Hoovering - Episode 188: Nick Helm
Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew
Jessica Fostekew
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering.
This week I’m hoovering with incredible stand up, musician and actor and food knower abouter, Nick Helm. He’d never had a Taco Bell and I’d not had one since I was a kid on holiday in America visiting my Uncle Bob (pronounced Uncle Baaaab) - so we got one from a central London takeaway hole and took it to beautiful sunny Russell Square to scoff it up amongst the lounging students and passing motorbikes.
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Honourable Mentions/ Links
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We ate, if you’ve not heard of it, at TACO BELL
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Other maybe interesting things we mentioned this week were….
The drink PEPSI MAX CHERRY
The beautiful writer and former guest ROSE RUANE
A really excellent comedy series that Nick was the lead in, it was so gorgeous UNCLE
The absolute classic movie DEMOLITION MAN
Human legends NATHANIEL METCALF and BERNARD CRIBBINS
Other eating places PIZZA HUT, MORLEYS, NANDOS and MACDONALDS
He talked about AINSLEY HARRIOTT TAKE ON THE TAKEAWAY
He’s had RICK STEINS lovely rice
But he’s never been to Watford’s blooming lovely THE FACTORY
Nick and me both admitted to loving the children’s beer DESPERADOS
He hosted a telly show called EAT YOUR HEART OUT
Of course you already know who THE FOO FIGHTERS are
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| 1:15.3 | Music network rate. Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating. I'm Jessica Bostigue. I love eating as much as |
| 1:22.0 | anything else in the world, but also it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other things that are rubbish. |
| 1:30.2 | It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an interesting soul, |
| 1:36.1 | not just about food, but about gobbling it up or, if you will, hoovering. |
| 1:51.5 | Hey donkeys, this week I'm hoovering with incredible stand-up musician and actor and food know-a-abouter. |
| 1:58.1 | Nick Helm! You know him from Uncle, Eat Your Heart Out and The Million Beautiful live shows. |
| 2:04.1 | He has toured and rightly been lorded for um i hadn't seen him in absolutely bloody years not properly and it was so lovely thank you he has an exciting work in progress run |
| 2:11.1 | coming up at soho theatre in october and november and you can come and see me do work in progress |
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