Baked Beans, Chocolate Digestives and Declan Rice
6/18/202629 min
What way up should you eat a chocolate digestive biscuit? Is there anything that baked beans don’t go with? And why can’t Romesh ever be seen in public in Barcelona again?
Also, our advice worked! Congratulations to the nervous numbat on his engagement!
You too, could be the recipient of some potentially life-changing advice friends, send your questions, dilemmas, pictures and voice notes to us at wolfowlpod@gmail.com.
A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Platform Media.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:28 Proposal
03:02 Baked bean curry
07:58 Rom’s Barcelona story
12:51 Chocolate digestives
17:09 Stalkers vs fans
23:59 Drawings
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[singing] Yo. Yo, what you want? Beak or jaws? Feathers or fur? Sharp teeth or feet with claws? Whatever's preferred. Just kidding, every word in this song's about two grown men dressed up as a bird and a dog Uh, welcome to the Wolf and Owl email special. Yeah, it's the Wolf and Owl email special with Tom Davis and Rob Ochs from Your Name. Uh, uh Should we get straight into it?
Tom Davis· Host0:27
Okay.
Romesh Ranganathan· Host0:28
"Hi, Wolf, Owl, Swan, and Cat. A few months ago, I emailed about advice on words when proposing to your other half. The time came on Satur-" Oh my God.
Tom Davis· Host0:34
Oh my God.
Romesh Ranganathan· Host0:35
"The time came on Saturday to finally pop the question, and with the help from you guys, it went very smoothly." [clapping] "As you took, as you took all the pressure off me thinking it had to be some big speech, and I just kept it natural in the moment and went with the flow. Thankfully, it ended with her saying yes, which topped it off. As requested last time by Tom, we bought two tickets to one of his shows, the one in Portsmouth, which will subsequently be our first-ever stand-up show live."
Tom Davis· Host0:56
Oh my gosh.
Romesh Ranganathan· Host0:57
"We can't wait. Sorry for the long email." It's not actually that long at all. "Just wanted to say thank you for your advice. Many thanks, The Nervous Number."
Tom Davis· Host1:01
Oh my God.
Romesh Ranganathan· Host1:01
Congratulations.
Tom Davis· Host1:03
[clapping] Wow.
Romesh Ranganathan· Host1:05
Kern-gratulations. Isn't that cool?
Tom Davis· Host1:07
Oh my... Mate, I feel, I feel buzzing. But can we email them back and say- Two tickets.
Romesh Ranganathan· Host1:10
That's two tickets in Portsmouth as well ...
Tom Davis· Host1:12
I, I wanna, I wanna meet these people.
Romesh Ranganathan· Host1:13
Yeah, Tom wants to meet you, so- I'll see you before or after the show. Yeah.
Tom Davis· Host1:17
Come and say hello.
Romesh Ranganathan· Host1:18
Yeah, please do go and say hello to Tom.
Tom Davis· Host1:19
Yeah. No, we-we'll- And congratulations.
Romesh Ranganathan· Host1:21
You've got people coming to the Portsmouth show.
Tom Davis· Host1:22
Yeah, yeah, Portsmouth show.
Romesh Ranganathan· Host1:23
Yeah, that's good.
Tom Davis· Host1:24
Weirdly, Portsmouth has, has never been a problem.
Romesh Ranganathan· Host1:25
Yeah.
Tom Davis· Host1:26
Portsmouth is one of my favorites.
Romesh Ranganathan· Host1:26
Well, that's why you do it special, isn't it?
Tom Davis· Host1:27
I, I love Portsmouth.
Romesh Ranganathan· Host1:28
Yeah.
Tom Davis· Host1:28
It's a great, it's a great city