Giles Coren Has No Podcast

Giles Coren Has No Idea

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Some sad news – the podcast is coming to an end.

Giles and Esther, after over two hundred episodes will be ending the podcast next week.

The penultimate episode has echoes of the first as masks are making a comeback. With a particularly virulent strain of flu spreading across the nation is it time to bring back masks…opinion is divided.

Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch is also making something of a comeback, after her leadership was questioned she is now receiving rave reviews - her latest policy target is getting young people back to work. Would Giles or Esther do manual labour?

As social media is banned for under sixteens in Australia, could there be any unforeseen consequences….?

Lastly, why on earth has RFK Jnr has been given a billion dollars to install gyms in airports?

And as always please do get in touch: [email protected]

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0:00.0	We've had a lovely email, Giles.
0:02.0	Lovely, I love an email.
0:03.0	From Jack who says,
0:06.0	Dear Giles and Esther, I'm sure your email inbox will be flooded with emails about Spotify wrapped listening habits.
0:13.0	Which is, because that was a story the other day, because Spotify tells you what, what, because there's a thing that you've been listening to last Christmas
0:21.3	48,000 times.
0:22.3	Yes, exactly.
0:23.1	It breaks down your listening habits.
0:24.4	That's right.
0:24.9	It breaks down your listening habits.
0:26.4	And Jack's got something interesting.
0:28.6	Jack has listened to 901 minutes of us.
0:32.8	I'm assuming that's 901 minutes in total.
0:35.2	That's a long time.
0:36.5	That's like, that's like a thousand podcasts.
0:39.9	Anyway.
0:40.1	Yeah.
0:41.5	901 minutes.
0:42.9	Okay.
0:43.3	So he's listened to 901 minutes of us.
0:46.1	And he says the fact that 901 minutes of you guys only puts me in the top 11% of listeners
0:51.8	to our podcast is testament to how loyal an audience you have managed to cultivate. So 10% of, you know, we're now always confusing. But like 10% of people who listen to this podcast have listened to more than 900 minutes of it. Sounds like it. And if let's say we do, honestly, 20, 20 minutes, that's five, that's like 50, Jars Corrin has has no idea podcasts. Amazing. Yes.
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