Ep 13: Phil Wang
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
'Taskmaster' star Phil Wang – everyone's favourite Wang – visits the restaurant this week. Let's just hope he doesn't roast Ed again.
Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography) and Amy Browne (illustrations)
Check out Phil Wang's latest live dates are philwang.co.uk.
Ed Gamble is on tour. See his website for full details.
James Acaster is on tour. See his website for full details.
James’s TV show ‘Hypothetical’ is on Dave, Wednesdays, 10pm.
Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello listeners of the off menu podcast. It is Ed Gamble here from the off menu podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | I have a very exciting announcement. I have written my first ever book. I am absolutely |
| 0:12.1 | over the moon to announce this. I'm very, very proud of it. Of course, what else could |
| 0:16.7 | I write a book about? But food. My book is all about food. My life in food. How greedy |
| 0:22.2 | I am. What a greedy little boy I was. What a greedy adult I am. I think it's very funny. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm very proud of it. The book is called Glutton, the multicore's life of a very greedy boy. |
| 0:32.4 | And it's coming out this October, but it is available to pre-order now, wherever you |
| 0:38.0 | pre-order books from. And if you like my signature, I've done some signed copies, which are exclusively |
| 0:44.8 | available from Waterstones. But go and pre-order your copy of Glutton, the multicore's life |
| 0:49.9 | of the very greedy boy now. Please. |
| 1:06.9 | It's the off menu podcast. It is. It's me, Ed Gamble. |
| 1:12.2 | And who's that? This James A. Casta. Yes. Exciting episode this week. |
| 1:17.0 | Exciting Phil Wang is here. Everyone's favourite Wang. It is my favourite Wang, actually. |
| 1:22.5 | But I can't do my own. Yeah, by a whole country mile. How long is a country mile? |
| 1:27.0 | Oh, I don't know, actually. Surely that originates somewhere. And I don't want to be. |
| 1:32.9 | You don't want to take all the QI elves ganging up on us when we get it wrong. |
| 1:36.9 | Do you think the QI elves are listening to this? Yeah, they come down our chimney at night |
| 1:40.9 | and then poke us with sticks. They get in fact wrong. They do do that. Yes. |
| 1:46.0 | I think they don't even have sticks that they can poke us with their wit. |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah. Yes, they have got their wit. It's a good episode with Phil. We've already recorded it. |
| 1:53.9 | Yeah. A little bit different. What? Yeah. Was it? |
| 1:57.8 | Different type of cuisine we explore. Oh, yes. Very insightful. |
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