Hoovering - Episode 74: Graham Allcott
Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew
Jessica Fostekew
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2019
⏱️ 60 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 joined by a productivity ninja, no less, author of a book called ‘work fuel’ which is all about eating in the most productive way possible - Graham Allcott. We talk about everything from whether sugar addiction exists to my hatred of the word ‘willpower’ and this episode includes some fascinating stuff about how what we scoff and guzzle can affect our energy throughout a day and night.
Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage.
Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 2019
18th JULY - MARLOWE COMEDY FESTIVAL, Canterbury - Guests include the mighty Jenny Eclair and Corrie’s brilliant Naomi Cooper-Davis.
12th & 13th AUGUST - EDINBURGH FRINGE Festival, 3pm, Monkey Barrell
And HUGE NEWS! Hoovering is officially going on TOUR from the autumn. Click on huge news or tour for a link to the Live Nation website for tickets. Snap em uuuup!
Honourable Mentions
GRAHAM ALLCOTT's website here will take you to his social media, podcast and I found his book so interesting - check it out, it’s called WORK FUEL
MY WEBSITE is here, should you want to come to any of my stand up gigs and previews.
We were eating in a very cool hireable workspace in Brighton called PLATFORM 9 and our frankly delicious lunch was from the mighty IDEYA
I mentioned a pub down there which certainly used to at least, do half and half roasts - called the LION AND LOBSTER
The frankly terrifying energy drink he talks about is called MONSTER
THIS is Yorkshire decaf tea and THIS is Dairy Milk ‘Darker’, actually I said it wrong it’s called Cadbury Darkmilk, whatever the fuck that means.
The places he says you can get relatively productive food on the go in the UK are LEON, M&S and PRET
And I looked up those Sri Lankan
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast. Support this show through the ACAST supporter feature. It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just hit the link in the show description to support now. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating. I'm Jessica Bostigue. I love eating as much as anything |
| 0:25.6 | else in the world, but also it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other things that are rubbish. |
| 0:33.5 | It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an interesting soul, not just about food, but about gobbling it up, or if you will, Hoovering. |
| 0:46.9 | Hey, you total winners. This week's Hoovering is all about eating in the most productive way possible, by which I don't mean how to give yourself the shits. |
| 0:54.6 | I mean how to keep your energy and focus maximised through what you eat and drink, what you |
| 1:00.1 | scoff and guzzle, because I'm talking to an expert in productivity, a man called Graham Olcott. |
| 1:04.8 | First, though, I've got some giant announcements. The first one is that the next live show, |
| 1:09.8 | which I've already told you about loads, |
| 1:11.2 | it's in Canterbury on the 18th of July, has got the most awesome guests that I can tell you about now, |
| 1:15.9 | none other than Dynamo, Jenny A Claire, I know, get in, |
| 1:19.3 | and also a brilliant comedian and actor currently knocking out the park in Coronation Street called Naomi Cooper Davis. |
| 1:25.3 | And then we've got two shows at the Edinburgh Festival on the 13th and 14th of |
| 1:29.0 | August and then it's officially been announced now in the autumn. Hoovering is doing a proper tour. Get in. |
| 1:37.6 | We're going all over the place. First dates have gone on sale. Actually they go on sale on Monday, |
| 1:41.6 | Monday, Monday the 8th of July. Snap them up, please. |
| 1:44.4 | Go to live nation.co.uk to get involved. Also, if you want discount tickets to those live |
| 1:50.0 | shows, and you've got a few spare pounds a month, why not think about becoming my patron? |
| 1:54.7 | Go to patreon.com forward slash the hoovering pod. That's Patreon, P-A-T-R-E-O-N. And you can see all the sorts of things I swap on there |
| 2:02.9 | for your money. And if money isn't an option, please then just tell people about the podcast and |
| 2:07.0 | thank yourself from me for listening at all. I'm grateful just to have you here. Oh, I hope you can |
| 2:13.9 | come to some live shows, though. There's so much fun. Right, it's enough rambling, bloody admin, in it from me? Let's focus our energies now and have a podcast. Graham and I, |
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