Hello listeners of the off menu podcast. It is Ed Gamble here from the off menu podcast.

I have a very exciting announcement. I have written my first ever book. I am absolutely

over the moon to announce this. I'm very, very proud of it. Of course, what else could

I write a book about? But food. My book is all about food. My life in food. How greedy

I am. What a greedy little boy I was. What a greedy adult I am. I think it's very funny.

I'm very proud of it. The book is called Glutton, the multicore's life of a very greedy boy.

And it's coming out this October, but it is available to pre-order now, wherever you

pre-order books from. And if you like my signature, I've done some signed copies, which are exclusively

available from Waterstones. But go and pre-order your copy of Glutton, the multicore's life

of the very greedy boy now. Please.

Welcome to the off menu podcast. A mayor be the first to say, Happy New Year. Happy

New Year, everybody. 2019. It's 2019. Well, we're obviously not recording this in 2019.

So I wonder what the world will be like in 2019. Oh, in the future. Everyone's hovering

around with no legs. Just cut off at the waist and hovering around. All dripping blood

everywhere. No, space blood. Dripping silver blood all over the floor. But they'll still

need to wait in the future. No, but no, but that's the problem. Yeah. They've got no

butt streams. They've got no butts. They're hovering around. So we've got

mountains, though. And the food goes in the mouth and straight out the bottom of the body,

I guess. Anyway, welcome to the show. First thing you need to know is James was an hour

and a half late because he slept. There is alarm. We'll talk about that with our guest.

Well, yes. You look like you're about to protest that until you realised I just gave

the fact it did happen. Yes, it did happen. It did happen. Which is why this intro feels

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