What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
WDWDY #4: People Getting a Latte in Brighton
22 Jan 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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? The third episode of Midweek Mayhem.
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Chapter 2: What interesting experiences did Max share about his day?
It's the greatest achievement in the history of humankind. Thank you. I win him. It honestly blew my mind.
I wasn't sure. People do seem to know it because around the world, there are different versions of catchphrase as well. Part of the franchise of it seems to be you use the same buzzer sound. And to be honest, I don't think I'd ever done it before.
Yeah.
You know what you're saying, like Alistair McGowan or Rory Bremner. You've been at the Mirror for years, working on all the buzzers of all the game shows.
My only ever impersonations were the late great John Matson saying Tottenham Hotspur, spooge. And I used to sometimes be able to do a Nick Drake impersonation that was sort of passable. Just singing that kind of voice. You know, and it was quite funny to do a contemporary song in that sort of 60s folky, 70s folky style.
But yeah, I didn't realize that my true metier was buzzer sounds from 80s quiz shows. Maybe it'll come up again in this episode.
yeah i i hope so i used to think i was i could do an excellent uh jim white from the sky sports news but i'd say i do like the seventh best jim white amongst other talk sport presenters who can also do jim white saying roland de chateau and shorter avalanche to the point where i did a quiz with charlie baker um
where i i said roland de chateau lee who was the owner of charlton athletic for a while and and i played them to charlie baker and he had to guess if it was to shatter jim or to shatter max and it was not the greatest radio quiz well it's it's gone down and people still talk about it It was quite obvious who was who. Caroline's been in touch. You sent me this, David.
My pod platform of choice, Iapod, didn't have the Sunday one up yet. So I listened to the midweek mayhem one discussing milking cows while I milked the one cow that has carved so far. By the way, the milk from our herd goes to make Dubliner cheddar cheese, Inception-level stuff.
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Chapter 3: How does the cheese quiz game 'Master-rind / Curdle' work?
So we can't, because no one actually has free will. Yeah. We can't change history.
Yeah. I, but I mean, were we not predetermined to do this podcast also? And then, you know, further back, were we not, were you not predetermined to have the idea for this podcast? Then ask me to do this podcast at a very cold cafe in Dublin about a year and a half ago. I said, so like, What's the point of any... Was he not predetermined to write that message to you? I don't know.
I feel the problem with the determinism argument, and I didn't think we were going to get into it this early in the podcast, is what's the fucking point of anything? We're just... Like, we were discussing this recently. Board games you play as a kid, that it makes no difference. Like, take Ludo or Game of Life, where you don't make any decisions. Yeah.
You might as well just have clockwork rolling things, moving the little counters around the board. It's a huge question.
Yeah, it's something to think about, isn't it? It really is. Niall from Gateshead has been in touch. This is excellent. Hi, David and Max. Like many people, I've struggled to understand why the what did you do yesterday part exists.
Yeah.
This is so philosophical, all of these questions. But this week, I think I found a clue. While watching the film version of the musical, The Producers, during the musical's showstopper, Springtime for Hitler, the man himself declares that, quote, everything is showbiz. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He sent the clip and it is Hitler saying everything is showbiz.
Some might see Max's tipsy declaration of the same in the Kerry Godleman episode as a mere coincidence. But for us non-sheeple, this is a blatant Freudian slip that gives up the jig on this whole what did you do yesterday charade. Clearly, Max's subconscious has revealed that the pod is in fact a producer-style scam to enrich you both the Bialystok and Bloom of self-generated audio content.
Clearly, you obtained huge investment for a podcast that you then designed to deliberately fail, thus allowing you to keep all the loot. I mean, who could possibly believe that a podcast about people repeatedly going to get a latte in Brighton after dropping the kids to school could be a genuine attempt at success?
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Chapter 4: What feedback did listeners provide about the podcast?
I mean, the irony of it, particularly in the week that's in it, is that if you were to launch a musical right now, as they do in the producers, called Springtime for Hitler, it'd probably be a huge hit. But inadvertently, we may have a hit on our heads.
When we'd actually sat in the cafe, one of us had just said, this might work. But honestly, if we just go full fascist, we could really clean up. We really could. Joe from Bristol says, hello. Loving the pod. I'm one of those who listens to podcasts to go to sleep. Sometimes you do make it into the cleaning the kitchen category. So don't feel too bad, he says.
In order to catch up, I decided to listen to the Nish episode while sleeping. i set a 15 minute sleep timer and it usually works this meant that every night for five days i got a 10 to 15 minute mini episode of the saga and every one of these episodes involved a shit wonderful stuff
That's what we try to do. Divide them into quarters. And yeah, always you need a certain few things to happen in each quarter. And one of those things. Yeah, certainly. I mean, we've apologized enough for that. If you're apologizing, you're losing, Max. We've apologized for that episode.
I feel like... You know how football commentators apologize when swearing happens in the crowd and no one cares? I think now people are okay with us talking about... I just think, you know, those who didn't like it are probably no longer with us. I can't. There's anybody who goes, I just can't bear that kind of chat. And but it's still powering through every episode.
Yeah, it is an interesting podcast to choose. It's probably a good one for going to sleep. I'm not saying we front load the action at the start. But the nature of most people's days is like your journey into sleep, whereby you sort of run out of steam. And eventually the person like you then goes to Steve. Like no one's had a really exciting thing. No one's had a fire alarm or anything yet.
No, you're right. Can we thank Rudy Creative who are in Colorado? Yeah. I saw this. Is that a friend of yours, David?
Yes. Yeah, I did a podcast in the pandemic and I knew that she was listening to it. She would occasionally send a message. But then after four months of doing this really bleak pandemic, is the world ever going to be OK? She made me an A to Z of.
of each letter being a different thing that had happened on the podcast it was just so beautiful and so clearly engaged with what uh the podcast was trying to be and all the rest of it and the fact that she listens to this is uh it's one of the joys of doing this max
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Chapter 5: What are the challenges related to dairy farming mentioned?
But if this is the first time you're listening, on the Boxing Day special, I didn't ask you about the cheese board, and my friends admonished me for this, and I felt terribly guilty. And this is where it has stemmed from. A lot of people emailed in, with cheese guesses who slightly misunderstood the format. Some sent one guess, they're ineligible.
Some also sent two or three guesses, inadmissible. You have to guess five. We all know that Castle Blue is the first one, but if you don't put that in, then it's not a game. It's like Wordle. You've got to still go with the letters, haven't you?
It really is. This is like people who just, instead of voting, just draw a big cock on the page. That's effectively, if you don't adhere to the rules, that's what it's like doing it.
Our next contestant is Jen Kelly in Dublin. Hi, David and Max. Love the podcast. Delighted you're doing a midweek episode. Max, you have a very sexy laugh and have a way of making the most innocent things sound filthy when you start to snigger. And I am the one here for that. Thank you, Jen.
Given that I was also responsible for the festive cheese board in my house, I hereby submit my entry for cheese board mastermind, Master Ryan Curdle slash what did you fondue yesterday?
And Max, just as we're about to have a guess here.
Yeah, yeah.
Do you think this might be a good time to do the person about to answer the question on catchphrase sound effect?
The thing is, I'm so scared that... that if you do it again, it won't be... Because you said you didn't practice it. I believe in you, but the thing is, if it isn't as good, I don't want to have to feign... I want you to do it, but I'm just saying, if you do it and it isn't quite up to scratch, I'm not going to feign...
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Chapter 6: How does Max manage parenting while preparing for a new baby?
You'd start playing Emmerdale or something. Whatever that was.
I wonder if anyone has ever mistakenly played the Emmerdale theme ever. I'm sorry. I won't put any pressure next week. And also for our first, for our live shows, this is going to be great. When we do like some quiz on stage and people are just, they're just baying for the catchphrase noise. It's going to bring the house down. You're never going to rise this all the time.
You spend years crafting your show and all you have to do is go on stage and go. Anyway, here we go. First cheese. Cashel blue. Alongside it, second cheese, French brie. Okay. Third cheese, in the middle, Allenwood smoked mature Irish cheddar. That's so specific. Fourth cheese, Wensleydale with cranberries. Okay. And finally, Stilton. Oh, my God. Oh, wow. We're still on a four-cheese board.
I didn't realize there were so many cheeses. And also because I thought I thought like these are not left field. In a way, cashel blue is the most left field cheese. These are all just classics.
I mean, I'll be honest with you. And I have quite basic taste in food. If there's a cheese board and then no cheddar, I am devastated. You sort of think you're guaranteed, like you'll have the smelly ones on the outside, but back in the middle, there's going to be a wookie hole and I can just focus on that one and have a good time.
If you want to guess what did you do yesterday, pod, at gmail.com, the first eligible guess is what we go with. That's it. Right. It's my yesterday, isn't it? It's my yesterday. Oh, yeah. Because we only do one yesterday. But we're not doing all quickfire and questions at the end. You can just ask as you see fit.
I will jump in. Max Rushton, what did you do yesterday?
Okay, well, I woke yesterday at 5.30 a.m. Yeah! Not through choice. And just for context, I finish radio on a Sunday at half past midnight. So this is not enough. This is not enough sleep for me. So I am exhausted. But Mrs. Rushton is eight and a half months pregnant. So it's an exhausted household.
You could explain that surely to Ian Rushton through the medium of trucks and tiny model farm machinery that give her just sleep in till 11.
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Chapter 7: What insights were shared about Australian sports culture?
Let me just step in here.
This is not a football podcast, but I did notice in one of your recent columns, you explicitly said that Spurs did not need to make a change in their manager. And then they get hammered. Are you getting a lot of messages while this is happening?
Yeah.
yeah um well i what i do is because i don't want to know the results i don't look at my phone yeah because i will you know there's whatsapps from the podcast whatsapp group and friends and my dad and whatever so i don't look at my phone so i don't i haven't got that yet because i'm still watching the defeat got it and um i'm watching a 25 minute cut down of that game and And I'm sad about it.
And I am trying to sell a secondhand column about whether Anne should stay to someone else. But no one is interested in buying it at the moment. I make young Ian a porridge, some porridge. And then around seven o'clock, Mrs. Russian swans out of bed. And then...
Eight and a half months pregnant, she swans down the huge double staircase in her home.
In a ball gown.
High-heeled slippers. That's a marvellous episode of Stinky and Dirty, she says as she sashays past the television.
Do you eat the porridge as well? I have a couple of spoons of porridge, but now Mrs. Rushton makes me some toast. And then there's some more general play. So she's going to an appointment. I cycle. I haven't mentioned this before. I have one bike, and I put Ian on the back of it, and I cycle him to childcare at 8 o'clock, and drop-off is good. And so then I go on my way.
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Chapter 8: What humorous moments occurred during the podcast?
I think that's why it's called the bewitching hour because it was your social time. And then you'd go.
God, how sad would that be? I've met at 1am to have a party. This is what you do.
Yeah. I guess you don't have a party. You watch stinky and dirty. Okay.
Yeah. Anyway. So I wake up and I feel like I've been shot in the face and I'm, you know, I'm a happy person, but for about 45 minutes, I'm really sad. I'm just sad.
Yeah.
I'm sad. I'm sitting on the sofa. I'm just, I'm like groggy and terrible company to the point where Jamie is asking me if I'm okay, if there's anything wrong. And I'm just incredibly sad. That lasts for about 45 minutes. And then I get, you know, then I think, hang on, I'm not eight and a half months pregnant. You know, I'm not the one. I don't have any right to feel like this.
All of our listeners are thinking this. Yes. Yeah.
So I snap out of it and I get on some really good admin. I book a car service. I take lots of photos of the shower because the shower head is the shower head slider. I think it's called is it's a, it's like a, you know, those cars where they stick two bits of a car together and they're an absolute death trap. Yeah. Right. A bit fell off and I bought a bit, but it didn't quite work.
And so I sort of drilled a other bit together. So once a month we have to, I had to go in and drill this thing so hard. There's no like thread on the nail or anything. I'm just fusing this bit of the shower rail head together and it's flipped again. And so it's time. It is time now to get the shower fixed.
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