WDWDY #39: Georgia on my mind...

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Podcasts, there are millions of them.

Some might say too many.

I have one already.

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.

But nobody is covering the most important topic of all.

Why is that?

Are they scared?

Too afraid of being censored by the man?

Possibly, but not us.

We're here to ask the only question that matters.

We'll try and say it at the same time, Max.

What did you do yesterday?

What did you do yesterday?

What did you do yesterday?

That's it.

All we're interested in is what the guests got up to yesterday, nothing more.

Day 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.

I'm Max Rushton.

And I'm David O'Doherty.

Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday?

Hello and welcome to Midweek Mayhem from the people that bring you What Did You Do Yesterday.

It's a midweek episode with me, Max Rushton, and this man, David O'Doherty.

Midweek Mayhem.

Mayhem, mayhem.

This is the first time we've done one of these since we have done it in person.

Yeah.

Following the great...

as people are calling it, first ever live what did you do yesterday, Max.

The show that changed theater forever

is what people are saying.

So, apparently, the front page of the Times of London the next day was a star is born, and then brackets two and our faces.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Thank you to everyone that came, and I hope you had a lovely time.

People did notice that some of the technicals, brackets, all of them didn't work, and most of my friends thought this is all part of the show.

The real advantage of being a total shambles, because, for example, so Morris Barra had made a beautiful montage of the start.

I mean, we can say what it was now, which was Sugar Ross plays as shots come up of people

saying certain key things from the history of this podcast.

Yeah.

And it wouldn't output at the last minute.

So you told him just to have Sugar Ross playing and the word montage written on a big screen at the back of the stage.

And then to add to that, the audio wouldn't output either.

So Sugaros was playing from a tiny speaker smaller than you'd have in a car back of the stage in an enormous Victorian musical.

So maybe the first two rows could slightly hear it.

And what's funny is we were just standing there laughing and Martba was like sprinting around the back of the stage going, nothing's working.

Anyway, what's good is maybe we have set expectations so low on this podcast that people were like, this is their plan all along.

It's just going to say montage.

Not only that, there's going to be no music.

So basically the people, anyone who wasn't in the first two rows, just saw the word montage for two minutes.

And then we wandered on going, Jay, we're digging uphill.

We're digging uphill here.

Thank you to Nish Kumar, who was our special guest.

Yeah.

And he was actually.

It has to be him, really.

He set the tone for, although it was the 19th one, I think, that was released.

It was the first one we ever recorded.

And we were both tentatively wondering if this worked as a concept.

And last week, he got his retribution for all of the jokes we'd made about him.

Lots of friends, my friends came.

There were two.

There's one.

Clive bought his 15-year-old son, John T.

And I wondered what Clive was thinking, maybe the 10th time Nish used the C word to describe a conservative politician.

Also, my friend Ellie, who works in theatre, I met them for a pint at like seven.

The show was at half past.

And she was like, what are you doing?

Like, why are you here?

Like, this is a theater show.

You should be prepping and doing stuff.

I was like, it's all under total control.

And then the first five minutes of the show, it's absolutely

a car crash.

Well, just

as regards little John T, you must accept some responsibility for sending it in this direction by walking out with a bath bath that you said could be filled with whatever people wanted to fill it with at halftime leaving it at the front of the stage well i was discussing about you know the content and the language of this show and whether it's appropriate for children and i sort of said that there is some swearing and there are some obviously sexual references but in a nice way and i maybe this is a much better way to introduce these kind of references than you know sort of alt-right youtube i think this is a great way in to those kind of things Joe, some more feedback.

Steve from Kent, dear generic man 3, any old Irishman and Mars Bar, long time listener.

Currently sitting in the Pizza Express opposite the Hackney Empire with building excitement for the what did you do yesterday live experience when lo and behold, yet more evidence that your podcast is the center of the known universe.

We arrived early, too early, and there was barely anyone in the restaurant.

Roll on being halfway through our pizza and the restaurant slowly filling.

They eventually start pumping in the background music, what should be the first song that plays, none other other than dancing in the moonlight by not top loader but the original by king harvest did you arrange this or is it just the inevitable way of things now look the pub everything is showbiz can't wait for the show break a bath full of cum Steve says

Well, just on that subject, you did bring a bath and then in the pub afterwards announced that your children hadn't been able to have baths on the evening because you had brought their plastic bath to the theater.

Jamie messaged me mid-show saying, I hear you've sullied our children's bath.

Elizabeth says, even more evidence that the show is the center of the known universe.

Max told his guess a thing anecdote.

Yeah, you know my quiz, Think of a Thing, which we will almost certainly introduce.

The thing about Think of a Thing is, and you say it's a terrible game, but once while driving through the west coast of Australia, I had thought of a thing.

Ollie, my friend, guessed Prunella Scales, and it was Prunella Scales.

Max told his Think of a Thing anecdote, the what did you do yesterday live show at the Empire, but the answer was Prunella Scales.

Look what was on the seat plaque in front of us.

Timothy West and Prunella Scales, literally embossed on the seat in front of them.

I'm saying this, and she's she is looking at Prunella Scales right there.

Prunella Scales, to people who may not know, was Sybil from Faulty Towers, the popular British sitcom of the 70s.

Just about let people know who Deion Dublin is.

We're not here to tell you who Brunella Scales is.

This is some reaction to your wonderful yesterday from Provence.

What was the terrible moment?

We're running low on Rose.

We're running low on.

We've got a leader left with Rosé.

It's like the crisis.

Ah, it's like a war.

This is a disaster.

Chloe says, I pictured David as the Russell Crow from an alarming Ridley Scott film, A Year in Provence, swaggering around the tiny village, charming locals, though not seducing Marion Cottelier due to the copter.

David, I'll say what Max can't.

I'm so happy for you to have such an idyllic time.

Max, we love you.

Hope the live show was a brilliant time for all concerned.

The audience leaving with a buzz of dancing in the moonlight, spilling out of the auditorium.

Yes, sir.

Sean says, Willie Rushton seems to be a very similar age to my daughter, who was born in February 2025 and is our only child.

Before listening to this podcast, we thought we were ready for a second child.

On reflection,

more consideration is needed.

God, birth rates declining in the West.

Main factor on TV yesterday.

Just sorry, on the subject of the last email.

Yeah, yeah.

The listeners who weren't at the live event, we might as well tell them that it finished with Max on clarinet, me on keyboard and Nish on guitar playing a not that bad version of Dancing in the Moonlight by Top Loader slash King Harvest.

You the funniest part of it was definitely because we we had to make sure we were playing it in the same key.

So the day before, because you didn't have sheet music, you were trying to play it by ear.

I said, can you just send me the first note?

We've discussed this on the last mayhem, if you remember.

Oh, we did discuss it.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was playing the clarinet and on the morning of the show, and Jamie was trying to put a baby to sleep through that.

very thin wall.

I think it's worth saying because I played it very badly on last week's mayhem that it went better on the night.

It really really did.

And there's a video of it that someone put up.

And you even have the audacity to raise the clarinet up like a Kenny G style, I think is how we describe it.

Generic Mantry, the Kenny G of football podcasting.

We were talking about the butterfly.

You were in your pool.

You were there just having, just frolicking in your Provence swimming pool.

You man of the people bastard.

And Fresh and Minty says, I lovely comments about the butterfly.

I remember trying it when I was about 10, and the lifeguard thought I couldn't swim and so consigned me to the shallow end.

I kept trying to demonstrate I could swim by doing front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, but by then they were having none of it.

Max, you'll know this.

What's the correct leg thing for butterfly?

I think your legs are together like a dolphin.

It's like a dolphin flip.

Is it?

So you just you mermaid your feet?

You're sort of body popping in the water.

That's the way I like to do it.

This was his video service of me body popping to you now, impersonating the butterfly.

I've invented the fourth and final stroke, which is, if you think about it, backstroke is going in the direction of your head.

Well, the only stroke that doesn't exist is on your back, but going in the direction of your feet.

Oh, yeah.

It's called a trout, and you have to leave your feet sticking up through the water.

There's a sort of,

is it swans or ducks that underneath the water line are furiously paddling?

That's what they look beautiful on the top.

Thank you.

Yes, I do.

That would be really good.

Yeah.

In lane four for the Republic of Ireland, David O'Doherty with the trout.

You'd have to start in the water, wouldn't you?

You couldn't really dive in and then trout.

It would be really good.

There's a real danger of hitting your head on the pool if you jump in that way, isn't there?

There's four or five unconscious people slowly drowning, but the Canadians ahead and they're like trouting towards the line.

Yeah.

I'm in for it.

I'm in for it.

Maybe they'll put that in the enhanced games, you know, the one where you fill yourself with drugs.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, I'll enter that.

A great, great idea.

Bryony, this is a nice messenger.

Dear Max, DOD, and Mars Bar, thank you for a truly gorgeous podcast, which became my favorite, more or less on the first listen.

Hilarious, heartwarming, and humane.

I really hope you are indeed in it for life.

I've been meaning to get in touch for a while, but when I heard all the discussion surrounding Mary Beard's suggestion that the archive of What Did You Do Yesterday be bequeathed to the Bodleian for posterity, I couldn't wait any longer.

I'm an English literature academic specializing in literature and the everyday, with particular interest in narratives of the single day.

Wow.

I agree entirely with Professor Beard.

We must celebrate the arrival of your podcast as the latest contribution to the wealth of iconic circadian narratives.

Esther Menito said she would buy the huge bag of Thai sensations, crisps, and a pot of Tatsiki herself.

It's surely the perfect reworking for the 21st century of the opening of perhaps Virginia Woolf's most famous novel Mrs.

Dalloway, 100 years old this year.

And I hardly need elaborate on the exquisite similarities between the dominant theme of Nish Kumar's day and the at the time scandalous outhouse scene in part two episode four or calypso for those who prefer the Americ titles of James Joyce's Ulysses.

Obviously with jazz accompaniment.

Actually now I think of it there's a bathing scene in the next episode Lotus Eaters or rather an anticipation of bathing, though there's no mention, unfortunately, of how Leopold Bloom imagines lowering himself in, or exactly what he's lowering himself into.

Suffice to say that when I teach my special master's level course on Modern Everyday Next Semester, I will be putting your podcast on the syllabus.

Yes!

And I look forward to lively conversations with my students about, for example, the accumulation of sameness with indifference, a key circadian dynamic of Max's yesterdays, and their engagement with the politics of domesticity and child rearing, or the ways in which the podcast as a whole whole confirms the dictum of Professor Rita Felski in her landmark article, The Invention of Everyday Life, that everyday life is not simply interchangeable with the popular, it is not the exclusive property of a particular social class or grouping.

Bismarck had an everyday life, and so does Madonna.

One of these celebrities might be easier to get as a guest than the other, but if you've got Shackleton in your sights, well, thanks again.

If you plan holding a live show north of the border anytime soon, that's a class field trip sorted.

Bryony, we are now an academic paper.

This is what happens when Mary Beard gives you a posthumous first.

Suddenly, you know, other people in academia start getting, well, she was there right from the start.

That's wonderful.

I don't really think about it that way, but I think it's important that we don't.

We just keep asking people what time they got up at.

Yeah.

Although there is a danger in becoming an academic paper in that with most academic papers, no one reads them.

And so then no one will listen to this.

Haley says this is key and

I got in a lot of trouble with this.

I'm very interested to know how many emails you got from Australians saying actually the Hills Hoist was an Australian invention, not New Zealand.

Please count this as one of those emails.

Many, many people.

This is, I mean, there is a trope of Australians stealing the best things about New Zealand.

You know, with Crowded House.

Farlap the horse from the 1920s.

I'm almost certainly got Crowded House wrong, by the way.

There's something, you know, it's all the same down there, but carry on.

Oh, God.

I thought the Hills hoist was a New Zealand invention.

Wow.

Makes much more sense to be Australian, doesn't it?

Given the climate.

No, I could say the same at New Zealand where it's windier and therefore the four prongs of the Hills Hoist washing line would spin gently in the breeze.

You know what I mean?

You imagine the clothes rising like petals.

Well, now you've painted such a beautiful picture.

Maybe you're right.

But I had a Hills hoist growing up, it never span around in the wind, just sat there.

Did you never hang on to it and get your friend to push you?

And one of the grown-ups had come out of the house furious.

No.

Well, we had a climbing frame nearby, so I sort of went, I sort of aimed at the middleman.

Wow, no, you were lucky.

We had to use our Hills hoist

as a climbing frame.

yeah.

And then the other problem with the Hills hoist, sorry while we're on the subject, was no, no, don't apologize.

This is a key stuff.

In a garden where there was a huge amount of football played, you could easily run into it when you reached the height of the hills hoist.

And then you were just

stuck in it until the tea towels were dry and mum came in.

Spinning round and round.

Chris says, I just wanted to drop a message to say I love the pod.

I'm particularly enjoying the enchanting and intriguing world of Max's seemingly completely spontaneous 90s cultural reference points.

Some recent highlights include off-the-cuff mentions of Alita Adams,

Petula Clark being the first artist Max thought of, beginning with the letter P,

Gino Janelli ice cream, and most recently the 1992 film Peter's Friends.

The magical 1990s wonderland of Max Rushdon's unconscious deserves a spin-off podcast of its own.

Thanks for a great pod, Chris Gray.

I met Petula Clark once.

It was on on a chat show in Australia.

Adam Hills had a chat show in Australia.

And the guests were me,

the guy who wrote, What's the problem with a little peace and understanding?

What's his name?

Nick Lowe.

Nick Lowe.

He also wrote, I love the sound of breaking glass.

He wrote that as well.

And Petula Clark, Downtown, and she didn't sing downtown.

She sang a different song.

Did she sing Shout?

No, that's lulu

but you laugh is when you're alone and life

i repeat the question though it may be lulu but did you happen to sing shout i'm gonna sing one of lulu's best i don't know why i got that in my mind friend of mine nick was in the pub with some friends the dukebox years great pub years yeah they put on lulu's shout so many times they were in some pub in Scotland, you know, they'd been out walking or something.

Yeah.

And like, it was an old man pub, you know, they weren't enjoying shout coming on yeah so many times

the barber that awful exactly

so every time it came on they were like way and then the barber went if that comes on one more time you are out and so you remember old pub jukeboxes they're all sitting there tender hooks and you just hear

like way out we go anyway

Just one final email before we get to their just normal countries on the live show.

Claire says, hi, Barry, Generic Man 3, and Miles Park.

Gee, this is getting worse.

Imagine the excitement for myself, my friend Sarah, and her brother Gavin to get tickets for the What Did You Do Yesterday live show and head up to that there London.

I've attached a photo which I think sums up the journey experience we had getting to the live record.

That's actually from Gavin, who had a much more successful journey than us driving from Bournemouth, with the journey time changing from a predicted two and a half hours to four, and for some unknown reason, a bird falling from the sky and getting lodged in the grill of his car, which enabled people to point and stare as he desperately tried to get there in time.

Oh, yeah, there's a picture of a bird stuck in the grill.

Poor him, we were saying as we waited for our train at Clapham.

He's going to miss the first half.

Little did we know that London Overground had different plans for us that night, including two trains that, despite saying they were going to Hackney, then terminated early with no apology.

And in fact, with the implication that they couldn't believe our audacity in thinking it was actually going to the destination it had said on the platform.

They on the electric signs on the train.

So Sarah and I spent five hours on trains running up to the venue to ask for us to be let in for the last 13 minutes of the show.

Their place of the venue, when I offered to show them our tickets, they just waved us through with pity in their eyes.

I mean, what a 13 minutes they were.

But each minute cost us about £2.50.

And though we feel we got the gist of the show, we also feel that we missed quite a bit.

So, any chance you may be able to summarize it in a midweek mayhem or recreate or just pop back across Max and do it again.

Luckily, we're in it for life.

Otherwise, it might have been a bit gutting.

Oh, well, everything is showbiz.

Lots of love, Claire.

13 minutes.

Oh, Claire.

I mean, you've got a good 13 minutes.

Oh, Claire, I'm so sorry.

If we ever do another live one, and who knows, send us an email.

We'll pop you down.

Yeah, yeah.

What did you do yesterday, pod at gmail.com?

Free tickets for you for life.

Is that too many?

Is that too many tickets?

We reserve three for every live show.

And if we're sold out, there'll be three spare seats in the front.

But you're only allowed to come for free for the last 13 minutes of every show.

We'll make a big thing of you coming in.

That includes includes all family dinners where maxes all sit around to have their little boxes.

A helicopter will always have to make an extra portion and have it there.

And of course, Christmas at the Odonite's, the cheese board.

Right time, Bolly Cloud.

Time now for their just normal countries.

I am the one and only.

What country could I be?

I am the one and only.

Where in the world could our listeners be?

Now, we did this at the live show, David, didn't we?

We said, and that is a particularly chaotic bit of the live show.

I really hope they keep the bit in where somebody doesn't quite get the gist and we think they've got an amazing name.

We said, you know, we will accept an answer from someone whose name is a country.

And someone put their hand up and yelled, Montserrat, as a non-innovation is Montserrat.

And we were delighted.

And And then it turned out their name was Susan.

Anyway, I think it was a funny bit of the show.

So we did it, Dave.

Didn't we?

We did it live at the menu.

Yes.

And what happened was great was a lady put that, you decided that the person who should answer should have the name of a country.

Yes.

And I thought we would then go with that country.

Ah, okay.

And it seemed perfect because a person raised their hand.

I said name.

They said Georgia.

Yeah.

So that'd be a good guess, to be honest.

And then for some reason, you decided to bring Georgia up on stage.

Was that not part of the plan?

I mean, it certainly was fine, but I went into a sort of Jim Bowen type character.

Yes, you put your arm around me.

I think of my arm around here.

I'm like, let's see what the

what Mr.

Bulley says.

Let's see what the board, you're in control of the board.

Let's just see.

You really do.

You were Les Dennis there going.

Fish fingers, it's a good answer.

Let's see if it's up there.

Anyway, turns out that Georgia, it wasn't a normal country.

In fact, we had, I don't know how many listeners we've had in Georgia, but we've had enough, haven't we?

And so we're still alive for next week, listeners who didn't make it to the live show.

And I love to Montserrat Susan.

That was a really lovely moment.

Anyway, David, I have a question for you.

Yeah.

What time did you wake up yesterday?

I woke up at 4.46 a.m.

Only joking.

Well, can I just say, David, I know it's not my day, but I had my lads' weekend this weekend.

Oh, great.

I went on the Friday night.

There's a big debate.

Do I go Friday or Saturday?

But I got the last trade on Saturday to be a hero.

And the first thing that Jamie said to me was, is it your yesterday?

So I am humble bragging that I went back to be a great dad.

I don't know how great I was because I was a hungover, tired, mess, but I'm still here.

But it wasn't my yesterday, so no one will ever know.

Let me just inquire, where did your lads, I'm sorry, not those lads, your offspring stay asleep while we were doing the live show?

Because I did envisage many texts coming in.

No, they were okay on the live shows, but on the first night of the weekend away with the lads, there was they really dovetailed on being awake.

So they between them slept through, but also between them were awake all night.

It's about 8 a.m.

Okay, lovely.

It's hard to tell because not only am I not sure who I am, but I also don't know how my body works because what's this in my mouth?

Has someone filled it with polystyrene?

It's the driest mouth I can remember.

Like it completely.

Oh, yeah, horrible.

Get up quickly, brush your teeth, go back to bed, that kind of thing.

The reason for it is a very late night Chinese takeaway.

And that is also the reason why this will be the beginning of the greatest health kick maybe that the world has ever known.

The all-new, fuel-filled David O'Dougherty.

So, the only option is to go downstairs and fill a bottle of water

and then incredibly just glug it back like a legend in a pub putting away a pint.

I instead just like go.

Like a yard, did you get a yard glass spinning the yard glass of water?

And I refill it, bring it up to Helen, and she has got the same situation.

So she glug, glug, glug, glug as well.

And unfortunately, you're awake when you've drunk the best part of a liter of water.

But it needed to be done, and we'd had a fun evening.

Helencopter tries to go back to sleep.

So I take the opportunity of looking at my phone.

Unfortunately, the Gram serves me up a hat that I quite like the look of.

All right.

Top hat?

It is not a top hat.

It's a baseball cap with jazz written on the front.

Oh, nice.

Is it the Utah jazz or just Sarah Pasco's dad jazz?

Yeah, it's

the non-sporting jazz.

So I decided to buy that.

And it's quite expensive, but I have committed.

See, because I have whatever Apple Pay set up on my phone, it's much easier than it used to be.

Just to double-click to enter the car details.

Okay, so how expensive is an expensive hat for David O'Dotti?

You're spending on this hat now £32.

Yeah, more than that.

It's ridiculous.

£52.

No, it's not that expensive.

I think it's like £40.

£40.

Okay.

Yeah, but I'll tell you what the problem is right now.

I haven't tried it on and I have a giant noggin.

Yeah, but it's surely it's got the little adjusters at the back.

I know, but my head is so big.

Sometimes it just sits up at the top like a grown-up pretending to be a public school child.

I see.

All right.

Is your head bigger than Lou Carpenter's, would you say?

Who's Lou Carpenter?

Lou Carpenter from Neighbors.

His head is the largest unmined diamond.

Maybe Sam Allardyce.

I don't know.

That sort of level.

I've never thought of your head as being on that sort of level of head.

Maybe it's just the shape of it, but yeah, it's an XL.

You've heard of an XL bully?

Well, I have an XL head.

Got it.

Do you want to know how I deal with hats?

Yeah.

I buy either a baseball hat or that sort of, you know, the sort of communist style.

I quite like that style of hat.

Oh, yeah.

And then I just buy one for, you know, between £2 and £20.

I won't go online.

I'll just think, I need a hat because it's hot.

Buy a hat and then I'll lose it as quickly as I lose nail clippers.

They'll always be blue or green.

And then I'll just go to the next hat.

This is how I imagine Jack Reacher approaches hats, so I take that approach.

We then add to it, just as I'm about to buy it, the hat online shop does the old.

People also bought the grand piano.

Yeah, it does the delivery trick, and it's like, you should get one of these over shirts.

Ah, okay.

And also, David, they're on sale today, so you would be a fool not to get it.

So I buy a

kind of sky powder blue over shirt.

There's a sort of over shirt that's very popular at the moment, which is in, I think it's technically the French Impressionists used to wear them.

They're like painters' jackets.

They're in a very petrol blue.

You'll see a lot of stylish dudes in their 40s wearing them.

I don't go for that.

I go for a more of a light blue color and a hat, the result of which is I've spent over 100 quid and it's not even quarter past eight in the morning.

Well, that's good.

I just never even crossed my mind to buy.

I mean, I've got other things to do, but I've never crossed my mind to buy a hat while I'm lying in bed.

Does the internet ever serve up clothes to you that it kind of knows what you want?

I bet it does, like obscure old football jerseys or Puma Kings, stuff like that.

I generally just only buy things when I'm desperately need them.

I've seem to have lost four of the six Lululemon pants while I've been in London.

I don't know where they are.

I'm on a two rotation.

It's very difficult.

They've been stolen by Ultras of the Podcast from Your Washing Light.

Yeah.

In the style of an Italian beer ad.

Someone is just winching them across.

We are awake.

We put on the radio to hear a very beautiful interview with a guy I know him a bit.

My brother is quite close.

Your brother.

It is not with my brother.

It is with a guy that some Irish listeners will know.

His name is Moncon McGann.

The Irish language is going through a real spurt at the moment.

It's very popular.

You know, kneecap the rap group.

And Moncoin is responsible for that in a way.

He's written a bunch of beautiful books that go into the history of the Irish language.

He had a book called 32 Words for Field.

He had a beautiful book called Sea Tamagotchi, which has these words that are are still used in remote places off the west coast.

There's a word called sweat to

an Irish word, which is the sound of the pebbles being sucked out by the tide and coming back in.

Yes,

he collects these.

Anyway, he is an incredible man.

He is on the radio.

I would say it's sad, but he says you're not allowed to say that.

He has had prostate cancer and it has spread throughout his body.

And he is announcing that he doesn't have that long to go but he has all these plans that he's gonna get through he had a beautiful line which is if you ring him

and have the tone of sympathy in your voice that means he will never speak to you again

which is such an incredible way of looking at it i mean he's a very spiritual guy very connected to the land and the earth and all of these things and he's going to do loads more more beautiful things it's a lovely interview we decide to have no breakfast me and the helen because of the takeaway right yeah i know this tactic still full and the helencopter is meeting the girls for brunch then as well is it like you know she's meeting Sharon Horgan and her sisters from that box set and they're going to jump into the 40-foot and talk about all their troubled relationships.

She is meeting everyone from Ireland that you're currently thinking of she's meeting ari bewitched she's

she's meeting bewitched

and then yeah this is what a day this is

i

so the live show was on wednesday i ended up going out that night with uh nish kumar

thursday i can't remember what happened but i ended up going out friday I had accidentally gone out

and Saturday I'd ended up not going out out but going for one pint in the afternoon that turned into going out.

So this is Sunday.

It's a time of rebirth.

You don't know you're born, David.

My dermatological skin condition is back.

So we need,

well, just on my face, we need to use the medicated shampoo and the one that smells funny, but you leave it on for 10 minutes and you stand in the shower till you're cold so i do that

and does that have an immediate effect or do you have to do the flakes disappear or whatever the issue is it's not so much dandruff it's like do you know in american football when they put that black stuff under their eyes to stop the reflection of the floodlights is that what it's for i thought it was just war paint i thought it was like look how tough it is what it's for well i get red red lines there which is stuff coming out anyway i think we've hopefully dealt with it i did it again just before this podcast.

I'll do it every day for a week, and I think that should sort it out for a few months.

I decide I'm going to go and visit my parents.

Helen's gone.

It's about half 10.

I'll bring them the papers.

I'll bring them breakfast.

We'll have a great time.

Lovely.

So I take the bike with the big carrier.

I have a bike with a huge front carrier in it.

Like a basket.

Yes.

But it's big.

It's like a full newspaper round time.

I'm with it, okay, and with it with your children in it, yeah.

And

about 10 minutes into the cycle, my first puncture in years.

Oh, wow!

Yeah, like a proper

now.

The thing is, when I get a puncture, I'm like, I need to get in a taxi and a bike that's actually, you're like, this is your moment.

You want people to see because you're going to do this like a McLaren pit stop.

It's going to be like 7.1 seconds.

No, absolutely not.

I don't have the tools to deal with this.

Well, just lock the bike and walk the rest of the way to the place where I was going to get the breakfast and the papers and then walk back to mum and dad.

So I turn up.

It's probably like half 12 when I get to see them.

We have a great chat.

What breakfast are you bringing, Mama and Papa O'Doherty?

I bring from a posh deli place, ham and cheese croissant, croc monsieur,

a smoked salmon, cream cheese, bagel, and

sausage roll.

Do you cut them all up, and that's sort of like a mixy-mixy plate?

Exactly.

It's taken a while to get there.

So I put the oven up to 200.

I put them all in, get them back to their crispy optimum.

And we all cut up and we all have a bit.

It's great.

And because it's all taken a bit longer, oh my goodness, now it's time to watch the Irish women's rugby team who are trying to break the hoodoo of no Irish rugby team ever having got past the quarterfinals in a World Cup.

And my mom is very involved.

So my mother played tennis and hockey for Ireland.

So she's always interested in sport and in women's sport.

And this team, they've undergone a massive improvement in the last year.

But France are good.

France are the number three, possibly, team in the world.

We don't have a chance.

What?

We're leading at halftime?

Oh my goodness.

It's a gale in Exeter.

And then at halftime, the gale vanishes.

So when France should be getting the advantage, you know, wind is a much bigger advantage in rugby than it is in football.

And France don't have the advantage in the second half.

Oh, my goodness, we could do this.

Now, whatever is sustaining the team starts to ebb a little bit.

There's a very controversial moment midway through the second half where our best player seems to get bitten on the arm by one of the Frenchies.

Yeah, the TMO sees it.

Like it's there.

You see bite marks.

We don't know if it's bite marks because you just see, it's the bottom of a rook and Aoife Wafer has her arm down

and the French number six seems to just sort of nestle her open mouth against it.

So it could be loving.

I mean, what's she doing?

Just licking it or something?

Could she use the defense going?

Look, her name is Wafer.

I thought it was a petty wafer.

Monsieur Creole,

could you go with the wafer defense?

Is that possible?

Ireland lose.

We have a chance to win it, but we...

Yeah, everyone's very sad.

It's okay.

I feel, you know, when you support Ireland in anything, you cherish these sort of near-misses.

Heroic defeat is a really sort of great place to be as a sports fan, I think.

It's like that in football, when Manchester City are winning the league anymore, is that really fun?

What's more fun is those teams that are getting relegated and coming back up.

You know, if you were to judge it not through the lens of success, but just through sheer, you know, excitement, I think we've had a great morning.

I say goodbye to Anne and Jim.

I have agreed to put up a blackout blind for them that I think I'll have to do today.

I'm going to have to go and buy a blackout blind somewhere.

Interesting.

Yeah.

I mean, we, and Jamie's in charge of putting up the blackout blinds wherever we put the children, but you know, the sort of little, these are not permanent ones.

These are sort of your temporary oh yeah the temporary ones i take it down to do the podcast because the window is there and then i forget to put it up and she has to attach the velcro things that's amazing that i mentioned blackout blinds and you just had one you mentioned anything and i would have it below the laptop microphones yeah okay oh my goodness this one right there yeah i walk back to collect the bike The weather has been changeable, but I've got a Gore-Tex jacket, so I don't really mind.

Bike is there.

The annoying part is now walking the bike up the canal back home because it is a quite a big, heavy bike, and it's got you're in the way of people, aren't you?

No air in the front tire.

It's a Sunday afternoon.

We're all flannering up the canal.

It's fine.

I get home.

Helencopter is back.

She's taking delivery of a ton.

She's had a bottomless brunch.

She's wasted.

No, no, no.

No,

passed out on the carpet, covered in vomit.

No, Helencopter is back studying for

an exam at the moment.

That's the life of the Helencopter.

Okay.

Constant self-improvement.

Unlike me, which is just basically the same.

And sometimes I go out four nights in a row.

You just say, you can't improve this, and then leave the house.

I've bought a little table that's arrived.

It's a table with a telescopic height adjustment on it that it's nearly the time of year for the saddest sport of all, which is where I connect my bicycle's back wheel to a thing that simulates cycling.

And then the Bluetooth from that goes to my laptop and I race against divorced Belgian dentists.

Right.

So this is the table to put the laptop on.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Got it.

Good, good idea.

Maybe have a little water bottle on it.

It's not the most joyous thing to do.

And if the potential is there to go for an actual cycle, I will always choose that.

In lockdown, I panic bought an exercise bike and it's actually very useful.

Like the worst one.

Like it's really like cycling up here.

It's like this, we have made this bike so shit.

And it rattles around.

But I, so I didn't join one of these online things.

I just do this YouTube spin class.

There are a few of them.

And there's these sort of sort of quite hooray Henry chaps from southwest London whose chat is terrible.

But I saw I've got Stockholm syndrome and started to fall in love with them, even though the gag would come at the same time.

They'd always like, Charlie, I see you're not sweating at the back there,

like this kind of stuff.

And like, they're not mic'd up at the back, so they don't really have any, they've got no right to reply.

And it sort of has sort of bad music underneath.

But I sort of, I sort of fell in love with these guys.

Wow.

So that's always an option if you get in love with this one.

And then that was step one.

And then they said, join our right-wing movement.

This country's being overrun.

I met them at the march on Saturday.

It was really great to, you know, put a face and a voice.

Just see them in person.

You you know.

The uh, I get back, we build the table, there's a torrential downpour, like a proper cloudburst type rain.

And because it's the first one of these kind of rains, maybe of the autumn, I look out and the gutter is wildly overflowing.

And we know what that means.

Yeah, that means leaves have got stuck in the downpipe, and I'm going to have to go out mid-rain with a piece of bamboo between my teeth and climb climb up on a ladder and oh it's so satisfying because i plunge the bamboo down the downpipe and honestly it makes a sound like

and suddenly water goes

on above it yeah that's really well done i've saved the day thank you you give the panda back his bamboo and then

i'll tell you what this evening will involve because we're into the evening now oh we're racing along No booze.

Absolutely not.

Not a chance.

Not even tempted.

Not even out of the fridge and think, oh, maybe just one.

Yeah.

But that's when you have to resist it strongest.

Like, not only is it a new me that you're looking at now, big difference is posture.

I've decided it's a posture month for David O'Darlety, and I just need to straighten up.

There's definitely times when I stoop a little bit.

I'm a very young man.

I have a terrible posture as well.

You don't.

I was thinking you're an example of someone with a good posture that won't appreciate this at all.

I know, I appreciate it.

A hunch at a table.

I know you're supposed to imagine that there's a string coming out at the top of your head, aren't you?

That's pulling you up like a sort of marionette.

So you align your spine that way.

So your sort of head is over your arsehole, I think.

But obviously, as soon as you start pretending to be a puppet, you go full puppet.

And then you're like Dick Van Dyke from Chitty Titty Bang Dang.

You come out of the jack-in-the-box.

You're like flopping your lamp like this.

And then you can't hold a serious business meeting.

No, I'm in a serious meeting posture.

And then you're like, bono!

I'm like, yes, my lady.

Like the guy from Thunderbirds are going.

Helen.

Copter announces she's going to run up a dinner.

Like, of course, everything about Helen is so superior to me that, like, she says, oh, I'm procrastinating so much when I should be studying.

She's not procrastinating.

Like, the kitchen's very tidy and everything, but, like, that's not, I'll show you procrastinating, Helen Cupter.

But she does decide to run up a little dinner.

And I think we don't have enough ingredients, but she just takes a look around and says she'll make Mira Soda's courgette biryani with a yogurt mint thing that goes goes on it

yeah absolutely ridiculous you you know it's going well when the sound of history podcast is coming out of the kitchen i stay away i have to docu sign some documents did you read any of them or just click click click click click click click click sign there's the thing called docu sign i'm sure our listeners will know docu sign so yeah and it goes

this is your signature that we've given you and it's just the most it's like my signature from primary school or something.

Just made up a sort of joined up writing version of my name.

And I just have to accept it.

I'm like, yeah, that's me.

This is what's holding me back in the business world.

My DocuSign lame signature.

I like the idea that they go, well, that is actually a signature, even though it isn't.

But if we just printed your name like on, you know, Times New Roman, well, that, but anyone could forge that, whereas no one could possibly forge this totally made up signature.

I also take the opportunity to fix the puncture I'll do that while this meal is being made

yeah initially I tried to save the tube I take the lazy man's option with the puncture repair which is so interruption yeah I'll tell you the lazy man's approach to getting a puncture fixed and that is taking your bike to a bike shop and going yeah but all the bike shops know now if you fix Max Rushdon's bike he arrives a week later with six six tea chests.

Can I just leave these here for an indefinite period of time?

And I'll be and I'll give you some magic coffee beans.

So there's a new sort of patch that is

when you're thinking, why didn't someone invent this before?

You know, the old system of puncture repair where you go X marks the spot with the yellow crayon.

You get the little sandpaper, you put the blue on, and then you put the patch over it and hold it there till it cures.

I mean, are you looking at it?

I mean, that's you, no idea what you're talking about.

Well, no, someone has invented ones that are just like stickers, and you stick them over like a plaster, yeah, like a plaster, and they just don't work as well.

So I get it on, pump the wheel back up, and the wheel stays up for 10 minutes and then goes

right back down again.

So you need a new inner tube, guys.

I've got a new inner tube.

Yes.

Put in slightly the wrong size, but it doesn't matter this isn't a high performance bike not like penny farthing not that you know there is put in a tractor tire a huge

monster truck truck

i like you cycling around dublin i like to keep a low profile says david cycling a monster truck around town

fix that the food is served oh my god it's incredible It is absolutely incredible.

I take the opportunity, though, to have seconds, but not thirds because as I said

about a fitness journey

and you should only eat two dinners you're on a fitness journey.

It's so good.

I then announce that I'll go to the shop because it's a good time to go.

It's eight o'clock on a Sunday evening and it's open until nine.

It'll be quite empty.

And we go through all the things we need and realize that we actually have them all.

So there's no point in going to the shop.

I'll go later in the week when we actually need things.

Because otherwise, you know what will happen?

I'll just come home with a huge inflatable alligator having five hats.

Yeah.

We decide to watch the TV.

We watch the news for a few minutes.

And then

it's so grim.

We'll watch Stanley Tucci in Italy.

Yes.

What a great Sunday night that is.

Stanley.

Where is he?

He's in Italy.

He's

slightly more specific than that.

I was aware from the title.

I was across that.

But

there he is.

He's in Stockton on Tees.

He's in

this forgotten province of Italy that's kind of across from Rome

on the sort of back of the shin of the boot of Italy.

The calf strain.

He's the calf strain of Italy.

He's the Achilles of Italy.

And some people call it like Tibet because it's it's all these little hills and a lot of sheep farmers who brew.

So a lot of it's to do with sheep.

Stanley.

Look, if you haven't seen this show, all that happens is Stanley either goes to hang out with a family who the son is a Michelin chef, but he says, I know nothing about cooking compared to Nana.

And Nana makes this thing that sounds awful.

It's like got tripe in it and weeds.

And she's no nonsense.

She speaks no English, no nonsense.

Yeah.

Just pointing, blah, blah, blah.

And then she's in a floral dress.

Now, I do think, because Stanley, I would imagine, because he has some Italian, is beloved in Italy.

Like, I think you probably know what you're getting into if Stanley comes over for dinner.

I've got a rustless burger.

Is that all right, Stan?

So I've just not had time to shop.

We love Jay in Conclave.

We're put on Conclave at Ina Rusler's microwave burger.

Stanley just reacts in gloriously repetitive that are all slightly different ways to how fantastic this food is.

Like he has a sandwich that he says is the best sandwich he's ever had in his life because the flavors are leaping out of it.

The only slight dent in this absolute non-stop hits come in episode two, where Stanley's in rural Lazio, which is the province around Rome,

and some fishermen make him a soup, a traditional soup that involves like cutting up eel and putting it in a kettle for ages.

And Stanley tries it.

And whereas in every other situation, he sort of mock collapses to the ground and he says, Moto Bene or whatever.

With this one, he goes, That is so unique, which I think is his way of going, This is bullshit.

Yeah, his bar is very high for his meals.

But in a way, Helencopter's reached it with that dinner.

That was

dinner.

We both feel around the end of episode two.

Let's just go to bed.

It's, you know, it's early enough.

It's maybe five past 11.

We go to bed.

We fail to do the crossword, the basic Irish Times crossword because I don't know the Roman goddess of revenge.

Of revenge.

Yeah.

We need beard.

Give beard a bell.

Yeah.

I mean, it does make sense because we had some letters.

We had an E and an I, and it's nemesis.

Like that.

Of course.

Yes.

Should have got that.

So, like, my nemesis is Paul Ross because he took the breakfast show at BBC London from me in 2006, maybe.

And 19 years, is that starting to lessen at all?

Oh, everything I do is to avenge Ross.

And we start doing connections, and then both realize that we're no longer concentrating.

Helen was holding the phone, and I noticed that the phone is starting to move.

and that's the time.

We had this on the weekend away.

You know, the late afternoon of day two, we just stuck some cricket on and like the number of middle-aged men just asleep on a sofa going, you know, lads all hugging each other.

Yeah, yeah.

All just there going, oh, should we just, maybe we won't go out then.

Maybe we'll just get a pizza

and doze off.

And that's what I did yesterday.

That's a beautiful day, David.

It was a good day.

It's a beautiful day.

A beautiful life from a beautiful man.

It's the start of a health journey.

I've been trying to do my posture while we've been recording this.

Really good.

I'm probably a lot higher up in the screen than I normally am.

I can only see your chin.

I can see your chin and the red flakes from your medicinal shampoo.

God.

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now for the tape we forgot to do the comedian footballer quiz and now we've reached perhaps the first ever musical differences within the podcast between me, David O'Gahdi and producer Marsba.

They think it's a sign that this quiz should end.

I believe this quiz needs to go on until we finish quizzing.

Yeah.

Until we get the answer.

Yeah.

But it is a democracy.

But if you both cancel the quiz, I'm not giving you the answer.

I'd just like to be clear about that.

Yeah.

No, let's keep going with the quiz for another while.

I can live with that.

That's fine.

But listeners probably can't.

can't listeners want to know now they need to know and imagine right and it could be a year it could be 20 years but at one point someone will chance upon it the euphoria will be unbelievable

but not if you won't tell us if we just get one of them right or that we're getting hot or cold no it will make the euphoria even greater david oh my god the footballer and comedian you saw together when you were they weren't together they were on separate days in teddington oh

Doesn't make any difference.

How could it make any difference if they were together?

It'd be weird if they'd been together, but it doesn't make any difference to the quiz.

Emil Heskey and Peter A.

No?

Oh, that's a surprise.

I didn't get it right.

That's a shock.

Mars Barr.

Marsbar.

Paul Parker and Jerry Seinfeld.

You're now.

Listen, now you're not taking it seriously.

Really?

Really?

There's no way Paul Parker would have been in Teddington on that day.

We keep it going.

Maybe we'll open it up.

Guess from a listener as well.

I don't want it to be a huge part of the podcast because I know you both hate it, but it is just a little afterthought right at the end of an episode of Mayhem.

So thank you for indulging me and maybe be in this for life.

And this quiz will go on for life.

Yeah.

Imagine if I take, this is the thing I take to my grave.

You know, and he never told anyone, I'll put it in my will.

I will put it in my will.

You know, when you have a dinner and you have like a really lovely meal and you have a great time,

and then at the end, the owner brings out a sort of shot of something like petrol.

Limoncello, you don't want it.

You're obliged to drink it and pretend you've had a.

This quiz is the fucking

easel limoncello of this podcast.

It's the oozo.

It's the stuff that someone brought back from Slovenia.

It's in a bottle with a dragon on the front of it.

It's so funny.

I was once in a restaurant where this happened twice in my life, where the owners recognized me, and my friends were like, oh, God.

And just thank, you know, in that kind of we've got you something, at the end of a massive meal, they bought out basically a table full of fruit salad.

I was like,

how much fruit salad do we have to eat out of courtesy?

I can't eat half a watermelon now.

I can't do it.

I'm full up.

I don't need a banana.

Very generic, man, three, rather than bring out, you know, some 10-year-old Bell Scotch or whatever we thought you might like some some peaches and kiwi and

fluid

five kiwi fruit before i can leave

this

everything is showbiz thanks david oh hang on wasn't there there were people in the audience who work for the hackney empire who do a podcast about the shows at the hackney empire so there will be a real-life review on a podcast yes i think we've got them on the inside like they came for a drink afterwards so they're not going to kill us but maybe they will ellie who was doing the podcast for the Hackney Empire, now, because I'd said from the stage that my friend Ellie is here and she is doing a, because they get a performer who's going to be playing there soon to talk about another show.

And I'd said it was with a magician.

And afterwards, he'd said he's an illusionist, not a magician.

Like there is.

Yeah.

Right.

Because I wonder if it was the great Suprendo.

And then I was like, okay,

that would be exciting.

But it wasn't.

It was Darren Brown.

I apologize to whoever it was.

Ellie and Darren Brown have got a podcast talking about this, the live show.

So have a listen to that and tell us if they said it was good or not.

In the meantime, David, I'm in it for life.

It was lovely to see you in person.

And I'll see you in person again

in Melbourne in eight months.

Oh, wow.

So far away.

That's what you get for committing a reasonable crime.

Yeah, it is.

I mean, it's not manslaughter, is it?

It's just, yeah, no, it's just failed robbery, unarmed, unarmed robbery.

That's yeah, no, or even the getaway driver of absolute failed unarmed robbery.

I mean, what the hell was this?

Well, you someone went into a post office with a baguette and asked for a grant.

Asked for just a pack of first class.

That's like second.

I've got my mate out there in the back.

You've got eight months for this.

All right.

Well, see you then.

Thanks, Max.

Thanks, David.