Ep 319. The one with the executive toys and the mysterious bites
Older and Wider Podcast
Older and Wider Podcast
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The two J's have been busy getting ready for their Leicester Square Theatre shows but still manage to serve up some Culture Corner and Taste Sensations - purple cauliflower cheese anyone? Jenny has some mysterious bites and Judith has misgivings about the perfect bag! All of this plus some lovely OWL emails!
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| 0:00.0 | There we go. That's us, Judith. |
| 0:03.0 | Oh my clapping? |
| 0:04.0 | I don't know what else to do with my hands. |
| 0:07.0 | I do not know what else to do with my hands. |
| 0:10.0 | In the olden days it's very easy. By now I'd be lighting my third cigarette of the day. |
| 0:16.0 | Gosh, I know. Do you remember we, I've used to smoke in the office. I've got pictures. |
| 0:20.0 | Yes. Ashtrays on the desk. Ash smoke in the office. I've got pictures. |
| 0:22.8 | Yeah. Ash trays on the desk. Ashtrays in the office. In Jeff's Open Plan office at the TV times in the 1970s, there were whiskey bottles on the desks. |
| 0:30.9 | Good God. Oh, bloody. Well, in the 80s. Those were the days. |
| 0:35.5 | Absolutely. I remember. The things I remember on the desk in the 80s were obviously astrays. And then also those index card thing. You know, you know, because all your contacts would go in those those sort of. Was it like a roller decks? Was it circular? Yes. Yes. And it would spin around and it was alphabetized. That's right. The other thing that was quite big in the 80s, |
| 0:55.9 | we're taking it back, come with us into our little nostalgic corner. |
| 1:02.9 | You know those desk toys that suddenly came in the 80s? |
| 1:06.4 | Lots of Archimedes swinging balls. |
| 1:10.4 | Swingyy pointless executive. |
| 1:12.4 | I hate that word executive, don't you? |
| 1:14.3 | Executive toys. |
| 1:16.2 | Is there anything worse? |
| 1:17.4 | And they seem to have disappeared the executive toy, Judith. |
| 1:21.1 | Well, I should bloody well hope they have. |
| 1:22.8 | I think they've gone back to wanking under the desk. |
| 1:25.5 | I think that's what everybody's got just. |
| 1:28.0 | Oh, it's all changed. |
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