It's Coming Home!
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther pass through this week's papers to take a shot at another column idea; from lost Edward Lear poems and freeing elephants from zoos to Gareth Southgate's mansion and getting ready for 'Freedom Day 2'. Giles is excitedly looking ahead to the Euros and Esther falls foul of the oldest trick in the book.
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| 0:00.0 | The sick in that downstairs bathroom is clearly a kind of knee height. |
| 0:05.0 | And the taps are too close to the thing you can't get your hand under it and they don't |
| 0:08.5 | run to any sort of temperature and it often blocks. |
| 0:11.5 | Are you rolling? |
| 0:16.1 | Oooo! |
| 0:17.1 | Esther's farted. |
| 0:18.1 | Did the Wuppie Cushion go in the last week's podcast and we talked about it. |
| 0:23.5 | We talked about it at the beginning. |
| 0:24.5 | Did it go in? |
| 0:25.5 | It did go in. |
| 0:26.5 | There's a sound of the Wuppie Cushion didn't go in but with the moss on it. |
| 0:28.5 | So this week, |
| 0:29.6 | I'd go back to the last week and I did that in. |
| 0:31.4 | That was terrific. |
| 0:33.5 | You see that is the level of the team that you get. |
| 0:35.4 | Charles Corn has no idea but he knows how to lay a Wuppie Cushion. |
| 0:39.0 | It's true. |
| 0:40.0 | You know how to plant a Wuppie Cushion. |
| 0:59.5 | It took sound today for his last ever day at junior school. |
| 1:09.2 | Wasn't that emotional because you had only been at that one for a year but they were all |
| 1:12.2 | looking a bit emotional. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah. |
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