Ep 300: Ed Gamble and James Acaster (with special guest genie AJ Odudu)
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
We’re 300! What a way to start the new series than with a special milestone episode where, once again, the (dining) tables are turned and Ed and James are the guests in the dream restaurant. Have their tastebuds changed over the last 100 episodes? And, this time, we’re thrilled to welcome back AJ Odudu as the special guest genie.
A massive thanks to AJ for hosting our big birthday episode, and a huge thank you to all of you for listening to the podcast over the last 300 episodes.
AJ Odudu hosts ‘Big Brother’ and ‘Dress the Nation’ later this year.
Follow AJ on Instagram @ajodudu
Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.
Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.
Video production by Megan McCarthy for Plosive.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
Follow Off Menu on Instagram and TikTok: @offmenuofficial
And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.
Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hi James. Have you heard the news? |
| 0:03.0 | Oh, yeah, go on. |
| 0:04.9 | You and I are modern boys because the off-menu podcast is now on YouTube. |
| 0:10.5 | This is embarrassing. |
| 0:12.0 | Why is it embarrassing, man? You love YouTube. |
| 0:14.3 | I love watching clips on YouTube, sure. Now people can watch clips of off-menu on YouTube, but it's embarrassing, man. |
| 0:20.6 | It's not embarrassing at all. It's really cool. We're on YouTube with the great and good. |
| 0:25.1 | The coolest people in the world are on YouTube. Me, you, Logan Paul. |
| 0:29.9 | Who's Logan Paul, the dad from Succession? At Off Menu podcast. That's what Benito's calling us now. |
| 0:37.4 | And we're on TikTok. This is embarrassing, man. It's not embarrassing, man. We're cool. We're like Olivia Rodriguez. And Ed. People have been asking us, badgering us, bothering us, actually. They want to watch the Stephen Graham Supercut from the Stephen Graham episodes. They can see all of his reactions to us, everything that he did, or Benito, has bent to their |
| 0:55.2 | whims and he's going to put it on YouTube. He's going to do it. |
| 0:58.2 | Follow us at Off Menu official on TikTok at Off Menu podcast on YouTube. |
| 1:05.6 | Welcome to the Eastern City. The walkie-talkie, the Gurkirkin, Ledenhall Market. |
| 1:12.9 | It's where the old meets the new, |
| 1:18.9 | where pioneers have made things happen for 2,000 years. It's where diverse minds help our society today and enable a sustainable tomorrow, where Michelin Star Food meets London's most iconic |
| 1:24.6 | viewing galleries. Here, life blends seamlessly with work. |
| 1:29.6 | This is the community that drives change. |
| 1:32.8 | Search Eastern City. |
| 1:35.6 | Fever Tree Mediterranean Tonic Water. |
| 1:39.3 | Made with zesty lemon thyme from a small family farm in Provence |
| 1:43.8 | and essential oils from herbs that grow in the Mediterranean sunshine. with zesty lemon time from a small family farm in Provence, |
| 1:48.4 | and essential oils from herbs that grow in the Mediterranean sunshine. |
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