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Giles Coren Has No Idea

Two Mics, One Adapter, Zero Internet

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Giles and Esther spend half term looking through the papers; from holiday home rules and rural wi-fi to goat yoga and the death of male authors. Giles frets over the idea of having to change his own sheets and Esther manages to record a podcast parent the children...and Giles.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the five seconds of silence that Ben wants I

0:06.6

Was quite enjoying this islands me too

0:30.0

We have to give we have to give people a bit of background about what's going on

0:36.3

I always see what you brought for the beans to this

0:40.6

We are in I meant that nicely

0:45.1

So we're a devin halftime and we're and I said in Devon

0:49.6

We're in Devon. No, I said we're in Devon for halftime and we're in Digitim

0:54.9

So we're sort of miles away from anything and

0:58.0

We we have to do the podcast we don't get paid so here we are and and we brought two microphones down

1:03.6

But we neither of them connects to our laptops

1:06.0

So we brought two connecting cables down, but except one of them we didn't bring so we only have one microphone

1:10.5

And no internet and we have but it turns out we also have no internet where we meant to have internet but

1:17.0

So so so we're in different so we haven't got any internet

1:20.6

They're rolling it out as fast as they can they've got us far as Exeter

1:24.5

But they haven't got down here. It works sometimes and it's not good enough to do the podcast called faster Shire not faster

1:29.8

Devon faster Shire Devon Shire so fashion no the point is the wife is okay in the room where we've put three television

1:36.7

No, three children one television two children of our own and one children belong to some friends in the other room watching spider-man

1:43.8

Far from home and that our whole plan was they'd quietly be in there eating a local sausage roll

1:49.0

Well, we recorded our podcast while Ben listened and edited it from Dungeons

1:52.3

But we can't now go in there because they're watching spider-man Ben can't listen in because we couldn't broadcast this so we're recording it probably

2:10.2

As mentioned

2:12.2

Giants we are in a cottage not our cottage. We haven't rented the cottage. We know

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