If you joust too much you go blind

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Giles and Esther burn through this week's papers looking for a column idea; from Clarkson's apology and the death of electric cars, to evil office cake and changing perceptions of Henry VIII. Giles is off to exchange his infamous electric Jaguar and Esther counts the amount of times the burglar alarm goes off during the recording.

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0:27.6	A one quick note of housekeeping.
0:29.8	What is it all with the podcast?
0:31.0	Are we doing this?
0:32.0	No, it's the red lights are on, so it means we're going.
0:35.0	Why is there a note?
0:36.0	Can I just give you a quick, literal housekeeping note,
0:38.6	which is that our burger alarm is on the fritz.
0:41.2	And so it is in engineers mode,
0:44.0	which means that it beeps very loudly every five minutes.
0:47.2	So that will wake our listeners up
0:49.2	and we're trying to get to sleep with the world's most boring podcast.
0:52.0	BEEP!
0:53.0	Yes.
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