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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.
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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? No. 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? What did you do yesterday? That's it. All we're interested in is what the guests got up to yesterday.
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Nothing more. Day before yesterday, Max? Nope. The greatest and most interesting day of your life?
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Unless it was yesterday, we don't want to know about it. I'm Max Rushden. And I'm David O'Doherty.
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Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Yes. Hello, everybody. That yes was David O'Doherty.
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Yes. Welcoming you to What Did You Do Yesterday? We're on episode four, David, and we're still here.
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Episode four. I mean, it's not, just put it episodically like that. That implies you need to listen to the first three to figure out what's good.
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It's not like Mad Men or something, you know? It's not like Grease 2, where, I mean, if you watch Grease 2 without Grease, you're just honestly totally confused.
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What would be the worst? Maybe Jaws 2. I don't think you'd go back and watch Jaws if you'd just seen Jaws 2 as your first one.
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We're digressing, David, because we've got feedback. Part of the running theme of these podcasts is me being increasingly desperate about everything, and I made a very desperate plea for some emails, as we've had none.
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We've got some emails. Do you want to hear some of them? I mean, do I want to?
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I'm just happy to do this, Max. I'm just happy to say these words into a void.
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But if we must know what sound is coming back from that void, go on.
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Read me an email. Very positive. Very positive. Jane sent our first ever email. Hello, you incredible podcast pair.
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It's a bit... I don't really like reading out compliments. I much prefer reading out insults.
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But anyway, it's nice from Jane. Hello, you incredible podcast pairing. Max plugging the podcast on Parenting Hell is how I knew about it in the first few minutes.
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I knew you would be my favorite podcast. This is pure genius. Thank you. The every day is way more interesting than someone's highlighted edits of life.
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Yesterday and today, Jane. I feel every correspondent should write, should finish with yesterday and today.
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That's sort of like yours faithfully for this podcast. And that is Jane who sent us off.
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Imagine in about five years time, David, when we're playing Sydney Opera House, The Big Room.
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Yeah, The Big Room. And we will remember Jane was the first of millions to email us.
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That is phenomenally positive. I mean, because I'm just getting... I'm just getting feedback in the real world from my friends.
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It tends to be more layered. Right. So Saoirse, my friend, said she enjoyed it, but she listened to it on 1.5.
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Well, actually, Mrs. Rushden, she said she's enjoying the series and she's never listened as we've established to anything I've done before.
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And she said, she said, and she wasn't trying to make a point. She said, I really like how David drives it.
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And do you know what? That really hurt. That really, I was like, that really hurt.
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I didn't say anything. I was like, oh, that's a low. But I feel I'm the, I feel like I'm the driver.
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I don't know. I feel like I'm the driver. Yeah. Another friend said to me that she appreciates how when something boring is happening on the podcast, I pretend to sound excited.
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But I am actually excited by, you know, when someone goes and then I do some admin and we both go, tell us what the admin is.
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Oh, I love admin. Yeah. Jose. E Gutierrez of Brooklyn says, hello. I really liked your first episode with Ellis James.
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I will keep listening for sure. One piece of unsolicited advice. The theme music should be jazzed up a bit.
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I'm not sure who your target audience is, but if you want to attract listeners younger than me, I'm a 70 year old El Salvadorian American from Brooklyn who probably has no business listening to British podcasts featuring B-level celebrities.
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But there you go. You should seriously consider updating your theme music. The interesting thing is we were looking for mainstream.
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Finally, 70 plus in hipster areas of the East Coast of the United States. So I feel like in many ways we've achieved what we wanted.
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That's we lured him in. British and Irish podcast. I would just add that to Joseph's wonderful email.
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Bach. It's a bit of Bach. That's not a lot of podcasts are doing that.
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In fact, something that I notice in a lot of podcasts, they kind of write checks they can't cash with the theme music.
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The theme music will be guitars. And then effectively, it's just, you know, people talking about hats for an hour or whatever.
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It sounds like a good idea for a podcast. What hats did you wear yesterday?
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We are doing the opposite. We're coming in almost underselling us. Thanks to the legendary, the late, great Bach.
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Yeah. And a lot of people have asked, where is the Nish Kumar episode? And we wanted to bring you this Nish Kumar for episode four, but we can't because it is still there isn't a rating.
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High enough in podcasts, is that, you know, because it says explicit, but it's it's too explicit until too explicit is on the list of possibles for podcasts.
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We can't release it. We're trying to get some legislation through various parliaments and the UN, and then we may be able to release it.
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Ursula von der Leyen is holding us back. That's the problem. Hang on, Max. You did it.
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You've been great trying to publicize this on your social medias. But at one stage, you tweeted for full analysis of the US presidential debate.
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Listen to what did you do yesterday? Why did you do that? What are you trying to do?
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I got a feeling that a lot of people post Trump Harris debate would go towards a political podcast ahead of our podcast.
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I was sort of thinking, you know, it was a bit like during the pandemic, I was hosting the breakfast show on TalkSport.
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And I was genuinely wondering, it's the third day of lockdown. Who is listening to me?
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And Darren Bent, when you could be, you know, like who? You know, and lots of people were, but like, surely you'd listen to like some news who was telling you like where you could go or what you could do.
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And so I was, it was a lie. And I apologize to all the listeners who came, who are listening to this.
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How far into the Alex Horne episode someone got thinking, when are they going to start covering this debate now?
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When is the cats thing going to come up now? Anyway, today's episode, because it can't be Nish, is Josh Widdicombe, the very successful comedian and podcaster.
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His day is interesting, isn't it? Yeah, it's the first time we've had an actual interesting day.
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Can we say that? Is that harsh on the previous episode? Yeah, is it? Maybe it is the first time that someone, yes, has been actually doing something.
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I think that's fair to say. It's the first, it's not the first interesting day.
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It's the first day where someone actually had something to do. And it was very kind of him to come on.
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I will say, David, for Balance, I will read out a couple of less positive reviews at the end of the podcast, because I like Balance.
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And we can't just read out compliments. No one listens at the end, so no one will ever know about them.
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It's fine. I also don't know what they are, because I haven't been snooting them out like a little truffle pig like you.
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So I will give you genuine real-time reactions. After we speak to Josh Widdicombebe. Okay, here is Josh Widdicombebe, episode four of What Did You Do Yesterday?
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Josh Widdicombebe, welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? I'm very excited. Well, we're excited to have you.
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And we can only talk about what you did yesterday, but it is worth saying, I think it's taken you an hour to get yourself in a position to make this work.
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Have you ever done a podcast before? It's mad, isn't it? Well, you'll find out what I did yesterday will inform this, but can I say what I'm doing today?
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No. We don't care. No interest. I mean, you have done a crash course in how to connect microphones to laptops.
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So, I mean, can we say that much, Max? Yeah. I'll just say that I'm in Paris.
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That'll come up yesterday. Right. And I've just dropped my family at the station. So they're involved in yesterday.
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So that's fine. And I got back and all of my things weren't charged. And the electricity in Paris is not strong enough.
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Is that a thing? The French, they're just not doing enough. They're not making enough electricity.
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The electricity is not strong enough to charge a laptop while the laptop is in use.
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It sounds like something from like an oral exam. Say the electricity is not strong enough in Paris to charge a laptop while in use.
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Let's move to yesterday. That's why we're here. Really? Yeah. That's what the listeners want to know about.
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The listeners have no interest in what you've done today, Josh. They do not care.
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But yesterday. Rightly so. Yeah. They are all ears. So when did it start? Here's a question.
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I went to bed at 2am. Do you want those last two hours? That's a good.
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That does change things. I don't know. I have to step in here. I have to step in.
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Nope. No interest. Because technically yesterday. It could have gone on. We don't cut yesterday at midnight of yesterday.
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You know what I mean? We let that flow through. It's what naturally feels like yesterday.
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So I woke up eventually at 8am. In Paris. Were you surprised that you'd woken up in Paris?
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Like was it a BA from the A-team situation? Where you'd been drugged and put on a plane?
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No, I was expecting to wake up in Paris. I've been here for four or five days.
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We're covering the Paralympics for the last leg. Oh, this is interesting. So I'm in Paris.
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And I've brought my family out for the first four or five days of that.
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Okay. Is that a good idea? In hindsight, no. Max, I spoke to you during bringing your family over for the Euros in the UK.
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And I think we had a similar feeling. It's not the same because I have 19 bikes and not a family.
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But when my sister comes to visit me, say during the Edinburgh Fringe, it becomes the biggest thing in my life.
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And she is 50-something. Unable to look after herself. But she's just like, where's good for coffee after you've told me what's good for lunch?
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You know, that sort of a thing. So I can imagine it's even more stressful than that.
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It is. It basically drives the day, understandably. So I woke up at eight because I'd been to bed late because we'd been recording the show.
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I woke up. We had a room with two double beds and a sofa bed.
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My daughter was in the sofa bed. My son. My son was in one of the double beds because we were worried about him falling out.
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My wife was in with him. So I actually woke up in my own double bed.
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Wow. Wow. Had there been a war among them as to who got the sofa?
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I don't think I would have loved being in a double bed with my sister or my mum or my dad.
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No, no. But he was three. So he likes that. And my daughter was very excited for the sofa bed.
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She's too young to realise that it's obviously the shittest option. Yeah. It's a bit like when, you know, like you.
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You had friends who had a Volvo estate and you wanted to sit in the boot.
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And now you're like. You're so young. Can I sit in the boot? It's amazing.
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Yeah, exactly like that. You don't get to see. You're uncomfortable. But like, have you ever thought with a three-year-old without wanting to tread on your podcasting toes, if you just put a pillow either side.
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Yeah, we've just put pillows on the floor. Then they're just very unlikely to fall out.
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Because he just kind of rotates throughout the night. He's like a clock. Yeah, he is like a clock.
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He's like a clock. He doesn't sleep the clock around. It's just quite a bell and Sebastian.
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Is he the hour hand or the minute hand? He's the hour hand. I could never imagine.
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I never understand people who had bunk beds. I always wanted bunk beds. But then I knew people who had bunk beds and they slept in the downstairs, which I think you probably just did.
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You know, you initially obviously went to the upstairs, but at some point getting up to pee in the night is a bit of a pain because you have to come down the tiny ladder.
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So I, similar to your son, and I'm taking his position now, I would have preferred the upstairs, but then over time probably would have moved downstairs.
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I think bunk beds are incredibly overrated. As an entertainment, I get them as a space saver, which is obviously what they were initially meant to be, but they've now been marketed for children as preferable to a normal bed.
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And I just don't see the advantages really. Well, in my first flat, the bed was up a ladder.
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It was just under the ceiling. So, which was an incredible contraceptive device because you could barely fit up there with a...
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With anyone, yeah. Our old Irish contraception. The bed very close to the ceiling. Doesn't that happen in Big?
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Does he have sex in a bunk bed? There's a weird bit in Big where there's basically a woman who has paedophilic sex with him.
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Hang on. Was that after the piano? Was it like the... I don't remember the uncut scene where they plinky-plonky on the piano and then they go at it in a stomp-a-plonk pit.
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No, you don't see them have sex, but it's implied. The piano is just under the ceiling.
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I don't remember the uncut scene where they plinky-plonky on the piano and then they go at it in a stomp-a-plonk pit.
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I don't remember them pounding a middle C every time as he rails her. As a pianist yourself, David, do you think you could make love to a tune on one of those big pianos?
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I mean, it would be very difficult. I mean, the obvious thing would be to get a Steinway grand piano and then get inside it, but there's literal razor wire because that's the thing that makes the sounds.
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So while, like as a fetish goes, you would be cheese wire in your butt as you did whatever you did.
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It's the worst place to fornicate, inside a grand piano. I mean, okay, inside an upright piano is harder, but this is not what we're here for.
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No, sorry. So I woke up at eight, got up with my daughter. My wife and my son are still asleep.
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So I took my daughter down for the hotel breakfast. Petit déjeuner. Le petit déjeuner.
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A bowl of chocolat chaud. I can't wait. Well, I'm going to disappoint you. Do you want my choices?
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So she has two, two miniature croissants. Yeah. With butter. That's French. Which I feel is needless.
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Yeah. Then just a spoonful of Nutella, which she eats straight. Absolutely brilliant. This is a great breakfast.
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This is French. This is good and French. Exactly. And a hard-boiled egg. I'd say that's probably French.
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And I have... Let me guess. You take out a candle and you've brought over Heinz beans and you heat the beans over the candle and then shoot it back in Not a million miles.
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In the sense that I told Ellis James, who you both know, that I'd brought my own tea bags to France.
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Tea is too weak. Oh, wow. You're Mr. Brexit. Well, I'm not Mr. Brexit. I've already complained about the quality of the electricity.
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And now it's not just the electricity, but the tea's weak over here, mate. You haven't got mild cheddar?
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What is this place? No. And he compared me to Ringo Steyer who took a suitcase of beans and baked beans to Rishikesh when they went to the Maharishi.
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Max, wasn't there some footballer who once got a transfer to Italy and just brought loads of Lucozade in a suitcase?
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And lived on like Lucozade and Tunnock's tea cakes or something like that. Maybe one of those failed 90s transfers.
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I have no idea. What did you have for breakfast, Josh? I had yogurt with fruit and nuts.
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That's okay. That's fine. It's your breakfast. It's totally acceptable. Do you know what it is?
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I'm away for two weeks. Oh God, this is sad. But I've reached the age where I'm eating for energy as much as anything.
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Because if I start big, I'm just going to be up and down all day in my sugar levels.
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Can I just check? You presumably got dressed. And what I've noticed with everyone we've had on this podcast, basically comedians, and I am the same, is the way they get dressed is they find the clothes that were,
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on the floor from the day before and put them straight on. Yes. For breakfast, and this is, I dress for breakfast.
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And this goes for the house. I like to wear shorts. That's my casual. When I get up, I can't go straight into trousers.
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I find that too restrictive early doors. I understand, yeah. You build up slowly. And I find tracksuit trousers too much.
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I always start the day in shorts, whatever the weather. Do you go shorts plus fours, three quarter length?
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The full trouser. No. So I go shorts and then a hoodie or a t-shirt depending on the weather.
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Like a skater, like an old skater. Yeah, I've been compared to Blink 182 at points, how I dress around the house.
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So I put on my hoodie. I think it was just a t-shirt and shorts yesterday.
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The same t-shirt as the day before, because I think it's insane to wear clean clothes before your shower.
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You're just causing, problems with the clean clothes in my humble. What shoes? Sorry, sliders?
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Or do you put on runners with no socks? You got me. Bang on. Trainers, no socks.
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Oh, I don't understand. I find the feeling of my feet on the rubber unacceptable.
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Do you? Yeah. I get away with it. I've never had smelly feet. My brother had the turbo smelly feet growing up, where they used to make him like basically stand in acid once in a while.
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He would regenerate new feet. And I always thought it might have come from the fact that he sometimes didn't wear socks.
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But, you know, this was the Don Johnson era of Miami Vice where not wearing socks was a sign of status.
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However, I've always gotten away with it. Do you know what I've never got is the, makes me go, oh, is the trainer sock.
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I don't like people who wear trainers. Either admit you're wearing socks or don't wear socks.
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I have some of those little socks. Oh, I hate them as well. I hate them.
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They're a deceit and they're sort of creepy as well. Yeah, they are creepy. There's no shame, Max, in socks.
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Just admit it. Get these knee-high socks that me and Josh are wearing. You make them sound like something from Operation U-Tree, right?
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They're just socks. No, but when you wear them without shoes, like, they look bizarre.
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They look so weird. Second only to the shoes that have got the separate toes, which just...
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Totally, I know. Yeah, they... Jogging in them. Fuck off. The other red flag, sorry, that this may horrify some of the listeners, but do you know the chair, office chair with built-in speakers around the ears?
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Oh, I don't know that. They're gaming chairs, effectively. But I just say arrest those people.
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Just chances are there's awful stuff going on there. Speaking of arresting people, I once said on TalkSport that anyone under the age of 60 wearing a flat cap should be arrested.
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And I don't think I've ever got more abuse. Mainly West Ham fans, but just a lot of people were really angry.
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I mean, obviously chimney sweeps, pigeon fanciers were firing. I'd say TalkSport presenters have done worse in recent years.
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Okay, you're dressed, you've had breakfast. A concoction of nuts in yogurt. Presumably a bunch of coffee, some orange juice also.
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A tea because coffee sends me too high and then too low. Really? Yeah. This is the first person who's squarer than me when it comes to substances.
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So I used to be incredibly into coffee, but I'd get like really high and then I'd get really depressed.
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Wow. Because it was during university when I got into coffee and I was on about six cups a day.
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And then I was throwing up every morning in the shower. And it was basically, I just OD'd on coffee.
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And now I'm ultra sensitive to it. Do you ever have one? Just for the thrill?
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Yeah. Occasionally I relapse and you think, I know what I've done to myself there.
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It's my favorite smell apart from, I love the smell of petrol. Yeah. Really? This is incredible kinship.
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I think me and Josh should be doing this podcast. Not you, weird socks. No, it's fair enough.
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Your weird little feet. The other smell that I love, I mean, I do love bicycles, but there's a smell in bike shops, which is of tire and probably various lubricants.
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Lubricants as well. So sometimes I'll just stand in them and just get it, just inhale it and then just head off for the afternoon.
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Okay. I also, I enjoy the smell of a sports shop, even though I don't enjoy shopping in them.
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I love the smell, the rubber. Fresh rubber. I know what you mean there. And also I fucking love deep heat.
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I love, it's like a Sunday league football dressing room is so nostalgic for me.
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Absolutely love that. Okay. So we're what? Half past eight? Yeah. So go back up.
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Backstairs. My wife and son are up. They go down for breakfast, get the kids dressed.
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We've got tickets to the wheelchair basketball. Oh yeah. That would be one of the biggies now, wouldn't it?
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Britain versus Germany, the old enemy. Wow. So we then ride the Metro, which is what they call the tube here.
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How's your French? Non-existent, awful. So I've actually got a bit of a chip on my shoulder about this.
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Right. I basically, I was in bottom French from year seven and I was in top or second for all the other groups.
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And you're like going, guys, have a look. You've misjudged this, right? You know, like they say about the conference, it's a very difficult group to get out of.
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Once you're in there, the promotion opportunities are very difficult. It's one up, one down.
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Yeah, basically. Because in set two, you know, turkeys don't vote for Christmas. They're never going to agree on three up, three down from set two.
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Exactly. Everyone above you, they don't want you trying to get into their group. So I was in bottom French the whole way.
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So I got a D. They talk all the time about some of the French filtering down from the top set, but it never does.
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Oh God. So I was terrible at French, but then went on a French exchange when I was about 16 and was so ritually humiliated on a daily basis where I remember once sitting in,
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the class of Les Autres students and the teacher saying, take off your hat and me not understanding what a chapeau was and everyone just laughing.
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That is actually a way of getting French into your brain. Just using humiliation. Whereas if you'd taken off your trousers or something and just been the first one.
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I hate to say it, Josh, I got an A star. Of course you did.
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Well, you're an international broadcaster these days, Max. Wow. Yeah. When you get, when you get the Metro in Paris, you can't tap with your credit card.
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I mean, I don't want to go hard in on the French because you already have really, you've done that.
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Do you want to hear something worse than that? Oh God, here we go. No, no, this is for the IOC and the IPC.
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Smells of onions. The whole thing smells of onions. This isn't about France. This is about the internal world of the Olympics and the Paralympics.
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Yeah. You can't pay with cash. Fine. It's 2024. Also, due to their, due to their sponsorship, you can only pay with visa.
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So I've got MasterCard. I can't consume any food or drink in the stadiums or buy any merchandise.
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I don't even give a fuck about MasterCard. It's just what Nat West give me.
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No one cares. It's a mad situation. That is insane. Wow. Like how much money must they be costing?
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I know Visa. Also, this is such a pointless sponsorship because no one chooses between MasterCard and Visa.
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It's just the one your bank gives you. It's a classic error that all those ads, all that sponsorship.
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It's not dissimilar to how the World Cup is sponsored by Budweiser in football. And so an awful lot of people go to World Cups and then can only drink Budweiser is the only option,
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which if they end up sponsoring this podcast is the king of beers. Thank you.
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It's just like nectar from the gods. I'll be surprised if I hear you doing an advert read for Visa.
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That would be, this podcast would have really taken. You've got a Patreon, but Patreons are only allowed to sign up with Visa.
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Okay, so you struggle to pay, but you get on the Metro. I think this is- We didn't struggle to pay.
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Max threw that in himself. We were fine paying. Right. Okay. Sorry to my podcasting partner, Max.
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Have you spent a lot of time in Paris? It sounds like you're a real local here.
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Yeah, I spent three days there in July. And it was lovely. It is lovely.
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If people, you know, aren't aware of it, it's a nice spot. Believe the hype.
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Exactly. Yeah. When I was sacked from BBC London breakfast show, not being famous and replaced by my nemesis, Paul Ross, I sent my show reel off to everyone that I could possibly think of.
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And Sky Sports picked it up, which was nice. But the only other people to reply with the Travel Channel, said I was boring.
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And at the time, at the time, at the time, they just said, literally, I remember the email said it just wasn't quite edgy enough.
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And at the time, the Travel Channel literally were just doing, two weeks in Mallorca will cost you £421.
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Like, how edgy do you need to be? Like, I don't remember those shows, those really wild shows with, you know, cocaine-fuelled madmen on the Travel Channel.
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Two weeks in Columbia. I was absolutely perfect for the Travel Channel. Boring, vanilla, straight-laced, and saying, I'll fly to Marseille for a weekend and tell you what it's like.
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That's where you've developed this new bad boy persona from. Fuck these, fuck the metro in Paris, baby.
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Okay, so we've got to the venue. Oh yeah, I was just going to tell you, metro's fine, but one thing I have noticed over here, which I've seen quite a few times,
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is totally, and I've never really seen this in London, people just double up behind you straight through the barrier without even thinking about it.
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Wow. There's so many people. There's so many people jumping the metro and I respect them for it.
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Tailgating. Yeah, there's so much tailgating. Do the barriers take a bit less time? Because in the tube, you've got to be so fast and you don't want to get stuck in it.
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They seem to be fine. I've not seen anyone trapped in a barrier. You'd one child on your shoulders and the other child on that child's shoulders as you went through just to get a single.
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Actually, I did have a problem in the metro where my son signed through with my card and then I realised that he's not meant to have a card and he's gone through as an adult.
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And then I couldn't get through. That wasn't yesterday, so I can't go into more detail than that.
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I was about to tell my escalator anecdote, but also that didn't happen yesterday, so I can't.
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We'll save that for another episode. Oh, no. You're really trailing a lot of stuff for the future.
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Yeah, I've so far kept everything in. Except the Paul Ross thing, which comes to almost every episode, I imagine.
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Don't worry, I'll be absolutely still furious. Josh, come on, give us your day. That's the whole point of this.
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Wheelchair basketball. How did we get on? We were winning when we left, because a three-year-old is not conducive to a full wheelchair basketball match.
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Very fair. He did all right. He did about two quarters, I'd say. Which is a half, I know.
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But that sounds like I don't... That's how basketball's split up. I know the lingo.
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Yeah, yeah. I'd say we can probably skip past that, because it was fine. It was good fun.
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But the kid situation meant that we then went for lunch to a French restaurant.
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Oh, wow. How did you find one of them? That was known for being good for kids.
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Great, great. Yeah, they had chips and chicken. That was a success. I had my last leg meeting, because we were filming that night, so I'm working from just from 1.30 each day is my last leg meeting.
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So I knew I had that, and I get a free veggie poke bowl during that, so I wasn't eating.
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So I just had some artichokes, one of the starters, while everyone else had... Well, does everyone get a free veggie poke bowl?
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Do you get a choice? No, you can choose. It's not part of my contract, but we have the meeting in the hotel, and the veggie poke bowl is available.
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So I'm having that every day, because once again, I'm a creature of habit. An interesting little sidebar here.
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I used to run concerts when I was in university, and I once booked a jazz trio, a very famous jazz trio that is still going, called Brad Meldo Trio.
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Anyway, the bass player is called Larry Grenadier, and the next gig was in Paris, and I had written quite a good press release for it, and they said, can you give us the press release?
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And this was very early technology. I used an auto-translate thing, translated into French, and it turns out the French word for Grenadier is pomegranate, and when he got there on the posters,
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his name was Larry Pomegranate, which sounds like an automated children's TV character. Have you ever seen that road sign?
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I don't know whether it's, I think it is where they've sent the road sign off to be translated into Welsh, and the email bounce back has come back, and then they've put that on the road sign,
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thinking that is translation. Okay, so you're full of artichokes. Full of artichokes. Do you have time for another sporting event before this last leg meeting that we are so anxious to hear about?
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No. I don't. I finish my artichokes and walk back to the hotel and sit down on the terrace where I have my veggie poke bowl.
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Right. And how many people are in this meeting? Big old show, the last leg.
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I reckon you've got, what, 10? Yeah, I was about to say 10. I'd say 10. So you've got maybe three or four producers.
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Don't know what the name of this job is, but Sooz, her job is to like do the timings because it's live.
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So she'd do the- PA, it's PA. Is that what, yeah. And then presenters and, Okay, so you've had the meeting and is it a serious meeting?
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Do you have fun in it? What's the vibe? I'd say I'm too jovial. I probably could focus more.
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So it's not that serious for me. Yes. But maybe it is for other people.
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Adam, Adam Hills. He's got to hold the whole thing down. Whereas, you know, you're just the Sue to his sooty.
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Totally, exactly. He's basically got to host a live TV show and I've got to do it.
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I've got to chip in occasionally in a wry manner. So I'm fully aware that I am on easy street compared to chilling out, having my poke bowl.
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That's really the meeting for me. What I don't mean is I'm not derailing the meeting or doing anything, but you know.
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You don't have a whoopee cushion. Like we're not at that level. I'm not one of the bash street kids, but I'm not panicked in any way.
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Josh, in the podcast, what did you do yesterday? Who would you say is the outlier and who is the Josh Widdicombebe of the two hosts?
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Max is the Adam Hills. He's trying to drive it. And I'm just occasionally being like, does anyone know how dry cleaning works?
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Sorry, I wasn't listening. Actually, Josh, who would you say are the two of us like forensically listens back to these and has real thoughts about it?
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And who is just like, it's fine. Oh, that's interesting, actually. Is this a surprise twist that David listens back?
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Oh, my goodness. That's not a surprise at all. Max literally, like, it's possible he does 12 podcasts a day.
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He just carries on with his life straight away. Whereas I have a little think and I'm like, here's an idea for the next one.
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Max could not give a shit. I'm hearing it right now. I don't need to hear it again.
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Do I? I mean, maybe it's a stunning lack of professions. With this podcast, we're sort of at the beginning of what David and I believe is, well, I've said I'm here.
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I've been doing it for life. So 45, let's call it a 40 year journey. So maybe I could be a bit more assiduous right now.
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Well, I'm just, well, okay. All right. Okay. 35. When do you think I'm going to die, Josh?
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78. Oh, really? Okay. I might up the poke bars. Wow. If you die at 78 and they approach me for a quote, I'll say it's no age.
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That is no age. Is that not the average age these days? It's a great moment on Talks.
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Well, there's a great clip that Hawksby and Jacobs use of Jason Cundey, Nelson Mandela's dying.
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He says, and that the sad news that Nelson Mandela has died at the age of just 94.
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I'd say that's the second best death clip on Talksport. Oh, yeah. Alan Brazil talking about Bob Monkhouse.
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So Gary Bushel is doing a TV review and he starts by saying, I feel a bit of a fraud because I was a memorial audience for Bob Monkhouse.
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And then Alan Brazil comes in and says, oh, he does a great blue routine, you know, if you're interested, just apropos of nothing.
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Anyway, then they're chatting away. And then Alan says, how is Bob? How's his health?
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How's his health? And Gary says, well, he died. And Alan then, instead of just going, oh, shit, he just goes, oh, I heard two different versions, two different versions.
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It's totally amazing. It's such a good clip. I believe I am the only person among us, who has worked with Bob Munkhouse.
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My first ever appearance on television was the BBC 1999 New Comedy Awards, featuring fresh-faced 22-year-old David O'Doherty, won by 16-year-old Josie Long, a guest.
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Oh, watch this on TV! On podcast, yeah. It was a really interesting generations coming together, because in the studio at the time, Bob Munkhouse was the host, but Ross Noble was the warm-up,
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and Ross Noble was, it was just incredible, to the point where you wanted stuff to go wrong, so Bob would go, and Ross Noble would come back on, and chat with the audience about their coats,
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or whatever he was talking to them about. Yeah, yeah. That was wow, and you were there watching it.
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Do you think it inspired you? I watched that, because I remember Josie having a joke about having a temporary tattoo, and it was a piece of paper sellotaped to her stomach.
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Yeah, that was it. Well done. Wow. Peter Kay was one of the judges, and he said he didn't, he said he didn't like me.
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He said he did not like that. I think he said it was surreal, and it definitely wasn't surreal what I was doing at the time.
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I mean, I didn't have a clue. I'd been doing stand-up for about six weeks.
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Why the hell had they put me on BBC One with Bob Monkhead? One of the worst ever ideas.
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You know, it'd be like going on the repair shop, or doing the repairs on the repair shop, having six weeks ago done a course in how to fix old clocks,
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and just hitting it with a hammer. And if social media had been around in the day, I think I probably would have not be here.
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I would be working on a bike shop. Thank you. Oh, I feel that. I feel if social media had really been a thing when I started my TV career, there's no way.
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I mean, there's no way. Too many tweets saying this is boring. Oh, yeah. This is not edgy enough.
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Anyway, so hang on, Josh. Where are we? I've forgotten. You're in the meeting. You've had the meeting.
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We've just done the meeting. Josh, I have a question. Because you do more live television than anyone that I know, have you overcome the inherent desire to say loads of rude words?
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In the way that when you're stood on a tube platform, you think, well, if I just walked off now kind of thing.
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Do other people have that? Yeah, sometimes, yeah. A bit, but... Yeah, but not like I want to, but like what would happen, you know, that kind of...
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Anyway, yes, I suppose I've become quite dead to the whole thing. Oh, wow. But I suppose you've got that with live radio, Max.
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Do you still get nervous and think this could be it? I'm one sentence away from the whole thing falling down.
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Do you know what? The thing I think is the difference is TV is so produced, right?
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There are so few TV shows, even like Soccer AM was like Organised Chaos, but it was really produced, the show that I've literally just done in Australia.
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Whereas radio is literally, you just don't know what you're going to say in a minute.
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I'm coming on air and I haven't got a clue. I get excited, I don't get nervous.
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I do get excited. I want it to go wrong. Like one of my favourite shows with Charlie Baker recently was when he just had fallen asleep in a hotel after a gig and it was like five to nine and he woke up and went,
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oh shit, I was like, great. I've got 50 minutes on my own and I'm going to absolutely cane this guy and this is great.
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And the listeners loved it as well. But like, if that had been the start of my career, I'd have been going, oh God, I've got no one to talk to and nothing to do.
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I wouldn't on a public platform saying I'm dead to this. Not dead to it.
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I mean, the closest I've ever come to it was I once did, I'm going to have to pick this up now in a second.
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I once did Sunday brunch with Dua Lipa, you guys. And we were doing a gin tasting of new English fruit gins.
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And I'll be honest, I got drunk because it's a four hour show. And I probably drank six doubles in that time.
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And there's a bit at the end where they make you stand in the background.
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And me and Dua were absolutely hanging on. You know, it does cross your mind I'm going to shout out a funny conspiracy theory.
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You know that. Or I could probably have this show taken off the air right now.
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Now I decided, Dua and I decided not to do that. But we became Instagram friends for a while afterwards.
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That's great. That's very nice. I hear she's doing well. That's what you say about your exes.
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She's not my ex. I hear she's doing well. How much for breakfast radio or TV?
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Like get in. I'm just setting up doing it as opposed to this is happening later and I've just got to If I could do a tour where every gig was at 10am that would be incredible.
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100%. 100%. That would be so good. I don't know. It'd be a weird decision but it would be such a great way to tour.
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Maybe playing in different Prats. You know the Prat tour where they set up a little stage.
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And then you could also the great flaw of Prat is the coffee system as to just just stand over there and we'll just we never got your name but we'll just shout out the name of a coffee.
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You could help with that. You could do some material and you could be like double shot latte warm over there.
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And if you pick a busy Prat at like one in the afternoon you'd get a decent audience.
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Yeah you would. I think this is not a bad idea. It wouldn't be great for callbacks because they'd all be seeing one.
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They wouldn't no one would have stayed for the whole thing. This is the beauty of it Josh.
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You just need three minutes of material and you just keep doing it over and over.
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I need one song and I just keep doing that song over and over again.
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Okay. So we have decided what we're going to do on the last leg. Then is there some downtime?
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Well this is the problem because you've got to meet the fam again after the meeting I presume.
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Well so Tom Crane who I write with on the last leg to be honest right to once again say how much I'm stealing a living at this Paralympics is not a huge amount to write on.
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So normally on a Friday then you're like there's loads of news there's all the stuff to write on so that's the whole day is quite kind of intense.
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To be honest we're creating a bit of work for ourselves just to do something at this stage in the game because none of the events have happened.
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Right yeah yeah. And like you know you can write on the fact we had Fury she's the first ever deaf gladiator she was on so you can talk about that but beyond that you can't really short of writing what might happen and then thinking
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of some jokes off that which is insane just check that out really. Anyway so hang on you've got you're in your down time what do you do?
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Do you kick about ideas with the talent or do you just lie down? Me and Crane tried to kick around ideas for 15 minutes and really realised that there was nothing that could be done.
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Right yeah. I'm of the view now 12 years in and here for two weeks that I want to spend and I include everyone involved in the show the team and the production I want to spend as much time on my own as humanly possible.
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Yeah good idea. I've got to that realisation in the last couple of years that is simply who I am.
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I don't want to see anyone before the meeting at 1.30 I don't want to see anyone in that gap I just want time on my own to read my book about East Germany.
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That's all I really want to do. Is it about the Stasi or is it about the sports programme?
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It's about the history of East Germany it's incredibly good it's called Beyond the Wall and it's a history of East Germany from formation to the wall coming down in 89 and it's incredibly readable but well written and well researched history of the country and I've just started with
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the sports programme which I find incredible because I actually during the Olympics I thought oh I wonder how consistent the medals tables are over the years are like when China rose to the top and all that kind of stuff I went back I didn't realise
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in the 70s and 80s East Germany were coming third in the Olympics with a population of like 10 million or whatever it is in my beloved sport of cycling it's only after the wall comes down in 89 you'll notice that's when the crazy drugs boom in cycling is
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and it's because every team suddenly gets an East German doctor oh wow yeah so it trickled out from there then yeah fascinating so how many pages did you get to read Josh about 7 or 8 I met met with the family checked in with them so that time
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was kind of down time really I don't know where that went you know it just went and then got the train to the studio which is next to the Stade de France got the metro again your beloved metro Max so Alex and Adam get a car
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but I don't really like travelling in car I prefer to travel on public transport because I find I find car a bit restrictive I agree with you I totally agree but we got off at the wrong stop for the Stade de France for the third day
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in a row why is it one of those complicated ones where there's one stop called Le Stade and the next one is Stade de France yes so it's called Stade de France Saint Denis and
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day one we just got off at Saint Denis and then yesterday we got off at the wrong Stade de France so we've riffed on both bits of the title to get it wrong but I think today we'll be fine putting a decoy Stade de France next to the
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Stade de France is harsh isn't it so French it's so très franche okay great I'm just worried about your nutrition because I haven't been totting it up but all we've had is nuts in yogurt some artichokes and a poke bowl that's not going to be
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enough to do a live broadcast yeah so when I get to the studio I had a protein bar oh god god because I can't tell you how difficult it is to eat as a veggie over here like when we went to Rio for the Paralympics 2016 that was worse
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and every dinner in the Paralympic media center all I could have was potato smileys with sriracha sauce I was once at the Edinburgh Fringe with the flight of the Concords they had got American agents and stuff and we were at a pizza a legendary Edinburgh mid-range pizza
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restaurant called Ciao Roma and we'd all ordered pizzas and with us was one guy who was one of their super LA agents and he didn't order anything he had a glass of water and then at some point a man in a FedEx uniform walked into Ciao Roma
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with an envelope walked up to the table he ripped it open and inside was a protein bar that's you Josh that is you that's me well no I do eat properly at dinner we do the rehearsal then
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so the rehearsal is like Hilsey reads through the scripts and we just kind of block it all out a bit sorry that sounds like what I mean is block out the show not block it out as in I don't listen I hate rehearsing I hate it
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I don't think you should ever rehearse anything oh it's fine because I'm not the one reading the script we're like oh so you'd go there at this point that kind of stuff it takes about an hour right okay
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what have we got to TX now transmission so that's 5.30 till 6.30 yeah and we're on at 10.30 French time that is too much time yeah back to the room then we do our writing because it's the Paralympics a full disclosure it takes about 45 minutes yeah because there's just
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lots of clips it's just good athletic stuff you're not making jokes you know most of it's reacting to interviews it's fine I'm stealing a living at this Paralympics I'm fully aware of that but bear in mind we've had some pretty tough news weeks when we do the ones
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on Friday night so this is my reward so then we went and got our dinner okay got high hopes for this we need something good here paper plate Chinese great do you know what because I don't really end up in this situation a lot it always reminds me
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whenever I go into a canteen all I think about is you know the episode of MasterChef where Greg Wallace goes you've got to cater for 200 hungry soldiers set designers they're going to be in in two hours what are you going to make it always reminds me
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of that one where they have to do the kind of you know the lunch break on Holby City or something Chinese is a funny for the city of eternal love to be like while we do spring rolls great on day two as well
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so it's not like they've gone it's day nine we're running out of ideas it's Chinese day two so have you got an audience in for this yeah about 20 or 30 people oh well then
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that's my favourite number of people to be at a thing it's really nice it's like a good Edinburgh show are they French or have you shipped them in have they had to get the hero star they are people that are either here for the Paralympics or have moved
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you'll understand this Max people who've moved to another country perhaps for love right got it I'm with you I'm with you I thoroughly recommend it so the difficulty then must be editing out the sort of lovey kissing sounds coming from the audience how does the show go Josh
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are you happy with it or are you like my colleague who never considers anything from the past ever I do certainly consider it but I put it behind me very quickly I operate the system and you must have this with stand-up gigs Dave and you'd have it Max
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with like the Guardian Football Weekly I've done too many good ones and too many bad ones and then seen it have no effect to realise that really one show doesn't make that much of a difference does that make sense you go when I've done a really good one
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and then you go well that didn't change anything and then you'll do a really bad one no one else seems to notice so I very much operate the was it Bob Paisley that would come round with a plastic bag and get them to put their medals
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in the plastic bag after the after the thing wow success and failure you see them both as imposters I do see them both as imposters but obviously oh I try to but certainly with The Last Leg I do because it's gone on long enough that the thing
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that kills us won't be us getting getting bad it'll be people getting bored of us or the death of linear television what about you David because I do I come off air and think oh that was good and that's it so I never think everything was brilliant
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or terrible I always just go oh that was good because I've never done this kind of factory style broadcasting that you do and I say that in the nicest possible way Max I've always done the beauty of a stand-up show is that you kind of refine it
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you never have to give the definitive version of it so I still leave my little phone at the side of the stage on voice memo record the show and listen to it go for a walk and listen to it the next morning and how can we make
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this a little bit better fucking hell you're like Pep Guardiola not to do too much football but you're like Pep Guardiola that's amazing even if like something has gone totally wrong on a show because I hate confrontations so much at the end of every show whatever it is
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in the WhatsApp group I go great show thanks everyone and I will be watching my WhatsApp in five minutes I would rather everyone has a nice time than actually have to confront anyone we're going like none of that work that idea we had that needed this
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it didn't work I just go well I just it doesn't matter can I tell you how I react to the show so we have to leave the site almost instantly because French labour laws are very strict so it's like when you finish you have to go
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and I'm like so then we have to get in a car and I just don't want to talk to anyone at all after the show yeah so we put in a car and I just put in my headphones everyone sat in the car talking about the show
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and I just listened to the new album by Fontaine's DC I apologised I'm like sorry I just want a bit of my own head space do you like only now talk when you're on air so like we're talking to you now
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that's fine but like to your family you're like I don't care I just can't do this anymore I've become so antisocial it's awful no it's not that actually I like seeing people but if I've got a long day of seeing people in a work context
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the last thing I want is to then social I'm going to throw in something now and this is going to seem it's very atypical of my life because I've already dropped my Dua Lipa anecdote yeah but this you could argue is even bigger than that the only time
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I was ever at Stade de France I was I wangled a ticket to the Rugby World Cup Final which took place there last October, November and because I'm friends with Taika Waititi the film director who does stuff with the All Blacks so he'd said
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do you want to come and so we're in a holding area with the mega celebs just beforehand and I am directly beside Novak Djokovic who out of just sporting niceness just goes hey man good to see you he says that to me now it's possible
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he thinks I'm Chris O'Dowd it's possible he's just being nice oh he's a fan so I will attempt to get him on this podcast and he goes great to see you man and I say I just fall into whatever this universal bullshit language of mega celebs is
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so I go oh great to see you man congratulations on and then because I don't know tennis very well I think he's actually had a bad season so I just say congratulations on everything okay
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and he does this thing which is a real cool power play he pats me on my heart I'm doing it to myself now and he just says means a lot and walks off to talk to someone else that's amazing that's amazing yeah I love the idea sort of
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Rocky IV like when he is training in the snow for you know three Olympics time because he's still going because he's 60 that's the thing he'll be thinking of me it's guys like that who really respect my work and congratulate me on everything I have achieved
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I love generic praise for people it's so good though isn't it well done on all the football my friend met Alan Shearer and offered to buy him a drink because he was so excited and didn't know what to say so just said I mean it wasn't my friend
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it was my brother it was Henry Henry Whittacombe who you know David he said thanks for all the goals so you've listened to Fontaine's DC straight to bed then straight to bed I get to the hotel straight to bed my family are already asleep
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but I like to read in bed under all costs East Germany those East Germans it's just such a page turner all that misery too right no actually David read it there wasn't as much misery as you thought I think it's it's a full kaleidoscope oh no
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oh Winnicombe's gonna flip maybe we should bring back a Stasi no I'm not so I I recently invested for when our children are in the room and I want to read in an eight pound reading light that clips to my book so that I can read
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in the dark wow you doze off with dreams of people being abducted huge files being kept on anyone you've seen as a dissident neighbours telling on each other exactly the lives of others and going actually seems pretty good sounds pretty good I'm just saying
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they won a lot of Olympic medals guys think about it can we just before you finish what you read a few pages close the book put it down and just out yeah no sound I just close my eyes and I'm quite good at going to sleep these days
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I'm probably asleep within three or four minutes these days that's it that's the day it doesn't I mean we don't care about anything else that happens as soon as he's passed into the arm arms of Morpheus again that's the right
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I think that means dead he's not dead listeners into the arms of whoever you say that sleep is there we go thank you Josh thank you I look forward to the text great show everyone great show everyone thanks Josh so that was Josh Whittingham great show
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great show everyone I mean I mean it I really enjoyed that it's the first time Max we've had someone on with the greatest of respect to all of our other guests who's actually done something that day is that fair to say I've really enjoyed the episodes
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where it's just I mean I guess Ellis James did go for a 20 mile cycle and I guess Lou Sanders did eat a fake ham sandwich which is probably the pinnacle of her day but he's made broadcasting history over the course of this day but thanks everyone for listening
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we really appreciate it that you're still with us after all this time now you can get in touch with the show and as I promised David some less positive reviews oh my goodness this one is really aimed at me I think from the title
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of it you can tell it's more aimed at me than you because the title of it is Max's lack of personality three exclamation marks this is in the Apple pod review bit never heard of Max Rushden before and I'm glad I hadn't this guy has a serious
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lack of personality to be on a podcast of this nature really troubling that no one has the courage to tell him him being on this podcast has honestly made the world a worse place oh come on really imagine going to I mean I don't know if there is
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you know more implied joy towards me there that I'm like it's the implication I'm carrying you like a snail shell on my back he doesn't he doesn't say anything he does give it two stars so
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so we've got to say that you're getting a lot of the two stars you're not mentioned but I would say you know silence says a lot there another one says dull oh I like the concept but so far the guests have been friends so I found their conversations
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very clicky he says yeah or she says let's hope they get more varied guests here's a nice bit both presenters have quite dull monotonous voices and there is far too much sport talk I don't want to listen to a sport podcast then he says we'll continue to listen
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with the hope that it livens up a bit so like fair play there are so many podcasts if you don't like it enough after three episodes to write a review like that you don't have to persevere like I really like credit to the person for speaking
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despite how boring he finds both of our voices he's going to stick with it do I have a monotone voice?
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I thought if anything I thought my voice is I've always thought it's two up and down monotonous doesn't necessarily mean monotone I just think it means boring it literally means monotone it's where monotonous thanks though Max thanks for trying to pretend that's not the case but anyway
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there's not there's nothing I can do about my voice David if you can unmonotonise yours for the next step that would be great we'll try and get people we don't know on the podcast as well
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maybe we'll get the Harris Trump maybe we'll get them both on ah that's a really good idea together that might be what that person wants anyway if you want to get in touch with the show and we will read out positive and negative here is how
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I refined my speech into very clear words with beginnings and ends I used to do telemarketing and so in particular I still get made fun of when I read out numbers I say seven three five six two like that so all the things that always get me
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to say it at the end of this podcast thank you for listening to what did you do yesterday and there will be a new episode coming next week we'll be back next week