What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
WDWDY #73: I'm Eating Bullets
27 May 2026
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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
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.
Chapter 2: How is Max managing solo parenting?
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's Max Rushton. Alongside me, David O'Doherty. Welcome, David.
It's the toughest one, isn't it? The first one after we didn't get the hosting of Strictly Come Dancing. It's the toughest podcast to do.
I, like everyone, I was in the running. And my first thought when Josh Whittakin goes, I could do that. Yeah. Despite having never watched an episode of Strictly, I don't think that should rule me out. Of having no link to the show and not being in the right country. Yeah.
Chapter 3: What challenges arise from solo parenting?
And not really being at that level. It would have been a real curveball if I'd got the gig. Let's be real.
It would. And you'd be so unclear with it. You just bring your football chat to it. You'd be like, so the top of the table's decided, but who is going to be relegated? Over to you, Anton the judge or whatever. I'd be like, why does this guy think this is a football show?
You know, really, have they overlooked Unai Emery here for Cha-Cha-Chara of the year? That's... Hey, can I say hello to Kat, who I met at Play Nook today. It's not my yesterday, it was my today. We were chatting and young Willie Rushton was running around with one of her friends, little kids, and she had a three-month-old called Morgan. And then she said, do you do a podcast?
Chapter 4: How do David and Max prepare for their live show?
And then we had a nice chat. And her mother-in-law, Gay, came to the live show in Melbourne.
Wow.
yeah the unfortunate thing about this podcast and there are many some yeah but one of them is that so this is going to be my yesterday when we get around to it it is but could we just lift the lid a little bit not so much on your yesterday because that's against the rules but this is day six of your wonderful partner being away and you in charge of
your children and people who've listened to the podcast before may have noticed that sometimes you get tired when you're looking after them and that's when you're only doing 50 or less of the work less let's be real david i'm what's known in the traders i am eating bullets right now
Are you eating bullets? I'm fucking eating bullets, man. What is it today? It's Thursday today. So Jamie left for a much-deserved holiday last Friday at 4 a.m. Yeah. So Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. This is night seven. And Willie Rushton has been getting out of bed at 4 o'clock every morning, except once when he got up at 3.
What?
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Chapter 5: What humorous anecdotes do they share about parenting?
Not acceptable behavior. It's not on. It's not on. My work to do at the same time. Sure. I'm making a lot of risotto and I'm just drowning in a risotto of tears. That's what I'm doing. Such a beautiful lyric that is. It's like a Frankie Valli song. I'm weeping chicken bone broth into a pot of Arborio rice.
Are they of an age where you can bring Jamie on a iPhone, like on video call?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Does that just make them angry though that she's...
yeah it's sort of weird it makes them occasionally happy occasionally willie will burst into tears or later ian will be like i miss my mom and then they're totally fine for a bit and then yeah i am going to pick her up at the airport not just because it'd be lovely to see her and it'd be lovely to see her but also because then i'd be like i and maybe i'll just book a flight that leaves 10 minutes later i mean i gotta go
it has been good to do to prove that you're capable of it but just the amount of organisation that is needed is just the relentless of it is quite extraordinary anyway people love the Shane Daniel Byrne episode a lot of correspondence mainly on things that Andre Agassi could advertise
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Chapter 6: How do they discuss the pressures of daily life?
So to the listeners, I think it's Lidl, possibly Aldi. Lidl. He is endorsing a brand of pans. Yeah. And in the picture, he is holding the pan like a tennis racket. So if you didn't hear the episode, there was a discussion of you made the point he can only advertise things shaped like a tennis racket.
And then we quickly got to Bellows and the, you know, the sort of relative sales figures of Bellows through the ages, which is. Obviously where this podcast would always get to. Producer Will sent us a picture of Andre Agassi in a banjo. I can't believe we didn't get to banjo. It's got strings as well. It's got everything. Like it's absolutely made for Andre, isn't it?
I know, but imagine the sound the banjo would make. as you hit it with the ball and then it raises an even bigger question which is would Andre Agassi beat me at tennis if he was using a banjo me with a Dunlop Max Fly and him with a banjo
Chapter 7: What insights do they offer about food and cooking?
It's a different phrase. You know, he couldn't hit a cow's ass with a banjo. It's like he couldn't hit a double backhand down the line with a banjo. Well, if Andre Agassi was playing, you know, another great tennis player of the 90s, if it was him and Jim Currier, if they were both playing with banjos, would it play Cotton Eye Joe? as the game was playing when that happened.
Expensive Zebra on Reddit said, surely one for Agassi's agent to get onto. And it was a different Reddit post that they had read, which just said, today I saw a lollipop man walking away from presumably his finished shift and he had his lollipop in a custom lollipop carry case. It was like... It was like a large lollipop-shaped tennis racket case.
I've never been more gutted to not be able to take a photo of something in my life. A friend suggested they have to keep their lollipop sheathed when they aren't on duty so they don't accidentally stop traffic. Truly, they are too powerful. They have such power in Melbourne, lollipop people. They're like really in your business.
Like if you're on your own and you cross the road sort of near them, they're sort of really annoyed with you that you haven't like used their crossing.
Chapter 8: How do they wrap up the episode and engage with listeners?
You can't complain about this. You can't complain about this. This is like a column does twos. Absolutely. This is Adrian Childs. Absolutely out of ideas. You know what ticks me right off? The arrogance of lollipop people. My question is, so if I got the case with the outer case with the lollipop in it, do you have a second lollipop in there?
And before you start the shift, do you sort of bang the heads of each other to find the correct tension?
If you get a points violation for a terrible crossing and you smash your lollipop, you go and you get another lollipop. What a long bag that would be unless they have a sort of little foldable thing.
you know pole it's not hand luggage is it you know you're gonna have to check that in for lollipop conventions it's also it's like a serious job in that they help children cross the road yet it's been reduced by its name to a piece of confectionery you know what i mean it'd be like if they have too much power that's all i'm saying
If, you know, in Fire Brigade, the people who like cut bodies out of crashed cars, if that person was called the Candy Floss Man, it deserves a more serious name than lollipop.
I understand, but they are holding something that looks like a lollipop. The person cutting you out of...
your rta is not is using like a mechanical saw he's not using something that looks like candy floss i think that would be the if i was to deconstruct your suggestion my point is i am 100 confident me with a prince pro racket would beat andre agassi with the lollipop because his would be fucked he'd have to throw it up so high
Although, if he got good at it, it may have been played even easier, bitch. From that height, if he got a bit of whip on the serve, you have absolutely no hope, have you? Jim suggested Wolfram Gladiators could advertise cotton buds, which is a really...
Oh, so this is other people from other sports advertising things that are shaped like the thing from their sport.
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