one we ever recorded. We were both tentatively wondering if this worked as a concept. And last week, he got his retribution for all of the jokes we'd made about him. Yeah.
Lots of friends, my friends came. There were two things. One, Clive always 15 year old son, Jonty. And I wondered what Clive was thinking. Maybe the 10th time Nish used the C word to describe a conservative politician. Also my friend Ellie, who works in theatre, I met them for a pint at like seven. The show was a hard pass. And she was like, what are you doing?
Chapter 6: What culinary delights did David prepare for his parents?
Why are you here? Like this is a theatre show. You should be prepping and doing stuff. I was like, it's all under total control. And then the first five minutes of the show.
Absolutely.
well just just as regards little jaunty you must accept some responsibility for sending it in this direction by walking out with a bath that you said could be filled with whatever people wanted to fill it with i'm leaving it at the front of the stage
Well, I was discussing about, you know, the content and the language of this show and whether it's appropriate for children. And I sort of said that there is some swearing and there are some, obviously, sexual references, but in a nice way. And maybe this is a much better way to introduce these kind of references than, you know... sort of alt-right YouTube.
I think this is a great way in to those kind of things. Do you want some more feedback? Steve from Kent, Dear Generic Man 3, Any Old Irishman, and Mars Bar. Long-time listener.
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Chapter 7: How did the hosts discuss the Irish women's rugby team's performance?
Currently sitting in the Pizza Express opposite the Hackney Empire with building excitement for the What Did You Do Yesterday live experience when lo and behold, yet more evidence that your podcast is the center of the known universe. We arrived early, too early, and there was barely anyone in the restaurant. Roll on, being halfway through our pizza and the restaurant's slowly filling.
They eventually start pumping in the background music. What should be the first song that plays? None other than Dancing in the Moonlight by not Toploader, but the original by King Harvest. Did you arrange this? Or is it just the inevitable way of things now? Not the pub. Everything is showbiz. Can't wait for the show. Break a bath full of cum, Steve says.
Well, just on that subject, you did bring a bath and then in the pub afterwards announced that your children hadn't been able to have baths on the evening because you had brought their plastic bath to the theatre.
Jamie messaged me mid-show saying, I hear you've sullied our children's baths. Elizabeth says, even more evidence that the show is the center of the known universe.
Chapter 8: What are the hosts' thoughts on the importance of posture and health?
Max told his guests a thing anecdote. Yeah, you know my quiz, Think of a Thing, which we almost certainly introduced. The thing about Think of a Thing is, you say it's a terrible game, but once, while driving through the west coast of Australia, I had thought of a thing Ollie, my friend, guessed Prunella Scales, and it was Prunella Scales.
Max told his Think of a Thing anecdote, the What Did You Do Yesterday live show at Hackney Empire, but the answer was Prunella Scales. Look what was on the seat plaque in front of us. Timothy West and Prunella Scales, literally embossed on the seat in front of them. I'm saying this, and she is looking at Prunella Scales right there.
Brunella Scales, to people who may not know, was Sybil from Fawlty Towers, the popular British sitcom of the 70s.
I could just about let people know who Dion Dublin is. We're not here to tell you who Brunella Scales is. This is some reaction to your wonderful Yesterday from Provence. What was the term? We're running low on... Rosé. We're running low on... We've got a lead to left with Rosé. It's like the crisis. It's like a war. This is a disaster.
Chloe says, I picture David as the Russell Crowe from an alarming Ridley Scott film, A Year in Provence, swaggering around the tiny village, charming locals. though not seducing Marion Cotelier due to the copter. David, I'll say what Max can't. I'm so happy for you to have such an idyllic time. Max, we love you. Hope the live show was a brilliant time for all concerned.
The audience leaving with a buzz of Dancing in the Moonlight spilling out of the auditorium. Yes, Sean says, Willie Rushton seems to be a very similar age to my daughter, who was born in February 2025 and is our only child. Before listening to this podcast, we thought we were ready for a second child. On reflection, more consideration is needed.
God, birthrights declining in the West, main factor on duty yesterday. Just, sorry, on the subject of the last email, the listeners who weren't at the live event, we might as well tell them that it finished with Max on clarinet, me on keyboard, Anish on guitar, playing a not that bad version of Dancing in the Moonlight by Top Loader slash...
king harvest you the funniest part of it was definitely because we had to make sure we were playing it in the same key so the day before because you didn't have sheet music you were trying to play it by ear i said can you just send me the first note we've discussed this on the last mayhem
if you remember oh we did discuss it on the morning of it I was playing the clarinet and on the morning of the show Jamie was trying to put a baby to sleep through that very thin wall I think it's worth saying because I played it very badly on last week's mayhem that it went better on the night it really did and there's a video of it that someone put up and you even have the audacity to raise the clarinet up like a Kenny G style I think is how we describe it
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