4.8 • 20K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Why would anyone do that? Good question, Jenny Eclair. The Taskmaster star and legendary stand-up is this week’s diner in the Dream Restaurant.
Trigger warning: this episode contains chat about eating disorders and depression.
Jenny Eclair is on tour with ‘Sixty Plus (FFS!)’. For dates and tickets visit jennyeclair.com
Listen to Jenny’s podcast ‘Older & Wider’ wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design) and Amy Browne (illustrations).
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0:00.0 | Hello off menu listeners, it's James A. Caster here, letting you know that very excitedly, |
0:05.7 | I have an album out, a music album that I made with a collective of people, |
0:09.8 | 40 of us, don't worry, I don't sing, I'm playing drums in it and I produced it. |
0:13.5 | It's called Party Gator Purgatory, it's by tense, it is out now on Belly Union, |
0:18.0 | you can get it wherever, you like to listen to music, get your music sort of out on vinyl and CD. |
0:22.6 | I'm incredibly proud of it, loads of videos on YouTube about it, |
0:26.0 | whether we made a bunch of music videos, it's the best thing I've ever done in my life, bar off menu. |
0:32.5 | Today's episode of Off Menu is sponsored by Spek Savers Contact Lenses, James, |
0:36.9 | called in all glasses, whereas do you know that feeling where you and your partner |
0:41.4 | or maybe someone you've just met for the first time, |
0:43.4 | both wearing glasses and you're about to go in for a quick little smooch, |
0:47.3 | and then, collageola, you hit glasses instead. |
0:51.2 | Now listen, Spek Savers love glasses, but some things are better, |
0:54.9 | we've contact lenses. |
0:56.1 | Kissing is better with contact lenses, |
0:58.2 | walking out of a warm room into a cold atmosphere or walking out of a, |
1:02.5 | walking out of a cold room into a warm atmosphere is better with contact lenses. |
1:06.3 | Yep, that's true, playing footballs, any sports, any sports, |
1:10.2 | but it's mainly the snogging. |
1:11.8 | If you're trying to kiss someone and you've got glasses on and they're also wearing glasses, |
1:15.6 | if those glasses clash together, that's the moment ruined, isn't it? |
1:18.9 | And the thing is, most glasses, whereas, can also wear contact lenses. |
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