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Wolf & Owl with Romesh Ranganathan and Tom Davis

Hot Chip Aftermath, WhatsApp Groups and Holding Grudges

Wolf & Owl with Romesh Ranganathan and Tom Davis

Ranga Bee & Platform Media

Comedy

4.84.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Is it OK to wave at strangers in the street? Should you confront people about secret WhatsApp groups? Should we have done the hot chip challenge before recording another episode? Probably not. Will Tom survive this episode? You’re about to find out… Send your questions, dilemmas and voice notes to wolfowlpod@gmail.com and don’t forget to like and subscribe friends! A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Platform Media. Chapters: 00:00 Intro01:33 Waving05:11 WhatsApp groups10:44 Overthinking interactions16:20 Holding grudges Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

yeah yeah what you want beca or jaws feathers or fur sharp teeth or feet with claws

0:08.7

whatever's prefer just kidding every word in his songs about two grown men dressed up as a bird and a

0:14.4

dog welcome to the wolf and our email special uh full disclosure we're recording this straight after

0:20.4

a hot chip challenge the main episode straight after. A hot chip challenge.

0:21.5

The main episode where we did a hot chip challenge.

0:24.7

Although we didn't do the full hot chip challenge.

0:26.3

We ate probably what?

0:27.5

I literally had a nibble of it and then in pieces here.

0:31.2

By the way, my respect for you is fucking, you were incredible.

0:35.0

I was incredible actually.

0:36.2

That was one of the coolest things I've ever seen you do.

0:55.6

It's a low bar. But are you all right? No, I literally, mate. It's like, you know, like a bird. Yeah. Like, as soon as it, a bird eats, it needs a shit. Do you really feel like you need, like, do you feel like you could shit right now? Yeah. Like a fucking fiery big shit. I'm in bits.

0:58.0

I'm loath to make two episodes in a row with that you could shit right now? Yeah. Like a fucking fiery big shit.

0:55.7

I'm in bits.

0:59.7

I'm loath to make two episodes in a row where that becomes a main part of content.

1:02.5

But I'm literally in absolute pieces.

1:07.7

Such acid reflux.

1:08.7

I can't stop. I sort of feel like I'm just going to be sat there for the whole of it. Okay. For weekend at Bernice. Oh, it's not nice when it moves into your stomach, is it? No. My tongue, my esophagus, everything's, it's ruffled everything in my body. It's, and you've not even had any milk. I'm trying to delay it as long as possible. Okay, should we do some emails? Hello, Wolf and Al, I'm the confident Capibaro. For the past few months, I've developed a terrible habit of waving at people I don't recognise just in case I do know them. I feel like I'm going to be going into these almost drunk. This is actually the closest I felt to being drunk in quite a while. It started as a polite half wave, but now it's a full arm commitment. Last week I waved at a stranger in a car, then panicked and waved again to make it look intentional. My question is, how do I stop this before I'm known as a local maniac, or do I fully commit and start public facing role like mayor I say mayor mayor yeah I say mayor what really that's my natural I deliberately

2:09.1

changed it then but normally I say mayor fucking hell it's starting to kick in now really it's

2:15.2

good that it's taking two episodes. I've literally been doing...

2:17.7

Okay, I mean, firstly, I'm going to say now, I actually think what you're doing is a beautiful thing. And I think actually, if I saw someone wave at me... I've actually, by the way, I always, when I see someone waving, you know, someone waves and you think they're waving at you. Oh, gosh. is it kicking in now

2:35.7

yeah

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