What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
WDWDY #75: New Listener Drive
18 Jun 2026
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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.
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Chapter 2: How do Max and David define 'yesterday' for their guests?
And unlike the millennium where everyone thought the world would end, but it didn't. The world might end here and it might. That's the difference. There was much, because we have been off for a week and there was much speculation. Someone on Reddit got so panicked that they just did their own yesterday. And it's got more comments than anything we've ever done. Yeah.
Danny wrote on Spotify, he wrote this, that an episode announcing there's no episode today garners many more comments from listeners than usual episodes of Midweek Mayhem is a perfect distillation of the What Did You Do Yesterday experience. We care about the little things. Max has taught us to question everything.
Sophie says, I hope the news is that the construction on the What Did You Do Yesterday theme park has started.
We have broken ground.
Yes. We're both actually, we're doing this podcast from a dig. I'm in a backhoe loader and David is in an excavator. Kareem says, if this is yet another quiz where we have to guess what the news is, I swear to God, it's like shaking fists. Damien says, I just saw DoD an hour ago coming out of B&Q carrying a new bathtub. Oh no, they're doing it. I think this is my favorite.
There was speculation about whether we've signed like a huge advertising deal with someone. And Glaucus Blue says, regarding adverts, I always tend to skip an advert if I'm not fixing a roof. But the thing is, Max and David have effectively jeopardized virtually every potential sponsorship opportunity by either dissing the brand, accidentally preempting the sponsorship, or
or setting said brand alongside mentions of BOCs or other dubious content. A quick squiz of everything in showbiz has already ruled out Lululemon, Premier Inn, Dodo's, Hotel DuVernay, Pret, Huel, Whoop, MasterCard and Visa. Curse see of Josh Willikens' observation that no one uses MasterCard or Visa, no one cares. Guns, see Rose Mantefeo.
Hammerite, Ron Seal, Brill Cream, iPhone, Squarespace, Emma's Mattress, Monsanto, Whale Oil, All Meal in a Box Brands, Brooks Running, Matcha Tea, Dark Chocolate, Fairy Liquid, U-Fit, Cerealid General, Araldite, No More Nails, Flora Proactive, Worming Chocolate, Qantas, Aldi... Agassi being touted to sell anything and everything in the shape of a tennis racket, including bellows.
Aldi pan sales have now plummeted. Any others? At this point, the only viable sponsor I can think of is Octosoc, maybe Pizza Express or Tony's Chocolonelys. I guess there is hope for a Moomin's collab. They can take an unexpected detour into the adult realm. What's the news, David? What's the news?
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Chapter 3: What are the new features of the podcast for listeners?
Yeah.
You know, where you shave the... Friar Tuck style. Yeah. So that will involve wearing those sort of brown robes and sandals the whole time.
A brown cassock. I mean, literally, Charlie and I had this exact conversation that I should rebrand as a friar. Would this help things? One big worry is at Melbourne Museum in the Children's Gallery, there is a bit where, a mirror bit, where it's like mirror, mirror, mirror, mirror, mirror. There's like a thousand mirrors there.
obviously the lift I understand it's like that but like times a million that could be really where I start to like drink Rogaine or you know get a hair transplant but oh no but anyway I don't think I will it's okay all because of planking all because of Ben Elton it's all because of Ben Elton I would never have decided to plank for five minutes unless Ben Elton said he planked for five minutes and now it was one of my best video and interestingly like
from that first video, I got so many followers and I was like, what do they think? Who are the people who before were like, not that guy. Now I'm like, maybe this is, you know, every man fitness tips. Is that what this is? What do they think they're going to get?
I still get, if you go into the dark folder on Instagram, still every week, there are three fitness type guys, Gavin fitness types who are asking me to collab on a journey, a fitness journey. Yeah, turn this old sloppy bod into some prime sirloin.
Well, maybe we should go for it together. And obviously, this is the first podcast we've done and everyone has discussed the diary of the CEO man, Stephen Bartlett, saying he had a glass of wine and it ruined three days of his life.
Yeah.
The best bit is when he said, I didn't podcast as well. You messaged me saying, didn't you have like four bottles of acai?
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Chapter 4: How did Max's planking challenge evolve?
Because if anything funny ever happened, his shorts would fall down.
If Cliff Richard starts singing or someone dropped a tennis ball or a pigeon appeared and sent a court.
literally lost their minds he had to stay totally morose for fear of the giant pop and then his shorts just falling down like when you used to do judo did you used to do judo there was always someone at judo who hadn't tied his trousers on they would and like there'd always be two of you like holding each other's judo shirts but none of you had a fucking clue what you're doing and then you're just waddling around in the middle and then someone mark cooper's trousers would fall down and you know it brought the house down absolutely brought the house down
Hi, team. In the last episode of Midweek Madness, Max is not convinced about the virtues of a bath of chowder. And if you need a wee, what are you going to do, he objects, as if the same question does not equally apply to a regular bath full of water. Or am I the only one not pissing in the bath? Everything is showbiz, concerned in Christchurch.
it was such an odd question to ask i don't think so so indelicate it's my final meal i'm about to die so therefore i'm having a bath of chowder of course i'm not going to pee in it for goodness sake no i understand that but what the question from concerning christchurch is if you're in a hot bath would you wee if you needed to no the only fluids i've weeded are okay okay The sea.
The sea, correct. The ultimate chowder, some call it.
It's quite deconstructed as a chowder, isn't it? The sea, isn't it?
Some would say too salty. And a pool a few times when I was little. Yeah, okay. And just trapped, you know, or just didn't want to leave. Yeah, I understand that. I apologize for that now.
I wouldn't pee in the pool now. Mainly because I just wonder if I'd had a Barocca and then...
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Chapter 5: What humorous anecdotes do they share about their everyday experiences?
She wanted me to give that feedback. I do recall when we did it live in Melbourne, and the audience were very excited that Sam Campbell would be coming out eventually. And then we played them a six-minute jingle about cheese. They didn't look that happy.
It's time for their Just Normal Countries redux.
I am the one and only What country could I be? I am the one and only Where in the world could our listeners be?
Here we go. Northern Marianas Islands, Lesotho, Malawi, Suriname, South Sudan, Sao Tome and Principe, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, correct, Guyana, Curaçao.
Dear What Did You Do Yesterday gang, on the assumption that this podcast is in fact the center of everything, immediately after watching Max's video of himself attempting to outplank Ben Elton while repeatedly insisting he was not trying to be a fitness influencer despite by definition... attempting to influence people's fitness.
YouTube showed me a video about the disputed territory's enclaves and assorted border weirdness between France and Spain. Given that the algorithm clearly knows something I don't, my guess for their Just Normal Countries Part 2 is Andorra. Oh, yeah. And Mexico.
In case you're wondering how your influencing is going, I did briefly consider giving the five-minute plank a go, but fortunately, my albeit reasonably mild ADHD means I keep getting distracted before I can become insufferable about core strength in it for life, but not planks. Amy, Christchurch, New Zealand. David, please bring your next tour here.
I fear with this because Andorra is a skiing destination, isn't it? I think it's in the mountains.
We're big in the skiing community. Alberto Tomba loves this. Play it out of speakers in Kitzbühel above the cowbells.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of the 'In It For Life' campaign?
You know, you're doing all right when there's two audience members with Bromptons beside each other. What was her gold medal in? She, I think it was the silver max. But what was it in? A sailing. Sailing. Okay, fine. And she's pivoted now. I think she's trying to do very serious cycling. Something that I'll probably do in a few years time.
Pivot away from, no, actually, no, I'll keep doing the podcast. I go for a walk to listen to this podcast. We go to the park where I do more of my hip exercises. I'm basically a hip exercises guy now. I get a text from former guest on the podcast, Celia AB. Oh, I like Celia. Has she found the key fob? Is that she telling you she's found the key fob? She's on tour at the moment with Nick Muhammad.
who you may know from Ted Lasso and many other things. And she's in Belfast and they're coming down together. And I say, oh, great. We'll come to the gig tonight. Can we get tickets? That would be great. And she says, yes, meet me for lunch at 1.15. So we've got the day's got some structure. She then, however, texts me almost immediately afterwards to say she's quite tired.
Let's put that off till 2.15. She will then text me after that to say, well, let's put it off till 3.15. She's tired. I know, but when you're on tour, I get it. You have these notions, but because you are basically concentrating for the show, I say, let's just leave it. I'll see you at the show tonight.
Have you just sat still for the three hours waiting for these text messages? Or have you filled your day?
The listening to the show takes an hour. It's quite changeable. So I get soaked and come home and change my outfit and then decide, here's what we'll do. We'll take mum for lunch. Ah, lovely. My 20 year old niece is going away for a few weeks. So I get her on board and we are in fact going to take mom. She's getting her hair done. We will do the shopping with the list while that's happening.
And then we'll all go for lunch afterwards.
So this is wonderful planning.
The shopping goes reasonably well, but we will find out. Mom's just written stuff on the list, like stock, you know, bread.
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Chapter 7: How do they handle listener feedback and suggestions?
You're better off without it.
Or if maybe the walls and the ceiling of the storage facility all just close in like in Star Wars. Yeah. All of your stuff is just reduced to a single stock cube and they just hand it back to you.
Oh, I see. And then to get all your stuff back, you just boil the kettle and you pour it in a fucking stir around and then all your stuff. That's a great idea.
That's an idea. Wow. On the way back, I find out I be an outbid on a house.
Oh, you wanted that house too. Yeah, but it's not the end of the road. Oh, I see. All right, you can come in Billy Big Balls and go.
I know, but so now my mind is filled with, you know, numbers cascading through the matrix. And can we afford to put more bids in? Do we try and blow them away by putting in a bid for like, would $300 million secure the property? So we will be discussing that for the evening. It's time for Nick Muhammad's show pony show in Dublin. Oh, good. Really good.
I'm meeting Eva, my cousin, who lives in America and is back. and the Helen Kupter. And we meet in the pub beside the venue where we order drinks and then there isn't enough time to have the drinks. So I just down the pint really quickly. Good idea. And then straight into the venue because I think it's about to start. And then I realized it's not going to start for another minute.
And so I order people more drinks and I go to the bar, but I've ordered Helen Kupter wanted a ginger beer. an alcoholic ginger beer. And so I say, well, I'll have that too, because it's been an energetic day and a guy with these hips needs rehab drinks like that. And I get a wine for my cousin. But then the bottles of ginger beer, there's more than a pint in them.
So I'm left with kind of a third in each. They're quite large. Fentimans? Fentanyl. Fentanyl.
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