What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
WDWDY #6: A Normal Door Moment
05 Feb 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?
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Chapter 2: How do Max and David handle listener feedback?
Another customer rang me irate that I'd rented her a film in French without warning. I had to assure her that George Clooney cannot speak French and that she just had to toggle the audio settings rather than come in for a different disc. All the best.
Oh, extra vision. Rest in peace, extra vision.
Damien says, one of you, David, I think, asks listeners to let you know what we were doing while we were listening. Well, I was making 2.7-meter diameter central supports for bespoke wooden cable drums. None of this process is automated once the raw materials, lumber, nails, and specs come to me because everything is non-standard sizes. I was doing this in Rihimaki in southern Finland.
If you make me laugh too much, there's a slight chance that I will chop my fingers off with a bandsaw. But luckily, this hasn't happened yet.
What do we think cable drums are? Do we see them as percussive in a Sir Dion Dublin type way? Do we think this is how he invented the dube, maybe?
That's a good question. I had them as some kind of sort of large industrial thing.
Yeah, maybe they're cable drums. I don't think you'd get a sound out of it.
He says, it gives us his day. My alarm woke me at 4.50. I ate some oat bread with cheese and ginger jam and drank some black coffee before walking 3.46 kilometres to work at 7.00. I cycle when there's no snow or ice, but it's winter.
I did buy some spiked tires so I could cycle all winter, but I ended up with stigmata when I fitted the front tire, so I haven't got around to fitting the back tire yet. This didn't happen yesterday. Technically, not fitting the rear tire has happened every day since I got it. I enjoy your podcast. It does make me laugh a lot, just within safe margins.
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Chapter 3: What funny movie mix-up story does David share?
My final paragraph is this. Yes, please. Sorry. I wasn't actually doing that. The bike that I really enjoy at the moment is... So there's a lot of bicycles being stolen in Dublin. There's a lot of bicycles being stolen everywhere. How far... But the thieves generally can't spot a good bike from a shiny bike. So the question is, how far can you push...
it before it becomes shiny you know you can put a lot of really good parts on a fairly wrecked frame and uh right because that's your round town right about which i think it is important to have a nice one of those so i have an absolute beaut of those moments that i have been tweaking a lot i've been writing it now for four years and it hasn't been stolen so yeah that's a that's a
particular avenue that i enjoy in addition to cyclocross and racing bikes and gravel bikes and then old 26 inch mountain bikes which are which are where the best mountain bikes in the world up until about uh 2009 and they're available for really really cheap now so if anyone's saying they would like a fancy bike uh look at the old 26 inch mountain bike wheel market
This is Claire's fault. Interestingly, on the shiny thing, this is why it's really dangerous to put Spokie Dokies like too many because then that is a surefire way of your bicycle being stolen.
It's how you know the Tour de France is passing your house because you just hear it. Doodly-loo, doodly-loo, doodly-loo.
Hey, here's a really nice compliment from Katie. Hello there. Thank you for your outstanding podcast. I look forward to listening each week, usually whilst I'm cleaning the bath, scraping old poo off the toilet, or just pottering around the house wondering why no one else is capable of putting their shit away. It's the perfect accompaniment to such tasks. I am really busy.
I'm a primary school teacher, freelance writer. I've got two young boys, tutor evenings. I'm training for a marathon. Oh, my God. Wow. As I type this, I'm thinking of four things I was meant to do an hour ago. However, this email just could not wait. David's laugh is just exceptional. It's just the sweetest, most contagious laugh, and I can't believe it hasn't been discussed yet.
Every time he laughs, I find myself smiling like a proud mum watching their child's first school assembly. It's just lovely, like a velvet waterfall. It fills my heart with joy. Max, you also sound just the nicest person, and you also have a great laugh, but there's something about David's that particularly makes me smile. Please never stop the podcast. Can you please get Mel Gidroych on?
As her episode of Off Menu is one of the funniest hours of all time. If you haven't listened to it, I promise you'll love it. Thank you for all you do. Life is hard sometimes, and I love listening to you both. Silliness is underrated in life. I encourage it with my own kids and the kids I teach at all times. And that is from Katie.
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Chapter 4: What insights does David provide about his son's gymnastics class?
Anyway, we go, we have a bit of lunch. We're all exhausted. So at some point I go and lie down. Mrs. Rushdown lies down and we just listen. And in another room, Ian is playing with Lego for an hour. And we're like, this is really good stuff. Great. He's playing on his own. It's an important skill. Then he said he wanted to go bowling. So we go bowling.
Wow. Yeah. Hang on. In Australia, there's two sorts of bowling. There is your classic. Oh, this is temping bowling. Temping bowling. Yeah, we're going temping. I'm always surprised, Max, how in Australia, lawn bowls has a hipster following as well.
yeah but it sort of has i think it has a bit of those you know when like people go to asker and just like fornicate in the sheds you know like sometimes i think people go to do lawn bowls but actually you know they're just getting wasted at one in the afternoon it's like a legitimate way to just get shit faced the only time i've ever done it was with one of the great comedians of our time hannah gadsby who was a child champion of lawn bowls wow
Hannah was a champion golfer when she was younger she played with Adam Scott who won the Masters a few years ago on like some Australian duo team she's so sporty and I I've always fancied myself, you know, a sport that you've never done, but you think, yeah, I'd be pretty into that.
And so the ball, the reason they make the ball, you know, in lawn bowls, the ball sort of, it moves across the line. That's because it has a weight in one side of the ball. And so I put the weight on the wrong side. And so the ball just headed left and straight across the games of maybe three other elderly couples. who were doing lawn bowls.
And with me just running after it, like the way that the pros do, you know, that sort of confident jog, maybe with a pipe in my mouth.
It's called Tony Alcock. Tony Alcock.
Destroy. Yeah.
is that really his name willie woods i think used to be a bold guy as well it's the interim of tony alcock and they'd show up two little red uh lights and the crowd would go absolutely wild um so we went to mp bowling and uh ian got little bowling shoes which were incredibly cute and we gave him a six-kilo ball, which he could hold.
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Chapter 5: What humorous anecdotes are shared about parenting challenges?
oh no they do things they you know there's like the the the tractor will pick up some hay uh actually sometimes it's like you know a man is knocked off his bike and the toy ambulance comes and like takes him to the hospital um but you know they don't have there's not like it doesn't get to the stage where like there's like a you know a family room and like a toy comes in and says i will take a seat
You know, it doesn't get that extreme. It's a really catchy tune that I now find myself singing along like wherever I am because I've heard it over and over again. How does it go? Yeah, this is really nice. Yeah.
um this has had like 700 million views or something and you know it makes me think i just think i should get a cameraman around and just set up me pushing toy cars around yeah and i would never need to work again i i just don't know why i haven't got around to doing it i'm quite busy then um mrs russian takes ian to bed uh there's a bit of lego uh he's throwing the lego everywhere so it's just time you know come on mate
Uh, then I eat the butter chicken. Mrs. Russian goes for a walk and I eat the butter chicken. And, uh, then I finished the butter chicken. I record an episode of football weekly. I record paternity leave part one of what did you do yesterday? Yeah. I discover that I've sent such a horrible text message to David that he's had to have an official meeting with his wife.
And I found out that he got drunk and he absolutely, he turned one beautiful dinner, uh,
into to into a terrible dinner by adding more things to it and now we're doing this um my main question is uh how's mrs rushton doing is she doing okay i know this is your day so obviously you've been focusing on that but in the background is this uh nine months uh pregnant person
Well, as people are listening, we're all just staring at a newborn baby saying hashtag blessed to each other. Great. Over and over again. Right now, she's absolutely fed up of being pregnant. Yeah. And there's a... Willie Rushton is like burrowing into her ribs. Yeah. And she's with a 45-year-old man who's complaining about being tired. So, you know, she's had better times.
She's had better times. Well, I think you've really prepared Ian Rushton. He is excited. He'll probably take over a lot of the work now as well. It's a division of labor. Yeah, I think so. You'll just hand the newborn to the three-year-old and be like, there he is now. You guys just have the crack.
On the 22nd of... January, which is today, 2025, Russell Howard is playing Bergen in the Griegenhallen in Norway.
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