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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 the What Did You Do Yesterday Christmas special.
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I'm Max Rushden and David O'Doherty's here. Welcome, David. What did you do yesterday, Max?
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I mean, normally we are just faffing because we know that we have this golden episode to drop.
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So we can really stink the place out. Well, no, this is bigger than anything we've done before, David.
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Because if this episode, where we don't actually have anything, is successful, then we are...
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You know, we are one step closer to golden hats. I'm talking CEO money. I know, but then I foresee we get rid of the guest.
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And then you realize you're so comfortable just sitting in your shed, talking on your own.
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So it becomes... What was it? Was Nightcaller the ITV show from the 80s and 90s?
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Where a sort of late night DJ would just waffle on. You know, the thing I've learned about humankind is that...
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So I could be the next to go. That's what I'm saying. I've had to do that job, David.
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I've had to do... I've had to be the overnight guy where nobody would ring.
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Where you'd just... Where they'd just be like... Someone would just say, just fill for 15 minutes.
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And you're there going, it's 3am. And really what you want to do is just have the existential...
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Just have, what am I doing? What's happened? Why am I here? But no, we've got content today.
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We've got email. We've got so many emails. We're doing our Christmas special. And obviously most people, you know...
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It's a bit like the Hooters. Which they do in July. Most people's Christmas special comes out on Christmas Day.
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But they've done it in November. But obviously because this is What Did You Do Yesterday?
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We're recording on Boxing Day because yesterday was Christmas Day. And if we get through all the emails, we'll actually find out what me and David did yesterday.
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But we may not get there. But we haven't planned it. And we were specifically told not to plan it.
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So I'm going to begin with some feedback, if that's all right. Let's just state where we are.
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I'm in Dublin. I'm in Dublin City in my basement. This is where the presents were stored until I handed them out yesterday.
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I'm in my shed. And it's 10 past 10 in the evening on Boxing Day because we always have to record on the same day.
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So if we ever did my morning, your evening, we'd be on different days. And that would bring the podcast into disrepute.
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And we are nothing if not people of integrity, David. So Max is in Melbourne.
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He's left out that small part there. So wherever you are in the world, we have you surrounded.
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That's how I feel about this podcast. Got some criticism from Nicholas. Oh, no. Is it St. Nicholas, maybe?
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It could be. It hasn't specified. Just caught up with Brigstock's What Did You Do Yesterday?
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It should really be called What Did You Do Last Summer? Real brand purists will be doing this pod in real time.
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Justify yourselves, Max and David. I wonder how many bikes DOD will need to pedal his undoubted spin.
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That's fair enough. It is. It's a fair enough observation. So certain of our guests we've got, we've got them to do it on condition that, say, they have a tour to announce or whatever.
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So I think because Marcus just did it out of the goodness of his heart, he was consequently maybe knocked back a little bit.
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We left him on the shelf, didn't we? That's too strong. We always knew that it was a good episode, but there was something odd about listening to him pick a song.
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He was picking Blackberries in December. I wondered if people would care. And Nicholas cared.
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He was like, they're conning us. This is all a con. People thought we were the first real honest podcasters.
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Buster Jim, comedian, has been in touch to say, I had a dentist appointment at a hospital yesterday and I asked whether I should brush my teeth before or after coffee after Ed Gamble's medical advice.
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Oh, yes. He said, your teeth are sponges. But I can't remember, what was his conclusion?
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So therefore, if you drink coffee first up, the teeth absorb the coffee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You should never brush straight after coffee. And the dentist agreed, which Buster Jim's called it the equivalent of beans on a fry-up.
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For the uninitiated, he doesn't like beans on a fry-up. The middle ground, everyone, is either brush a minimum of half...
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Now we're becoming a medical advice podcast. It's a worry, isn't it? Brush a minimum of half...
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Half an hour before or after coffee. What I like to do is I like to squish maybe a tablespoon of Colgate into the coffee and stir it round, and therefore I'm getting the best of both worlds.
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Whereas I brush my teeth with Red Mountain. What's Red Mountain? What is it? The advert.
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Wasn't that the instant coffee where the man would go into the room and pretend to be making fresh ground coffee by doing the sound effects for fresh ground?
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Fresh ground coffee. And then he'd come out with Red Mountain. And then he'd be like...
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They'd be like, wow, this is... What coffee is this? It's so freshly ground. But actually, it was just instant coffee.
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And at no point in the advert did they say, it takes just... You're not saving time because you have to do all the sound effects.
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And you presumably have to practice the sound effects to be good at it. So actually, you've cost yourself a lot of time.
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Yeah. Yeah. And rest in peace, the guy from Police Academy who did those sound effects.
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We had lots of response. to whether we should do an extra podcast. This is from a friend of the pod, Hot Dog Malfunction.
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You become a friend if you've sent more than one email to us. Hi, he says, like everyone else, I work in showbiz.
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This was after me drunkenly announcing that everything is showbiz at the end of the Kerry Godliman episode.
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You were right to... That's the oddest moment we've had so far. It was just...
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It was like you were speaking in tongues or something. I think you'd been drinking a beer during the episode.
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Like everyone else, I work in showbiz, so I'm always looking to visit the hottest new food-eating places.
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I live in Seattle, so I'd never heard of Pret before. But from listening to your pod, I can tell it's pretty important to the people of the UK.
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Where would you rank Pret in comparison to, say, Big Ben or Buckingham Palace in terms of cultural importance?
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And how many comedians are in a typical Pret at any given time? Good questions.
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Erin says, Hello, I'm emailing from my husband's account because mine is in use. For the white noise to keep our two-year-old asleep, I couldn't wait.
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First of all, yes. More nonsense content, please. Second, how dare Max interrupt a perfectly interesting conversation about car chassis to complain about it as a subject?
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Having moments earlier made the offhand comment that he was banned from driving by the BBC for crashing too many radio cars without any further elaboration.
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Your first 30-minute midweek release needs to be a full explanation of that ban. I love the podcast.
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It's the Dream Geo I didn't even know I wanted. Erin Jackson. Max, what happened with you and these...
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So you would be sent off, they'd be like, there's a chicken on the loose in Trafalgar Square and Rushden is just given...
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I'm imagining a sort of Only Fools and Horses style three-wheeler with BBC written on the side of it.
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You just smash up the steps into Trafalgar Square. So, yeah, I had to drive, first of all, for BBC Radio Cambridge here and then for BBC London.
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These massive cars, the London one was like a Renault Espace and then it had like a huge antenna on the top of it which when you parked and erected it,
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it would go up like about sort of a mile in the sky. Like, just so high.
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And obviously it didn't have the internet on our phones and I would be driving around London with like an A to Z on my lap on my mobile and someone saying a school!
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School's closed in Hackney! You've got to get there! And like, normally the people, you know, most people were pretty normal but occasionally you'd just find a very weird boss who thought they were like running the FBI and sort of yelling at you.
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So I would be like bombing around dangerously and I'd twice drove into multi-storey car parks with the big antenna and like bent it and like, I'd have to ring Steve.
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Steve, the engineer who's a bit like the doc from Back to the Future and he just looked so disappointed at me.
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You couldn't put the antenna up near power lines. That was just like you will explode yourself.
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Annie writes, hello there, I listened to the discussion this was with Amy Gridhill about hair dryers.
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I listened to the discussion about hair dryers and felt the need to contribute to the discussion with a story about my older sister who when we were teenagers 15-ish years ago had a real goo addiction.
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You know the yummy chocolate pot pudding she says. I'm sure you're familiar the goo pots.
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She kept banging on about wanting to lose weight so my health and also my money conscious parents gave her a limit of one goo pudding a day.
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I think that is I think that is that is a well-known weight loss treatment.
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This seemed to be working until my older sister found her one day secretly hair drying a goo pudding in her room because the cravings had got too much for her but she'd already had her quota for the day and so couldn't go downstairs to use the microwave
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because the parents would suss out what she was doing. The result was a sad mostly cold and only semi-melted pudding but something we still take the piss out of her for her today.
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I love the pod great background listening and there's nothing wrong with that. My brother was a very brilliant stand-up comedian in the 1990s where everything was a little less organized in the comedy world and there were a lot more I mean big characters I think there were
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more big characters then and Mark recalls a time when Dylan Moran the incredible Irish comedian so they were in a hotel late at night and Dylan wanted a toasted cheese sandwich and there was only regular cheese sandwiches available by the night porter so he toasted a cheese sandwich
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in a Corby trouser press in his room and that's what that reminds me of is but it would work right?
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Wouldn't it work quite well? Yeah it does work but unfortunately the next person to Corby trouser press their slack in it would get a whole load of cheddar you know really cooked into those slacks but nobody has ever has anyone ever actually pressed their trousers
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like in the last 20 years I remember once I did the Montreal Comedy Festival and I was new and I'd gone on a bill with old road dogs and it was I was too weird and
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I was dressed in jeans and all the rest of it and one of the real old school entertainer guys afterwards sat me down and he said look at this and he sort of patted my loose fitting crumpled jeans and he said people don't want to see this
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they want to see this and he pointed to his perfectly creased like slacks sorry who was this who did this some old school American TV comedian I can't even remember who it was but
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it his lesson his lessons were even in 2003 I felt this lesson was slightly out of date but these people they've got babysitters they've come out they do not want to see these scruffy jeans that advice man reminds me I was at university and
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I obviously didn't know what I was going to do with my life or what I wanted to do I hadn't really given it any thought and lots of people were like getting ready to go and do law or consultancy and we were really drunk and
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and there was a sort of there was a postgraduate person called JP I remember it I remember it so well and he sort of knew about business obviously he was 21 right
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he didn't know anything and anyway he was like talking about business and I was sort of being silly because I was a student in a flat and I was drunk and he turned to me deadly seriously and he went look at you who's going to employ you yeah
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I didn't take him seriously he's right I never got a job at McBain's consultancy what an amazing thing to say to any huge I've never really thought about it who's going to employ you within five years you had wedged the BBC Radio Cambridgeshire van under the roof
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of a multi-story car park who's laughing now JP yeah come on JP where are you who's going to employ you I just and I really didn't at the time I should have had the presence of my code it's quite a big world like probably someone like you know
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I haven't thought about it today like what do you want from me it's 2am I've you know drunk a lot of grosh I had a not to say I had the sort of opposite of that Max if I'm honest which is I come from a family of
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loose units you know of jazz musicians and actors my grandfather's brother was the exorcist we'll cover this another time but I just decided that these people were all losers and I was going to become Alan Sugar basically before I knew who Alan Sugar was so I would
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type up bits of paper with my car washing prices and post them into random houses on the road I grew vegetables behind the shed in our garden in the bit of land that gets no sunlight whatsoever so there were sort of mutant tiny carrots that looked like
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witches noses and again I would call to the same unfortunate 100 houses with a a bucket of crappy carrots and try to this is like when I was 10 you wanted to be an entrepreneur so you were trying to be everything that we aren't yes yes I was and then
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have I ever told you about my detective agency as in a real one yeah oh good me and Mark and Tiernan set up a detective agency when we were around this era around 9 or 10 and
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we weren't getting any cases to put it mildly were you both sitting in a were you both sitting in an office you both had desks just sitting there you know one of you's got like a bottle of vodka in the top drawer one of you's got a gun
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you're there and there's you know there's a receptionist who's just sitting there phones never ringing so because we we all we like there was a series of detective books at the time called the three investigators and we like the idea of these guys who just mysteries seemed
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to land in their lap so we set up this organization we would sit in the shed we'd taken some old chairs from office chairs from a skip around the corner there was nothing to do I do remember for a while we would go to the bank
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and just collect application forms I mean we're little children and then go back to the shed and just fill them in for ages and kind of look at each other being like oh it's the bureaucracy of this job that really you just can't do you can't do
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good old fashioned policing these days so we printed out business cards that said David Mark and Tiernan and there was three question marks because that was the logo of the three investigators and underneath it our own slogan was we handle everything and then
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my parents six digit phone number and we posted these into a couple hundred houses up and down the area okay okay now can I ask can I ask would it have been very clear to you know let's say let's say somebody thinks their partner's having an affair
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and they look down and they see this letter would it be clear to them that it was three ten year olds that had made the letter absolutely not also we handle everything also implies you need someone knocked off you know what I mean I this deal
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isn't gonna go through unless this businessman disappears if you know what I mean and the idea of three ten year olds turning up yeah we did you get a call did anyone call no no one called so then
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I mean I'll tell you what curtailed it yeah was there were lost cap notices on the community notice board in the supermarket so we decided we were gonna and there was rewards on offer for some of them oh yeah that's good so I had to ring up
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because I had the most grown up sounding voice of the three of us I had to ring up whatever Mrs. O'Byrne and be like hello is that Mrs. O'Byrne and she's like yes and I said did you lose a cat I put a sign up yeah I know
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this is so bad I put a sign up in Quinsworth and she was like oh yes yes yes I did and I had to be like well you're in luck because me and my two nine-year-olds nine-year-old friends are going to try and find that cat for you and
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she said can I speak to your mother please which proper detectives that is never said to proper detectives and my mother spoke to her and apologized and afterwards sort of confronted the three of us and was like can you please not ring up old ladies and tell them
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you're going to find their cats that killed my detective career imagine how different this would be a true crime podcast if my mother hadn't ruined it then be a detective and a CEO were we planning to do during this episode what either of us did yesterday
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but we haven't yet achieved doing what we did yesterday but I don't know if we have to do what we did yesterday it's up to us David I mean the difficulty is if I said we'll do it in 10 minutes we have never managed to do anything in 10 minutes
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of this podcast we could take a whip through it I mean because I think it'll take less time than normal in that we're both essentially interviewing each other but the worry is this because I could you could rattle it off in a minute but then if we both
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do that we will perhaps undermine the actual episode because then listeners will realise that we could get through it quicker yeah that's fair enough so I'm I don't know are we tempted just to wish our listeners a wonderful and happy season of holidays and then just head off
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yeah and then they'll go what was this what was this bit what was this bit this is like the so what we do is each week we ask a guest what they did yesterday and in the midweek we just tell stories of our childhood and they'll be like
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how do these things these things don't tally yeah but you know does everything have to tally not everything has to tally does it but have we written a huge cardboard check here and then just ripped it up in front of our listeners eyes I mean I don't think
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it's that huge a check that we've ripped up I don't know I don't think anyone's coming here for answers are they and if they are well no but this is the beauty of it right
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this is the Christmas special if you want to know 5am got up gave young Ian Rushden a lot of Lightning McQueen presents got a coffee it was too full and it was really annoying because I'd I'd asked for it half full and she'd said and then I'd said
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less milk than you expect and it was still full but obviously I didn't complain because it's Christmas day like what are you going to say you've opened a cafe I can't complain too much but
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absolutely incandescent with rage then we went to the park okay do you want me to just list it off and then yeah and then you can ask me questions I'm writing I'm writing questions here we're going to quick fire this we'll see if this works okay
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went to the park we did the slide for a bit we pushed the tiny cars down the slide then we found out that Jamie's brother Ant had gastro so we were down two people because him and his girlfriend weren't coming but that was okay
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we got home we were going to do the games including family tea bagging which is not what it sounds what it sounds like yeah then I roasted a chicken I wanted to barbecue the chicken with the beer can up its bottom but Jamie thought
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the only reason I wanted to do that was because I was recording an episode of this today wanted something interesting to say so actually I roasted it with thyme and melted butter under the skin and it actually turned out great I barbecued some sausages my father-in-law my sister-in-law
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her husband their kids arrived we had the lunch yeah what time were we about 1.30 okay keep going we then the kids played in the paddling pool because it was about 37 degrees wow and
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then we lost one of the Lightning McQueens I drank a bottle of champagne a whole bottle?
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a whole bottle? yeah pretty much six glasses I had five I'd say I had five then our father-in-law fired a water pistol at all the kids who were having a lovely time they all burst into tears and he was sent inside yeah and then
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then everyone everybody left then we got Ian down we didn't want to have a bath we got him down we watched Bad Sisters I had a glass of wine we were in bed at 7.45pm then I had to resettle Ian at 9.30 and then at 1am he
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comes into our room and he sends me out and I sleep in the day bed end okay okay great this is a great day yeah yeah okay okay that's it I'm just going to fly through a few questions here now
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please do yeah please do this is very much in the style of you go to see a like doctor yesterday where you just explain the issues and the doctor is like and do you are you feeling any dizziness no no you're right
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yeah yeah yeah pins and needles ever yeah yeah yeah yeah a couple of things I'll just raise here it is interesting that the cafe was open firstly yeah a few cafes not all of them no just a few so not the one we it's one we wouldn't
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normally go to because you never what they've just taken it over and I think they've thought you don't need a proper barista and you do and she's incredibly nice but honestly I can't tell you how much how many times I said is that what the cup
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that comes in that size cup okay just half full please less milk than you think and then she poured them both goes are these okay and I went absolutely fine thank you and then I left the cup like I left the cafe steaming with rage and I gave
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Mrs. rushed in the shorter one because I'm nice and then I was furious about it but I drank it all and it was okay wow you're just you really are like one of these Brits abroad you're screaming comprende chips comprende chips and also we we ordered two croissants
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and they must have been there for about six days of course they were they were like leather boots yeah they hadn't freshly baked them that morning that is for certain what's the tea bagging game oh that that's where you put a little mug about two feet away
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three feet away and you have to throw a tea bag into a mug more fun than you think more fun than you think for our live shows I bet you if we get a couple of studio audience down to play what did you do yesterday family tea bagging
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I think it'll go really well it contrasts with the hosts of what did you do yesterday tea bagging where I just lower my nuts slowly into a too hot bath so the five glasses of champagne I'd say they went straight to your head was there a point
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because you're playing with kids having had a few drinks on Christmas day did you propose let's climb the tree you know what I mean I'm gonna build an aeroplane do you know what I really don't like it I just don't often drink it but it was open
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because my sister-in-law wanted a glass and I was like okay I'll just start on this and then I just didn't I stayed on it and actually it was really pleasant and I didn't I didn't wake up the next day with a hangover or anything so I thought
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maybe I should maybe I did think maybe I should just go to this because not because because is the wrong preposition on them there was did you ever watch Celebrity Fit Club and it was you know like yeah yeah it was like overweight famous people would try
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and lose weight and Bobby George the darts player was on and he'd be like oh you know I do everything to keep fit I'm you know I'm pretty I do a lot of exercise I do have a fridge by my bed with dairy milks in it
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and whenever I wake up I eat one and you're like Bobby that's not that's the goo pot air dryer isn't it but there was like a former royal correspondent on it I can't remember some really posh person was one of the judges and his his for every single
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suggestion he went have you ever considered champagne that was just all he said it was like a possible thing but yesterday I was thinking actually this isn't really like I feel quite light on my feet I don't feel like you know and I woke up this morning
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although I can't tell you about it feeling totally fine wow so you're gonna become a champagne guy now it could be could be I want to know just a little bit about the water pistol incident I was in the kitchen at the time so I can't give you
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any more information apart from Colin bought water pistols and then fire the water pistols and then came inside said you know you can't do anything these days no no something like that my role as an uncle is I'm Colin and
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it involves yes six me going out to the garden and five minutes later six people crying perfect as I come in just like I just I thought the hose would be a fun thing a chaos agent to introduce in the whole thing I forgot to say
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the neighbours chickens had escaped but normally we'd take some action but we just couldn't be bothered it's Christmas day leave us alone was it a good Christmas yeah lovely Christmas yeah my in-laws are very easy company and that's all you want right
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yeah that's all you want at Christmas yeah that's lovely that's a shows we can do it did that in ten minutes come on let's have yours I woke up at about nine o'clock oh you bastard okay
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with Helen and we decided to there's a charity run a mile thing that's big in Dublin called the goal mile and there will be I think there's they're right around the whole country and you arrive between I think it runs from eight to twelve on Christmas
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a lot of people get in the seat we instead decided to run a mile around a running track and that is longer than you think it's going to be I did consider really going because there were some fit lads there and because I was once reasonably fit
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in my early twenties some part of me still thinks it'd be really what a Christmas would be if you just beat these guys who are like literally one guy ran a five minute mile which I realise is a minute worse than the best people but that
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we were lapped twice by that guy we did a ten minute mile and that was nice came back here then obviously present wrapping etc we both had independent family dues to go to so
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my family was my sisters this year where it's twelve people the family and a couple of her friends all there so that's quite a lot of gifts and generally I do we should have moved to the Chris Kindle Kringle model some time ago but we just never have
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Max so it's it's an awful lot of effort in trying to get decent presents for all these people especially for people you don't really know I mean there's a few but even for my family I want to get them good gear yeah a couple of vouchers the teens
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are impossible so I just it's the grimmest present of all hard cash all you want as a teenager is cash I know but I didn't make it to the ATM so I just in an envelope written on a piece of blank A4 driver's driving lessons oh good
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I thought you'd written your detective thing we can do anything we cover everything your gift is I will investigate three cases for you yep I got some good presents my mother gave me a jumper that's quite nice you know like Christmas because you are having the international
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Christmas experience whereas this is the old gang back together so you've got people who are increasingly old that is everyone my folks are still flying but they're 85 and 86 but then you have the injection of the various new agents of mayhem who are coming in behind and that's
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really what you need as in there were a few grim years where I was the youngest and it's just like why are we all doing this and then kids come along and you're like ah yeah yeah no no no this all makes sense again so I had
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a good laugh my father and I recorded a couple of months ago my dad is a jazz musician but he also wrote lots of famous TV theme tunes he's one of those sort of pictures of Irish television since the 70s since the 50s I mean he's been
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a musician and they yeah they got us on the radio for an hour they broadcast it yesterday on Christmas day did you all listen as a family no my father has a similar attitude to you with all of your recorded work ever which is like well why
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would I listen back I mean yeah but there was some pressure mum did want to listen to it but there's no way you could have had it on during the meal but we were noticing I was getting a lot of messages from people so
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I will sneakily listen to it on a walk in the next few days yeah it was nice because there was questions that I'd never asked him in real life because real life is full of how are you do you need me to pick anything up at the shop
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so I'd never been able to ask him what was that thing you asked James Acaster can you tell if your cat needs a shit was that it it was difficult Max I'd never I'd interviewed one person ever in my life for another podcast who was an ex-professional
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cyclist and this podcast has broken my brain into just asking him about yesterday but when you're an 86 year old man with a glittering career in showbiz no one wants to know what you did yesterday no okay so
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this is where you this is where you got so I've got an observation so far no keep writing them down then we eat very traditional dinner but because various people were there various people had brought vegetables and
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desserts so we had turkey and ham huge like potato croquettes mashed sweet potato along with the roasties celery in a white roux this kind of thing so absolutely stuffed my face then
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dessert I'd been given the job of smoked salmon and brown bread so basically you're full before the meal appears because you've eaten pate and smoked salmon and brown bread and then
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you're really full and then you have six desserts and then my other job was cheese so I had bought quite a nice cheese plate with various cheeses by which point you know you're actually stuffing it like you know a trash compactor trying to fit more in then just
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as the whole O'Doherty family were flagging Helen arrived from her family do and really brought a fresh energy to it we did a quiz we did some who am I's we tried to think of better punch lines to Christmas cracker jokes and
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then I dropped mum and dad home and did how I I had the you know they're 85 and 86 so I just said that was a nice Christmas wasn't it and they said that was a really nice Christmas it had it had all the classics it had some new elements
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coming through from kids and I said good night came back here and watched just to chill out on a Christmas evening an incredibly grim psychological thriller starring Sean Connery from 1986 about a murder in a monastery in the 14th century that was my Christmas so all I
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need to say I've no excellent description I forgot to mention that Xavier made an excellent potato salad yeah I think it's worth referencing and I feel David that is the first that is our Christmas special I enjoyed it I had a nice time yeah did the listeners
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enjoy just the concept of the two of us I mean waffling it didn't Ivo Graham let's sell it let's oversell it let's oversell it let's not undersell it Ivo said this was a waffle pod wow yeah I think there's no greater praise there's no greater praise and we
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have to be honest there's no it was nothing more than that so maybe they did you know because you know now we're quite established now yeah we're we're in the podcast lexicon people who like us will just but they honestly the people listen to this they'll
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listen to any anything we do oh god we don't have gold hats we're we have um what's what's a couple down from we've got paper hats on still mmm uh mahogany hats we've got we've got clogs on clogs on our heads and uh no interested to
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know if we should focus on what we did yesterday i like that bit i'm glad we got to that bit and uh maybe we should do that but if they just like the meandering stuff at the moment you know they're part of the podcast family
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too and we should work this out together i think okay great but yeah big episode coming out on sunday and as we said the aim of this podcast was not to make people go well i can't listen to any of the stuff they do so
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it's huge it's a huge episode thanks david to everyone listening thank you very much for coming along with us on this 18 week journey or whatever it's been experiment and i'm still having a very nice time so i propose this one we keep doing it into the new year
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as to whether we do these waffle ones let the listeners decide i've had a nice time i just like hanging out with you and i yeah like the feedback that we get yeah i like i like your company and
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everything is showbiz we handle everything brackets and it is showbiz