Ed and James and Willie and Joe’s Perfect Chocolate Christmas
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Yes, we made it happen. Willie Harcourt-Cooze and Joe Thomas meet at last for a festive, lamb-based chat with Ed and James. Merry Christmas!
(And this episode was recorded before Tier 4 was announced.)
Buy Willie’s chocolate at www.williescacao.com
Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design) and Amy Browne (illustrations).
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| 0:00.0 | Merry Christmas, everyone out there. Welcome to Off Menu. We are the burning brandy on top |
| 0:19.8 | of the podcast pudding. It's lovely to be here with a little surprise Christmas episode, |
| 0:24.5 | Tidings of Comfort and Joy. Welcome to Willie, and Joe, and Ed's, and James's, |
| 0:32.8 | and Vanito's Perfect Chocolate Christmas. Yes, indeed. It's a very special Perfect Chocolate |
| 0:39.0 | Christmas episode. It all ties back to the Joe Thomas episode. So what I would possibly say, |
| 0:45.4 | actually, is if you're listening to this now and you haven't heard the Joe Thomas episode, |
| 0:48.8 | I would recommend listening to that for the full backstory and context. And if you want, |
| 0:54.0 | and if you want to go hardcore, listen to that and then listen to the Andy Oliver episode. |
| 0:58.3 | Yeah, for the full story. No, how this came about properly. It's as dense and complicated |
| 1:04.2 | as the Marvel Cinematic Universe at this point. It is absolutely. So do your research. But if you |
| 1:09.7 | don't want to do that, quick explanation, Joe Thomas buried a lamb. It didn't go well. He did |
| 1:13.5 | it because he saw it on a TV show called Willie's Perfect Chocolate Christmas, which is presented by a |
| 1:18.1 | man called Willie Harcourt, whose this episode is us talking to both of them. Yes. Andy Oliver |
| 1:23.7 | put us in touch with Willie. We saw it out. It's a Christmas miracle. And hopefully we can get Joe |
| 1:30.3 | to discover where he went wrong and learn from his mistakes. So the one day he will be able to |
| 1:34.8 | achieve his dream of becoming Willie. But if he's with them mentioned the secret ingredient, |
| 1:39.2 | they are out of here. And the secret ingredient this week is lamb. Chocolate. |
| 1:45.6 | There are no secret ingredient this week. It's a special chat episode. And we just hope you're |
| 1:49.8 | having a lovely Christmas. Yeah. Hope you have a nice day. Obviously 2020 very weird. The Joe |
| 1:57.1 | Thomas episode was actually probably in the first week of lockdown, I think it went out. So |
| 2:01.7 | yes. Here we are now at the end of the first week of lockdown. A lot of us didn't think we'd still |
| 2:06.8 | be doing all this stuff at Christmas time. So I know it's a bit difficult. Everybody, but listen, |
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