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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? The third episode of Midweek Mayhem.
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David, how are you? I'm very, I'm very well. It's been an exciting, it's an exciting time to be a member of the What Did You Do Yesterday team.
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Because? You just sense, it's like, I don't know, the early days of, what's a real, Pokemon.
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It's like we've invented Pokemon and you just, the kids on the street. I was on a bus this week and a guy said he'd been, Oh, great.
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Someone else shouted What Did You Do Yesterday at me in a bike shop. That's two in a week.
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Yeah. This is huge. Do you want some feedback? Well, I was giving you feedback, but I'll have some of your, are you going to give me feedback on what I just said, Max?
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No, no, no, no. I like the fact that people know what, the only person who said it to me is my cousin, and that doesn't really count, does it?
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So maybe it's hitting more in Dublin than Melbourne at this stage of proceedings. Chris says, David, I had to pause.
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Pause the pod and stop cooking. To come here, this is on Blue Sky, and tell you that your impression of the catchphrase buzzer is not just the best impression of anything I've ever heard,
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it's the greatest achievement in the history of humankind. Thank you. I win him. It honestly blew my mind.
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I wasn't sure. People do seem to know it, because around the world, there are different versions of catchphrase as well.
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Part of the franchise of it seems to be you use the same buzzer sound.
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And to be honest, I don't think I'd ever done it before. You know what you're saying, like Alistair McGowan or Rory Bremner.
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You've been at the Mirror for years, working on all the buzzers of all the game shows.
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My only ever impersonations were the late, great John Motsen saying Tottenham Hotspur, spooge. And I used to...
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I would sometimes be able to do a Nick Drake impersonation that was sort of passable.
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Just singing in that kind of voice. You know, and it was quite funny to do a contemporary song in that sort of 60s folky, 70s folky style.
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But yeah, I didn't realise that my true matier was buzzer sounds from 80s quiz shows.
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Maybe it'll come up again in this ep. Yeah, I hope so. I used to think I could do an excellent Jim White from Sky Sports News.
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But I'd say I'd do like the seventh best Jim White amongst other talk sport presenters who can also do Jim White saying, Roland de Châtelet and Shorty Avalanche to the point where I did a quiz with Charlie Baker where I said Roland de Châtelet,
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who was the owner of Charlton Athletic for a while. And I played them to Charlie Baker and he had to guess if it was de Chatter Jim or de Chatter Matt.
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And it was not the greatest radio quiz. Well, it's gone down and people still talk about it.
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It was quite obvious who was who. Caroline's been in touch. You sent me this, David.
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My pod platform of choice, Iapod, didn't have the Sunday one up yet. So I listened to the midweek mayhem one discussing milking cows while I milked the one cow that has carved so far.
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By the way, the milk from our herd goes to make Dublin a cheddar cheese and she sent a photo of where she ate, like of just some udders and some things attached to the udder to collect the milk.
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It's quite an intense working environment, that, isn't it? Yeah, it's also the other person from last week, I think about a lot, who was milking another one of our dairy farming listeners and was having to avoid the poop shoot coming out the back of the cow.
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while they were milking. So it was a good podcast for that, as opposed to a more intense, the rest is history one, where you'd be more likely to get shat on.
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But like, obviously, I hadn't really considered how close you were to the udders. Yeah.
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Well, unless she's gone in, like unless she's really like zoomed in or like got right up close.
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Yeah. But they're quite in your face, you know? Yeah, I think it makes me feel like a real soft-handed college boy from this distance.
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Not even, no, just happily, you know, eating that cheese. Also, as regards Dubliner cheese, which is a classic sort of Irish, you know, just standard cheddar to respond to that.
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It's not one of the five cheeses. Right. We'll get to Master Ride slash Curdle shortly.
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You know how I kind of thought like how we booked, I guess, sometimes in advance, and it affects their day because they're thinking about their day.
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And so they change how they act. And so my view on this when I was in the, you know, the conception era of this was, would that be a problem?
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I'd say, no, we're changing history if that happens, right? But my friend Matt has been in touch, who famously did a dissertation on freedom and determination at Birmingham University in the year 2000.
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Wow. With all my knowledge of whether we have free will on his dissertation, and he told me that we don't have free will.
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And he has said to say, just listening to the Huge Davis episode, he says, quite a good one, mid-table for me.
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I hate to burst your bubble about what did you do yesterday changing history, but as my dissertation argued, it is still predetermined that you would ask Huge to go on your pod.
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Therefore, his day is still just playing out in its predetermined way. So we can't, because no one, who actually has free will, we can't change history.
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Yeah, but I mean, were we not predetermined to do this podcast also? And then, you know, further back, were we not, were you not predetermined to have the idea for this podcast, then ask me to do this podcast
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at a very cold cafe in Dublin about a year and a half ago? So like, what's the point of any, was he not predetermined to write that message to you?
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I don't know, I feel the problem with the determinism argument, and I didn't think we were going to get into it this early in the podcast, is what's the fucking point of anything?
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It's, we're just, like we were discussing this recently, board games you play as a kid, that it makes no difference.
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You, like, take Ludo or Game of Life, where you don't make any decisions. You might as well just have clockwork rolling things, moving things.
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The little counters around the board. Like, it's a huge question. Yeah, it's something to think about, isn't it?
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It really is. Niall from Gateshead has been in touch. This is excellent. Hi, David and Max.
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Like many people, I've struggled to understand why the What Did You Do Yesterday pod exists.
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This is so philosophical, all of these questions. But this week, I think I found a clue.
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While watching the film, I found a film version of the musical The Producers. During the musical's showstopper, Springtime for Hitler, the man himself declares that, quote, everything is showbiz.
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Oh, hey! Yeah, yeah, yeah. He sent the clip, and it is Hitler saying everything is showbiz.
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Some might see Max's tipsy declaration of the same in the Kerry Godliman episode as a mere coincidence.
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But for us non-sheeple, this is a blatant Freudian slip that gives up the jig on this whole what-did-you-do-yesterday charade.
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Clearly, Max's subconscious has revealed that the pod is in fact a producer-style scam to enrich you both the Bialystok and Bloom of self-generated audio content.
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Clearly, you obtained huge investment for a podcast that you then designed to deliberately fail, thus allowing you to keep all the loot.
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I mean, who could possibly believe that a podcast about people repeatedly going to get a latte in Brighton after dropping the kids to school could be a genuine attempt at success?
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Well, I'm on to you. And in the spirit of the producers, I pray that the pod becomes an inadvertent smash hit that financially devastates you both. In it for life,
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Niall. Busted. Busted. That is so... You know the way criticism only really lands because it's true? I am reeling. A podcast where people get a latte in Brighton having dropped their kids.
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Oh, shit. It is... Weirdly, I wasn't in on the fact that it is a producer style attempt to make a failure. But I knew you'd be such a failure that that's...
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I was like, who can I get? I knew this when I befriended you on social media. It was all because I knew.
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I'm sorry that you've had to find out from Niall and Gateshead. Wow. Really good stuff.
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I mean, the irony of it, particularly in the week that's in it, is that if you were to launch a musical right now, as they do in the producers' call, Springtime for Hitler, it'd probably be a huge hit.
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Inadvertently, we may have a hit at our heads. When we'd actually sat in the cafe, one of us had just said, this might work, but honestly if we just go full fascist,
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we could really clean up. We really could. Joe from Bristol says, hello. Loving the pod. I'm one of those who listens to podcasts to go to sleep. Sometimes you do make it into the clean in the kitchen category, so don't feel too bad, he says.
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In order to catch up, I decided to listen to the Nish episode while sleeping.
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I set a 15 minute sleep timer and it usually works. This meant that every night for five days, I got a 10 to 15 minute mini episode of the saga and every one of these episodes involved a shit. Wonderful stuff.
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That's what we try to do. Divide them into quarters and yeah, always you need a certain few things to happen in each quarter and one of those things. Yeah, certainly. I mean, we've apologized enough for that.
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If you're apologizing you're losing, Max. We've apologized for that episode. I feel like, you know how football commentators apologize when swearing happens in the crowd and no one cares.
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I think now people are okay with us talking about defecation. I just think, you know, those who didn't like it are probably no longer with us. I can't, there's anybody who goes, I just can't bear that kind of chat, but it's still powering through every episode.
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Yeah, it is an interesting podcast to choose. It's probably a good one for going to sleep. I'm not saying we front load the action at the start, but the nature of most people's days is like your journey into sleep.
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Yeah. Whereby you sort of run out of steam. And eventually the person like you then goes to sleep. Like no one's had a really exciting thing.
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No one's had a fire alarm or anything yet. No, you're right. Can we thank Rudy Creative who are in Colorado? Yeah. I saw this.
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Is that a friend of yours, David? Yes. Yeah, I did a podcast in the pandemic and I knew that she was listening to it. She would occasionally send a message.
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But then after four months of doing this really bleak pandemic, is the world ever going to be okay?
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She made me an A to Z of each letter being a different thing that had happened on the podcast.
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It was just so beautiful and so clearly engaged with what the podcast was trying to be and all the rest of it. And the fact that she listens to this is one of the joys of doing this, Max.
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Because she made us a Live Life Laugh poster. Like it's one of those, you don't have to be crazy to work in, but it helps. It's so good.
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And it's a big, it's yellow with kind of blue writing and it says, live each day like tomorrow you're recording an episode of What Did You Do Yesterday?
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And we've just got to get that in merch. We've got to do that as merch.
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Just have that on people's walls in A1. So nice. I think when we play the sphere in Vegas we could have it as the thing that covers the exterior carbuncle of the, I think that's what it's called, of the bunion that is the sphere will be covered in
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live each day like tomorrow you're recording an episode of What Did You Do Yesterday?
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Claire, our last bit of feedback before we go on to Master Ride and Curdle. Claire says, hi, I'm writing in as per David's request about what us, the ordinary folk, do whilst listening to the pod. I'm pretty sure I'm unique in sewing bunting as a heron
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deterrent. I'm pretty sure I'm unique in as a heron deterrent for around our pond while listening to the legendary Nish episode. In fact, I listened to your Boxing Day episode as well
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as it took ages. I can report that, though the Nish episode was a broadcasting triumph, the same cannot be said for the bunting as the lanky-legged grim reaper of a bird has eaten all our fish bar two.
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We have literally tried everything to stop Frank the heron from eating our fish. This is the third set of fish, and the kids have announced they will no longer become emotionally invested in them. This also means that if I was to be asked, what did you do yesterday?
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At some point, I'd be running up the garden shouting expletives to a giant bird who doesn't give a toss.
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I'm really enjoying the podcast, and Max, though I had to look you up as well, as a fellow lapsed clarinetist, I salute you. Love to you both, Claire. Thank you, Claire.
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Well, the answer to the heron deterrents, to me, is forget the bunting, take the clarinet out again and just every time one approaches, just start playing your theme from East Enders.
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Do you, um, I could hire myself out as a clarinetist heron deterrent. If this doesn't work, my next idea.
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And bunting, I didn't know bunting was a classic heron deterrent. Well, it appears it isn't, doesn't it?
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Actually, they love, in fact, many herons say bring out the bunting, don't they? That's where they want to be. Um, shall we go on to, and well done to producer Michael for excellent music and sort of the jingle for the cheese game.
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Really good. Brian in Belfast writes, dear David and Max, massive fan of the podcast, and I very much enjoyed the right cheese, wrong place special.
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Perhaps that particular one should have been called, what did you fondue yesterday? Really good. Really good.
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Do we now have to change the name of it to Masterrind Curdle What did you fondue yesterday? No, we'll keep it.
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Oh, will we go? Yeah, I think we keep making it bigger and bigger. Because, you know, this thing, it'll finish in a couple of weeks. They'll get the cheeses. I mean, obviously every part of me wants this to go on. Absolutely
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ever. But here we go. We did get one last week. So ladies and gentlemen, it's time for Masterrind slash Curdle slash What did you fondue yesterday?
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Five, four, three, two, one. I've got cheese! This is cheese! Now, if you remember, Ian Cade last week correctly guessed Cashel Blue in the right place.
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So it is now a four cheese board. Can I step in here? My fear is that you failed your great presenter.
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A lot of people said Chamberlain did all the heavy lifting, but I think on Soccer AM and the Glory Years, you were the one.
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But you haven't really explained the basis of this, which is that at Christmas, I was charged with getting the O'Doherty family cheeses.
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And so I bought five different cheeses that people are now attempting to guess. Yeah, and during the Boxing Day episode, I mean, I just presume everybody thinks about this podcast all day every day, so they're just in on it.
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But if this is the first time you're listening, on the Boxing Day special, I didn't ask you about the cheese board.
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And my friends admonished me for this, and I felt terribly guilty. And this is where it has stemmed from.
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A lot of people emailed in with cheese guesses who slightly misunderstood the format. Some sent one guess, they're ineligible. Some also sent two or three guesses, inadmissible.
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You have to guess five. We all know that Castle Blue is the first one, but if you don't put that in, then it's not a guess. It's like Wordle, you've got to still go with the letters, haven't you?
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It really is. This is like people who just instead of voting, just draw a big cock on the page. That's effectively if you don't adhere to the rules, that's what it's like doing. Our next contestant is Jen Kelly in Dublin.
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Hi David and Max, love the podcast, delighted you're doing a midweek episode. Max, you have a very sexy laugh, and have a way of making the most innocent things sound filthy when you start to snigger, and I am the one here for that. Thank
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you, Jen. Given that I was also responsible for the festive cheese board in my house, I hereby submit my entry for Cheese Board Mastermind Masterrind Curdle slash What Did You Fondue Yesterday?
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Max, just as we're about to have a guess here, do you think this might be a good time to do the person about to answer the question on catch phrase sound effect? The thing is I'm so scared that if you do it again it won't be because
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you said you didn't practice it. I believe in you, but the thing is, if it isn't as good, I don't want to have to feign. I want you to do it, but I'm just saying, if you do it and it isn't quite
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up to scratch, I'm not going to feign appreciation. But I think you should still do it.
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I'm thinking about it too much. How about I do it next week? That is presuming What a tease!
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What a tease for listeners! Jen doesn't get them all right now. And if she does get them all right, we'll never hear the sound again.
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Right. Okay. Wow. But you'll do it next week. Okay. Did I put you under pressure there? I'm sorry, Dave. I didn't mean to do that. I mean, to go back to your clarinet days. Yeah.
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If someone said, play the theme from EastEnders to you, you'd be like, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah.
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But if someone was like, play the theme from EastEnders and don't fuck it up, because I really doubt you're going to play it right, you would fall to pieces.
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You'd start playing Emmerdale or something. Whatever that was. I wonder if anyone has ever mistakenly played the Emmerdale theme ever.
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I'm sorry. I won't put you under pressure next week. And also for our first, for our live shows, this is going to be great when we do like some quiz on stage and people are just they're just baying
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for the catchphrase noise it's going to bring the house down you're never going to realize this all the time you spend years crafting your show and all you have to do is get on stage go anyway here we go first cheese cashel blue
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alongside it second cheese french brie okay third cheese in the middle alan wood smoked mature irish cheddar that's so specific fourth cheese wensley dale with cranberries and finally stilton oh my god oh wow we're still on a four cheese board i didn't realize there were so many cheeses
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and also because i thought i thought the like these are not left field in a way cashel blue is the most left field cheese right these are all just classics i mean i'll be honest with you and
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i have quite basic taste in food if there's a cheese board and then no cheddar i am devastated you sort of think you're guaranteed like you'll have the smelly ones on the outside but back in the middle there's gonna be a wookie
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hole and you can just i can just focus on that one and have a good time if you want to guess what did you do yesterday pod at gmail.com the first eligible guess is what we go with that's it
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all right um it's my yesterday isn't it it's my yesterday uh because we only do one yesterday but we're not doing all quick fire and questions at the end you can just ask
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as you see fit i will jump in um Max Rushden what did you do yesterday okay well i woke yesterday at uh 5 30 a.m yeah not through choice and just for context i finished radio on a sunday
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at half past midnight so this is not enough this is not enough sleep for me so i am i am exhausted but mrs Rushden is eight and a half months pregnant so so yeah it's an exhausted
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household you could explain that surely to ian Rushden through the medium of trucks and tiny model farm machinery that give her just sleep in till 11 there is no well ian we've told
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ian that he's not allowed to leave his room until 6 a.m and he's learned what 6 a.m is on the clock but he's still awake and he's calling
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us and going is this 6 a.m is this 6 a.m is this over half an hour i'm just going getting out of bed going into his room and saying this is not 6 a.m and then going back to bed i'll see you in 20
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minutes i'll see you in 15 but that half hour it's not really great sleep i'll say that 6 a.m he's allowed to come into our room and he gets a uh lucky dip present which is a hot wheels car there's
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a whole bag of them but it does keep him in his room till 6 a.m so it's really working so i'm gets his hot wheels car and then i managed to get him from the bedroom into the living room so mrs
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Rushden can have a bit more sleep make him some porridge we watch i'd say three episodes well we watch the same episode of stinky and dirty three times now we gotta stop you there sticky and dirty
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is so has he has he done tractor ted to death now um it just goes in phases okay quite often i will i'll say do you want to watch this because it's one that i can kind of accept the 1983 fa cup final
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brightening match us united do you know i love the film enemy of the state do you want to watch enemy of the state with gene hackman and will smith but he doesn't want that so so he's got
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stinky and dirty there's a cartoon of a uh it's a digger i think it's in bulldozer maybe and a and a rubbish truck and they and they solve i would
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say quite banal issues in the town of cars and trucks that they live in well and the one we watch is about a race and the guy painting the line linus just goes a bit walkabout and they
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they have to sort of get the cars around the race lovely episode um i'm making some porridge i meanwhile i'm on my laptop behind him watching spurs get hammered by everton it's very that is also upsetting
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yeah um so about seven yes let me just step in here you we this is not a football podcast but i did notice in one of your recent columns you uh explicitly said that spurs did not need to
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make a change in their manager no and then they get hammered are you getting a lot of messages while this is happening yeah um well i what i do is because i don't want to know
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the results i don't look at my phone yeah because i will you know there's whatsapps from the podcast whatsapp group and friends and my dad and whatever so i don't look at my phone so i don't i haven't
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got that yet because i'm still watching the defeat got it and um i'm watching a 25 minute cut down of that game and i'm sad about it and i am trying to sell a
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secondhand column about whether anne should stay to someone else uh but no one is interested in buying it at the moment i make young ian a uh porridge some porridge and then around seven
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o'clock mrs russian swans out of bed eight and a half months pregnant she swans down eat the huge double staircase in your home in a ball gown highly high-heeled slippers oh sticky that's a marvelous episode of stinky and dirty she says that she
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sashays past the television as you both do you eat the porridge as well uh i have a couple of spoons of porridge but now mrs Rushden makes me some toast um and then there's some more general
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play she's going to an appointment i cycle i have i haven't mentioned this before i have one bike yeah and i and i put ian on the back of it and i cycle them to child care at eight o'clock
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and drop off is good yeah and so uh then i go on my way i cycle to uh work that i have to do uh in south yarrow it's about a half hour cycle oh is this are you doing the uh podcast where you
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discuss the week in australian football soccer yeah it's an a it's a youtube show uh for the league itself i get there a bit early so i go and have a coffee a black coffee i do a bit of work
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then i go into the studio and the third greatest danish goalkeeper of all time thomas sorensen has bought me a three-quarter flat white strong one but it's large and i'm really disappointed we've been through this you know the christmas episode
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and i don't hide my disappointment with thomas that this is too much i didn't want this much milk in my coffee so he's the third greatest and after the schmeichels third greatest danish keeper doesn't buy you any slack from a coffee point of view absolutely not
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no it was the first time he got the coffees in and we have been doing i think we're on episode 14 so it's not a criticism because normally one of the you know one of the teenagers goes
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but it was good for him to step up but i was disappointed with the coffee it turns out the coffee was fine okay um but i made a thing of it now my question with australian sport generally
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is this in my experience when any australian uh player or manager is interviewed post game and across any of their sports they just have a couple of different placeholder cliche things
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that they say yeah the one that i really notice is this just me noticing this or is this an actual thing a lot of the time they'll be like so do you think the team played well today and they begin
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with this oh look they say they open with oh look i feel we did all we could today i feel like some days the ball just doesn't you know what i mean but it's look is your is your big opening
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look is a big opening here that is true yeah yeah no no it's a very good observation um so do that show and then i cycle uh back to a cafe i'd never been to before but it's nice cafe and i'd already
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had too much coffee yeah so i had orange juice and i went for the chili eggs but i'd have the because i can't take really spicy food um and i got some i got some sauteed greens alongside it
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because i don't eat enough vegetables so i was quite proud of myself with that interesting yeah but you got the bread you didn't it's you're not at the point where you're like just pop the
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egg on the asparagus gee i i don't trust anyone who can eat egg without bread it's just like it's a bit too it's too sloppy uh so the toast is essential yeah i cycle home
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i am i'm basically dead i've had no sleep yeah i've got up earlier i've gone to work so i i see jamie and i say hello and i might talk to her for a minute and then i go to bed and i am
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euphoric like ian's at child care jamie's watching telly i'm in bed and i'm so happy wow just to be there and this is like i i think bed
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is like a kind of it's this warm square and and this is a nap where this is a nap where i don't have to set an alarm right it's sort of one i'm unlikely to do four hours right so like i just
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let myself i don't i put the phones in another room and i just go yeah and i think i'm asleep for an hour 45 minutes yeah that's a i wait yeah sizable sizable it it's just from an
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analysis point of view did you always nap like did you nap in the in the pre-ian russian era i think so i think i mean i've always been tired since the 90s i've always been tired
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and i used to fall asleep wherever i was at 11 p.m if i was in a nightclub or on a speaker or just in a pub toilet i would fall asleep basically what your life reminds me of is
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in medieval times didn't they get up they slept in two chunks with a middle bit which was kind of leisure time where you'd go to sleep when it got dark and then you'd get up i think
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that's why it's called the bewitching hour because it was your social time and then you go oh god how sad would that be you'd sleep yeah i've met at 1 a.m to have a party this is what you do
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yeah i guess you don't have a party you watch stinky and dirty okay yeah anyway so i wake up and i feel like i've been shot in the face and i'm you know i'm a happy person but for about 45
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minutes i'm really sad i'm just sad i'm sad i'm sitting on the sofa i'm just i'm like groggy and terrible company to the point where jamie is asking me if i'm okay if there's anything wrong
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and i'm just incredibly sad that lasts for about 45 minutes and then i get i you know then i think hang on i'm not eight and a half months pregnant you know i'm not the one i don't have any right to feel like this this is all of
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our listeners are thinking this yes so i snap out of it and i get on some really good admin i book a car service i take lots of photos of the shower because the shower head is the
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shower head slider i think it's called is it's a it's like a you know those cars where you they they stick two bits of a car together and they're an absolute death trap
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yeah a bit fell off and i bought a bit but it didn't quite work and so i sort of drilled other bit together so once a month we have to i have to go in and drill this thing so hard there's
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no like thread on the nail or anything i'm just fusing this bit of the shower rail head together and it's flipped again and so it's time it is time now to get the shower fixed yeah the sorry
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is this affecting the position of the shower or the water pressure is the pressure is fine it's the it's the shower head is not in place it's like slipping and so you have to hold it with one hand yeah and then put it down to lather
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or you might be able to stick it up but it's going at like 90 degrees and so it's really unsatisfactory it's and it reminds me of uh just envisaging you it's like you're naked in a phone
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box in the 90s just holding the receiver and then weirdly yeah yeah yeah you're like hello can i speak to water please and then you're having a splash
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all over yeah get someone to fix that that'll be easy so i i have i'd say in the last i think it's been probably a year and a half i i've probably ordered six different shower slider
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things and none of them are fit perfectly it's like the impossible thing so i i take a lot of photos and i send them to a plumber right but i can't tell you the denouement of the story because
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that happened today uh damn it yeah um problem with this podcast yep ian comes home from child care great we are putting together a uh trolley for uh his imminent younger brothers accoutrements you know nappies oh yeah wipes all that kind of stuff we're putting
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a little trolley on wheels so we can wheel it around to wherever the baby is got it and ian wants to take part in making this it's like a butcher's block but for shits i know what these are yeah yeah yeah it's got three levels
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it's got three levels yeah and so i need the drill and so i get the drill and ian wants to have a go with the drill and then he tries to put the drill into his feet and so i grab the drill
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off him and say this is dangerous and he gets he grieves this moment he was over the drill and it was taken away from him and he's grieving deeply and uh he looks at me like i have ruined his life
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looks at me like this quite frequently yeah he goes to his mother and he is sad yeah so i go into the kitchen and i make some beef koftas wow what a pivot there yep that's what that's what you do
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when you've just uh made your son sad famously yeah so but the beef koftas come from one of those you know you get sent the ingredients things that you disapprove of yeah i know yeah they're called quite like and if they're really good and if
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they'd like to sponsor the podcast i'd happily be sponsored by quite like yeah so they're good so i make the beef koftas um at dinner ian wants some hummus so i give him hummus in a ceramic bowl
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that's a mistake because he hurls it on the floor and then he's deeply upset by that he i mean to go back to our determinism versus free will thing earlier yeah which is inextricably linked to cause and
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fact i mean i'm not saying you should have given the drill to lily and roasted but you think the smashing of the bowl does he not then has he not learned something about porcelain
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yeah maybe well i mean the argument would be is when jamie looked at me like why did you give him the porcelain bowl i should have just said it was predetermined and i think that would
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why did you sleep for two and a half hours or two and then we're miserable bastard it was predetermined i think this really works anyway uh ian refuses to let
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me put him to bed which is a bit of an issue but we're working on it so jamie goes to put into bed and then i do an online awareness course on aboriginal and torres strait islander
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inclusion in the workplace which has been sent to me by the people i'm doing the a league show for wow and normally awareness courses online things are really boring right because you're like i know
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this shit but actually i didn't know any of it really because you know the way you're taught history at school in england is we were bloody great and we went over and we did some great i
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mean you know i suspect you and i had a different education on ireland for example it's my it's my and in fact we're not really taught anything about ireland when i was a kid which is not
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really mentioned not at all it was just oh yeah it was nice it was fine yeah they do some dancing you know and that's it yeah um cromwell came over here just had a great time yeah and so it's actually really interesting
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and the i don't know how much you know about the stolen generation this is totally unbelievable policy yeah where and it was in the late 40s early 50s they decided that you know
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there was still this there was a belief you know totally racist belief that white people were superior to black people and so they got the lighter skinned aboriginal kids and just took them away from their parents and put them in institutions and tried to ingratiate them
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into the into white families and they just presumed the darker skinned aboriginal people would just die like it's totally insane and this went on till 1970 and so i mean the repercussions of this are obviously so widespread it's such a it's such a huge it's so interesting because it's
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such a i mean it's a really polarizing issue here they had a referendum on it last year of a voice parliament and it failed which is it's sort of insane to me my understanding from the people
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in the video on this awareness course you know who are aboriginal torres strait island people say things are moving in the right direction but it was really eye-opening thing for me to do uh then i did football weekly
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you brought that great uh energy and newfound understanding to talking about uh yeah mm-hmm so that was at 7 30 in the evening finished at 8 30 then i did something that i very rarely do david
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another nap no i sent a sincere instagram post and uh i don't do these often but mrs Rushden has written a kid's book you've seen yes and it's as you are you know this industry
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and she did it off her own bat and she'd sent unsolicited manuscripts to everybody and she did loads of these and she actually got a publishing deal and so it's amazing pre-order it yeah and so i'm incredibly proud of her and also
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she has sacrificed a lot a moving to london i stole her youth she claims i don't know i don't know what i don't know why she would think that coming to australia coming to london is
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in her sort of mid-20s uh to go out with a man who just wants to sleep all the time um and you know and has sacrificed her career to bring up young ian etc so i'm super excited i'd
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like everybody who listens to this to buy it and it'll become the next gruffalo yeah i can just sit on the porch but also because i'm so i sent that but i feel i feel there's too much sincerity on
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social media i don't like it so i felt bad but also i did do it i did yeah i i i thought it was a lovely post i have read the book and i have enjoyed it very much uh it is called uh dog at
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the bakery is that what it's called dog by the bakery door dog dog by the bakery door yeah i i i think it's great and i also think it's not cloying or
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overly since it's it's yeah it was a it was a touching message from a man who at that time was having this woman put his son to sleep as he talked about football in a shed
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it's like the 90s again and now finally because i was doing the podcast today i know what it's like for guests now i went and ran a 5k because i just wanted to impress the
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world what you ran a 5k after after the pod at 9 p.m 8 40 p.m whoa and this is and it was 29 degrees muggy uh did you time us i did time it yeah it wasn't a really it wasn't a fast one because
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producer joel from football weekly had told me it's good to run slowly occasionally for something yeah okay so the world record for 5 000 meters sorry let me just look it up 12 minutes 35 seconds
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is it yeah no it's not it is it can't be 12 minutes how much yeah 12 minutes and 35 seconds uh joshua chapter gay with uh 12 minutes 35 36 and uh gudolf cj with 14 minutes 21 seconds for women okay so you're 28 28 minutes 28 minutes 36 seconds
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yeah my best recent one you don't care do you no i uh yes it wasn't yesterday so i can't tell you oh yeah i wouldn't say it's dispiriting but my track and field event was triple jump
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and i used to i think 11 meters was my best ever sounds good yes and at the time jonathan edwards had just broken the world record with 19 meters something i know but the problem is you're not necessarily aware of how much quicker you would have to be running
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in order to break the world record when you're doing your run but you can see in the pit they have a little flag of where the world record is and you almost have to take out your binoculars
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to see it i think i think when i did the triple jump i didn't make the sand so i think like you know i think if you make the sad it's good i had a shower um i had an apple uh i had
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a shower brush my teeth went to bed did the wordle took me fucking hours it like it was squid it was squid yeah oh my goodness me and Helen Copter didn't get that it's the first time in
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months wow actually didn't and i even tried the tactic of we had a few things not a bog notion what it was and then went for the just let's just try other entirely different words
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that we know it's definitely not but we might find another couple of letters it was squid it was squid yeah i got it but i had to do like another word and i in the whatsapp group i am a
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kind of pantomime villain because everyone else in our wordle whatsapp group will never try tactical they'll be a purist yeah but i always say oh i had a brain fade on the fourth and then i get it
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and they like accused me of sort of heresy for doing it um but this time i actually had to go because i didn't know what was going on and then i got squid yeah and then i went and i went to
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sleep uh not a bad i mean the 5k was such a curveball at the end obviously there's a free sign of excitement over all of this with uh big old mrs Rushden about to pop at any moment that's
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that's the backdrop to the day i would imagine then and uh but but i mean so many elements to it the sleep in the middle it's almost like two days you did
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there in fact the real hardcore what did you do yesterday purists could argue that that was two days yeah is it worth saying that at 2 30 ian woke up and i woke up and jamie woke up and
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jamie and i were both in the bathroom and she was on the toilet and in a fit of tiredness i squeezed some toothpaste out of the tube and just licked it into my mouth and she was absolutely she was like what are you doing
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not part of my day but i i'm sorry about that it was quite grim no i just didn't have the energy to put it onto the toothbrush so i just went into my mouth listeners what did you do yesterday did you do anything as yeah it it's it's
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an interesting one i mean i've definitely done that in the past like i've rubbed toothpaste on my gums when i'm in a stranger's house and i just want i don't necessarily want to use their
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toothbrush but i want some sort of a an effect but yeah your toothbrush was right there max right there yeah it was right there and yet you decided yeah sorry it's a public apology fair enough yeah because at the time i didn't apologize i was too tired
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i was too tired to apologize stubbornly what's wrong with this a very neat day and also a very neat podcast because our producer mars bar did say what time are we oh god no
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i'm so sorry oh yeah once again we've gone on for too long but he did also say that for some reason we can get away with this podcast being too long i think that was the other one with
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