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Hello, back to the jewellery.
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We got you bloody on here, finally.
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I don't know.
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Yeah.
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So you've been incredible.
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You're probably like one of the busiest men in uh Indy at the moment.
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You've not stopped touring.
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Um last week, did you have your driving test?
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I had one of my driving tests.
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How did it go?
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It went well, it went really well.
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In fact, when I finished it, I got on really well with the instructor.
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She said, unfortunately, and that unfortunately went back 32 years because I've passed it three times, lost it twice, or something like that.
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I can't quite remember.
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You've passed! What an arsehole thing is.
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Can I ask why you had to retake your driving test?
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I feel like there's a story here that I'm not um au fave with.
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It's a long, elongated story.
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But I just um I I passed my test about two years ago, but I was in a traffic jam.
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I was actually looking at Instagram, I think, on my myself.
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So there's no real excuse.
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Because you're breaking a small law.
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I'm breaking a small law, and I wasn't justifying that, and that's a twatky thing to do.
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And basically, Jeremy Vine Radio 1DJ unbeknownst to me, was coming uh quite a distance or the opposite way, and he must have spotted the tilt on my head or the kind of glow of Instagram.
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He sort of knew what to look for.
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And um, he must have gone right round there, right round.
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What were you?
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Because he's on a bike.
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He was on a bike and he has a he has a film camera switch, so the footage shows his journey to pinpoint me, and I'm in a traffic jam.
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I don't really remember it, it's a bit dreamlike.
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Okay.
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But I'm in a traffic jam, and I'm like, and I look up and I'm like, oh.
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Did you realize it was Jerry Bike?
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Because he's got a helmet on.
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I just go, ah, and then I try and move forward in a traffic jam, and then I continue looking at myself in Instagram, right?
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And then you can hear his perfectly nice, whiny tone going, and starting saying my, you
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know, the the number plate and all that stuff.
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And um Jeremy! Jeremy, why is Jeremy such a knock?
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Anyway, it kind of apologised.
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I think and I deserved her, there's one wanna say that I deserved her.
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To lose your life.
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Deluxe your life.
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This is basically the equivalent to when somebody's mean to me on social media and I think that they haven't had a shag for ages.
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Oh boy!
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Back, so we have taken you to Otto's.
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We've we've been talking a lot about our favourite restaurants in London.
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I'm gonna say officially Otto's is my favourite restaurant in London.
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Where is Otto?
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Here we go, here we go.
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Hi So you're gonna have a launch of breast pigeon, but not the same as any pigeon square.
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These ones are these ones are especially pressed, a lot of blood content, and for their uh taste, it's like a sort of buttery mild taste.
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I show you one.
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Yeah, let's have a look at this pigeon.
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These are lots of pigeons.
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Can I pick them up?
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Is that really no, that's probably inappropriate.
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Okay, it's very slightly grab him.
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I'll grab him, I'll grab him, don't worry.
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I'll grab them like this.
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Here's our little pigeon.
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Does this freak you out?
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I've got a hundred years.
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Also is famous.
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Yeah.
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Really famous for the canard press, which is the duck press.
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Yeah.
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But because of the season, we're gonna go for pigeon, which is a very similar thing.
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Yeah.
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So we're getting we've got a tasting menu which includes um ravioli of escargot.
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So that's by the way, the the one of the coolest ingredients at the moment is uh escargot.
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All the supermodels are eating it, so um we should keep us thin, young, and beautiful.
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Absolutely.
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Yes.
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Um then we've got I've never eaten the sweetbreads and uh the infused liver of the pigeon, one brioche with morels, which are an amazing mushroom.
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Yeah.
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Then we've got the pigeon, which will be the breast, where Otto
will be cutting it off, I imagine, and then he presses the blood out of the sauce to make this incredible sauce.
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Wow.
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Um, then pom sifle, I'm not even gonna tell you what they are because they are a secret weapon.
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They're a potato you didn't even know existed.
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Where's the uh those these guys?
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Yeah, the pom sifle.
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Right, okay.
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And then they turn the legs into another dish, which is an actual pie with foie gras and sauce perinod, which it perigod, which is truffles.
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So we're eating every single part of what we got.
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So we're gonna try and eat every single part of the game.
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Yeah, how do you out?
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No, uh, absolutely not out.
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A little bit?
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Look at me, look at me.
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So it goes through like a mangle like a basically.
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So the bones it the bones they get squashed out and and Otto and also Otto does also, is it called uh cooking on Geridon?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, so what that means is it's Gyridon, yeah, yeah.
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So it's cooking by the side of the table.
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So a lot of the stuff Otto will do, either here, but because of the cameras, maybe over there.
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Yeah.
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And we can go up and see it, and there'll be flames, it's gonna be like the most theatre.
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Insane.
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You can cut a picture.
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I can cut a picture.
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Yes, definitely.
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I've got a much gonna be a messy guy.
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Me and Otto have known each other for over 12 years, I think.
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Now I tried to go.
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14.
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14!
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So you may have 15 with Sunday Times.
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Yes, oh my god.
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So, yeah, I I wrote about Otto in the Sunday Times.
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We had the duck.
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We had the duck, but one of the funniest stories that's ever happened to me was coming here and getting it's it is, it's sort of like being Henry VIII.
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You get sport rotten, you have every rich food.
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By the end of it, but my friends were so drunk that they ended up getting the blood, sticking their tits in it, and then signing the signature book uh next to uh do you know where Escoffier is?
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He's like the king of cuisine.
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Oh, right, oh wait, that's what I've got.
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This is my friend Iona's tits.
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What the?
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And is that the name of it?
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I should probably hide the names actually.
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Oh, I think.
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This is a message from Escoffier's grandson.
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Right.
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So Escoffier is like the king of French cuisine.
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Okay.
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And this is my friend, my other friend's tits.
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And this was all on the same ego.
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Wow, yeah.
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Same day, whatever.
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You were writing a review with a load of people.
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Well, no, I would say having a lot of.
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Did you not want to get started?
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Well, I think I think I might have gone.
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I can't remember what happened.
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Anyway, pages have been ripped out somewhere.
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Yeah, damn it.
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I wasn't involved in that part of the It's nice to know that blood after 15 years still looks quite spoken.
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Yeah, I've got a hash can be a messy batch.
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This is the wine list.
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Do you like?
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I mean, we've obviously had a glass of champagne.
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Do you have a cocktail before you start drinking?
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Not really.
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You know what I mean?
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I know, but you're always really well behaved, I think.
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Well, I'm sort of, but you know, I come from quite a crazy background, so then I sort of try and keep things quite tidy, you know what I mean?
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I think you you do, you reverse certain chaos that you've seen.
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So, I mean Do you like a martini?
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Do you I like a martini.
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I like a martily Negroni.
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Do you love a Negroni?
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Yeah.
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Let's have a cocktail.
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I think we should have a cocktail.
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I think here the surroundings suggest that we should have a cocktail.
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The Gibson martinis are amazing.
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Do you not like North London?
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No, I do like I actually like Tottenham.
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Or is it just a lot of people?
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Tottenham's great.
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Yeah, I mean, North London, I mean I'd like to live there, but I sort of hate it.
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Is this what I think about West London?
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Yeah, yeah, I hate living in West London, but I like where I live.
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Well, I went to West London last night, I went to the David Byrne showing.
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Did you go there?
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I live next door to that.
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I mean, and when I'm there.
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It's great when I'm there, and I'm like, we had a very romantic time last time we were there.
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For your show.
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Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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We went to uh River Cafe and then came to see you afterwards.
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That was a good night.
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It was a good night.
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Oh, the cocktail I had there.
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Let's see.
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So we're gonna be eating, obviously, we're gonna be eating a very pink bit of um uh of pigeon.
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Without does that scare you?
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No, no, not at all.
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Nothing really freaks me out.
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But you know the salmonella precious like that.
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The salmonella thing came because of Edwina curry, and she she brought it a salmonella.
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That's a shot, that's how I was like, she's getting rid of it.
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John Major and she invented salmonella.
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Cheers.
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Cheers, thank you.
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Thank you.
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Isn't it a delicious drink?
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That's very good.
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French food.
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Now you have spent a lot of time in France.
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Are you a lover of French food or I am, I am, I am, and I will say that officially.
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I am can be can be complicated.
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Yeah.
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He may be after today.
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Thanks, I'll tell you.
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That was a slightly mafia-type.
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Maybe after that you won't see it.
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Baxter going through the duck press.
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I don't mean to pause when I say, yeah, I love it.
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And you know, especially if, like, for instance, sometimes the way we experience France a lot is you're touring and you're maybe going through the spine of England, and that, you know, it might be not the the food, the inherent food culture in Britain can be a bit trying.
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You know, you're out of London and all that.
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If you're playing a gig, they're not gonna cook for you.
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You know what I mean?
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They're not gonna cook for you at a venue.
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As soon as you get to France, they have a chef, they have a petissera, someone's presenting something, or there's an option you're sent in the morning, but when you arrive.
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Oh, so you're like, oh, I'll have to make it a bit of a couple of things.
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And then I'll have a and I played in in some, I'm spitting everywhere excited.
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That'd be silly.
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You know, I played in in places where the mayor's wife or the mayor himself has made me a goat curry.
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And you're thinking that's never going to make it.
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Nottingham's not gonna make you a curry.
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So they go, yeah, you know, there's a lot of voila in those holes, isn't it?
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And there's a lot of, I mean you'll taste something very flaky and delicate.
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And you're like And sometimes you're not in the, you know, it's very a slow appreciation of very delicate things.
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You're not in that mode, you're not in that frame of mind.
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Well, because you've been driving all day and then you've been chucked into a room somewhere.
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Can someone presents something, but actually as you as you as you're there for a few days, you begin to slow down and start to appreciate.
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And you know what's amazing is when you eat at a venue, you often eat with everybody that works there, so the security car will be there.
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Okay, the person that does the tickets, yeah, and there and you're like, oh wow, and everyone's having the same.
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It is a family meal, right?
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Food socialism, you know, everyone eats the same ham and the same and all that sort of thing.
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Yeah.
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So all those gubbins I love.
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So you said family meal, that's what you get in a restaurant.
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It is a family meal.
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It's such a critical, that's actually a really nice people.
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Keep asking me what the parallels are between music and food, and that is such a and it's yeah, you're all working in a restaurant and then like just before service starts, everyone will eat together and stuff.
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And you get it across Europe a lot, I think.
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So it's not just the French thing, it's just the notes.
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In
French, they're proud about it.
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They're very proud about it.
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But when you get an old, you know, we're about to, I'm not gonna question French food because the French is you know the ultimate food engineering.
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Do you have a specific favourite though in the in the French food world?
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When you are in France, you're like, I bloody need to get me some casolet.
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There's a tiny little restaurant in South Bagal and it's got a picture of me on the wall.
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That's perfect! And I love narcissism is the best.
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It's not a narcissistic option.
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And the guy comes out and he literally goes, ah, he goes, and I go, ah, it's me, and he goes, he goes, Amberger.
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Is that racist?
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He goes, Amberger, and I go, please, yeah.
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Like that.
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But he makes this amber, amber, amberger.
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And it's fucking amazing.
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Do you get to sit under the picture of you?
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And then when people walk in, you're like.
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I'm much younger in the picture, so no one ever knows.
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Sorry, mate, I haven't.
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There'd be no Jeremy Vine business here.
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Like totally contented.
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It's fine.
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Have you lived there?
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I have on and off and lived there.
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You'd call it living there, yeah.
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Yeah, I have.
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You've spent serious time in it.
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I've done some time.
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I don't speak any French or who's that?
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Otto.
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Otto.
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What are these called again?
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Um, Gibson's.
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Gibson Martini.
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I'm quite Gibsoned up, okay.
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I've now hallucinated.
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I've got a spine like a banana.
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It's gonna be like Jesus Christ.
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We had uh rave.
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You've only had like one.
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We don't need to be running.
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Thank you very much.
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What are we running with here?
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Well is that so on this plate we have Esco do ravioli, we have uh porn, a very reduced chicken view, and then we have some Ossier fra caviar on top.
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Is this really unfortunate?
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Just in case you need it.
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Yeah, and we've had to in some places.
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You look sweet! Oh no, yeah, no, I won't.
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I'm really tough.
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Messy lunch!
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The one thing Otto doesn't scrimp on is all these like luxury ingredients.
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It's uh, you know, this is you know, we're having uh I can never say it, it's Ossie Etra caviar, which is like the one of the best.
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Okay, and inside we've got lobster, and there's like chicken juice that's reduced.
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It's like really amazing quality.
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Yeah.
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And we're just this is just our starter.
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So this is this is the same caviar.
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Yeah, yeah, this is just your leftovers.
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This is like.
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And then what's really nice about Otto is the very trendy thing at the moment in dining is doing bumps of caveat.
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I fucking hate it.
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It's like you literally get your caviar and you do it on your on here.
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Sort of narco terms.
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Indeed, yes, yeah, yeah.
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I think that's the whole thing.
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A bump of caveat.
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If I go to a caveat and range drugs at the same time.
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Can I ask you something about caveat?
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Yeah, I need to be educated.
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Is caviar all from like a St.
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Petersburg?
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You know, does it come from a pond in St.
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Petersbury a phone?
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Not all of it, no, because we we make I mean this one, I don't know.
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This this uh might be Persian actually.
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Let me see.
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So the sturgeon.
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Um I'm gonna look on the bottom.
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Is there a yeah, I'm looking, I'm looking.
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Um it comes from a sturgeon.
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This so is there a sturgeon?
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Sorry, my eye.
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Where do you go first?
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Oh, you can't.
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Oh my god, I don't know if it's for an office.
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Oh, this is gonna go! So there's snails in this round.
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Oh, spoon, spoon, oh wow, they're like full of things.
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This one and this one.
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They're not shut up.
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She's we're using them for it.
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Oh, that and that.
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I'm not classy.
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How regularly do you go out for dinner?
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Are you a going out to dinner person or is it like a dinner?
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No, I am actually a going out to dinner person.
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Um, what are we talking?
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Twice a week, three times a week?
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Once or twice, maybe, yeah.
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And I kind of get into it, I've got into it more recently, I think.
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And there, you know, there are some really good apps these days that tell you about good.
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There's a, I can't remember what it's called, like infatuation, one of those things.
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You know what?
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Sounds like a sex app.
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No, I'm not uh as as I work for Time Out, I would say that the Time Out app.
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And the Time Out app is what I meant to say.
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All that sort of stuff.
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So you can find good things that aren't obvious and all that.
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So we it's not always posh, you always, you know, it's like loads of amazing things in like in.
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I went to a Malaysian restaurant the other day.
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Was it Norma's?
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Not Norma's, but it's round the corner from Norma's.
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I have to look at my phone to tell you where it was.
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What is this?
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Norma's on Green.
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What was it called, Cos?
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What?
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Malaysian?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Norma's is the number one restaurant.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's in like a kind of not a shopping centre, but like in a kind of in the old Chinatown.
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Yeah.
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Oh, that's good.
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You have to go there in the beginning of the month to try and get a table.
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And then they renew it.
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And it's like a bit like how Singburi used to be.
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That's a number one place to eat at the moment.
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It's mostly actually.
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This place is round the corner, but similar.
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What's it called?
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Yeah, I can't.
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Okay, well, we'll yeah.
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We'll do it later.
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Well, we'll do it later, but
yeah, that's good to know because well, that's really near a restaurant that I've only recently discovered but has been there for many years, the Tirola Hut.
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Oh, I know the Tirola Hut.
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It was the Austrian place.
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Yeah.
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I've been there for years and you I went there when I was at school.
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Well, you know the guy still runs it, he's in it.
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Same gun.
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They all start doing they do birthdays and they jump about a lot.
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And they'll pass the mic around the crowd and be like, Do you want to do ABA?
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I'm like, no, no.
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And then I'll be like, yeah, I want to do ABBA.
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Your son Coz um is uh he's been training as a chef.
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He's done a bit of that stuff, yeah.
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And he wants to do more, and he um and he's just very into food, so he's quite kind of he's got a good young person's view on how what restaurants are good and.
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I was gonna say, does he uh does he introduce you to like what is before I go goo, you know, there's a thing at tour managers though, there's a thing you can where on a on a Google Maps you can put the filters on, but I think that's open to to corruption.
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You know what I mean?
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You go like best restaurant highly rated in the era, open now.
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Or something like that, the filters and like you're in Hamburg, you go, best restaurant, didn't you?
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And you go, this must be the best restaurant, and half the time it's not, and I don't know what, yeah, they've done something to make it.
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Also, on Google Maps, like the best restaurants are always the ones that are like two stars because people have voted for them and they've gone, oh, I didn't like it because like this the chef kept on like talking to his mates a bit.
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Like, I want to go to that place where maybe someone is ignoring me a bit.
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Yeah, or like that hygiene rating.
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I don't really care about hygiene rating.
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I don't care, I mean, I don't, I know how it is.
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I mean, alternative things like time out and other things that are really so much.
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Thank you very much.
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Yeah, good shell.
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We live next door to the to the river cafe, so we'd be when you do, you don't go there a lot, you know what I mean?
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But we're not gonna be.
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But it's a nice celebratory place.
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It's good.
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I mean, you know, cost.
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As we were saying earlier, I went there once with you, you took me there.
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It was a special trip before we went to go and see you too.
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I love it.
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So I when I first started going there, I didn't get it.
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Yeah.
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But as I've got older, I've started to get it, and I just get the simplicity.
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And I love do you know what's nothing better in this life than being on that balcony when it's hot.
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You explained it to me very well.
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Like, that like it is St.
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John but Italian.
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It's where it's just like really good ingredients prepared quite simply.
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It's white plates, it's not.
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I don't know if it's just controversial, but you get some quite arms deal dealery looking people, do you know what I mean?
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A bit like that.
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To me, it felt very like Afab, like 90s, like the whole look of it, that blue and that pink.
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It felt like I was in an episode of that.
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So I think I'd be a bit upset by that.
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I don't know how evil some of the people are.
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This is not evil, though.
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This is long.
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No, this is this is not even.
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I'm just sorry, I just pen feeling.
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Yeah, thanks.
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This isn't even my one, this is yours one.
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I I'm gonna make here we go back.
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So you just have the last bit.
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You're doing the bump.
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Oh my god, Otto!
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Oh my god, so you don't know what's about to happen.
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That's gonna be less romantic than the other.
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This looks romantic.
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This is romantic.
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Okay.
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Okay, so this is the duck press.
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You don't know what's about to happen.
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Oh, to a bangster.
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What is that, Otto?
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Is that the pigeon?
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Is that the inside of a pigeon?
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What to the head?
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That's gone.
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Make it up by bangstone.
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I think you're up.
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You're up,
come on back.
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Is that um it's quite sterile?
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Do you want me to twist this?
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Montack, one second.
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Okay, sorry, mate.
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Okay.
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This is um bangster.
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What's the significance of the thing?
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Is this um is this acceptable?
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Okay.
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Don't don't get clockwise.
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Just sorry.
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Don't eat clockwise.
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Oh, clockwise.
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My your clockwise is different from yours.
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My clockwise.
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Oh no, you're right.
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That's my clockwise.
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It's not clockwork.
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Sorry.
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I've I've got the giggles, I think.
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That's okay, don't worry, don't worry.
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Why do I wear a helmet on my top?
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It's biking, biking spirits.
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Oh, okay.
00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:45.839
And there's that guy.
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What does that link to though?
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Well, basically, uh the English rugby team, they were drinking champagne out of there when they won the World Cup in 2003.
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They were there after.
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So that's why.
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That's why.
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Okay, fair enough, that makes sense.
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That's why.
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This is very weird, this whole quite Masonic in a way, isn't it?
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Do you like the Masons?
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I'm one of them.
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Okay, that's it.
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Hang on, hang on.
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What do you got?
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Sorry, sorry, Otto.
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Sorry, Otto, yeah.
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It's got a sword.
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Now you're not autos.
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Oh, thank you, Otto.
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Give us a cuddle.
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How do we join the mates?
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Me, a helmet?
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A helmet?
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Me?
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I'm a helmet?
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In terms of the weight of it, did it?
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It it felt um it felt You have to live another one in the sauce.
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Mm-hmm.
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Some class feet pet, my mushroom sauce and truffle sauce.
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Yep.
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I I don't want to brag that my morel is bigger than everyone else.
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Did you understand any of that?
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I thought I heard a little fragments of it.
00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:54.480
Okay, so it is um I'm gonna put point to Leonie's.
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You've got the mushroom, which is the morel, which is brand new in season.
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The um veal sweetbreads.
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Oh well, the your morel's on toast.
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You've got shower.
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Where are your morels, Michael?
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Where are they?
00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:15.839
Um then we've got um we've got liver on toast, basically, with a load of rich, delicious sauces.
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So what was this?
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This was the um that was a that was the liver of the toast.
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Liver on toast, yeah.
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Really?
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That's so amazing.
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I mean, I hate liver, and that's delicious.
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It's delicious.
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Well, it's basically caramel.
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Right.
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Mmm, sugary liver.
00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:37.039
I guess a tasting menu um lends itself better for this sort of conversational eating experience, isn't it?
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Yeah, but it's little bits and you're not like engaging in it in it.
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Well.
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And we look cold.
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Otherwise, we'd be really awkward, isn't it, here with nothing to say.
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Let me ask another question then.
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What is the restaurant that made you fall in love with restaurants?
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Is there a place that really changed your not changed your mind about restaurants, but made you think, oh yeah, I want to spend time here.
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This is
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That makes you fall in love with the restaurant drama.
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I like to bring the drama.
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Like I was in Stockholm and I don't know if it was a well-known restaurant and I can't remember what it's called, unfortunately.
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But it was fantastic, you know what I mean?
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Or we're in bar we've done a six-week tour and you're suddenly in Barcelona and it's so sort of hyper hipster.
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Yeah, if someone drags you into a tablet.
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Oh fuck.
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As soon as the druid egg put out.
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I had a an unfertilised druid egg, and it was it was so fucking fantastic.
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Always unfertilised.
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--> 00:22:47.440
But it was a bit to the background, so you've just been travelling and there's sun and there's Barcelona and there's a nice person with hair.
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That's that's the key factor.
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I don't know what that is.
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Good hair.
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Um yeah.
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Do you remember the first kind of like fancy restaurant you were ever taken to, like as a kid or as a teenager?
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Was there a moment where you're like, oh, this is posh?
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Kind of yeah, probably with dad every now and then you'd go to somewhere.
00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:09.119
I mean, it wasn't very consistent.
00:23:09.359 --> 00:23:13.039
For instance, just to just to illustrate, we never went on holiday.
00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:13.519
Okay.
00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:17.279
We weren't a holidaying family, we were quite like, you know, and things like that.
00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:24.720
Every now and then we'd that with that, and you'd go to a Chinese restaurant called I can't fucking remember what it's called, like in Knightsbridge, I think.
00:23:24.799 --> 00:23:24.880
Yeah.
00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:26.880
Imagine that in the 70s or 80s, what's it like?
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Well that's the lower I grew up as well, but not maybe a decade before.
00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:35.200
You go somewhere and it'd be an experience in San Lorenzo.
00:23:35.599 --> 00:23:36.559
I love San Lorenzo's.
00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:37.039
I grew up in.
00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:40.079
I've written about seven of my recipes based on San Lorenzo.
00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:46.960
I don't really remember it as much as a sort of eating experience, more as the chaos that you do and people running around.
00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:48.720
Because we dipped in and out of that.
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You know, it was very normal over there, and sometimes it was.
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And and we were sort of unused to it.
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It wasn't an inherent thing that we would expect to be at a restaurant or on holiday or any or have anything or shoes.
00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:01.200
Well, like, what was your dad like?
00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:09.440
I know that I know that this might be a different thing for you to have to chat about, but did it when it came to food, was he interested in that whole whole world?
00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:09.920
I know.
00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:14.559
I I think there's a very weird post-war um embarrassment about food.
00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:21.759
And you know, dad and I live with each other, and um we'd have we he literally scheduled the takeaways, we'd have it every day.
00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:25.279
But on a Wednesday, we'd have a curry from over the Amazon Bridge.
00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:32.240
And if you fought back on how shit it probably was, we'd have a McDonald's on a Thursday, and that's how we existed.
00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:43.680
But that was the almost like we the British because someone is making their cooking sauce curry on the same day and having their having their chicken, or you know, and then having their um fish on the Friday, you know.
00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:46.400
Every now and then, well, once got cooked Christmas dinner.
00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:48.079
Once, yeah, once.
00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:53.039
Not by my mum loads with dad once, and it was like being in Das Boot.
00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:54.480
Have you ever seen that film Das Boot?
00:24:54.799 --> 00:24:55.200
Yeah.
00:24:56.400 --> 00:24:58.319
It was it was it was buttons.
00:24:58.640 --> 00:24:59.039
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It was disgusting.
00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:02.319
It would be the same Christmas dinner made out in Das Boot.
00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:11.680
So, you know, restaurants were an experience more than um they were about the food, and I've learned more about food since.
00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:17.200
What was restaurant culture like in kind of late 70s, early 80s?
00:25:17.359 --> 00:25:27.279
Because I I don't think, I mean, I was born in the mid-80s, and I don't think I actually went to a proper restaurant until I was about 17, and it was still a weird thing to do, to go to a restaurant.
00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:30.880
Like restaurants were sort of like a niche thing.
00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:31.759
They're very niche.
00:25:31.839 --> 00:25:44.799
And I you probably have amazing food like this, like kind of old historical French food that existed and kind of that we were admired, but that kind of larger explosion, a cultural expansion of food that didn't exist.
00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:46.880
Yeah, just going to a restaurant is like.
00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:50.160
Britain for whatever historical reasons lag behind.
00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:51.519
And it does when you travel through it.
00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:57.279
It's just it's not the what you what you expect, is the kind of attitude towards food.
00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:03.839
It's the little details about everyday life that people lack, about what they would do to make food good, right?
00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:12.960
And that exists in every tier group in Spain and Italy and France, for instance, Eastern Europe and all those places.
00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:15.759
The Balkan regions, all those kind of places.
00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:17.039
I don't know why I know so much.
00:26:17.599 --> 00:26:18.319
I know, this is great.
00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:20.079
I wanna really like it.
00:26:20.319 --> 00:26:22.240
This Balkan knowledge is amazing.
00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:26.160
This makes you really smart.
00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:37.440
Do you you feel like you've got to learn about food culture through through being able to tour, or do you feel like it's been a bit stunning?
00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:39.839
We were very privileged that we were in front.
00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:43.039
France
picked us up first, so that we couldn't do any wrong.
00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:53.359
But anyway, we I don't want to to to to challenge that, but we still can't, you know, in in France they really, once they adopt you, they like you.
00:26:53.519 --> 00:26:56.960
They like people with disorganised faces that can't sing, you know what I mean?
00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:07.920
And so they um so you know, they've so we were out there a lot, and you know, we get taken out for dinner a lot and all that.
00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:14.640
So yeah, I mean, and as a byproduct of what you do, you quickly learn that that's a brilliant aspect to it, isn't it?
00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:17.759
You know, you and the more you travel, the more you see.
00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:24.319
Is there any way you've been on tour that you've you are like, oh god, I can't believe we're going there?
00:27:24.559 --> 00:27:25.119
Because of food.
00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:26.000
Well, in terms of the food.
00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:28.480
Yeah, in terms of positively or negatively.
00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:30.400
Negatively, you're like, ugh, Germany.
00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:31.680
Yeah, where have you been to the house?
00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:38.400
Like the two first places to eat in Europe are Britain and Holland, they go.
00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:40.000
Would you like some meat porridge?
00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:41.119
Meat porridge.
00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:45.759
There's tiny bits of frozen meat and some porridge, which is also frozen, and you're like, yeah.
00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:47.680
You're like, yeah, well, I am hungry.
00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:49.279
But that's changed quite a lot.
00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:54.079
I was in we did a gig with recently in Amsterdam, and it's just suddenly you can see when someone shifts.
00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:56.559
In a way that it's like As in London, you know.
00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:58.559
Well, it's become very fancy, yeah.
00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:03.359
But the kind of the rough side of Amsterdam and the good side of it are all merging in a good way.
00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:05.759
So it's like a perfect time to go there now.
00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:07.519
And the food's absolutely amazing.
00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:08.400
So I apologise.
00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:14.960
In terms of London restaurants, do you have a favourite?
00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:18.720
Is there somewhere in this city where you're like, that is my go-to?
00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:23.359
I like different places for different reasons, but I quite like, you know, it's an obvious place.
00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:29.279
I don't know whether it's always good food or not, but I just like the busyness of it, it's ballow just because I like where's that?
00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:29.839
Fallow.
00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:30.640
Fallow?
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:31.680
I don't know no fallow.
00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:33.440
Oh, fallow! Yeah.
00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:37.839
But you know, I went to a place that I can't remember the name of the other day, and that was good.
00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:42.960
What is the best meal that you have been out for ever?
00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:44.400
No, recent, recently.
00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:45.759
Recently, recently.
00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:48.720
It's a really um obvious place on off the Harrow Road.
00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:49.680
It's like a Greek restaurant.
00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:50.640
Oh, I love that place.
00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:51.519
What is that place called?
00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:53.920
Something on charcoal.
00:28:54.319 --> 00:28:55.839
Oh, it's shackles and charcoals?
00:28:56.480 --> 00:28:57.279
Shackles and charcoals?
00:28:57.440 --> 00:28:57.920
Yeah, something like that.
00:28:58.000 --> 00:28:58.720
Just shackles.
00:28:58.880 --> 00:28:59.279
A bit of a nest.
00:28:59.519 --> 00:28:59.920
Shackles.
00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:01.359
Is it that place?
00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:01.519
Yes.
00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:02.880
It's got like a tent in the back of it.
00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:04.720
Yes, yes, but that place is a big deal.
00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:10.640
Oh, it's just there by the tent and I think you can maybe here makes or not, but when I was saying it was fantastic.
00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:13.440
That is that is in the top 50 best restaurants in London.
00:29:13.759 --> 00:29:13.920
Is it?
00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:14.240
Okay, yeah.
00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:21.920
Certified by time out Pinella under the Trolloc Tower, a favourite of yours, yes or no?
00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:22.640
I love it.
00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:24.240
I love her, I love, I love it.
00:29:24.319 --> 00:29:25.039
What's Panella?
00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:25.440
Tell me about this.
00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:28.960
Like a Sicilian cafe, am I?
00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:32.480
Oh, the one that's uh by um not Hammersmith, but just around the corner.
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:33.200
No, I'm just gonna be able to do it.
00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:34.880
Literally in the Trolloc Tower.
00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:36.319
Yeah, it's on the bottom of it.
00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:39.200
Yeah, it's been there for about eight or nine years or something, whatever it's like.
00:29:39.279 --> 00:29:40.559
So like your auntie now.
00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:46.960
She's just brilliant, she's just honest, and you could have got because it gets so over-trendy around there, it can get ruined.
00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:50.160
But they sort of defend that by making pretty good food.
00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:56.079
And they make a load of different dishes, don't they, and put it out and they sort of re rewarm things.
00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:57.359
And it's Sicilian.
00:29:57.680 --> 00:29:58.880
I think that's the basis of it.
00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:05.440
It's kind of Italian, Sicilian food, and it's so fantastic, it's cheap, and it's under there, so then you get that brilliant.
00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:15.440
I mean, it sounds poncy or a bit corny to say when you get a bit of a mixture of you get a man with a zip
in his shoulders, and then you get a person that doesn't, you know, with a baby.
00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:20.400
But this is like have you ever been to e policies in Bethnel Green?
00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:29.119
Talking of Italian food, Il Portico, you used to go every week, do you still?
00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:45.680
Well, that's because it has a sort of it my son's grandfather on the other side of the family used to live around the corner, and he's American, and you know, I didn't necessarily get on with Cosmo's mum, but I used to get ordered in a way to go for dinner in a booth at booths.
00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:46.960
Is it always a little booth?
00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:53.440
He'd go, back to the room, would you like the and he'd tell me what I was like, and I'd go, he'd go, Would you like the Vongole?
00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:56.960
And then I mentioned it once in the standard of the ES magazine.
00:30:57.039 --> 00:30:57.200
Yeah.
00:30:57.519 --> 00:31:03.039
And then James, the guy that uh that runs the restaurant, he's the son of the son of the son of the son.
00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:03.279
Yeah.
00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:05.440
And then went, oh my god, you called us the son.
00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:08.319
I think it was a bit racist in a way, because I called them the sopranos.
00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:10.240
Yeah, I was gonna say sopranos.
00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:14.640
But it was more sopranos-y me going to see the grandfathers demand than you had to say.
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:15.119
Right.
00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:20.880
Because he used to say things to me and I was the wrestling champion of Oxford in 1965.
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:22.079
Did you understand that?
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:25.200
Like a part of the wrestling team.
00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:31.599
I'm not really and um and then and then James really bonded with me and went, oh, thanks so much.
00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:36.960
And then as a result, the grandfather went, ah, you did a good thing for James and this.
00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:39.039
You're part of the family now, kind of.
00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:40.799
I could, yeah, I love that place.
00:31:43.119 --> 00:31:43.680
Wow.
00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:44.240
Thank you.
00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:45.680
That is so beautiful.
00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:47.119
That's so good.
00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:48.079
Otto.
00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:51.119
That's your life, that's the plot.
00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:52.079
That's what you did.
00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:52.960
You pressed that.
00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:55.440
The mason.
00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:57.279
That's why you're a knight.
00:31:57.440 --> 00:31:58.400
And that's why I'm a knight.
00:31:58.480 --> 00:31:59.359
I'm a sauce knight.
00:31:59.440 --> 00:31:59.519
Yeah.
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:00.880
Salty knight.
00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:03.440
That is why salty knight, yeah.
00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:04.640
Salty knight.
00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:07.599
Oh boy!
00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:09.759
You never knew.
00:32:10.000
--> 00:32:10.720
Pomsteu fle.
00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:11.920
This is the pomstef.
00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:13.519
This is a potato.
00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:15.039
Temporal cushion.
00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:17.119
There we go.
00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:18.480
More sauce, there we go.
00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:20.720
You're less salty now, more sauce.
00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:23.119
Yeah, the salty night.
00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:24.960
So this, can I pull this in?
00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:26.559
Am I allowed to bring it in?
00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:27.359
Who's this?
00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:28.799
So this is some some burns.
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:32.000
This is a Hollandaise.
00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:32.720
This is a classic.
00:32:33.039 --> 00:32:35.359
This is a potato, and you cut a potato strip.
00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:36.960
I'm not this is magic.
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:37.680
Look.
00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:38.240
Whoa.
00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:39.440
That is a fucking potato.
00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:40.319
That's like a crisp.
00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:40.559
Okay.
00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:42.160
Oh my god, is it like a mustard?
00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:43.599
It's a crisp cushion.
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:45.200
But they've not been sandwiched together.
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:46.799
It's in a cooking technique that they explain.
00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:47.839
Oh wow.
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:48.400
Wow, it's magic.
00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:49.920
Oh, like popcorn with potatoes.
00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:51.039
Yeah, it's delicious.
00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:52.319
I don't want to talk about that.
00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:56.160
Well, I'm going in.
00:32:58.160 --> 00:32:59.039
Oh my god.
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:00.079
It's unreal.
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:01.279
That's pigeon, but tasting.
00:33:03.359 --> 00:33:04.079
So that's just cooked.
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:07.759
So a tasting menu would normally be a small bit of something showed off.
00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:10.559
What they've actually done here is it's better than a tasting menu.
00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:13.680
They've just got the whole pigeon and created five dishes with it.
00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:15.680
Which is just all from one thing.
00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:17.119
That's crazy.
00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:18.079
Is it delicious?
00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:18.960
It's like a red meat.
00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:20.079
It's like lamb.
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:21.359
It's not a red meat, though, isn't it?
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:23.279
Would you not call it a red meat?
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:23.839
I'd say it's a red.
00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:24.799
I mean, like, this is the thing.
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:26.079
It's like you call it so tender.
00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:28.640
You call it white, but it's game.
00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:29.200
It is game.
00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:29.759
It's game.
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:30.640
It's bloody game.
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:32.960
It doesn't feel like really that kind of Britishy game.
00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:35.440
Well, it doesn't taste game, but it's fresh and light and game.
00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:42.240
I hate the the first time of Emily and I say this, but it's only when you eat and drink and then talk about food, it's quite sexy.
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:43.519
Oh, a thanks though.
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:50.960
When you start eating this, you feel quite drunk and a bit, yeah.
00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:54.559
As you eat it, kind of that absorbs some of the alcohol.
00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:55.680
Yeah, well, this is what I said.
00:33:56.160 --> 00:34:03.200
Because if you're too drunk or too mad, you wouldn't care about then you just care about going to like La Choluto's.
00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:04.720
I don't know what that is.
00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:06.319
Oh shit.
00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:13.679
If you haven't seen it yet, you have to watch it.
00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:19.679
Otto does his mess his menu based around one of my favourite films of all time, Le Grand Booth.
00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:21.280
Have you seen Le Grand Booth?
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:22.079
I don't know Le Grand Booth.
00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:34.320
So Le Grand Booth is a uh film from the 60s, an art house film that was made about these three guys who decide to go and commit suicide because they're losing all their money on the stock exchange, and they take relatable.
00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:34.960
Oh yeah.
00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:40.559
They take all the food in the world and loads of sex workers, and they basically kill the they fucking eat themselves to death.
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:42.639
And honestly, this is for me.
00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:44.880
So thank you for coming off here today.
00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:52.239
Is there a collaborative minds of musicians that you've gone out with and it's just all ended up in absolute?
00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:54.559
Who's a good musician to go for dinner with?
00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:56.159
Yeah, who are we hanging out with next?
00:34:56.400 --> 00:35:00.639
I mean, I you know, I'm not gonna I'm not one to mention names.
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:06.159
But I'm not going to mention no, but you know, I have some nice tenants of people I really like.
00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:10.320
No, but like, okay, so because for example, the the damned.
00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:12.880
They spoke a lot about some things for back.
00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:15.119
But yeah, they were like the Baxter, no.
00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:17.840
They were like, when we used to go drinking with Lemmy.
00:35:18.159 --> 00:35:18.719
Yeah, with Lemmy.
00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:21.599
I would never see him eat and he didn't eat for 45 years.
00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:23.039
Is there any anecdotes you have?
00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:26.400
So you're looking for a sort of the historical anecdote.
00:35:26.719 --> 00:35:29.280
Well, I don't know, because I can't remember anything.
00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:31.119
I find it boring all that stuff.
00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:31.519
But you know.
00:35:31.920 -->
00:35:33.679
Oh, I love I love that kind of.
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:40.320
I mean, I have, you know, sometimes I will meet um Peter Blake and tall my parents.
00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:41.920
Peter Blake! Wow!
00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:47.199
Um, you know, our art schools, and um and Jarvis and his wife are friends of them.
00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:52.559
So sometimes and Blake, Rose Blake, who's Jar who's Peter's daughter, it's a really good friend of mine.
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:54.239
We have these amazing lunches.
00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:55.519
I actually love doing that.
00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:57.360
And that's really about people you really like.
00:35:57.440 --> 00:36:02.719
And everyone is surprisingly quiet and nice and I mean everyone's completely normal, aren't they?
00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:05.920
Like I think we always assume that it's gonna be utter chaos.
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:07.360
But there must have been chaos.
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:12.639
Like, there must have been some things where you go, oh my god, I'm on tour, I'm at this mechanical.
00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:17.840
I see chaos in some way, but in the same way, I kind of cry and close it down, if you know what I mean.
00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:18.719
Yeah, you're really good.
00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:19.119
I'm good.
00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:22.559
We're very similar, but I love chaos.
00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:25.039
I love, I want to throw pavement stones at cats.
00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:27.280
No! But you know what I mean?
00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:29.119
I want to just But you don't.
00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:31.360
You're never coming around again since the last time.
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:32.400
I want to go and set like.
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:34.480
I want to kick I want to kick swans, it's fine.
00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:35.199
I totally understand.
00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:37.360
Oh, swans deserve a kicking.
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:40.239
You press anything.
00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:41.440
I press anything, yeah.
00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:43.360
Do they eat swan anyway?
00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:43.840
Okay.
00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:46.159
Do they eat does anyone where do they eat swan?
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:50.320
Is there anywhere that in the world that you're in King Henry?
00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:50.719
Yeah.
00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:54.159
Yeah, he did a very famous uh like a dish, yeah.
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:55.840
But it was swan, duck.
00:36:56.159 --> 00:36:58.320
It was eight different birds, all in one swan.
00:36:58.639 --> 00:36:59.360
Oh yeah, yeah.
00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:02.639
But is that one of those sort of big display like a thing that they did?
00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:04.000
No, no, no, you just cut it.
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:05.599
And they're all inside each other?
00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:06.559
Yeah, all in.
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:07.599
But the swan one is.
00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:12.559
But they don't they eat swan in France, or is a swan like a tough bird?
00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:13.519
It'd be like a tough big.
00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:14.320
I don't know.
00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:15.519
I think it'd be like a tough bird.
00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:17.679
But now you need to pine it a tough bird.
00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:19.440
Yeah.
00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:20.400
You need to pine it.
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:20.960
It's quite.
00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:23.760
And then you need to be careful when you cook it.
00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:26.719
Because it's got it's like a but we've never cooked it.
00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:27.119
No.
00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:27.360
No.
00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:29.679
But we don't but you're not allowed to cook it here though, right?
00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:30.880
You're not allowed to cook it here.
00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:32.559
What I have done is otol.
00:37:33.039 --> 00:37:33.360
Otolo?
00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:33.760
Otto.
00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:34.480
Otteran.
00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:36.559
Oh, the birds, but you have to wear the mask.
00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:37.840
That was in the 70s.
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:38.320
That was in the middle.
00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:41.280
No, that's one of those where they're putting the napkin out of your hand.
00:37:41.519 --> 00:37:42.559
The ghoul would eat the mansion.
00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:42.960
Bunting.
00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:43.679
Bunting is called.
00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:44.400
Yeah, bunting.
00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:44.880
The little one.
00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:47.440
Otteran.
00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:47.679
Yeah.
00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:48.719
Do you do that here?
00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:48.960
No.
00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:50.480
No, that's illegal.
00:37:50.719 --> 00:37:52.639
That was in the white, not in the 70s.
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:56.639
And you basically soak them in cognac and then you eat the whole thing in one go.
00:37:56.880 --> 00:37:57.039
Ooh.
00:37:57.280 --> 00:37:59.440
But you have to under the you're doing the.
00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:02.159
There's a famous one with the ghoul eating cognitive.
00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:02.880
That's it, that's it.
00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:03.519
I know.
00:38:03.599 --> 00:38:04.320
Oh, yeah, I got you.
00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:05.039
She's been there.
00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:06.480
Woo!
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:11.760
There's a dormant genius in me that's never really flourished.
00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:13.679
So when I was really young, I cooked.
00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:16.800
When you say really young, I was really when I was 17.
00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:19.280
So when I was a very long and boring.
00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:21.840
When I was 17, I lived in Barcelona.
00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:25.199
And I didn't got financial schools and I went to Barcelona.
00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:30.320
And I lived with a crazy woman, and she had loads of people just staying there from different places they've escaped.
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:33.360
And I lived with a Cuban guy called Carlos, and he'd escaped from the city.
00:38:36.559 -->
00:38:46.559
So Carlos was trying to get to America to study at the whatever institute, because he was a classical guitar player from Havana, and he was amazed.
00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:48.880
One of those motherfucking places.
00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:54.159
In Spain, they have quite a low cooperative relationship with Cuba, so the secret police infiltrate everywhere.
00:38:54.239 --> 00:38:55.280
So he wouldn't leave.
00:38:55.519 --> 00:39:04.880
And then I roll up with holes in my shoes and a bit of labor grove with a sort of Henry VIII haircut or some rapping intentions and stuff like that.
00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:06.079
So I knobed.
00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:07.599
And I couldn't cook a thing.
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:10.719
And so then he taught me to cook for a while, me and Carlos.
00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:13.599
And he went, You are basically a very primitive human being.
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:15.360
Charming.
00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:17.920
No, not really.
00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:18.719
And we bonded.
00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:22.000
And he taught me to cook like rice with eggs and sausage and things like that.
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:25.039
But I can't remember any of it.
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:27.440
But that sounds like a good basis to come from, right?
00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:30.079
I feel like it's a real bonding lad experience.
00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:32.719
Yeah, it was a really bonding thing, and he was amazing.
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:35.039
But he taught you nothing at the end of the day.
00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:36.800
No, he didn't.
00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:39.440
Are you su oh my god.
00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:40.639
Oh my god.
00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:41.679
Look at that.
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:44.159
Alex has a pie.
00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:45.280
That's the same pigeon.
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:45.840
Professor.
00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:46.159
Yeah.
00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:46.719
Yeah.
00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:47.760
That's the Lex.
00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:49.039
And um mushrooms.
00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:50.239
Oh, thank you.
00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:50.480
Wow.
00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:52.159
And your engine has been doing the work.
00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:55.119
That pigeon looked quite small when we saw it earlier.
00:39:56.320 --> 00:39:57.199
You're starving.
00:39:59.519 --> 00:39:59.760
Yeah, yeah.
00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:00.960
I've got an appetite for destruction.
00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:03.039
This is um this is the fly of the pigeon.
00:40:03.199 --> 00:40:04.159
This is the fly I got with the pigeon.
00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:04.960
Insides, right?
00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:06.239
And this is a mushroom?
00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:07.840
No, inside that's a pie.
00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:10.400
So that is the legs of the of the pigeon.
00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:10.719
Yeah.
00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:12.079
And then it's a travel sauce with.
00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:13.760
Wow.
00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:14.480
Look at this.
00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:17.280
And honestly, that is truly heroic.
00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:22.159
Okay, go and then the way my knife just slides through that meat.
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:23.840
It's like butter.
00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:28.320
Oh! You're currently writing a new book.
00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:29.039
Am I?
00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:30.400
Allegedly.
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:32.159
The people say you are.
00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:35.519
Yeah, I I signed up to write a second half to the book that I wrote about.
00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:42.800
But the dullest idea in the world is writing about kind of male exploits in your 30s and 40s and all the kind of obvious things.
00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:44.400
Yeah, be like, what do those guys get up to?
00:40:44.719 --> 00:40:45.119
Yeah, wow, wow.
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:46.239
What are they doing?
00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:48.719
Drugs and you know, not drugs or whatever.
00:40:48.960 --> 00:40:50.320
Um it's one of the two.
00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:58.159
It's um I just find that so I kind of thought I'd try and write auto fiction, but then you go into a sort of writing thing.
00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:01.679
Whereas you write, honestly, you can sort of talk it in a way.
00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:02.800
And then someone help you.
00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:14.880
And we've got I've got a brilliant manager and uh publisher who are brilliant and very long-suffering, so they can help you in your sort of educated sense of writing, and they don't mind that and they like it.
00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:24.719
But once you go into something which is pretending the professes to be writing, then you start to brush against kind of being a bit more accurate about the way you write something.
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:33.440
I remember I remember when you wrote the first book and you were struggling with so many outside sort of ideas of how people would perceive it, family were gonna perceive it, all of these things.
00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:37.679
And it came out and it's been incredibly successful, hence why you're doing another book.
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:48.880
Do you are you going into this one with the same anxieties or well no, the first one's a bit of a big rehearsed thing about your childhood and it's fine, and it's a sort of lost generation, it's a generational thing that's lost, isn't it?
00:41:49.119 --> 00:41:54.239
Like you wrote about something that's not necessarily about fame, but about a way of life.
00:41:55.119 --> 00:42:04.639
And then then if you don't want to write about and then I'm bored about the second stage of it, so it's very difficult to try and work out why you don't make it into a murder mystery.
00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:14.239
Did you find that there was completely mutually exclusive things things where the writing that you write for your music to writing about life?
00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:15.440
Are they completely separate?
00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:21.519
There's something similar in a sense that you can get into a zone, and it's amazing when you get into a zone,
you can do anything.
00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:23.519
Yeah, which is quite reassuring in a way.
00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:39.119
I mean, I had the perfect conditions of being in in lockdown, living with my son who's quite nerdy in a fact, and and doing his A levels and trying to get the doing the best at those, and then I sort of used that slip streak, it kept me sane.
00:42:39.440 --> 00:42:42.880
So I had such a prompt to be like, I'm gonna keep myself sane by this.
00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:43.760
Yeah, something like that.
00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:48.159
Because my otherwise I'd search into the apocalypse and I'd be like, fucking hell.
00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:52.000
And you're back in the studio, right?
00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:52.719
Is that not correct?
00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:52.880
Yeah.
00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:53.440
Yeah.
00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:56.079
And what what does this next album look like for you?
00:42:56.239 --> 00:42:58.480
Well, you try and try and shake it up a little bit.
00:42:58.639 --> 00:43:04.639
You do one thing, and then you kind of I mean, I'm kind of able to do what I want, aren't I, in a way?
00:43:05.039 --> 00:43:09.920
I don't really have to sort of perform to expectation or do something that people expect.
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:14.800
So it's quite fun in a way, and then the same thing with a book, you go a bit, oh fuck, what do I do next?
00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:25.039
I think maybe freeing, because I've I know that that there's been sort of maybe expect expectual limitations on how you were going to perform and now you've superseded it all, right?
00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:25.360
Yeah.
00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:27.920
So how does it feel going into writing this album going ah?
00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:29.679
Oh, kind of fun in a way.
00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:37.039
Yeah, it's kind of fun in a way, because you where you kind of you have a momentum and that's on your side, and whether that produces something really good, you don't know.
00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:43.679
But the momentum's on your side, and you enjoy like we're about to go on a massive tour, so like, so we're fine.
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:46.239
You that keeps you kind of financially secure anyway.
00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:48.239
So you kind of do what you want in a way.
00:43:48.400 --> 00:43:53.199
And then also, and then you start to look at all these people that are making amazing music around you.
00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:54.960
And it's the ones I really like.
00:43:55.119 --> 00:43:56.719
I just listened to someone called Ald.
00:43:56.880 --> 00:43:57.440
Do you know Aldus?
00:43:57.840 --> 00:43:58.559
Aldus Harding.
00:43:58.880 --> 00:43:58.960
Yeah.
00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:00.320
Amazing.
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:02.400
She surprised me right so much.
00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:03.679
How good she is.
00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:06.719
And that makes you go, like, and there's no way I can even be.
00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:09.280
Yeah, she does, she works with them a lot.
00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:12.400
No way you could be as good as you know, and but it's quite nice.
00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:16.400
Well, no, no, but in the in the sense of the kind of pure musicality of someone doing.
00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:17.199
Right, fine.
00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:19.840
You know, and it makes you want to go, oh, I really want to be with the computer.
00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:20.960
Can I ask you something deep?
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:22.960
Like, I don't know if you know this, maybe people do.
00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:25.920
Like, are you are you a trained musician or is it something that you've just got?
00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:33.360
I obviously know a lot about music, and I've grew up with it, and I have a bit of a privilege of being around it all my life.
00:44:33.599 --> 00:44:34.320
So I know about it.
00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:35.199
Oh, of course.
00:44:35.679 --> 00:44:40.079
And I don't need to get stuck into what that is, what that chord is and all that shit.
00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:41.119
It doesn't really matter.
00:44:41.519 --> 00:44:47.840
But it it matters, and I can't really sing, so it matters how you Oh well come up.
00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:54.320
But you know, it matters how you what I I perceive music quite deeply and want it to be special.
00:44:54.559 --> 00:45:00.320
And then for instance, if you perceived as someone that just talks all the time, that's kind of dull for me.
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:07.840
Your talking music's kind of dull, even though I might be someone that that's kind of propagating that or famous for that.
00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:08.559
I I like to do so.
00:45:08.960 --> 00:45:10.079
But are you dip in and out of that?
00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:16.320
I think maybe the general idea is that's what you are, but I mean like for anyone who knows your music and loves you knows that it's more than that.
00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:17.760
And well, maybe, yeah.
00:45:18.159 --> 00:45:20.880
Will you work with Paul Lapworth again on the next album?
00:45:20.960 --> 00:45:21.679
Because I hope so.
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:24.400
So that was was that in Crouch End in the church studios?
00:45:24.800 --> 00:45:26.960
Alright, uh Crouch End lunch times.
00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:28.559
Where are you going for lunch in Crouch End?
00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:29.360
In Paul End.
00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:31.440
Or is Paul Lapworth just calling in?
00:45:31.679 --> 00:45:33.039
Well, it's all himself.
00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:39.840
You know, he lives in a certain world where sometimes Paul Lap will work and I'll sit next to him and he won't really talk in his brilliant way.
00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:44.719
And I'll just sit there going and there's someone, he's a bit kind of a butlerized world.
00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:47.440
And someone comes and goes, Is everyone okay?
00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:52.800
What would you like?
00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:55.440
And he will he will order like green juice.
00:45:55.679 --> 00:45:56.880
Like walnuts with
enzymes.
00:45:56.960 --> 00:45:57.360
Oh, okay, yeah.
00:45:57.679 --> 00:45:59.280
Can you get me walnuts with enzymes?
00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:00.960
And you're like, is that tasty?
00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:02.960
Or I don't know if I'd be into walnuts with enzymes.
00:46:03.119 --> 00:46:03.920
I'm having enzymes.
00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:06.400
I've got a hash can of bee and messy lunch.
00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:07.199
Do you eat put?
00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:08.159
Yeah, I'm not.
00:46:08.639 --> 00:46:08.960
Yeah, we need.
00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:10.719
No, no, we're not gonna go anywhere with that one.
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:12.480
Pudding.
00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:15.840
I've got a hash can of bee and messy lunch.
00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:17.199
Okay, so Baxter.
00:46:17.679 --> 00:46:19.199
We're mid through our messy lunch.
00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:20.880
I feel like we're almost there.
00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:22.000
Coming towards the end.
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:24.400
Because this has been a fairly messy lunch.
00:46:24.719 --> 00:46:26.159
Quite relatively, yeah.
00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:29.360
Comparatively to the other ones, I'd say this is.
00:46:36.719 --> 00:46:38.000
That was a mess.
00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:38.800
Do you get that?
00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:39.599
Can I ask?
00:46:39.679 --> 00:46:40.239
Can I ask him?
00:46:40.400 --> 00:46:43.599
Do you think Otto ever does things that aren't meant to happen?
00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:43.840
Yeah.
00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:45.519
That he still like braves out.
00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:47.599
I think Otto does it.
00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:48.639
This is what always happens.
00:46:48.719 --> 00:46:48.800
Yeah.
00:46:49.119 --> 00:46:51.039
Every now and then someone might perish.
00:46:55.920 --> 00:46:57.280
How do you make your pancakes?
00:46:59.119 --> 00:47:00.079
Flour and mortar.
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:01.679
Oh look at your little eyes.
00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:04.880
Look how beautiful! Like a bloodbath.
00:47:04.960 --> 00:47:07.679
Am I another bloodbath in a day?
00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:10.880
You can really focus on me eating this in a sort of erotic way.
00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:16.400
Okay, so this is Crep Suzette with a brandy snap and an ice cream and some raspberry sauce.
00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:17.760
And this is as classic as you get.
00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:18.480
And how delicious.
00:47:18.559 --> 00:47:19.440
Everything you want in a pudding is that.
00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:21.679
I'm going in.
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:26.159
How do I sound eating this?
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:30.880
Let's see.
00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:34.320
Baxter, you were asked to be a detective on a TV show recently.
00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:35.119
Well too?
00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:35.840
That's true, yeah.
00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:36.719
Did you say yes?
00:47:36.880 --> 00:47:37.519
No, no, I did.
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:38.239
But you know what happened?
00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:39.920
Have some context, first of all.
00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:44.480
Well a friend of mine who's a script writer came and said, Would you want to be a detective?
00:47:44.719 --> 00:47:47.360
Actually, I'm gonna say no to this, but everyone else must.
00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:48.800
It looks amazing, but I can't.
00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:49.519
Oh, it's really good.
00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:51.599
Babe, babe, just get it poured and I'll drink it for you.
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:52.079
Okay, right.
00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:53.760
Why are you having reservations?
00:47:54.159 --> 00:47:55.679
Because I just I'm shit face.
00:47:56.079 --> 00:47:56.239
Shh.
00:47:57.840 --> 00:47:58.400
Proper up.
00:47:58.559 --> 00:47:59.360
Proper up.
00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:01.440
We can go.
00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:02.320
She's fine.
00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:04.239
Weekend of Bernie style.
00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:10.079
But what in the meantime, what's more interesting is I helped write it.
00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:12.159
Like I went into the writing thing.
00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:16.400
I'm still in it, but it's about a my daughter.
00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:20.239
And my daughter comes to visit me in um and I live in Button.
00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:21.360
It's acting, babe.
00:48:21.679 --> 00:48:21.920
Okay.
00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:23.519
Sorry, I'm not regular.
00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:26.400
I live in Berlin and I'm a sort of Troubadoe card.
00:48:26.559 --> 00:48:27.119
It doesn't live in Berlin.
00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:27.920
Okay, right, okay, right.
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:28.719
I'm there now.
00:48:30.159 --> 00:48:34.079
And they're um and they're trying to make this and but they're making it into a graphic novel now.
00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:35.039
Oh, that's even better.
00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:37.360
How good is that you're acting in a graphic novel?
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:39.679
Well they're making it into a graphic novel first.
00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:43.039
Messi!
00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:45.199
This was the messiest lunch we've had so far.
00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:47.679
Oh.
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:53.280
Where is he?
00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:54.079
Here he comes.
00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:56.159
Here you go, come, no one can speak.
00:48:57.519 --> 00:48:58.400
Hey Otto.
00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:02.320
Thank you so much.