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Podcasts, there are millions of them. Some might say too many. I have one already.
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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.
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But nobody is covering the most important topic of all. Why is that? Are they scared?
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Too afraid of being censored by the man? Possibly, but not us. We're here to ask the only question that matters.
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We try and say it at the same time, Max. What did you do yesterday?
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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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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.
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I'm Max Rushden. And I'm David O'Doherty. Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Hello and welcome to Midweek Mayhem.
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This is a big show, David, isn't it? Because this is a... I mean, I'll stop you there.
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Please do. There's a crying wolf element to this, because you do always say this, but this actually is a big one.
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Yeah. This is a... If you're listening to this, Willie Rushden has been born and named after his grandfather.
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And it's great, because the whole family loved Through the Keyhole. So much. And Mrs. Rushden wouldn't let me call our second son David Frost or Lloyd Grossman.
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And so we've called him Willie. Incredibly specific. And so at the moment, I am even more exhausted than normal and dealing with a newborn baby.
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So these are episodes that we don't know exactly when they're going to go out, David.
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But they are still... They still have the essence of midweek. Midweek mayhem. Yes. Yes.
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Maybe they won't... I mean, it's not like this is a highly topical show. You know what I mean?
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It's not like this is the news at 10. It's not like people come to us to get their news.
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In many ways, it's more topical than anything. But you're right. The yesterday we're talking about for David will be a yesterday from a week or two weeks ago.
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And I'm excited. There's one reason I'm really excited to hear about you. Yesterday, which is that we recorded a What Did We Do Yesterday, Midweek Mayhem yesterday.
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And I want to hear David have to talk about recording that. This is ridiculous levels of podcasting.
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If a podcast could get more self-indulgent than that, I struggle to see it. Adrian says, paternity leave.
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I thought you were committed to this podcast. I bet Stephen Bartlett doesn't take paternity leave.
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I did wonder, David, if... The day after Willie is born, that I could somehow sneak in and do an episode, you know, do the birth episode.
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But I think that would not, that would be a betrayal of my role as a father.
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I'd be using, you know, you don't, we don't put our kids on, I don't put my kids on social media.
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I think therefore doing a What Did You Do Yesterday, the day after Willie was born would be incorrect ethically.
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I mean, I don't want to get philosophical already, but didn't you say that everything was showbiz, Max?
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Well, listen, me and Hitler, the two, as we've established, the two people that say everything is showbiz, you're right.
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I should be live streaming the birth without telling my wife and then sticking that out on Twitch.
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You also, to the listeners, you will have noticed that me and Max, I mean, we did not appear at the Trump inauguration.
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You could have scanned that entire. Stadium and no sign of us, what they wanted us to do a live, one of these at it, just go on after Nelly or whoever else was playing at it.
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And we said, no, so no, who will we, who did they want us to do?
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They didn't want us to do Donald. They were, we were going to start with Rudy Giuliani, what he did yesterday.
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And then, and then we were going to do Rhys James. Yeah. And then Rhys James, they were the two.
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Yeah. Um, Damien says, uh, dear David and Max on a recent episode, you asked listeners to write in and tell you where they listen to your podcast.
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Well, I listened to your episode with Chloe pets while running the Doha marathon today.
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I was inspired to listen to your podcast during the run after the lady farmer from the South of Ireland described how the podcast was perfect to listen to when you were doing something that meant you couldn't concentrate on the podcast.
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Also lady, lady farmer. Is that what we say? You can't say anything these days.
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You can't even say lady farmer. There are two types of farmer, farmer and lady farmer.
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Um, so after I got going this morning and while I was still in full control of my faculties during the first half of the race, I listened to Ken early and Jonathan Wilson drone on about Arslan spurs on second captains.
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Their usual over analysis required a reasonable degree of concentration, but at 29 kilometers, just as my legs.
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We're starting to tighten and delirium was setting in. I put you guys on, I'll be Frank.
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I remember very little about what was said apart from whether or not David would be on the front page of the Irish times.
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If he died, he seemed to think he might on a quiet day. My instinct on the matter.
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I am Irish is that that death would need to be particularly gruesome, even on a quiet day for him to make the front page.
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But despite the fact I remember very little, what I do remember is you made me smile and chuckle at multiple points between 29 and 41 kilometers.
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The episode ended with a kilometer to go all that last kilometer in silence. Or would you have, cause I find when I'm running to get my phone out and sort of check, you know, change just, I'm too tired to do that.
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Maybe he did the last K of Doha. He did in silence. I would like to thank you both.
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As I think the smile you put on my face, got me home. Keep up the amazing work.
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He says, Dave. Well, congratulations, Damien. Thank you, Damien. The that's the wall. Is that a 29 K to 41 is the hard part.
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The, the first bit's a holiday. You're thinking, why don't I do this every, I mean, obviously I've never done a marathon, but from what I've heard, maybe all marathon runners should use what you do yesterday.
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Yes. Another practical use when Moses Kipton, newie or is it Wilson Kipkitter and cider
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reaching out and suddenly they put AirPods in or giant beats by Dre and they go, which episode shall I choose?
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Ah, the Dara O'Briain episode. Ding, ding, ding. Lou Sanders. I'd like to thank when they put the gold medal on, I'd like to thank Lou Sanders for getting me this gold medal.
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I've done two marathons, David. Have you really? I've done another marathon twice. The first time I did it was in 2005, maybe or six.
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Yeah. And glory years. Was this the glory years of soccer? No, pre-global. It was pre-glory years.
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And six weeks before I went to Goa and got dysentery. And I would point out that this is not the ideal way to prepare for a marathon because I had no energy and it took me quite a long time, five hours, something like that, the next year.
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And I committed to never doing it again because I was overtaken by a 200-year-old man and a cream bag.
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And I had a cream bun on the mouth and I was sad about it.
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Like a guy in a cream bun costume. Yeah, not actually a cream bun who had run 26 miles.
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It's like, what was that film? Was it Young Einstein where all the cream buns came to life and they started attacking?
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It was really absolutely terrifying. These cream buns. Was it Young Einstein? It's absolutely, it's one of like my sort of visceral movie sort of fear memories is the cream bun.
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The cream buns attacking someone. What I love about your cultural back catalogue is that there's certainly there's gaps in it as to who Samuel Beckett is, for example, when it comes to Yahoo Sirius, he loves his whole canon of work.
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Young Einstein. Do you know what I have been meaning to like buy a Samuel Beckett play or book and read it?
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I don't know. I'm on paternity leave now. I'm absolutely screwed. But like, that is my plan is to surprise you with some Beckett at some point.
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No, I've told you it may spoil the surprise, but I can't wait to say, well, that reminds me of insert Samuel Beckett thing that I'm yet to know about.
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The following year, 16 of my friends tied themselves together and ran the marathon. We ran as a chain gang, which I suspect we wouldn't do now.
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It was a different time, but it was like we were chained together. So we, and we ran the marathon.
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I get it. Did you have stripes? Did you have prisoner stripes? Yeah, we had stripes.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was prisoner six. And there were, so there were 17 of us.
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Cause I was like, well, if they're doing it, I can't let them get, you know, I'd get FOMO.
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Yeah. But this is very hard. Like if somebody needed a wee, we'd all stop and do a wee and I get stage, I get stage fright.
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And so it was very hard to like. You know, I haven't gone yet. And they're all going, have you gone yet?
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I haven't gone. And then someone needed a number two and we all had to like, we had to queue.
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But we were, it was really good to be behind us in the queue because it wasn't 17 people.
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It was just one person going. So that person really shot into that porter cabin after us.
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But hang on, Max, were they able to de-chain for the number two? No, no, no, no, no de-chaining.
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So the person either side had to sort of pedestal the porter? Yeah. I think there was enough slack in the system for them to just be outside.
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I don't remember. It was, it was down the back. That sounds like human sense of bleed.
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I didn't know what was going on down the back. The problem with, like they always say, when you run a marathon as part of a chain gang, you're only as fast as your weakest link.
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So I would imagine within the group, there was disparity. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. There was real disparity.
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But the issue was that Ian, who was like number two or three, kept saying, to the front, obviously they set the pace, Max wants to slow down.
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And I didn't. Well, I did, but I wasn't saying anything, but he was pinning it on me.
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But everyone knew that how sort of mentally weak I was, that they just presumed it was me.
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I think it was five and a half hours. It was a long time. And I said, I'll never do it again.
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And I've never done it again. Now, David, look, we are, we, we have committed to these paternity leave specials being just half an hour.
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Okay. And so that's the only correspondence we're going to do because we're going to get onto what you did yesterday.
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And I'm excited, especially because I know, I know part of what you did yesterday.
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And in fact, I tell you what I know. I know this, that you woke up to a text message from me about the podcast that annoyed you.
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I think that's, I think that's the first thing you saw, but it's your day.
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So I woke up at 7am Greenwich, mean time slash Irish mean time. And that was because the Helen copter is doing a lot of classes at the moment in a budget gym
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that require you on the day to book into the class and the booking system opens at 7am.
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So you got to get getting tickets for Oasis. It's that kind of thing. She's been on, she's realized it's 2am for box fit.
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Yeah. And then it's a four grand to do it as well. But you think you've got a bargain because you've been online for hours.
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And so we wake up at seven. However, the Helen copter just turns off her phone.
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Uh, then she is not fully, uh, awake, uh, goes back to sleep. Uh, but however I am awake, I am less good at going back to sleep.
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So I look at my phone and there is a, there's a text from max there.
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And the text says, I mean, can you remember the exact wording of it? I don't want to go back to my phone.
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I think it says to book more a listers, which is apt. I mean, firstly, I'm sure you know, listeners that I have been involved in booking many of our guests,
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whereas I did say I'm aware. I'm not really contributing at the moment. I did.
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I caveated that. Do you ever see that changing? Do you ever see a time when we will start going into your Rolodex of nineties footballers?
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What point is it where you really take on the bulk of the booking? So we need more a lister is.
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Yeah. Let me tell you this. I have emailed NASA and said, this classic email NASA to say, I do a podcast with David O'Doherty.
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Could we have an hour of somebody at the international space station's time to ask them what they did yesterday as yet?
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No response. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I did get one of those. I did get one of those automated responses saying we will get back to you.
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So I typed in the email address correctly. The, whereas while you've been doing that and thank you firstly for doing that, I've been burning through, through social capital with my friends,
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hassling them again and again to do this podcast. Not all of my friends, just picking people who I think would be really good at it.
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And generally I think we've done a pretty good job so far. Yeah. So then for your feedback to be get more, like, can you get who's been in?
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Paul Rudd. So I want Paul Rudd. Yeah, exactly. And we haven't got him yet.
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Yeah. And Bob Mortimer. I'd like, Bob Mortimer. I know people who are with Simon Pegg's agent and then Pegg could talk to Cruz.
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You know what I mean? Okay. So like I would contact, I would, I think I could probably get Simon Pegg's number, but then what a call that would be where I would be.
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Hey Simon, I'm doing this podcast. You know, Max from the guardian from the football, he'd be like, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Do you have Tom Cruz's number? Fucking hell. I mean, I think, I think the best way, the best way is to get Peg.
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And I think that would be good. And then we do Peg and he has a great time.
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And at the end, we, if we say, if we just kind of said, do you know anyone else who might like this kind of like a kind of like really open question and then see where that took us,
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that would be our way to Cruz. But I don't know if I want Cruz on this, if I'm honest.
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So I've just found it. The, so the specific message from you is, I think we should, we should get some more A-listers.
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Now, in fairness, you then follow that with, I am aware of my contributions to this are limited.
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Can I give you context? I'm in a cafe and I've got like an hour to do all my work.
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And so I write like a list of things to do. And I go through each thing, you know, talk sport, the guardian, you know, the project, all my, you know,
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like all these things I need to think about. And I'm just firing off stupid messages.
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And it's like, it's like, I've sent this at three in the afternoon for me.
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This isn't like you've woken up to this. And that's why I need to think about that when I send these sort of bullying.
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Do you know? No, it's, it's not just that. It's the idea. Do you know what I compare it to?
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When, when the Apollo started and some comedians just quite surprisingly became galacticos, like multiple nights in arenas.
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I remember, cause I'd done a lot of gigs with like Michael McIntyre and John Bishop and people like that.
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And I remember mum, saying to me one day, you should do arenas. Do you know what you should do?
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You should do, you should do a movie. Oh wow. That's a really good idea, mum.
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That's absolutely. You should. She's right. Why didn't you do that? Anyway, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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And I know that was how your day started. You should start a computer company in Palo Alto in the 1970s.
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I don't know, the eighties. Conceive of desktop and Windows. Windows software at the end of the nineties.
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Can I tell you, can I tell you, my dad, I went home once to see my parents and he'd said, he's always given me ideas.
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And generally his ideas are an educational quiz show. That's what he likes. He's always coming up with an educational quiz show, but he wrote down, he'd written them down on like an envelope,
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the back of an envelope. Great. In his sort of doctor's handwriting. And it was, why don't you introduce poetry to classic FM?
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And I was like, well, I don't work for them. And I probably doesn't surprise you to know, David, I don't know a lot about poetry.
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You know, I've got a couple in my locker, but you know, anyway, it was a lovely idea.
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Anyway, it's your day, David. So I lie there just mildly miffed. So my response was just in capital letters.
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This is quite annoying to you. That sent me into like an, existential spiral. I don't know, upset David.
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I didn't really, you know, I was just firing off shit to people. And so then I did think, oh no, maybe I've upset David O'Donoghue.
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You don't seem easy to upset. And I don't think I would upset you, but I was concerned that I'd upset you.
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So I tried to turn it into some sort of, into a joke or something.
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And I think producer Marsmarth thought that you were upset. So he added into this jokiness.
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And then we started joking with each other. Well, you didn't say, you'd probably gone back to sleep.
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Nope. I, so I knew that I had, I think the best thing to do with, it was never a palpable fury that I was feeling.
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It was just mild annoyance, which is, which is much worse, really. And I also knew that I have to see you to do a fucking podcast at 9 45 AM.
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And it's 7 45 now. So how do you possibly burn through that mild annoyance? And I talked it over with the Helen copter.
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We really, I went, it got to conversation level. You actually, you were like, I've got a problem at work.
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I need to talk to you about it. We had a funny misunderstanding where she thought that you had tweeted it at me.
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So the public would have, been really bemused by it. But I said, no, it was just a, it was just the, what did you do yesterday?
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Text group. And so we discussed it over. She made a porridge type thing that is clearly very healthy because you could use it to put wallpaper up.
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You know that it's a small guy. Yeah. It's nice. It's good stuff. You only need a little bit.
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And you're raring to go. Drank several coffees and came online for what did you do yesterday?
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Yesterday, which was a midweek mayhem, which is where you need to be freewheeling. Yeah.
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Joie de vivre. Now, so did you come onto the call? Were you still annoyed when you came to the call?
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Did you have to get yourself out of, did you were like, I hate these bastards.
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Yeah. Specifically Max. Yeah. As I approach the microphone, that's how I feel. But then something about your gormless expression on your, this sort of, this sort of, I don't know what any of these buttons do.
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It felt like that. And immediately, how could I not love you? You know, that's a relief.
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That's a relief. Immediately. I was just like, I, this is just, this is just who he is.
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He's the guy. What did Helen say? What did they say? What did the Helen Copter say?
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Did she come to my defense? Yeah. I mean, the Helen Copter is, is very sensible person and was definitely true.
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We were both trying to figure out how you, why you would have texted this to me.
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I think you're being a bit oversensitive about this as well. It's just the fact that you mentioned some nineties footballer, and how you've been in touch with him again, but he wants five grand.
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So whereas I have been pestering Darryl Brian or Richard Osmond or whoever it is to do our, our podcast.
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And so look, it's immediately. I felt my fury dissipate. Okay. Well, that's seeing you in your little box sitting there in your shed in Australia, waiting for a baby to come.
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you're, you're wonderful. Mrs. Rushden sitting yards where you are now, probably watching various housewives of various places, just staring at her massive bump.
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No, do you know what she is now? She got through all of that, this weird South Korean cooking show because Ed Gamble watched it right.
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We're like, the voiceover is so ridiculous and all we're doing is eating. They're eating like octopus all day.
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Yeah. And now she's, she's on love is blind because of Celia AB. So like, I know.
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So the biggest takeaway from this podcast is that now Mrs. Rushden watches all the crap that all these A-listers that you've already booked are watching.
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I did have this with Colin from accounts, which came from Ivo Graham's episode of this.
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It's good, isn't it? And really, really good. Okay. So we do the podcast yesterday.
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It was, you might notice a tiny bit of, uh, frost at the start of it, but immediately that's just melted away and we fall into our thing.
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You know, I do fundamentally love doing this. It's nice. It's really nice. Yeah. Which is why we go over in time every single time we ever do it.
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Um, we do the podcast. Uh, I, um, so I used to eat straight after the podcast cause you finished at about 11 AM and you go to the kitchen and you're like,
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and even though you've had a breakfast, it was quite a long time ago. Uh, but in the 2025, uh, new me, he doesn't do that anymore.
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Ah, yeah. Okay. Hmm. I know it was getting ridiculous there. I got straight on the bike, got straight on one of my most beloved bikes and headed off for my favorite cycle in the world,
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which is to the Phoenix park. It's about five kilometers to Europe's, largest city center, walled park.
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I think it's what it is. It's like 3000 acres. So you just ride off into it.
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Uh, my thing is I keep riding till I find the, uh, flock of deer or whatever deer are.
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What do deer come in? Yeah. A herds, a herds, a gang. How did you select the bike?
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Cause you have 19. Yeah. Or is there just one that's, are they all ready to go?
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Are they all like looking at you like puppy dogs wanting to go? Yeah. 10 of them, 10, 10, or 11 are around the house because yesterday it was a little cold.
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I wore gloves for the first time on the ride also with frost and whatnot.
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Now I didn't see any frost yesterday. You want a wider knobblier tire. Okay. So I selected this bike.
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That's from the early two thousands. There was this called a cyclocross bike then, but now would pretty much be called a gravel bike.
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And yeah, I just, just to the listeners who are, I think you've getting back into cycling, get wider tires.
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The pros are now riding the very wide tires. And it was a joy. It was such a good cycle.
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Can I ask you a question? How do you stop your undercarriage getting pins and needles?
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Or do I have a problem, a medical problem? Do you have a saddle or are you just sitting directly on the seat post?
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That's it. I knew there was, yeah, I've got a saddle, but that really like, eventually I just go, Oh, this a bit, it's a bit pins.
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It's a bit like something's a bit numb down there. I'm just like, Oh, off the top of my head, I would, I would say a saddle moves up and down.
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We all know this, but a saddle also moves backwards and forwards. And the front end of a saddle is like a hot dog.
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It's a not particularly comfortable hot dog that you sit on. Whereas the back, the back end of a saddle is a luxurious sofa of a thing.
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So what I would say is that you're sitting on the, on the front part of your saddle.
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And what you need to do is get the padded bit under your rump. And I mean, there's been a real advances in saddle technology in recent years.
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There's a, I think that might be the definitive David had already lied in the history of this podcast.
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There was a period in the nineties, where cyclists were claiming we're not that it was affecting their bone errors because it was putting pressure on whatever the pipe is directly on the vast difference on the wow.
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Dr. Son there. Yeah. On the, uh, Perron is right. I see. So, uh, the, they, they started cutting out the middle of saddles.
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So a lot of really good saddles now are missing a whole bit in the middle.
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So you could just drop your, you could drop your, I don't like the word junk, but you could like, you could put all that down in the little hole.
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You could essentially penetrate the, that's not what you're supposed to be doing, but in a way you could, you could have it.
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I guess you can stick it out the back if you really, uh, if you really wanted.
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Okay. How long is the cycle? About 25 K. So maybe, uh, an hour, an hour and a bit.
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Nice. Had a bit of coffee midway through. Do you listen to anything? Yeah, I did.
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I, I listened to our greatest competitors of all. I listened to some music, which is what I'm trying to do.
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Then I listened to nothing for a while because my, uh, number one mantra for 2025 is try to enjoy something for once.
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So I was, I did enjoy that. And then I listened to your message to listeners to stop listening to this and just enjoy that.
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Take your headphones off and just take everything in. Yeah, that's exactly it. Yep. And then I listened to, uh, some of my, uh, uh, best friends make a podcast.
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They're, they're the second captains guys and they do proper, they do sports podcasts, but they do investigative journalism stuff as well.
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And they have a podcast about, uh, informers in the IRA in the eighties and nineties.
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That is an incredible piece of work. Uh, so I listened to that song informer by snow.
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That's where that came from. So Mark Horgan, who has spent several years and you imagine how difficult it has been on him and in his life, because you're talking to X IRA people and X security forces people.
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And I, you know, I think it has taken over a large part of his brain.
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And yet, uh, after I listened to it, I said, I really enjoy it, but tell me this is the song informer by snow.
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And he said, not the first person to make that joke. So, yeah, I would imagine it's something that, cause like I am in awe, of this mammoth piece of work that he's done,
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but also I have to make jokes and you obviously can't, there's nothing much funny to say about the subject matter.
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So immediately I see where your brain, the internet of your brain is shooting towards informer by snow.
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It's like QI, isn't it? If you had QI in life, we'd just go, ah, ah, seriously.
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You are, you're going to ask about ambassadors and Ferrero Rocher. And now, and now you've asked about snow and informer.
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Um, I'm just, I'm every man. I can't help it. Um, so we get back from the cycle.
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Yeah, we get back from the cycle. It's time to do some work. Now. The thing is you're, you're switched on now.
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That's the great thing about a cycle. You never regret a cycle, even on, you start banging on about this.
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Like you, every cycle you ever do, you're like, Oh, and then my, my carrier got stuck in my hair and I crashed into a swimming pool.
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Wow. Your impression of me is almost as good as your catchphrase buzzer impression. Really good.
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If this podcast is ever struggling, if we've ever got a guest and we're both like, we're really treading uphill here.
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Just do that. Whatever they're talking about. Just do your bazing. Came back. I'm starting to, I'm doing a tour.
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That starts next week. A UK tour. So I'm writing some bits for that. Putting.
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Yeah. So it's, it's actually quite an enjoyable thing to do because I have a lot of material.
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So then you can be like, what would I really like to, it's not one of those tours where it's come a bit early.
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And cause I've kind of been touring around Ireland for, with this stuff for the last year, it's evolved into something else.
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And now I'm ready to take it to Hartlepool. So what you did some work, you did some writing or just some practicing.
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It's very hard to practice in front of the mirror. Yeah. You know, what is it about peanut safe?
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That's what I did. I've thought about your son so much when you said that sometimes the Leon Rushden comes into your little shed and does podcasting.
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Where, what is it? He puts the phone, the phone covers that go over your various microphones on each hand and they talk to each other.
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Yeah. No, he just sort of said, he just goes really, he basically goes right up to the microphone, just puts his mouth on the microphone like this and says, I'm doing the podcasting.
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Okay. So we work away for the afternoon, not much to report there, but I decide.
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So the Helen copter has been making a lot of delicious, delicious food recently. In fact, she has done some, what you would have to call batch cooking.
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Right. She made a giant, delicious pea soup the other day. And then she made whatever.
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I'm pretty sure if she hears this, she'll be furious that I've called it a bolognese because it's some Italian thing with different sorts of mints in it.
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And. Just go ragu. Just go ragu. It's a ragu. Yeah. It's a ragu. It's a delicious root.
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So I decide I'm going to show her, I'm going to do some batch cooking of my own.
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Now, the thing about batch cooking is what you don't want is two people to do batch cooking at the same time.
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With no Tupperwares. Not only are we running out of Tupperwares, but David, we already have these dinners planned.
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Why are you now? However, I don't think of this. How far ahead are your dinners planned?
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Do we, do we know if I was to get, the calendar out and say, uh, what, what will you be having for dinner on Thursday, the 27th of March?
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Would you know? That sounds like the title of another of our podcasts. Um, no, no, no, no, no.
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It generally someone does something. Uh, there will sometimes be some stuff left over in the fridge.
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Uh, I decide I'm good. Now we had a party, just after Christmas. And there's still a lot of interesting booze left over from that.
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There's like, right. As a bottle of really posh of vermouth, which it turns out is delicious.
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If you just put ice in it, you know, you don't do anything. And then there was a six pack of white claw and I haven't drunk very much.
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White, white claws, like alcohol, white lightning. Is that sort of cider? Is that like you're a teenager and you're learning about booze and it's 40 P a down?
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No, it's way more sophisticated than that. Although I'm sure some of the listeners will disagree.
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It's a sparkling spring water with a booze in it. Flavored. Okay. Generally in quite gauche flavors like lime and wild cherry.
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It's not like a kid's drink, but like a kid's boo, try and get the kids into booze type drink, but it does go down very, very easy.
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So immediately on beginning the chicken noodle salad that I'm going to make, we are suddenly three, like it's only half five and we're three cans in a white wall.
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We're three white clothes in. Wow. Are you batch cooking a chicken noodle salad? Cause that isn't lasting.
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Yeah. Cause you'll get a couple of days out of it. You'll certainly get lunch tomorrow.
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Maybe. Okay. Add the Helen copter texts from work. Uh, at about six as the whole thing's really coming together to say, uh, great.
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Uh, just heat up that ragu from yesterday and we will have that for dinner.
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Now that is not possible because I've made a rapidly perishing large meal from a different jurisdiction.
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And so I think it might've been. And that's sad for Helen because it's, it's not warm.
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She's at work. She's been thinking about this ragu. It's got better over time. And now you're going to like, you are going to like, you're going to end this, this relationship is going to end.
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You're going to give her a cold chicken salad. Like if I was, if I had my heart set on a bolognese and you gave me that, I'd be so sad.
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This is, this is exactly what I'm thinking, but we also have the fog of white claw.
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So I decide, Oh shit. Okay. We'll have the ragu as well. And no one has ever put these two things together.
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So I decide we're going to have a starter. The starter is again, huge errors here.
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The star, I fry up some onions and some peppers and I throw in the ragu.
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What I'm going to do is Italian burritos. So hang on, hang on. So, so, so sorry.
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Yeah. Helen wants the ragu that she has made. Yeah. Not only have you made an extra chicken salad that she doesn't want.
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Yeah. You are now desecrating. Yeah. Now that's, that's the key point. Because you're wasted.
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Because you've been drinking hooch all afternoon. Yeah. I just hadn't considered that I was desecrating her ragu that she had spent probably two hours reducing it right down and all the rest.
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So why whack it in some flatbreads then with onion? It tastes nice, but, but you do, you understand why probably you put the roughest mints into a normal burrito, you know,
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cause it is just basically a shite in a shoe. And so Helen arrives back and is like, Oh my God, my ragu.
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And I'm like, hola, welcome to Mexico slash Italy slash Japan also. So you've basically, you've opened a fusion restaurant in the time she's gone to.
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A horrible fusion restaurant that you just know from the squareness of the plates, you know, this is going to last about six weeks max.
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So we have little raw listeners. Have you ever tried to fuse two cultures in a meal like this?
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We, we have a ragu burritos with a side of, of chicken noodle salad. Is Helen like polite at the time?
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Yeah. Cause I would say me and Mrs. Rushden would eat. Even if we go out for dinner, we will say it's delicious.
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And I'd say about four days later, one of us might say, I didn't actually love that chicken, but like, we don't want to spoil the moment.
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No, because the independent elements of this, I make a great chicken and noodle salad with the sort of, uh, sugary soy, uh, uh, sauce.
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It's just the last thing I want with a spaghetti bolognese. Can I have a side of a, yeah, exactly.
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Just that's what I want. So we, it is, it functions fine as a, as a meal.
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We again, put the rest back into the fridge and I've started to sober up now from the three cans and I can see what I've done.
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Similar. I would imagine to you when you realize you've sent the text message of the response.
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No, it's, it's much worse than that, Max. Uh, but the great thing about the Helen copter is she takes it in her stride and she says, let's watch a movie.
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I don't know whose idea it was to watch a movie, but we decided to watch a classic movie.
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Okay. We're trying to do the thing where, yeah, you take a risk on a new film.
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We're going to go and see that, uh, Bob Dylan, Timothy Chalamet one tonight. Okay.
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Yeah. We decided to watch dog day afternoon at sort of classic seventies heist film with Al Pacino in it.
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And the thing is these movies rarely let you down. You know, it's like, there's a reason it's in everyone's top 50 movies of all time.
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And they're not all just keeping up appearances. So yes, I enjoyed it very much.
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So I understood that first is not all your top, top 50 films are keeping up appearances.
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The movie, which anything with hyacinth bouquet, Pacino bouquet. That's what it says across the top of the post.
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The spinoff, the spinoff of, uh, when they just really focused on Onslow and his life, that movie was one of my absolute favorites.
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Um, did you have, did you have any more, uh, white claw, whichever glass of wine with this movie?
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Nope. I was, uh, definitely done by that point. Yeah. I, I, I had a philosophical moment, not dissimilar to the last time we had a midweek mayhem.
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You had a nap that went on for two and a half hours and you sort of woke up confronted by the magnitude of the earth and all of the mistakes you've ever made.
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Yeah. Yeah. It was a bit like that, but then Al Pacino got us out of a hole.
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Then we went up to bed and yep. That was, that was my yesterday. It's a good day.
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It's a great day. Yeah. It was a grab. It was, there's a, there's learning moments in us.
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Uh, main one being if someone makes a nice meal, don't try and turn it into something that it's not.
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That's so good. That's so funny. I'm, and I'm sorry, that, you know, my text led you to have an actual official meeting.
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You know, you haven't done anything so far to, uh, prompt me to sit down with Jamie to say, I'm having some trouble with David.
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That's not, that's not happened yet. I, again, Max, we're still getting to know each other.
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Yeah. Anyways. And, and now I just know, I've realized I've got to just tread on eggshells around you.
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Cause otherwise, you know, you'll have, too many meetings. And I realized I just have to mute you on my phone.
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So that's what I'll do. Eight hours, 24 hours, six months. We'll go with the six months.
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Um, ah, well, that's a good paternity leave episode. I just to review it straight away.
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I've enjoyed it. I'm just conscious that we might try and do another one right now.
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So if we do that, what do you think? Do you want to do another one?
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Um, because for the listeners, this will come out, they'll hear this bit. And then next Wednesday, whenever it comes out, they'll hear literally us talking like a minute later, starting an episode with the enthusiasm that you need to start an episode with.
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But in reality, having just discussed our first breakdown in working relations on the previous podcast.
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Yeah. But we're, we're up to 44 minutes now. I see what this one, this was a genuine attempt to do a 30.
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Yeah. Yeah. 30. So, we didn't even have, we didn't, we couldn't do curdle mastermind. What did you fund do yesterday?
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Because we don't know when the timings it's just, that would not work with the timing.
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Yeah. We're floating in space here. We don't really yet know what, I mean, can I, I can't even say congratulations to you really, because it hasn't really happened, even though in hearing this,
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it has. So again, I'm left floating in space too. So I guess we just, that's what we're doing.
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We just scuttle away from Max's Paternity Leave special. But please get in touch with us.
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Cause otherwise this is what happens. What did you do yesterday? Pod at gmail.com.
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And here's a, here's another way of it happening with some piano music. To get in touch with the show, you can email us at what did you do yesterday?
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If you liked it on your preferred podcast, And if you didn't, please don't. Thank you, David.
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Thank you very much, Max. I'm excited as we embark on this new chapter of your life. Perfect.