It's hard for my emotions to be contacted by my brain...
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Welcome back from the weekend! Jane's been buffing up her garden with a new gadget, while Fi’s been busy pondering why cat-walking hasn't taken off yet.
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| 0:00.0 | My mum has still got the same thermos flasks as we had when we used to picnic when I was about six years old, up Glenesque. |
| 0:19.0 | Right. |
| 0:20.0 | And yeah, she keeps them all. I was going to say that flask would have seen some windbreaks. Yeah. But you don't take a windbreak up a hill, do you? No, there'll be absolutely no point. But thermos have changed, haven't they? Because hers have got that kind of funny, almost mirrored glass inside the idea. I used to find them fascinating. |
| 0:55.6 | But now the thermos seems to be different. We were just discussing my coffee cup here. And I will. I'll buy you a little one. So you don't have to have your branded coffee taken away from you. Which has been taken away. That's very cruel here. Very cool. Now what is this? Where are we? What are we doing? It's visualization Monday. Yes, it is. Welcome to Offair with Jane and Fee. |
| 0:55.1 | Hope you've had decent weekends now in London. Well, the city has been a wash with |
| 1:00.7 | celebrations. With red, basically. The whole of North London has just been covered in a |
| 1:08.0 | vague dusting of red flare dust and if that makes sense because it was |
| 1:13.2 | the Arsenal parade what are we getting of emotion oh yeah not so much yeah um do you want to just |
| 1:21.2 | do you want to let your emotions know i mean i yes it's hard for my emotions to be contacted by my |
| 1:27.3 | brain uh particularly when it comes to football clubs, like Arsenal, who didn't, can I just be honest? They didn't deserve to win on Saturday night. Sorry. I'm not a big fan of PSG either. I was watching on the train, which I don't normally do. I don't watch stuff on my phone normally. |
| 1:46.0 | And the 21st century is brilliant, but buffering still happens. |
| 1:49.6 | Okay. |
| 1:50.6 | And so I missed quite a lot of the match because buffering. |
| 1:53.9 | But you still feel able to say that they deserve to lose? |
| 1:57.5 | I saw enough to know that Arsenal, what is the expression? |
| 2:01.1 | They park the bus. |
| 2:02.4 | Okay. |
| 2:02.8 | Did you not think that there was an enormous, enormous amount of time spent on the ground, on the floor? |
| 2:09.9 | By Arsenal players? |
| 2:10.9 | No, I thought more by PSG. |
| 2:12.6 | Oh, I tell you what, we've, we just literally just walked past an open studio that was about to record a gunners podcast. |
| 2:21.1 | Just carry on. |
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