Opening jars in a quiet corner of Only Fans (with Michaela Strachan)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Jane and Fi's work outside the home is over for the week... They'll now be moving indoors... Before that, they chat nut balls, the downside to en-suites, carrot cake being the armpit of the cake world, and they demand justice for the bean burger.
Plus, wildlife presenter Michaela Strachan discusses her upcoming tour 'Not Just A Wild Life'.
Our next book club pick is 'A Town Like Alice' by Nevil Shute.
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go, here we go. Another Thursday. |
| 0:11.9 | Another Thursday, because we only work four-day week, Jade. |
| 0:16.4 | Obviously, no, no, no, hang on a sec. Hang on a sec, that's wrong, isn't it? |
| 0:19.9 | We work outside the home, as George W. Bush put it, when he was corrected for saying that women who didn't work. Do you remember that? An American woman rose up against him. And actually, it was quite a clever phrase he came up with because it stuck, because he got it right actually in calling it work outside the home. |
| 0:38.6 | Is it him who came up with her? |
| 0:39.9 | Yes. |
| 0:40.5 | Because didn't he make the cock up where in one of his early campaigns, his first campaign, |
| 0:47.7 | he said something about women who don't work. |
| 0:52.1 | And, you know, the American mums, rightly, said, |
| 0:55.4 | it is work, mate. |
| 0:56.8 | It is work. |
| 0:58.3 | So I think I'm right in saying that he then coined the phrase, |
| 1:02.0 | work outside the home. |
| 1:03.5 | I will look that up to achieve truth, veracity, |
| 1:07.9 | and I will check it against two reliable sources. And I would just like to say as well. And a chatbot. And a chat bot. Yes, and a chat pot. Always now. That Jeannie, you didn't need to send an email apologising for being annoyed with me about the night manager spoiler.'re a very very lovely person yeah no the whole |
| 1:28.0 | point of us is that you can be annoyed with us yes you absolutely can that's what we're there for |
| 1:31.7 | but it was very kind of you to say that because and also you you've changed my direction very much |
| 1:36.6 | like george w bush's direction was changed by the american moms because i won't make that mistake again |
| 1:41.2 | we're going to count to five if we're going to talk about anything and give away the ending, apart from Chateau DIY. And a place in the sun, because you all know the endings. No, they won't buy that property. We'll just count to one on those. It's not quite so significant. Right. Who is our guest today? Because it's a good guest. Our guest is Michaela Stracken. |
| 2:02.1 | Right. I just think she's a very interesting woman and one of the great television broadcaster. |
| 2:08.1 | She just does telly in a very fluent and I think free flowing kind of a way. She's also very knowledgeable. |
| 2:15.9 | Well, that's good, isn't it? |
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