WDWDY #88.1: Prestige Broadcasting (David's Yesterday)

What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty

In this mid-week bonus episode, hosts Max Rushden and David O'Doherty share a series of personal anecdotes and respond to listener feedback.

Key takeaways

• Max Rushden recently returned to the UK following a 24-hour flight from Australia.
• Listeners shared enthusiastic feedback regarding a previous episode featuring comedian Rob Rouse.

Main topics

• Listener feedback
• AI and technology

Notable quotes

What did you do yesterday?

Conclusion

A lighthearted, rambling episode that rewards long-term listeners with

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:06) Podcasts, there are millions of them. Speaker 1 (0:08) Some might say too many. I Speaker 2 (0:10) have one already. Speaker 1 (0:11) I don't have any because there are enough. Speaker 2 (0:13) 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 Speaker 1 (0:20) is covering the most Speaker 2 (0:22) important topic of all. Why is that? Are they scared? Too Speaker 1 (0:26) afraid of Speaker 2 (0:27) being Speaker 1 (0:27) censored by the man? Speaker 2 (0:29) 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? That's it. All we're interested in is what the guests got up to yesterday. Nothing more. Day Speaker 1 (0:45) before yesterday, Max? Nope. The greatest and most interesting day of your life? Unless it Speaker 2 (0:50) was yesterday, we don't want to know about it. I'm Max Rushton. Speaker 1 (0:53) And I'm David O'Doherty. Speaker 2 (0:55) Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Speaker 2 (1:01) Hello and welcome to Midweek Mayhem from the people that bring you What Did You Do Yesterday? My name's Max Roshan. Alongside me today, Irish funny man David O'Doherty. Welcome, Speaker 1 (1:09) David. It's the most yesterday time of the week. It is. It really is. Listeners, long-term listeners will recognise that voice. That's the voice of a man who was on a plane for 24 hours and is just back in Australia. G'day! Speaker 2 (1:28) G'day. As producer Will said, he edits the yesterdays and he occasionally hears, there's the odd word I say where I sound incredibly Australian. And we suggested they were Struth, Cobber and Sheila. They're the ones, aren't they? Yes, I'm back in the motherland. But the podcast stays the same because we, as we know, are an international podcast. Only three countries Speaker 1 (1:52) with no listens. This podcast, we're so international. It's a bit like when Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell, they might announce just in passing, I'm actually in Kosovo at the moment. You know what I mean? The thing about us is you never know what country we're going to be in. Although Speaker 2 (2:09) Arbel made the point, how could you guys walk past the fact that in the same week the Hooties stole our tea towels? What did you do yesterday? You got two listens in Yemen. In it for life. Speaker 2 (2:21) They were listening to decide they did not like it at all. Those Speaker 1 (2:25) details are going to get it. Hey, Speaker 2 (2:27) so much love for Rob Rouse. Oh, Speaker 1 (2:30) my goodness. Speaker 2 (2:31) It was an epic, wasn't it? Tessa, on a level with the epic Justin Morehouse Day. Phil, my two absolute favourite comedians, plus my favourite podcaster. What an episode. Rob literally making paint dry. Sounded hilarious, didn't he? David just quotes, without going into too much detail, like a cement mixer going down a well, of which Tiny Otterpaw said, that made me laugh so much I swerved into oncoming traffic. And Lynethleyboy says, I named my first car after Rob Rouse's Speaker 1 (2:57) dead duck. My favorite part of the episode, and there are a few actually, but is where mother-in-law in the garden gets possibly a Sainsbury's delivery. He looks into the granny flat 45 minutes later and her and the delivery man are both praying. That just came as a delightful. Speaker 2 (3:19) Surprise. Although there are some accusations that Rob is gaslighting his mother-in-law by criticising her for keeping someone on a line and talking forever as we sat there on hour six of the record. And he's saying, she does not half talk. Johnny says, this is on calculators. My world has been rocked. The discussion around the upcoming maths season has exposed my misused youth on the calculators as we used to go for the more... fulsome arithmetic of boobies 800-8135 as opposed to boobless 800-7355 incredible revelation yeah Speaker 1 (3:57) says johnny to you i say hello and also i offer a simple three as a bald man's comb is that what a bald man i think that's what it was lovely bit of feedback here from long-term listener b fox her mother was a b Her father was a fox. Speaker 2 (4:15) So Speaker 1 (4:16) there was a discussion of the department store of Sheffield. And there was a lot of people reminiscing about times they'd spent in this shop that just seems to sell everything. Yeah. In fact, that was my favorite bit of Speaker 2 (4:29) just Speaker 1 (4:30) us saying things and Rob saying Atkinsons. Speaker 2 (4:32) Just on repeat. Speaker 1 (4:35) B Fox says, I was the Atkinsons. Men's wear Saturday girl, 1995 to 1998. True story. Teenage Becky. He was once formally written up for not radiating enough visible joy and smiling while folding polyester golf jumpers for about two pounds an hour. It's the only blemish on an otherwise impeccable employment record. But if anyone ever needs their inside leg measuring, I've got some skills you never lose. So, yeah, Atkinson's. I Speaker 2 (5:02) love the idea of the, you know, stiff old northern man saying, you know, you've not been smiling enough. Here is your official warning. Lynn says, I fell asleep listening to an old Ellis and John podcast, ran onto all my new selections, including Football Weekly. I woke at 3.30am with the mention of Atkinson's. This was the home of the best Santa's grotto in Sheffield in the 60s and 70s. There we are. So thank you, Rob. Very kind of you. Money says, a lot of skirting around the TV game show DOD has just won a lot of prizes on, glossing over the fact that Max has already told us at some point. I'd already mentioned that you'd been on House of Games and then you kept it under your hat. I've had to sign Speaker 1 (5:44) something that says I can the producers of whatever show I may have been on, if they do hear this, note that I provided no fuel to this fire whatsoever. He didn't Speaker 2 (5:55) tell me. Speaker 1 (5:55) I just guessed. And then he took his House of Games jacket out of his House of Games Speaker 2 (6:00) bag. and took a pen out of the House of Games jacket and then took his House of Games glasses off and then started speaking to his House of Games microphone. But the other contestants were also there. Lucy in Ware says, Dear Max, DOD and Marsbar, Hackney was fun last night. Yes, thanks everyone for coming. Although it did cause much confusion for my husband. Being the lovely man he is, or maybe just not listening to me properly when I suggested a Monday night out at the Hackney Empire, he agreed to accompany me to see you all. so that I wasn't travelling home on my own late at night. Are you sure? I asked. You might not know what the hell's going on most of the time. Despite me telling him he'd love it, he's yet to listen to an episode of What Did You Do Yesterday. How weird can it be? He asked. Cut to last night, and I wished I'd captured the look on his face when the music started up and I started shouting, podcasts! There are millions of them, along with the rest of the audience. It basically said, are you in a cult? When he then leant over to me and asked, what's a helencopter? I thought we could be in for a long night. You'll be pleased to know, though, that his review ended up being, they're funny, aren't they? So well done all involved. I think I renewed his concerns. I'm in a cult this morning, though. His alarm woke up with the radio playing UB40's Red Red Wine as he mused how that was a coincidence after DOD. sung a bit of it last night during Ellis' rat in the kitchen anecdote. He then got a 10-minute lecture about there was no such thing as coincidence, and he was now part of the centre of the known universe. Can't wait to see his confused face when he's drying the dishes in a few weeks. Keep up the great work. Hurry back from your post-summer break. Yesterday's commute was frankly dull. In it for life. Lucy and Ware. Thank you, Lucy. I Speaker 1 (7:31) mean, yes. To the listeners, and we did discuss this on the member feed, but just to give freeloaders an idea of it, Ellis is yesterday, he was a special guest, opens with his AI cat flap goes off because a rat has been taken in by a cat at 5am. Contraband. Speaker 2 (7:51) Yeah, Speaker 1 (7:52) that is some use of technology. They say AI has gone too far, but not on the evidence of this. which is a sketchy use of technology at best. Speaker 2 (8:05) Although that man's really done the rounds with saying, AI will probably kill us in 10 years. Got people thinking, doesn't it? Especially when Trump is like, nah, just Speaker 1 (8:13) do it anyway. Speaker 2 (8:14) It'd be fine. Don't worry about it. Stephen says, hey, DOD, Mars Bar and template for that Sims character that you forgot to feed. Thank you. Listener since episode one, first time email it. Embarrassingly early in it for life are here. I've always been cynical about the censure of the universe idea and coincidence in general, but as Max said yesterday, the one with the bloke called Jennifer Surinam came to a close. He mentioned sitting down to watch Ludwig. My punner, I finished the second series last night. Not a huge coincidence, however. I've been somewhat put off by the fact that one of the detectives in the second series, Cole, makes me think of podcast alumni and Football Weekly pundit Jonathan Wilson. I can't shake the idea that not only is there a great resemblance, but given the mannerisms and, let's be honest, geekiness, that the writers of Ludwig have based their character in... Entirely unknown detective procedural fan, Jonathan Wilson. I could mention this to my better half as she is a normal person with no knowledge of either podcast, but she wouldn't have a clue what I was on about. Hence this email. There's no business like everything in show business, Stephen. Thank you. It's quite possible, isn't it? Now, David, Jamie has been in touch with some feedback. Speaker 1 (9:17) You've actually spoken to your wife in the last week. We were together for quite a Speaker 2 (9:23) long time in the last. 24 hours, it's worth suggesting. I Speaker 1 (9:27) got two photographs. Yeah. Some 20 hours apart. Both in an economy seat in an aeroplane. It's such a long flight. I know this is a very basic thing to say, but when someone sends you, we're taking off and we're shortly to land. The two are so far apart. I had basically become a different person. Whereas you were doing the exact same thing with various children hanging out of you. Speaker 2 (9:56) Jamie Speaker 1 (9:57) says, Speaker 2 (9:57) in the previous episode, Speaker 1 (9:59) and Speaker 2 (10:00) I didn't do this behind the paywall, I complained that she went to Speaker 1 (10:03) her Speaker 2 (10:03) second social. Two social Speaker 1 (10:05) occasions in one day. Speaker 2 (10:07) And I obviously had forgotten I'd said that to you and just got this message from her saying, I had two social engagements in a day in London after you had six weeks away just before you had a lads weekend. I was like, where's this? Where's this coming from? Like, anyway, she said, then she said, I'd like that added to the emails next episode. Hashtag justice for Jamie. I believe justice for Jamie could become a thread in all of this. I made the mistake of airing my dirty laundry, not behind a paywall, which is, it's a new way of saying. Don't air your dirty laundry in public. Air your dirty laundry on your subscription podcast. That's what you should do at all times. Speaker 1 (10:44) Were there any more sightings of James Acaster and what were the final standings in terms of... Sightings of James Acaster, 2026. Speaker 2 (10:53) Jamie Bruce, one. Max Rushton, nil. Jamie two, Max nil in the long-running series, James Acaster Sightings, in East London, in June slash July slash August of each year. So let's see what happens next year. If one of us to see him anywhere, I think that counts. And Edinburgh is tricky because, you know, if we're here when Edinburgh's on, he's not going to be, I know you saw him, but you don't count in this competition because Speaker 1 (11:27) you have Speaker 2 (11:28) a direct line to James Acaster. Neither of us do, which keeps it spicy. It keeps the spice in our relationship. The thing Speaker 1 (11:36) that I have been thinking about most from our last episodes. is to do with everything is showbiz.com and the fact that it's counting all the times I say shit. I think it was 435. Like we're basically neck and neck in terms of the shits. Oh no, I thought you were well ahead in shit and I'm well ahead in fuck. And my mom is well ahead in the C word. It's tough, I think, because sometimes that's a sort of placeholder word. When you're telling me of your incredibly boring yesterdays, sometimes to add tension to it, you'll be like, and then we went to Sandpit Park, and I'll just go, shit! Yeah. Keep the vibe going. Yeah, it doesn't, that's a different shit Speaker 2 (12:19) to, you know, shit, isn't it? That's like an excited one. And really, if this statistical analysis and breakdown of this podcast was worth anything, it would be able to discern between the different uses of the word shit for you. Speaker 1 (12:34) Your shits are more like one of my children has taken a shit on the carpet, whereas mine are just like, holy cow, or Speaker 2 (12:43) whatever else you might say. You're adding suspense and pathos to this, you know, if we strip it back, perhaps pointless expedition in podcasting. So yours are essential. Mine are just purely factual. And Speaker 1 (12:55) then the other thing I'll add