Ep 266: Ella Purnell

Summary

Podcast Summary: Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster – Episode 266: Ella Purnell

Host Information:

• Hosts: Ed Gamble and James Acaster
• Special Guest: Ella Purnell
• Podcast Description: Comedians Ed Gamble and James Acaster invite special guests into their magical restaurant to curate their dream meals, selecting favorites across various courses.

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Introduction to Ella Purnell

Timestamp: [02:42]

The episode kicks off with Ed Gamble and James Acaster welcoming actress Ella Purnell to their "Dream Restaurant." Ella is celebrated for her roles in popular TV shows such as "Fallout", "Yellowjackets", and her upcoming series "Sweet Pea", which airs on Sky. Ed enthusiastically praises her performances, highlighting her versatility and knack for mastering accents in roles like those in "Yellowjackets".

Notable Quote:

• Ella Purnell: "You think that's gonna help their brands. That cures all ailments. That's the focus."

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The Dream Menu Experience

Timestamp: [05:04 – 06:00]

Ed introduces the concept of the Dream Restaurant, where guests design their ideal meals. He playfully warns Ella about a "secret ingredient" — Nuka Cola from the "Fallout" series — which, if mentioned, would result in her being kicked out of the restaurant. Ella humorously speculates on the taste of Nuka Cola, associating it with cola and a hint of radiation, blending fictional elements with real-world humor.

Notable Quote:

• Ed Gamble: "But, if Ella says Nuka Cola, we'll have to kick her out the Dream Restaurant. Hopefully she won't and we'll get to hear a full menu."

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Ella’s Dream Meal Selection

Timestamp: [06:07 – 53:24]

Ella begins crafting her dream meal, navigating through the playful banter and humorous interludes with the hosts. The selection process unfolds as follows:

1. Starter: Soup Dumplings

   • Choice: Ella opts for soup dumplings from Joe Shanghai in New York. She emphasizes the interactive experience of eating them correctly, instructing on the technique to savor both the soup and dumpling seamlessly.
   • Notable Quote:
     • Ella Purnell: "You have to bite the tip off and then drink the soup out the dumpling, out the spoon."

2. Main Course: Spy Kids Burger

   • Choice: Drawing inspiration from her favorite childhood movie, Ella selects a "Spy Kids" burger. However, her vivid description leads to a humorous revelation that the burger is essentially a Big Mac, causing a playful disappointment.
   • Notable Quote:
     • Ella Purnell: "It's always the quiet ones. But it could have just been. She kills people and she likes it. And I would watch that."

3. Side Dish: Cheap Supermarket Prawn Crackers

   • Choice: Preferring comfort and nostalgia over conventional salads, Ella chooses cheap prawn crackers from supermarkets like Tesco or Lidl. She elaborates on her preference for their greasy texture despite not being a fan of fish.
   • Notable Quote:
     • Ella Purnell: "I want them to be like 60p out of a packet from Tesco's or Lidl. And they're greasy and that's why it's good."

4. Dessert: Adventure Island Donuts

   • Choice: Recalling her childhood experiences, Ella selects donuts from Adventure Island in Southend on Sea. She shares a comedic yet embarrassing story about a disastrous date that led to her dealing with norovirus after indulging in these sugary treats.
   • Notable Quote:
     • Ella Purnell: "I went to Halloween party and we walked in, I look incredibly fit, and I shit my pants in the middle of this Halloween party. And right after I shit my pants, I turn to him to say, I've shit my pants, but I projectile vomit all down."

5. Drink: Diet Coke

   • Choice: Ella opts for Diet Coke as her favorite drink, humorously advocating its benefits as a cure-all for ailments like hangovers and nausea.
   • Notable Quote:
     • Ella Purnell: "It's the cure for all ailments. I can't even say it."

Interactive Segment: Throughout the meal selection, Ella engages in playful games with the hosts, including a round of "Guess Who," revealing humorous personal anecdotes and fostering a light-hearted atmosphere.

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Humorous Anecdotes and Games

Timestamp: [09:02 – 77:13]

Ella shares a series of entertaining stories, including:

• Embarrassing Date Disasters: Ella recounts a cringe-worthy date where she ended up vomiting after mistakenly believing she appeared composed, only for both parties to succumb to norovirus.

  Notable Quote:

  • Ella Purnell: "I had to say. I had to do it. I'm so sorry. I just. I had to end like that."

• Childhood Memories: Reflecting on her childhood trips to Southend on Sea, Ella describes having fun yet awkward birthday parties, highlighting her competitive nature and love for interactive experiences.

• Diet Coke Advocacy: Ella humorously attempts to secure a lifelong Diet Coke sponsorship, intertwining her personal stories with brand promotion.

• Polystyrene Collections: In a whimsical tangent, Ed Gamble shares his past obsession with collecting giant polystyrene "W"s for his band, leading to a nostalgic and humorous backstory.

Notable Quote:

• Ella Purnell: "Everything's a game if you're competitive enough."

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Conclusion and Menu Recap

Timestamp: [75:38 – 81:30]

As the episode nears its end, the hosts recap Ella’s dream meal:

• Starter: Soup dumplings from Joe Shanghai, New York.
• Main Course: Spy Kids memory burger.
• Side Dish: Conceptual salad and supermarket prawn crackers.
• Drink: Diet Coke.
• Dessert: Donuts from Adventure Island, Southend on Sea.

Ella expresses satisfaction with her selections despite the humorous setbacks during their conversation. The hosts encourage listeners to watch Ella's upcoming show "Sweet Pea" on Sky, tying back to the promotional aspects of the podcast.

Notable Quote:

• Ella Purnell: "That sounds like a lovely menu."

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Closing Remarks

Timestamp: [81:30 – End]

The episode concludes with the hosts promoting their upcoming tours and shows, inviting listeners to join their performances across various locations. Ella bids farewell, having enjoyed the engaging and humorous interaction, leaving listeners entertained and intrigued by her candid storytelling.

Notable Quote:

• Ella Purnell: "This has been really fun."

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Key Takeaways:

• Interactive Dining Experience: The podcast uniquely blends culinary fantasies with personal storytelling, offering listeners a blend of humor and relatability.
• Ella Purnell’s Charisma: Ella’s candidness and ability to weave humorous anecdotes make her a delightful guest, enhancing the podcast’s engaging atmosphere.
• Humorous Brand Integrations: Seamlessly integrating humorous ads and promotions maintains the podcast’s entertaining flow without disrupting the listener's experience.

Final Thought: Episode 266 of "Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster" presents a perfect blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and interactive fun, making it a must-listen for fans of the hosts and Ella Purnell alike.

Transcript

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[Ella Purnell]

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[Unknown]

Welcome to the Off Menu podcast. Taking the Mars ice cream of conversation and eating that. Oh, I love one of them. And then having another one of humor. Because I can only have. I can't have one in a row, James. I need two in a row.

[Ed Gamble]

That's a gamble.

[Unknown]

You must like a Mars ice cream.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, it's just, you know, I think everyone always. It's always a bit disappointing when you just choose something that's just one thing and you eat it.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

For the beginning, you know, I mean, it's good that you added another Mars ice cream, I guess, but. But, you know, I thought you're gonna.

[Unknown]

Say it's disappointing when you want a Mars ice cream and all they have in the shop is a Snickers ice cream, which is still nice, but it's not as good as a Mars ice cream. The nuts get in the way of the caramel. And I like nuts of humor.

[Ed Gamble]

That's it. Gamble. My name is James Acaster. Together we own a dream restaurant. Every single week, we invite in a guest and ask for their favorite. Ever start a baker's dessert side dish and drink. Not in that order. And this week, our guest is Ella Purnell.

[Unknown]

Ella Purnell is a wonderful actor, James. She's in Fallout, which is one of my favorite TV shows of the last year. I'd say it's absolutely incredible. She's in Yellow Jackets, which I also love. And she's in a brand new show called Sweet Pea.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, it's out tomorrow, as of when this is coming out.

[Unknown]

Yeah, it's out on October 10th.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Unknown]

So it will be out probably, if you're listening to this on the day that it comes out, it's out tomorrow. But most of you will probably hear this after. So it is out now.

[Ed Gamble]

It's out now on Sky. And now Ella plays a serial killer.

[Unknown]

So, yes, it looks really cool. I'm very excited to see Sweet Pea.

[Ed Gamble]

We'll have a little chat about that. And look, you know, here's the crazy thing. Yellow jackets. I thought Ella was American.

[Unknown]

Yeah. This always blows your mind, doesn't it? Acting.

[Ed Gamble]

It's amazing, the accent she does in that proper. Just thought that's an American person.

[Unknown]

Could you not ask her about doing accents? Because I feel like you ask every actor who does accents about accents, and then what they do is they say, can you do accents? And then you go, no, and you get really shy. And then I have to say, yes, you can do Shrek. And then you have to do Shrek.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay. Well, I won't ask about accents because I don't want to do Shrek.

[Unknown]

Will you do Shrek Quickly now.

[Ed Gamble]

Don't care. I will never do Shrek for you.

[Unknown]

Good. That's out the way. But if Ella says a secret ingredient on which we have pre agreed, she will be kicked out of the Dream Restaurant. And the secret ingredient this week is Nuka Cola. Nuka Cola. That's from Fallout.

[Ed Gamble]

Utter fallout brand of cigarettes.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You would drink Nuka Cola, wouldn't you?

[Unknown]

I'd drink Nuka Cola in a heartbeat.

[Ed Gamble]

What do you think it tastes like?

[Unknown]

Like cola. Just normal cola, really. Yeah. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I think it's got some spicy, like, radiation in it.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

I don't think they'd want the spicy radiation, though, because they all live in underground communities to keep away from the radiation.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, but then you want a little bit of it just to keep life exciting in your cola.

[Unknown]

Yeah, Drinking my cola, wearing my Pip boy.

[Ed Gamble]

So, yeah, we will kick Ella out.

[Unknown]

No.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. But, well, the listener can't see, but Ed's just like myself. Got the dopest smile on his face. He's really smiling. Eyes half open, just looking around.

[Unknown]

Oh, I'm sleepy as well. It's really early in the morning. Yeah, quite sleepy.

[Ed Gamble]

But, yes, if Ella says Nuka Cola, we'll have to kick her out the Dream Restaurant. Hopefully she won't and we'll get to hear a full menu.

[Unknown]

Yes. This is the off menu menu of Ella Pennel. Welcome, Ella, to the Dream Restaurant.

[Ed Gamble]

Welcome, Ella Ponel to the Dream Restaurant. It's been here for some time.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm so excited to be here.

[Unknown]

Surprised?

[Ed Gamble]

Do you feel surprised?

[Ella Purnell]

I feel surprised. Thank you so much.

[Unknown]

For the listener. Ella said that she'd not heard the podcast before because you wanted to be surprised.

[Ella Purnell]

I wanted to be surprised. I want to be surprised.

[Unknown]

And are you surprised right up top by that huge introduction?

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, I'm shocked. I'm appalled, actually.

[Ed Gamble]

Appalled. There's a fine line between surprised and appalled. And I've crossed over already.

[Ella Purnell]

Seconds in.

[Ed Gamble]

I do that for everyone. Just so you know, it wasn't just because you said, I want to be surprised. I'm like, I'll give you surprise. And then I did that stupid thing.

[Ella Purnell]

Why'd you tell me that? Now I don't feel special.

[Ed Gamble]

Sorry, mate.

[Ella Purnell]

Anymore.

[Unknown]

It was louder than normal.

[Ed Gamble]

It was louder than normal.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Because I was trying to surprise you because I knew that's what you wanted. Yeah. Yeah. So I really bought it because I'm a genie. Yeah.

[Unknown]

He's a genie. He's a genie in this.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm a genie in this.

[Ella Purnell]

In this. You're a genie in this?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I'm a genie in this.

[Ella Purnell]

Okay.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah. Because I can get you food from anywhere for your dream meal.

[Ella Purnell]

Right.

[Ed Gamble]

Cause, you know, otherwise the whole podcast would fall apart.

[Ella Purnell]

Right, of course. That makes sense.

[Unknown]

So is that a surprise that he's a genie in this?

[Ella Purnell]

Well, I saw the lamp when I walked in here, so I assumed there'd be some sort of genie involved in the menu.

[Unknown]

And I'm just realizing now, the lamp does ruin the surprise bonito. So we shouldn't really have the lamp in here.

[Ed Gamble]

How am I meant to rub it.

[Ella Purnell]

Unless I rub the magic lamp three times? Come on, guys. Yeah, come on. These are basic genie rules.

[Ed Gamble]

But we never actually have anyone rub the lamp. So for some reason, I'm just always just whenever I like, just popping out the lamp.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, okay.

[Ed Gamble]

So we've kind of changed. But then when we did the live shows, we had a giant lamp on stage, and those guests did have to rub the lamp before.

[Ella Purnell]

Right.

[Ed Gamble]

But that's because everyone could see us. Right.

[Ella Purnell]

It kind of does ruin that. Yeah. You should have one of those floors. You pop out the floor.

[Unknown]

Yeah, we should do that.

[Ella Purnell]

There's probably a technical name for those.

[Unknown]

No, I think it's called the floors where you pop out the floor.

[Ella Purnell]

I think so.

[Ed Gamble]

Would you. If someone offered you a play and was like, ella, we need you in this play, but you got to pop out the floor, would you do it? But how many times would they have to say, you're going to pop out the floor during the play for you to say no?

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, that's a really good question. Also very oddly specific and Whitney phrase. I don't know. I've never done it, so I don't know how much I'd like it. I think I'd quite like to. It's like, I love rollercoasters. I'm thinking of it like a rollercoaster. It's kind of like the opposite of the drop. It's the lift.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Well, I guess you do have to go up to come down, don't you? Well, that's very deep.

[Unknown]

So deep.

[Ed Gamble]

What the hell? Wow. It's 10 past 9 in the morning, guys.

[Ella Purnell]

So profound.

[Ed Gamble]

People listening to this won't know ten past nine, and they just drop that on.

[Ella Purnell]

Gosh, I surprised myself with that. So I'd like to do it quite a few times. I'd actually say I won't do the play. Unless I can do it at least 10 times.

[Unknown]

Well, every entrance of your character needs to be from the floor.

[Ella Purnell]

Yes, please. That would be kind of amazing.

[Ed Gamble]

Which wouldn't spread out, though, because what if they were like.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, yeah, definitely spread out.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Not 10 in 10 minutes.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, God, no, no, because I just.

[Ed Gamble]

Got you popping out the floor rough.

[Unknown]

How would you feel about dropping through the floor, though?

[Ella Purnell]

Another good question. Is that safe?

[Unknown]

Yeah, it'll be safe.

[Ed Gamble]

They did it just.

[Ella Purnell]

The floor just disappears and I just fall through it.

[Unknown]

Yeah, like it's a trap door. You just go, oh, okay.

[Ella Purnell]

No, I think I'd like that less because I'm quite accident prone. So, like, one, the odds of me hurting myself if I'm doing it 10 times, quite. I'd say like 50%. I'd say quite high. If I'm doing it two times, it's still 50%, but it's like less injuries.

[Unknown]

You know, and it's every night it's a play, so it's gonna be a.

[Ella Purnell]

Lot of injuries in a run. How long's the run, you know?

[Unknown]

Oh, months, I think.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, it's really successful.

[Unknown]

Months.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Months long. Yeah, yeah, people love it.

[Unknown]

It does really well.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm out. You've lost me.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that bit prestige where he removes because he drops through the floor as part of his act. One of the magicians does.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, that's right.

[Ed Gamble]

The other magician sabotages him by removing the crash.

[Unknown]

Oh, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

So he goes. I would just think that every night I go, what if another magician is sabotaging me? Do you know what I mean?

[Ella Purnell]

Like, but you're. But you bet. You're a genie.

[Ed Gamble]

You can kind of genius and magicians, that's rough. Rivalry. That's worse.

[Ella Purnell]

It was a rivalry. Genie.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Surely genies win every time.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Genie Trump's magician.

[Unknown]

Genie Trump's magic.

[Ed Gamble]

You think so? Right?

[Ella Purnell]

That makes sense. That feels right.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. But then magicians, like, we're their biggest threat because, like, we can take all their business because, yeah, we can do any magic trick.

[Ella Purnell]

I mean, they're kind of. They're kind of imposters, actually, in your industry.

[Unknown]

They're fake genies.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, they are fake genies, and that's what we call them. And I thank both of you for recognizing that. We're talking about you acting in plays. But come on, Sweet pea's coming out tomorrow.

[Ella Purnell]

Tomorrow.

[Ed Gamble]

Just looking at Benito there because he. He was very confusing, wasn't he, Before. Before we started recording.

[Ella Purnell]

I think you're doing great, Benito.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, but he was confusing before we started recording a wee bit.

[Ella Purnell]

But as we know, today is the 9th of October, and tomorrow the show.

[Unknown]

The show comes out. Sweet Pete, the show.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

It's always the quiet ones.

[Ella Purnell]

It is.

[Ed Gamble]

That's the tagline. What can you tell people about Sweet Pete?

[Ella Purnell]

What can I tell people? Well, okay, so Sweet Pete is. It's a show about a quiet young woman. Well, she's got a lot to say. It's just no one's listening.

[Ed Gamble]

Played by anyone we know.

[Ella Purnell]

You may have heard of her. Her name's Ella. She's great. Fantastic.

[Unknown]

She comes up through the floor.

[Ella Purnell]

Quite clumsy about accident. Pro. It's funny because every time she just appears in the scene, we don't know where she comes. She just pops up through the floor. No, Rhiannon is very quiet. She's sort of overlooked, very invisible. And then she discovers this intoxicatingly addictive taste for murder. Can you tell? I've been doing loads of press and this is my, like, stock, kind of corporate.

[Ed Gamble]

Make her feel special. I'm sorry, I don't know what high praise is that. Remember how much I let you down when I told you I do the genie thing every time?

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, sorry, sorry. She kills people and she likes it. Oh, that sounded not great.

[Unknown]

Well, let me go without selling the show to me.

[Ella Purnell]

She killed people.

[Unknown]

She kills people and she likes.

[Ella Purnell]

She kills people.

[Ed Gamble]

To be honest, that's a good tagline as well. It's always the quiet ones. But it could have just been. She kills people and she likes it. And I would watch that.

[Ella Purnell]

You know, we were going between the two and it was a toss up. It's very close.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

We ended up with. It's always the cry. It rolls off a tongue quicker, I think. Easier.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Also, how do you play someone who just. Cause like, in some things, like at the start, someone already is a serial killer. But how do you play someone who discovers they like it and make that believable?

[Ella Purnell]

It's actually a good question. Cause I found that quite difficult. But it ended up being really necessary, I think, because we're trying to do female Dexter, right. We're trying to get the audience to feel conflicted. You know, the whole first episode is about you relating to this character. People don't see her. She has to kind of smile through all of these, like, really shitty things that happen to her. And it's relatable, I hope. And people should be able to relate to her emotions, but not necessarily her actions. Don't kill people. That's the message. I Would like to spread. It's sort of. I have to. It's a disclaimer. I've got to get it in every interview. Don't kill people. So it's kind of necessary, I think, for you to see follow her journey. And in the end, you kind of slightly rooting for her. You want her to stand up for herself. Maybe not that way. Maybe other ways.

[Ed Gamble]

It's fun, isn't it? Because, like, you know, with stuff like that, with Dexter, you know, you're like, well, obviously I don't think he should be murdering people.

[Ella Purnell]

Obviously.

[Ed Gamble]

But a lot of, you know, it's a TV show, it represents.

[Unknown]

And he's murdering bad guys.

[Ella Purnell]

Exactly, exactly. Well, that is interesting you said that. Because she kind of comes up with this moral code throughout the show where she's like, right, I've now I've killed someone. I need to kind of justify this. So she decides, well, okay, good people deserve to live and bad people deserve to die. She's kind of playing God in this, in this way. And then that's the progression of the series is that moral code sort of blows up in her face.

[Unknown]

I tell you. Mace, with Dexter, briefly, while we're on it.

[Ed Gamble]

What?

[Unknown]

I never liked that guy.

[Ella Purnell]

Interesting, right? I think you're really in the minority there.

[Unknown]

I don't like him.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't like him.

[Unknown]

And not just because of the murders. Before the show even starts, the opening credits, he eats his breakfast really weirdly.

[Ed Gamble]

He flosses. Weird.

[Unknown]

Do you remember the opening credits?

[Ella Purnell]

I do, I do.

[Unknown]

Okay, well, how's about this for the opening credits? He cooks some bacon, eats it, then cooks an egg and eats it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

He doesn't have them together.

[Ed Gamble]

Who the.

[Ella Purnell]

I just put that down to like fancy editing.

[Unknown]

No, but they're shame.

[Ella Purnell]

That's right.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

He literally order that. He doesn't. Yeah, but what if he thought, oh, I'll have a light breakfast, and then he realizes I'm still hungry? Well, yeah, and he gets up and cooks the rest of it.

[Unknown]

He does it with juice as well, though. He doesn't eat it all on the same plate at the same time. He makes the juice, makes the coffee. So that immediately I'm going, there's something up with this guy.

[Ed Gamble]

And they chose that as the opening credits. It's not just. They're choosing that to show who this guy is.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

It's not just a one off. He thought, oh, actually I want more than that.

[Ella Purnell]

What does that say about someone?

[Ed Gamble]

It says. It says that jot, he's a psychopath.

[Ella Purnell]

This guy probably kills people.

[Ed Gamble]

He probably kills people.

[Ella Purnell]

To be fair, if I was hanging out with someone and they sat down, ate their bacon, got back up, cooked an egg, sat down, I'd be like, this person kills people.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

I've got to go home.

[Ed Gamble]

Something's going on here.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Are you much of a foodie?

[Ella Purnell]

Do you kill people?

[Ed Gamble]

Imagine if this was just a sting for the FBI.

[Ella Purnell]

Sorry, I've now actually forgotten your original question, because I was thinking so much about what you did to me.

[Unknown]

Killing people.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Yeah. Do you like food like Dexter likes food?

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, but I do cook it, mostly all in one go. I do love food. I'm a big foodie.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Ella Purnell]

I love food. That's why I'm so excited about this podcast. But I thought I'd actually get food.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, no. Why?

[Unknown]

Which I. Oh, no. A lot of people make your dream, right? No, no, no. We don't give anyone food. What we do is we make people talk about food until they're really, really hungry. So you'd be, like, shaking by the end.

[Ella Purnell]

And you always do it, like, first thing in the morning before anyone's had any breakfast as well.

[Ed Gamble]

Perfect. Yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

So you are. We're all psyched about it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. But you. You'll. You'll enjoy the meal that you have after this way more than you would have if you were eating on a podcast. So we have.

[Ella Purnell]

True.

[Ed Gamble]

We have made your meal for the day better by talking about food first. And then you go and do that.

[Ella Purnell]

Glass half full kind of guy. I see what you look.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, I'm getting paid.

[Unknown]

The rest of the time. God, no. You couldn't be more wrong.

[Ed Gamble]

You don't want to talk to me outside of this. I'll try and put a positive spin on it.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, I appreciate that.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Without lights red, I'm a very upbeat gu.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

First of all, we always start with still or sparkling water.

[Ella Purnell]

Still. I have a theory. So sparkling water. We need to call it something else. Cause it doesn't taste anything like water. Sparkling water should taste like. It should taste neutral. Just fizzy. And sparkling water doesn't taste neutral. It tastes bitter and sour and like something else. Like, it's like a unflavored soda. I know. I've just described sparkling water. Okay, hang on. Let me start again. It's sour. I hate it. I really don't like it. And it really bothers me that it's called sparkling water. It should be called something else. It should have its own name.

[Ed Gamble]

We should.

[Unknown]

We should Come up with a name now then.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So for the listener, it's now 9:19.

[Unknown]

Why are you doing time checks like we're on live radio?

[Ed Gamble]

We got come up with a name for sparkling water. I want people to know what pressure we're under. Ella was like spouting philosophy earlier.

[Unknown]

Was.

[Ella Purnell]

I came in so hard.

[Ed Gamble]

I think you're going to be okay. But Ed and I aren't fine on all cylinders. We got to come up with a new name for sparkling water. At 9:19 in the morning.

[Ella Purnell]

It should sound how it feels.

[Unknown]

So sat. Sour is a word you've used a few times.

[Ella Purnell]

Yes. It's bitter.

[Unknown]

Yeah. Bitter, sour bubbles.

[Ella Purnell]

People can't see me, but I just made it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah. I mean that'd be. I don't know if I could pronounce that.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, I spelled that.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[Unknown]

Every time. Do you want still?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Less people would be asking for that. Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

It's also slightly off putting. If the waiter offered me that, I'd. I'd look at him and say, no, thank you.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. It would remind you of like, oh, that's how it's going to feel actually. So I'd rather just have the still water.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And still or tap. Like if you go into places. Are you a tap person?

[Ella Purnell]

I don't really care about the difference.

[Unknown]

It feels like they're trying to rip you off as well.

[Ella Purnell]

It does.

[Unknown]

They are still or sparkling water. You know, there's a third option, you know, but no one's saying why.

[Ella Purnell]

Don't they ever tell you?

[Unknown]

Yeah, they should say still sparkling water.

[Ella Purnell]

They shouldn't assume that you know that they have a tap. They may not have a tap.

[Ed Gamble]

That's true.

[Unknown]

I wouldn't go to a restaurant that didn't have a tap. That would be a real suspicion.

[Ella Purnell]

But you wouldn't know. You wouldn't know.

[Ed Gamble]

How would you know?

[Unknown]

Yeah, okay, well, I'd go in and go, first of all, do you have a tap? And then I'll eat your food if you got a tap.

[Ella Purnell]

Hi, can I see a menu? And also, do you have a tap?

[Unknown]

Can I see a menu and your tap? Take me back there and show me you got a tap. Otherwise it's weird.

[Ed Gamble]

I would like to see the tap. I think if you are. If you are ordering tap water, it would be good to see the tap.

[Ella Purnell]

For you to judge the restaurant on the cleanliness of their tap.

[Ed Gamble]

What if the taps rank?

[Ella Purnell]

No, you're right. There's a massive lime scale builder up on that tap. Oh, God. I wouldn't want to eat there. I wouldn't want the tap water, that's for sure. No, then I'd get still. Yeah. Maybe that's the standard we need to be setting.

[Ed Gamble]

You can see what this tap is.

[Ella Purnell]

Take me back there.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Can you think of like. So if you are having tap water and this is your dream meal, is there a tap that you've seen in your life that you like? That's the tap I would like it to come from.

[Unknown]

It's honestly the first time we've ever asked. This is it.

[Ed Gamble]

I was going to say we've done over 200 of these.

[Ella Purnell]

What? Whoa. That's a great question. I haven't seen that many cool taps in my life, to be honest.

[Ed Gamble]

Come on, Come off of it.

[Ella Purnell]

What have you seen? A lot.

[Ed Gamble]

You're a big star.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, I am a big star.

[Ed Gamble]

Are you telling me. Are you telling me they don't have good taps?

[Ella Purnell]

Guys, all taps kind of look the same.

[Ed Gamble]

Are you joking? Come on.

[Unknown]

A separate. Separate hot and cold tap or a mixer tap?

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, no. I hate when they do it separately.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Because then when I'm trying to wash my face in warm water, it's hot, cold, hot, cold, hot, cold.

[Ed Gamble]

I can't.

[Ella Purnell]

It's too stressful. And then a Burma fit and then it's too cold and then you end up just doing cold and then you're cold and it's. It's a very stressful experience. I don't want to have to hold my hand separately and then mix them together. Trying to mix hot and cold water in a bowl hand is really uncomfortable. See, I clearly have a lot of. I didn't realize I had so strong feelings about taps.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I see.

[Ella Purnell]

But no, that really does bother me, actually.

[Ed Gamble]

You are being surprised on this podcast, but by your own opinion.

[Ella Purnell]

I didn't know I had too many.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Wow. Thank you so much.

[Ed Gamble]

Do you like a mixer tap?

[Unknown]

I like a mixer, but for a drink. Surely you don't want a mixer tap.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, no.

[Ed Gamble]

Right, Joe. No, but I wouldn't say that's unfair of you because you led Ella down this path of choosing the mixer tap and now you've gone. Fucking got treated.

[Ella Purnell]

Tricked me.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah. It's a gotcha interview.

[Ed Gamble]

Sorry. Yeah, like you've been gotchaed, but when.

[Ella Purnell]

It'S one tap, you just turn the cold bit on. I wouldn't turn the hot and the cold if I was drinking water.

[Unknown]

No, I want drink warm water.

[Ella Purnell]

Does anybody want to drink warm water?

[Unknown]

To be honest, I bet there are people. Some people will have a mug of warm water in the morning with, like a slice of lemon in it.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Ed Gamble]

Pop it, absorb bread. Pop and absorb bread. Ella pod. Pop it, absorb bread.

[Ella Purnell]

Bread, please. Yeah, Bread, please. Can I get specific? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. With butter. Am I allowed butter?

[Ed Gamble]

Of course.

[Ella Purnell]

Okay. Marmite butter.

[Unknown]

Oh, yeah, yeah, you are.

[Ed Gamble]

Where have you had it?

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, fantastic. I love this restaurant. Yeah, it's great. Yeah. I love Marmite and I love butter and I like them together. Mix them together.

[Ed Gamble]

Have you had Marmite butter anywhere before?

[Ella Purnell]

It's a place in Wales called. I'm going to say he needs. Or Heelys Heaneys. Definitely an en Heaneys. And they do Marmite butter with sourdough and it's unbelievable.

[Ed Gamble]

Great.

[Ella Purnell]

I actually once asked them for three extra bits of Marmite butter and I put them in a to go box and they. I don't know why they looked at me like that was unusual, because I feel like a lot of people must do that. They're known for their Marmite butter.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

And he looked at me like I offended his ancestors, like I'd done something deeply, deeply wrong.

[Unknown]

Maybe they're used to people enjoying the Marmite butter, but they're not used to people being like, package them up like they were doing shopping.

[Ella Purnell]

But I feel like, yeah, fair, but also fair. But also not fair because.

[Ed Gamble]

Right.

[Ella Purnell]

They should be complimentary for it. You should really be known for it.

[Ed Gamble]

It's not like you can get it anywhere else. It's not like you're like, oh, that was great. I'll get some Marmite butter on the way.

[Ella Purnell]

If I could just go home and make it myself and mix a bit of Marmite and butter together, it'd be ridiculous.

[Ed Gamble]

You can't do that.

[Ella Purnell]

I could never do that.

[Ed Gamble]

You wouldn't get the ratios right.

[Ella Purnell]

It wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be right.

[Ed Gamble]

And is it sourdough you're having?

[Unknown]

I think you could do that.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, I think so.

[Unknown]

I think you could give that a go.

[Ed Gamble]

No, you couldn't. No.

[Unknown]

You talked about.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm sensing some tension here, guys. Are we all right?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, I've had enough of it.

[Ella Purnell]

Should we take a quick bite?

[Ed Gamble]

I've had enough of them. It's been so many episodes of this.

[Ella Purnell]

How many episodes have you done?

[Unknown]

How many, Benito?

[Ella Purnell]

Too many. He doesn't know.

[Unknown]

James doesn't know. He's got no idea.

[Ed Gamble]

Over 200.

[Unknown]

Over 200?

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Over 200. This contrarian bastard.

[Unknown]

I'm just saying I think you could mix Marmite and butter together and.

[Ed Gamble]

What?

[Ella Purnell]

I think you could.

[Ed Gamble]

I think you could.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

It wouldn't be the same experience. Sure. But maybe they put something extra in there.

[Ella Purnell]

What if it is? Yeah, what if it is?

[Unknown]

That's the end of their business, I guess.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, sorry, Heaney. I really do like them. I'm so, so sorry. Well, dragged them through the mud.

[Ed Gamble]

Shouldn't have looked at you like that. What? They get warm sourdough.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

With the Marmite butter from Heaney's.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah. And then you just. You don't spread it with a knife. You just. You take the bread and you use the bread as an edible spoon and you just dip it. And also, you get in there fast before anyone else can have any. I've got three younger brothers, so I learned to eat very quickly and a lot. So it's embarrassing when I go out for dinner with people because they don't get to eat because I've eaten it all for them.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Because you're just always aware that someone else could have it first.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, I've got elbows up.

[Unknown]

Yeah, elbows up.

[Ella Purnell]

Elbows up, ready to throw hands.

[Unknown]

It's like your brothers are there all the time.

[Ella Purnell]

They are there all the time. All the time.

[Unknown]

It's really hard, people having dinner with you going, ella, there's three boys standing behind you.

[Ed Gamble]

For the listener. There are three boys.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

In the studio now. It's nine, 26 twice. And Ella's got three boys standing behind her. Your dream starter.

[Ella Purnell]

My dream starter. I'm gonna go for soup dumplings because I love them, but specifically from a place in New York called Joe Shanghai. And there's a very specific way. You have to eat them as instructed by me, and I get to watch you eat them. We're eating together. I'm not eating alone. It's just part of the soup dumpling experience is the eating of the soup dumplings.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Yes, I would say. I would say that goes for all food.

[Ella Purnell]

Actually. Be accurate. Yeah.

[Unknown]

Sorry.

[Ella Purnell]

No, now. Now who's being.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, now I'm aware.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Now who's self aware? Look at us all just slowly achieving enlightenment. Look at that.

[Ed Gamble]

What an attitude.

[Ella Purnell]

Gorgeous.

[Unknown]

Sorry.

[Ella Purnell]

No, don't be sorry. Yeah, yeah, you're right.

[Unknown]

It's a true part of the experience of the food is eating the food.

[Ella Purnell]

Yes, I suppose so.

[Ed Gamble]

And that just fucking destroy it.

[Ella Purnell]

No, but specifically with this. It's an interactive experience.

[Unknown]

Yes, I do know what you mean. I was being facetious.

[Ella Purnell]

I know. I do agree with you, I have a lot. I care a lot about mouthfeel of a food. It can't be too squishy or too crunchy. It has to be the perfect mouthfeel. But this is not so much about. I'd actually say the mouthfeel of a soup dumpling is quite bad. But the experience of watching someone eat it and the sound effects, it's just very good. It's all very good.

[Unknown]

Take us through the technique. How do you want people to taste it?

[Ella Purnell]

You have to bite the tip off and then drink the soup out the dumpling, out the spoon.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, did not expect this.

[Ella Purnell]

And then. Yeah. No, no. This isn't dumplings in soup. This is soup and dumplings.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, I know it's soup and dumplings, but I thought so here's me with a soup dumpling.

[Ella Purnell]

Right?

[Ed Gamble]

Just pop it in. No, pop it in hole.

[Ella Purnell]

Wrong.

[Ed Gamble]

Let it pop. Let. Let the soup flow over my tongue.

[Unknown]

Burn your mouth.

[Ed Gamble]

Huh?

[Unknown]

Burn your mouth.

[Ed Gamble]

No, no, no.

[Ella Purnell]

That's the thing. You burn your mouth. You don't have feeling in your mouth then?

[Ed Gamble]

Huh?

[Ella Purnell]

You have feelings.

[Unknown]

It's not the first time he's been accused of this. You don't have a feeling in your mouth.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah. Every time. Here's my girlfriend, she says that to me. You have no feeling in your mouth. Get out of my sight. I have feeling in my mouth. Although once. And then I went for a meal and everything was like Szechuan pepper stuff. So it numbed up your tongue. And then we had soup dumplings.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And it goes over the tongue, so I didn't. I guess on that occasion I didn't have to open your mouth, but it was pretty great.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm gonna try that. That's really inspired me.

[Unknown]

I do completely agree with you. That's how I ate soup dumplings.

[Ella Purnell]

Yes.

[Unknown]

Bite a little bit off so there's a hole so some steam can come out so it cools down. And then you drink some of the soup.

[Ella Purnell]

Correct.

[Unknown]

You get a taste of the soup and then the dumpling.

[Ella Purnell]

Correct.

[Unknown]

It's like a two course meal.

[Ella Purnell]

Do you bite the top or the side?

[Unknown]

I think I bite the top.

[Ella Purnell]

Right.

[Unknown]

Because I don't want it spilling out the side.

[Ella Purnell]

The nipple.

[Unknown]

Yeah, the nipple.

[Ella Purnell]

The nipple.

[Unknown]

I bite the nipple. But if you put it on the.

[Ed Gamble]

9:30 in the morning, you put it on the spoon.

[Ella Purnell]

Yes.

[Unknown]

And then bite the nipple.

[Ella Purnell]

And then you bite the nipple.

[Unknown]

And then you bite the nipple on the dumpling. And then you drink the soup and then you eat the.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

I mean, it's good, I guess, if we're extending the analogy. No. Okay.

[Ella Purnell]

No, but no, we found the line.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Yeah, we found it. I checked with James and.

[Ed Gamble]

No.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Made eye contact with me. That was enough. I don't like that.

[Ella Purnell]

Do you have an HR department?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. And he does not listen.

[Ella Purnell]

You seem busy.

[Ed Gamble]

He didn't give a. Yeah, he didn't care. We would go and slack each other off to him. He just. He just ignores us both.

[Ella Purnell]

Therapist as well, then? Therapist, hr, but bad at all of it. Busy.

[Ed Gamble]

Aren't we the worst in the biz? I can't imagine what you're talking about. This soup dumpling. I can't imagine how you're making it work because to me it's so. It's so wobbly, Right. That you couldn't tip it and have a drink out of it because it would just all splat all over your mouth.

[Ella Purnell]

And that's part of the experience, right, is that if you bite the nipple and not the side.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Chances are you, you're going to spill it because you've got to tip your head back so far.

[Unknown]

So you're biting the side. You're biting the side.

[Ella Purnell]

Well, it depends. It depends on how it's made because I had one quite recently by recent name, in yesterday. No, no. What day is it? Two days ago. And I bit the top and it was too much. What is it? Dough?

[Unknown]

Bread?

[Ella Purnell]

What is it made of?

[Unknown]

Yeah, I forgot how to speak.

[Ella Purnell]

I said, what is it made of? It's like I've never spoken English before. What is made of?

[Unknown]

What is dumpling?

[Ella Purnell]

What is dumpling?

[Unknown]

Yeah, I know. Because that's where they pinch at the top when they make it. So there's a bit more dough. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

So it depends on the dumpling, but if you do that and you tilt it back, it does spill down you. And that's the soup dumpling experience.

[Unknown]

But if it's on the spoon, you're catching some of the soup in the spoon anyway, aren't you?

[Ella Purnell]

So it's depends how big the spoon is.

[Unknown]

Yeah. And how big the dumpling is.

[Ella Purnell]

And how big the dumpling is.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah. Have you seen the ones that are massive, that come with a straw stuck in them? What?

[Ella Purnell]

What?

[Unknown]

I don't know where they do them, but I've seen them. It's a bit Instagrammy, but they do like huge ones. Stick a straw in it and then you drink the soup out with the straw.

[Ella Purnell]

You've just. That's a game changer.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Unknown]

Is it?

[Ella Purnell]

My mind is blown.

[Ed Gamble]

I think that's disgusting. I don't think that tastes as nice as these little ones. No. Because then you're basically just having a bowl of soup, and then at the end you get, like, a bunch of pasta or whatever.

[Ella Purnell]

Pasta on its own.

[Ed Gamble]

I do see kind of what you mean, actually. But it's not actually eating a soup dumpling, is it? It's like, well, what's the dumpling?

[Unknown]

It's dumpling.

[Ed Gamble]

As I said bread earlier. You left that alone.

[Ella Purnell]

No. I see. So. And then we're back to the Dexter thing, because with the regular soup dumpling experience, you're doing soup, dumpling, soup, dumpling, soup, dumpling, soup. With this one, it's soup, soup, soup, soup, soup, soup, soup. Big dumpling.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

And it's. It's not quite the same, but, I mean, how big is the dumpling? It's quite like.

[Unknown]

Yeah, like big.

[Ella Purnell]

Right. It's like when you see the, like, clam chowder in a bread bowl, you know, it's like that. It's not for me.

[Unknown]

Because then with the clam chowder, you're just left with so much bread afterwards.

[Ella Purnell]

Wet bread?

[Unknown]

Yeah, Wet bread, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

No one wants that.

[Ella Purnell]

No. I like my bread dry with Marmite butter. Buttery. Yeah. The counter's wet. Or is that oily?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that's not wet.

[Ella Purnell]

Glad we cleared that one up.

[Ed Gamble]

What kind of soup is in the soup dumpling?

[Ella Purnell]

Chicken. Pork. I don't eat fish, so I never really go for, like, the shrimpy prawny ones. Not for me.

[Unknown]

Yeah, Normally pork, right?

[Ella Purnell]

Pork.

[Unknown]

Pork, yeah. Like pork broth.

[Ella Purnell]

Pork, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Pork broth. Soup dumplings is what you would like.

[Ella Purnell]

Soup dumplings.

[Ed Gamble]

And you would like to watch us eat them as well?

[Ella Purnell]

Mostly, yeah. It is part of these. I don't eat them on my own very often. I really just like introducing people to the experience. It's really fun. I love a game. I love an interactive food experience. I love watching people spill on themselves. I think it's hilarious.

[Ed Gamble]

Interesting.

[Unknown]

Are you dipping the dumplings in anything? Like the vinegar soy mix with chili oil or whatever?

[Ella Purnell]

I won't really dip it, but I will, because, you know, when they get stuck together, the soup dumplings, and then they rip, and then the soup falls out, and then you've just got a dumpling. The soup part's gone, so I like to take the vinegar, smush it around, break the dumplings up and then so that it's all mixed up.

[Unknown]

But when you break the dumplings up, you're being very careful to not rip them. It's like surgery. You really just.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, it's like operations like that. Game.

[Unknown]

Yeah, it's another game.

[Ella Purnell]

I love a game.

[Unknown]

Didn't you love a game?

[Ella Purnell]

I do love a game.

[Unknown]

Famously.

[Ed Gamble]

Pardon me?

[Ella Purnell]

Famously. As of right now, I love a game.

[Unknown]

What's your favorite game?

[Ella Purnell]

Ooh, very good question. Very good. Top three. Twister. I really do love a game. Twister. Guess who. But you have to ask, like, character traits. You can't, you know, ask them what they look like. It's gotta be like, is your character having a brat summer? It's gotta be like that.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Number three. Ooh, that's a tough one. There's one called watch your mouth. And you put this bit of plastic in your mouth, and it holds your art like this. And then you have to say things. Sorry, I'm just realizing you can't see me. I am being perceived. Yeah, we can see you. I am indeed real and alive.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

And you have to say things to be able to guess what you're saying. Those are my top three.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm obviously those first two. Twister and guess who. They're classics. How did you discover. Watch your mouth.

[Ella Purnell]

People buy me games as gifts quite often.

[Ed Gamble]

I get twice. I know you love fight gifts.

[Ella Purnell]

Don't mean to brag. And I got given it, and then we played it after having a couple drinks. It was really good.

[Unknown]

Have you ever combined Watch your mouth with guess who? Or Twister Or Twister at the same time?

[Ella Purnell]

Wait, no. But that's kind.

[Unknown]

That's good, right?

[Ella Purnell]

How have I not thought of this? This is so smart. It could be really good with Twister. Right, because you're saying left hand on green, but you're actually saying. And you don't know. You don't know what they've said.

[Unknown]

So you've got to guess who's having a method.

[Ella Purnell]

Yes, exactly.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

No one ever wins on Guess who because it's too hard. But it's really funny. So again, it's about the experience, the.

[Ed Gamble]

Way that you play it.

[Ella Purnell]

No one ever wins when I play it. I never win is what I mean.

[Ed Gamble]

I like that. Okay, so we play a quick game of guess who now with just. I'm just thinking of one of these two, I feel. But you gotta play, like, your rules. You gotta ask me.

[Ella Purnell]

I really don't want to go on. I can't just go for it. Cause my question's always really mean. I just. I can't do that to Ben.

[Ed Gamble]

It's okay.

[Unknown]

So it's Ben. So we're going for Ben, are we?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, you can't just ask me, is it Ben or is it Ed?

[Unknown]

Hang on. Why can't you do that to Ben, but you don't mind doing it to me?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, you've already been.

[Unknown]

Is it because you can think of mean things for Ben but not for me? Or is it because you absolutely don't mind tearing me apart?

[Ella Purnell]

Can it be both? They're not. They don't seem mutually exclusive.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, they're not mutually exclusive.

[Ella Purnell]

Right.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. You've been sitting there being like, do you want to mix or tap? If you have that, you're a fucking idiot. So you deserve everything you get.

[Unknown]

Yeah, that's fair. Would you eat a soup dumpling with the watch your mouth thing in? How would you manage that?

[Ella Purnell]

How are you coming up with these? How are you doing it?

[Ed Gamble]

This is why I can't leave the podcast. He's the best in the biz.

[Ella Purnell]

Truly. You're blowing my mind. No, you could physically not. I think. I don't think you could swallow. Can you swallow with your mouth open? God, that was.

[Ed Gamble]

I think some people can. I saw it on Taskmaster.

[Unknown]

I just did it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Ella Purnell]

Is that what you were doing when you took your sip on your bonito?

[Ed Gamble]

Looks disgusted. I'm Taskmaster Benito. There was a task on Tetsui Burch's series because she's the one who can do it.

[Ella Purnell]

That's insane. You did it again.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I did it again.

[Unknown]

Yeah. I just wanted to check it wasn't.

[Ed Gamble]

Luck for the listener. Ed is sat on his chair drinking water like a swan.

[Ella Purnell]

He looks like a turtle. Yeah, like a turtle that can't get back in its shell. But he's really trying.

[Unknown]

Yeah, that's good. That's a good clue for me on Guess who. Who looks like a turtle trying to get back into his shell.

[Ella Purnell]

Back into a shell.

[Unknown]

Yes. It's Ed Gamble.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Ella Purnell]

Very good. Do you get that a lot?

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm so sorry.

[Unknown]

That's all right. That's a good vibe.

[Ed Gamble]

Just so you know, we're gonna carry on with the menu, but the game of Guess who is still open. I am thinking of one of these two.

[Unknown]

Okay.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm gonna think. I'm gonna.

[Ed Gamble]

And if at any point you want to ask me a question about it, you can dream. Main course, we've got the soup dumplings for the starter.

[Unknown]

Great start, by the way.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, thank you.

[Unknown]

Really.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Thank you. I really. I really appreciate that. Okay. I've got a good one. Have you ever seen Spike Kids?

[Unknown]

That's the first time anyone's got into.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, I've got a good one. Have you ever seen Spike? I haven't. I know, I know what film you're talking. I know Spike into the film.

[Unknown]

I really have seen Spy Kids, but I don't remember any of the food. Inspired.

[Ella Purnell]

Okay. There's not much actually, that's not true because apparently I found this out recently. The entire film, I think, is sponsored by McDonald's. Don't know how that happened.

[Ed Gamble]

Right, Great collab.

[Ella Purnell]

Anyway, there's a scene where they're at the safe house.

[Unknown]

How many times have you seen Spy Kids?

[Ed Gamble]

You're a big Spy Kids fan. So you and your three brothers watched it a lot growing up?

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, I watched it a lot on my own. I spent a lot of time alone as a child, as you can probably tell. And I watched a lot of Spy Kids. I really loved spies. I sort of have a very weird obsession with spies.

[Ed Gamble]

They're cool.

[Ella Purnell]

Spies are objectively cool.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

No one's like that. Spies a nerd. Because even being a nerd spy is still cool because you can't trust that.

[Unknown]

They'Re a nerd either. Because there's probably a spy thing.

[Ella Purnell]

Exactly, yeah. Anyway, I'm quite obsessed with like, you know, when you see, you know, it's like an older movie site when they do gadgets and they've got like, you know, phones or make believe, like things that they've just invented for the film. And they're always like really naff, but kind of amazing. You really want one. So they've got this sort of microwave, it's called a rehydrating machine. And one at the female spy. The female child spy, Carmen is her name. I've just remembered that. She pulls out a little packet. She's like, look, we're going to rehydrate this. Can you tell I'm an actress. That was incredible reaction.

[Ed Gamble]

You just got the part.

[Ella Purnell]

That's amazing. There's so much feeling when it's already a spike. She's like, look, we found this packet. We're going to rehydrate it. And she puts it in the microwave. No, sorry, rehydrating machine. And it's the most gorgeous looking burger you've ever seen in your life. It's like. It's like a burger on steroids. It's massive. First of all, it must be a fake burger. It must be made of marzipan or something. It can't be a Real burger. There's no way.

[Ed Gamble]

A marzipan burger.

[Ella Purnell]

It's gorgeous. I need to find a picture of this. It just looks incredible. And I'm not Bonito.

[Ed Gamble]

Google Spy Kids burger, please. Google.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, Spy Kids burger.

[Ed Gamble]

Rehydrating carbon.

[Ella Purnell]

Thank you. Rehydrating machine. Rehydrating.

[Ed Gamble]

And if you can't find an image of it, go on. Videos. Surely someone's clipped it up.

[Ella Purnell]

It just looks.

[Unknown]

Download Spy Kids.

[Ed Gamble]

Download Spy Kids.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm sure it tastes amazing. Yeah, I think about it a lot.

[Unknown]

It's that added technology element that's kind of cool as well. Because you're like imagine if that thing existed.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Then you could just have that bog.

[Ella Purnell]

No, I'm talking about. Don't you when they come out with like all these gadgets and they're just so silly and they would never work in real life. But you're like imagine if it did.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

So cool.

[Unknown]

I think in maybe in Red Dwarf there's a machine where they just put in whatever they want and it just. It makes it straight away. That's the dream.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah. In Spike Kids he's got a pair of glasses.

[Unknown]

Sorry to get you off Spy Kids.

[Ed Gamble]

Absolutely.

[Benito]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Spike is.

[Ella Purnell]

He's got a pair of glasses and it comes out with like all of these different lenses. It goes like. And it's like. He's got like 12 lenses that come out. There's one monocle.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

And on a nine year old boy. That's. It's hilarious and brilliant and I just.

[Unknown]

Think you want that as well.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah. I would like the glasses as well.

[Ed Gamble]

You want the monocle with the multiple lenses and you want the rehydrating burger much.

[Ella Purnell]

Just the rehydrating machine. I also think later in the film Bonito's found it.

[Ed Gamble]

Apparently.

[Ella Purnell]

Have you. Okay, there's a video.

[Ed Gamble]

Full disclosure. That looks like a normal burger.

[Ella Purnell]

No, no, no. Play the. Play the video.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm just gonna.

[Ella Purnell]

Ben, you're doing me dirty here. Come on, help me out.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, so we're watching the.

[Unknown]

Wait.

[Ella Purnell]

See that's the rehydrating thing.

[Ed Gamble]

She's putting the packet in.

[Ella Purnell]

Look at how cool this tech is.

[Ed Gamble]

The screen's gone over. That's pretty cool.

[Unknown]

It looks like a tumble dryer.

[Ed Gamble]

A little tumble dryer. That is a normal sized burger that's just come out. Yeah.

[Unknown]

But when you're a kid.

[Ed Gamble]

A very normal looking.

[Ella Purnell]

Wait, it does look so normal.

[Ed Gamble]

It looks like. That is.

[Unknown]

Ella. I'm going to say it. It's a Big Mac.

[Ed Gamble]

That's a Big Mac. I mean, you told us it was sponsored by McDonald's. That is just quite a nice looking Big Mac.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, guys, you are right.

[Unknown]

But what I'm going to say is disappointed.

[Ella Purnell]

It looked so much.

[Unknown]

But in your memory, it's amazing.

[Ella Purnell]

In my memory it was like I would like rewind it and rewind it and rewind and say, mum, please can I have a burger? Mum, please, please, please. And it's amazing. And now you've kind of ruined my choice.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, we didn't know that that was going to happen just then. We thought your description of it started.

[Ella Purnell]

I really thought you guys could be like, wow, the burger.

[Unknown]

But the concept of the machine is amazing.

[Ella Purnell]

I don't want a Big Mac for my.

[Unknown]

No, but you can have the burger from your memory.

[Ed Gamble]

From your memory, right?

[Ella Purnell]

Yes. Okay. Can I have the burger that only I can remember?

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Ella Purnell]

Just close your eyes and imagine you're like, do I trust you? And imagine the best burger you've.

[Unknown]

Yeah. I can imagine.

[Ella Purnell]

Possibly imagine. That's what it was on my head.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, going to the Red lion when I was a kid.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

In Wellum. You know that. Yeah. And having the burgers there. My memory of them is that they were as big as my head.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And they were amazing. And like everything was like. Like the cheese was really thick and I'd. The one that had a fried egg on it as well didn't eat it separately. Like Dexter had it on. On the burger and like I had to eat it with a knife and fork. Like a big pie. It was so big. I'm sure that if I went back in time and saw it, it would just be a normal bird.

[Ella Purnell]

Weren't you? So it probably smaller. You probably did need a knife and fork.

[Unknown]

Your head, your head's bigger now.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, my head's grown. But like I didn't want to say it. Thank you. Okay.

[Unknown]

It'd be scary if it.

[Ella Purnell]

If it would be really scary if.

[Ed Gamble]

I had this head as a kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would have been scary. But I didn't. Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Also I feel like food just never ended when you were a child. You know, when your mum's like, you've got to finish your plate. It's like it just. It just keeps going. It never ends.

[Unknown]

Never happened to me.

[Ed Gamble]

Really.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

I was a big fat kid.

[Ella Purnell]

Were you?

[Unknown]

I used to finish everything.

[Ella Purnell]

Okay.

[Unknown]

Seconds. Seconds, all the way.

[Ella Purnell]

Seconds.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Seconds, thirds, everything. No food you didn't like?

[Unknown]

No, not really. I tried to tell everyone I didn't like tomatoes once because I felt like I shouldn't like something. I felt weird that all my friends and all had things they hated, so I was like.

[Ella Purnell]

Were you, like, secretly eating them in your bedroom?

[Unknown]

Yeah, I love them. Absolutely love tomatoes. Huge bowls of tomatoes.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

But no, I love tomatoes. But I was like, I don't like tomatoes, guys. I'm cool too.

[Ella Purnell]

Right, right, right. No ketchup, though. That's tough.

[Unknown]

Tomatoes.

[Ella Purnell]

You've gone for one that's kind of like. I mean, no bolognese, no tomato.

[Unknown]

Raw tomatoes. I was saying that I didn't like.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, okay, fine, fine, fine. I did.

[Unknown]

I did like that.

[Ella Purnell]

You did like that. Yeah, you did like that. Oh, you've just been outed. You've outed yourself.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Oh, no, I'm out and about now.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, you're out and about.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Everyone that you went to school with doesn't know you were lying at the time. So if they listen to this together. I can't believe Gamble was lying about. Yeah, yeah, we all believe that he didn't like tomatoes before he was injured.

[Ella Purnell]

A lot of lives right now. This is a big moment.

[Unknown]

Huge. This is a podcast exclusive.

[Ed Gamble]

You. You would like the. The burger that. From your memory. From Spy Kids.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, I guess so I'm disappointed in my option now.

[Ed Gamble]

From your. What falsely remembered version of Spy Kids is the burger that you would like for your dream main course?

[Unknown]

Spy Kids memory Burger.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah. Spy Kids memory. I'm coming. I'm locked in. Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, I'm gonna stand by it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm owning it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Even though it was a bit disappointing.

[Unknown]

Are there chips in your memory as well?

[Ed Gamble]

They are eating the chips.

[Ella Purnell]

They are in there.

[Unknown]

You didn't mention the chips.

[Ella Purnell]

It was, like, just a plate with a massive burger.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

And it's so disappointing, guys. I mean, my heart hurts.

[Ed Gamble]

I do encourage everyone listening to this to watch the video, because it's very funny when you see how normal the burger is.

[Unknown]

Well. And how much. It's clearly a Big Mac and fries.

[Ella Purnell]

But I wonder how many people can relate to what I'm saying, because I think a lot of people think that burger was amazing. Spy Kids was huge.

[Ed Gamble]

But the Spy Kids kids, we're not.

[Unknown]

Doubting Spy Kids was huge. We've never once disputed that Spy Kids was huge.

[Ed Gamble]

No, no.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm just saying.

[Ed Gamble]

They got, like, what, two sequels? It was huge. It was a hit. But, like, even the Spy Kids kids in that clip don't seem fussed about that burger.

[Ella Purnell]

They get it right, and then they're.

[Ed Gamble]

Doing something else while eating it.

[Ella Purnell]

They're not even like, arguably disappointed.

[Ed Gamble]

They don't care. They're like, this is a normal burger. We know. It's just normal.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, fine.

[Ed Gamble]

But that's nice that in your head, it's great. And that's what you're getting for your meal.

[Ella Purnell]

That's why I'm getting. Because it is off menu, isn't it? I guess. Choose whatever I want.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, choose whatever you want. So is your memory of the spine.

[Unknown]

I love that it's a game now. Everything's a game.

[Ella Purnell]

Everything's a game if you're competitive enough.

[Unknown]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

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[Ed Gamble]

Your dream side dish side's hard because.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm not really much. I really like the concept of a salad, but I never like the actual salad. But I like the. You know, and especially when you're a bit full and you've had something quite hot and heavy and then you feel a bit weighed down and you think a salad's gonna undo that damage. Cause it's. It's like cold and refreshing and green. It's like a bright color. And it never does that. It's always disappointing. So not a salad. But I thought I wanted you to know that I went there.

[Ed Gamble]

How do you like the idea of a salad?

[Ella Purnell]

I would like to eat the concept of a salad, but not the actual salad.

[Unknown]

Hey, well, look, you may spike his memory burger.

[Ed Gamble]

Spike his memory burger.

[Unknown]

The concept of a salad would be an appropriate size.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, it would absolutely suit it. But I'm happy to whittle this down one dish at a time.

[Ella Purnell]

No, no, we don't do that. Let's just go through all the salads.

[Ed Gamble]

So salads. Salads are out.

[Ella Purnell]

No, I would like it to be really cheap prawn crackers. Like the ones from, like. I want them to be like 60p out of a packet from Tesco's or Lidl. And they're greasy and that's why it's good. It's nice. When I get crisps from the shop, I'll always look for the prawn crackers first.

[Ed Gamble]

Right.

[Ella Purnell]

Which is funny because I don't eat fish. I don't think have any traces of actual prawn in them.

[Unknown]

No, I think they.

[Ella Purnell]

What do you think they do? Yeah, I don't think they do. I'm pretty sure they're probably vegan or something.

[Unknown]

They don't taste fishy, though.

[Ella Purnell]

No, they don't.

[Unknown]

Yeah, they're crispy, they're greasy.

[Ella Purnell]

It's just prawn cocktail. Prawn cocktail crisps.

[Ed Gamble]

Have? No, they're mainly just ketchup flavor.

[Unknown]

I don't think they have any actual prawn in them. But prawn crackers, I think are, like, made of prawns. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Raise his eyebrows and nod his head while looking at his screen.

[Ella Purnell]

They're vegan, aren't they? Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Prawn crackers contain prawns. That's what AI overviewers said.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

What does AI know?

[Ed Gamble]

Eh?

[Ella Purnell]

What does the Internet know? Well, maybe I do like fish then, but just in cheap prawn cracker flavors from the supermarket.

[Unknown]

You want supermarket prawn crackers?

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, I just want, like, really shit ones.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

I don't. I don't like them when they're fancy and come from a nice restaurant. They don't. It's not the same. I want them to kind of like be really greasy. I want them to make my fingers feel bad after I've eaten them.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, your fingers have to feel bad. Yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Like, gotta wash your hands after.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Which I suppose you should probably always do, but I don't very often.

[Ed Gamble]

Mixer tap. Washing your hands under the mixer tap?

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah. Hot cod. Hot cod.

[Ed Gamble]

Hot.

[Ella Purnell]

Like that?

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You like to do it like that?

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah. I've got to make the sound effects too, when I do it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, you got to say hot, cold, hot, cold. So these like the white prawn crackers, not like the Thai prawn crackers, when it's like they're a bit brown.

[Ella Purnell]

Nice.

[Unknown]

You want bog standard.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Prawn crackers.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, that. It's a bit like polystyrene. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, but less squeaky.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Then I imagine eating a bit of polystyrene would be. Never done it.

[Ed Gamble]

Neither have I. But, Joe. What? That?

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Imagine I got here and I was like, my.

[Ed Gamble]

My.

[Ella Purnell]

Perfect.

[Unknown]

I hate polystyrene, man.

[Ella Purnell]

Do you?

[Unknown]

Yeah, I hate it. I don't see the point.

[Ed Gamble]

What do you mean? What's. What?

[Unknown]

We can surely come up with something better by now. That's not squeaky and makes me feel weird when I touch it.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, it makes you feel weird when you touch it?

[Unknown]

Yeah. And the idea of my. My worst thing is imagining someone soaring through some polystyrene.

[Ella Purnell]

That is bad.

[Unknown]

Bad, isn't it?

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, no, don't like that.

[Ed Gamble]

I've done it before.

[Unknown]

What?

[Ed Gamble]

I've soared through a massive block of polystyrene with a saw.

[Unknown]

Why?

[Ed Gamble]

I had to get a giant polystyrene W into a car boot and I couldn't, so I had to Saw it into two V's. What are you.

[Unknown]

So what are you talking about?

[Ella Purnell]

I've got questions.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I was collecting giant yellow polystyrene W's at the time. I was going for a phase.

[Unknown]

Come on, come on.

[Ella Purnell]

How many did you have?

[Ed Gamble]

I think we got, like five or six in the end. I can't remember exactly how many, but, like, yeah, we got a fair few.

[Ella Purnell]

So when you saw it, you stick it back together again on the other side.

[Ed Gamble]

We actually didn't end up sticking it back together again. It was knocked around in my friend's sister's garage for a few years. I don't know if it's even there.

[Ella Purnell]

I bet they were thrilled. That friend.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, she ended up with. Yeah. The one that was in half and another one, that sister. So, like, she had those.

[Ella Purnell]

You need to find someone that collects polystyrene V's.

[Unknown]

V's.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah. Then they're delighted.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah. God, that would be the greatest collab of all time.

[Ed Gamble]

Make that person's day.

[Unknown]

Now, Ben seems like he has more questions.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, he does. He can't talk.

[Unknown]

Ella said she had questions and then didn't ask any of the questions that I thought you were going to ask.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, he has loads of questions because they weren't the ones that you wanted. Those are your questions. Yeah, my question. I've asked my questions, like, very much.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Cleared it up.

[Ella Purnell]

What are your questions?

[Unknown]

Why? Why? Why did you.

[Ella Purnell]

Why? Why is my main question.

[Ed Gamble]

Why?

[Unknown]

Why were you collecting polystyrene W's?

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, right. That is the obvious question. Yeah, of course.

[Ed Gamble]

I was in a band called the wow Scenario. The wow Scenario.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, right. Oh, it does make sense.

[Ed Gamble]

Someone told us, hey, I know someone who's got a giant polystyrene W. You can have it on stage when you do your gigs. So went to pick it up and then we went to get it and it was, like, huge. And we had to, like, try and put it on the roof of the car, but it was, like, gonna fly off. And it was very. It was. And then I bought it home. Yeah, well, that's what we were worried about in the dual carriageway, if it flies off, you know. Yeah, the roof and then, like, take someone out.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

But we got it home and my dad was like, that's not coming in the house. Like, there's no. You got no choice. No saying, this old man, we're having to do this. And then we talking to a guy, local photographer, and we're like, here's an idea for our photo Shoot we're gonna do with. You got this giant yellow W, we're gonna bring it along to your studio. And he went, I've already got one. I don't need it. We're like, what are you talking about? You've already got one? And he showed us a picture. We're like, that's identical to our one. And he was like, yeah, well, this connections have got them in their windows. They've got this whole thing for people leaving school about what next? It's this whole campaign they're doing. They've all been given these giant yellow dubbers. They all hate them. They don't want them in their shops. They're taking up too much room. So they just gave me one for free. They all just want rid of them. So then at the time, me and my friend were like, let's get loads and fill the whole stage with them.

[Unknown]

Fascinating.

[Ed Gamble]

And we'll do that.

[Unknown]

How many did you need, though? Because you're called the wow scenario.

[Ella Purnell]

I mean, it's unbelievable that you've managed to acquire five of these.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, we got quite a few of them. And then. And then we kind of ran out of steam and just forgot about it.

[Unknown]

And the band broke up.

[Ed Gamble]

The band broke up. And then, like, my friend Ben, who, like, kept at least one of them for us in his garage, moved house and forgot about it. So the people who came in after him would have opened that garage door and been like, what the hell? Who's this guy?

[Ella Purnell]

I mean, look, there's worse letters to collect, isn't there? I feel like W, out of all the letters, is probably the most versatile.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, you know what I'm going to ask. What is the worst letter that you could collect?

[Ella Purnell]

Well, an S can only be two Cs. A W can be an I, an N, a Z or two V's. Yeah, an R is pretty. An R could be an eye. Could be two eyes. Or an L. I suppose it could be an L as well. Yeah, an eye. An eye is probably. Well, no, there's got to be others. Come on. B. B, what can BB. Two Cs, I suppose.

[Unknown]

A.

[Ella Purnell]

This is my podcast now.

[Ed Gamble]

We're gonna clip this up. This is the rantings of a madman. Like, I've never had a guest do such a unintellected monologue that sounds so insane. Go through all the letters of what they could be if you chopped them up.

[Unknown]

And not in order.

[Ed Gamble]

Not in order. Just all over the place. And just for the listener, we haven't sped it up. That is the speed that Ella was.

[Unknown]

Talking at, that was amazing.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm so, so sorry. I got good stuff.

[Unknown]

Got kind of excited, but it's interesting. All the letters could be chopped up to be other letters.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, it is interesting. That's why I got so excited, because I've never thought of it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

C is. I think C is the worst.

[Ella Purnell]

C is the worst. That's very smart. C is.

[Unknown]

Yeah. C can't be anything else.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, C's. C is terrible. No, C can't be anything.

[Ed Gamble]

C is the worst one.

[Ella Purnell]

C's useless. Yeah, Sorry.

[Ed Gamble]

And that'd be the worst one, like, if I was taking that, like, on top of the car.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

If that blows away, it'll boomerang back to you. You're in big trouble.

[Ella Purnell]

This is my favorite conversation I've ever had. I'm gonna be thinking about this for such a long time.

[Ed Gamble]

Most guests come on here and say that this is the best conversation I've ever had. Do they?

[Ella Purnell]

But do they talk about chopping up lettuce?

[Ed Gamble]

No, they don't. Oh, listen, you're the best guest.

[Ella Purnell]

No, they don't. Thank you so much.

[Ed Gamble]

No question. Did we get your dream side? Hold on.

[Ella Purnell]

Really, really warm.

[Ed Gamble]

Did we know what your dream side was?

[Ella Purnell]

My dream side?

[Unknown]

Prawn crackers.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, it's prawn crackers. Of course it was.

[Unknown]

That's how we got to it.

[Ella Purnell]

All the concept of salad. All the concept of salad.

[Unknown]

We can give you both. We can give you both.

[Ella Purnell]

Am I allowed to?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

So it's the weirdest meal if one.

[Unknown]

Of them's a concept you're allowed to.

[Ella Purnell]

Okay, fine.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Ella Purnell]

You'll follow me if one of them's a memory.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm gonna be very hungry.

[Unknown]

Any food?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I've had water. You're not doing much to, like, dispel the stereotype of actresses. Most of it's imagining. I just like the concept of salad. I remember the starter.

[Unknown]

I just want to watch other people eat.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Listen.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah. That is the most Hollywood shit I've ever heard. I like the concept of food.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your dream drink.

[Ella Purnell]

Diet Coke.

[Ed Gamble]

I almost don't want to ask any questions. It's just a very funny delivery. Diet Coke. So why is that your favorite drink?

[Ella Purnell]

How many people come on here and say diet Coke? But it's true.

[Unknown]

Diet Coke's great.

[Ed Gamble]

That's the thing.

[Ella Purnell]

It's the cure for all ailments.

[Unknown]

Yes.

[Ella Purnell]

I can't even say it. Yeah, but it is the cure for hangover and nausea when have you been the most nauseous?

[Ed Gamble]

What? What is it? What's made you the most nauseous?

[Ella Purnell]

It's a very weird question. What's made you the most nauseous?

[Ed Gamble]

It's pretty weird, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

What has made me the most nauseous? Food poisoning. Oh, I've got a great. I won't tell it.

[Ed Gamble]

Go on.

[Unknown]

Well, you've got.

[Ed Gamble]

You can't do that. You can't go on a podcast.

[Ella Purnell]

Food related bits. Kind of gross.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, we had a lot of gross.

[Ella Purnell]

Stories on that outing. A chain which. I don't know how you feel about that. I don't have to be sponsored by them.

[Ed Gamble]

No, we're not sponsored by nothing.

[Unknown]

Go for it.

[Ella Purnell]

By nothing.

[Unknown]

We are, James.

[Ed Gamble]

Huh?

[Unknown]

We record loads of adverts all the time.

[Ed Gamble]

I thought it's just me and you.

[Unknown]

Having a chat and if it's one of our sponsors, we'll bleep it.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, bleep the whole story. Okay. So I went on a date once. Oh, this is really bad. I can't be telling the story. I went on a date once with this really fit guy. He was a model gorgeous.

[Ed Gamble]

Shout out to that guy.

[Ella Purnell]

So hot. Unbelievable. No, no, thank you. He's gonna listen to this and he's gonna be thrilled. Maybe he won't.

[Ed Gamble]

Buddy, if you're listening, we hope you're having a good day.

[Unknown]

No, fit guys listen to.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that's disappointing.

[Ella Purnell]

He's Australian. He's Australian. I've got to get to the other stories. I'm so embarrassed.

[Ed Gamble]

No, no, keep. Keep describing this guy.

[Ella Purnell]

Okay. He's Australian. He doesn't know London. Very good. He comes to London and we're meeting up and I can't believe my luck.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

And so I take him to.

[Ed Gamble]

I've never heard anyone so excited about a date.

[Unknown]

Yeah. Actually, especially not.

[Ed Gamble]

I can't believe you hear a woman say that. I can't believe it.

[Unknown]

I can't believe my luck.

[Ella Purnell]

She's excited about the concept of a date. Okay. Because I'm cool. I'm playing it cool. Look at the.

[Ed Gamble]

Very nice.

[Ella Purnell]

Very cool. In hindsight. Did not play it cool. Took him to a Mexican chain restaurant that. I loved that back in the day. This was a while ago. It was about 10 years ago. Was quite cool and quite trendy. Don't know if it is anymore, but it was back then.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[Ella Purnell]

Took him there, had a great time, had a little snog at the end.

[Ed Gamble]

Congratulations.

[Ella Purnell]

Good chat. I was thinking, did you snog him.

[Unknown]

And then say, I can't believe my luck.

[Ella Purnell]

I did. As I was snogging him, I was like, I can't believe. It was sort of like hyperventilating and crying at the same time.

[Unknown]

Breaking away, going, my luck.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, but like that really high pitched.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

When you snogged, did you have the stuff in your mouth from that game you played?

[Ella Purnell]

Was it that I was doing it with? Watch your mouth.

[Ed Gamble]

Watch your mouth. You put that in.

[Ella Purnell]

I can't believe.

[Ed Gamble]

Like that.

[Ella Purnell]

It was like that. Fantastic. God, I sound so cool in this story, right?

[Ed Gamble]

It's a cool story. We know this leaded up to you shitting yourself.

[Ella Purnell]

So, yeah, you just ruined the punchline. Do you like doing that? Do you like taking people's joy away?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Do you like doing that?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, everyone knows that's what's fun about it.

[Ella Purnell]

Unbelievable. I really thought.

[Ed Gamble]

Right.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, there's. Long story short is the next day, it was Halloween, I invited him to a party.

[Unknown]

So I don't know why that's made me love so much.

[Ed Gamble]

Long story short, it was Halloween, next day was Halloween. Next day, invite them to a party. This is like two days in a row. You've seen the.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, yeah, yeah. He's only in town for a short amount of time.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

So you go to the party where it's like very, you know, Halloweeny. Very hot. I looked very hot. I'm gonna say it, guys. I really dressed up.

[Unknown]

He can't believe his luck.

[Ella Purnell]

He's sewing. I can't believe my luck.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

What was the hunk dressed as for Halloween?

[Ella Purnell]

Batman or something. I can't remember.

[Ed Gamble]

Come on, it was the hunk. You can remember when he was dressed up?

[Ella Purnell]

Look, it's safe to say we never spoke again after Halloween.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay?

[Ella Purnell]

So, yeah, I went to Halloween party and we walked in, I look incredibly fit, and I shit my pants in the middle of this Halloween party. And right after I shit my pants, I turn to him to say, I've shit my pants, but I projectile vomit all down. Batman. And then he turns to me and he also projectile vomits. We have to leave the party. Right? That's the first thing that's coming.

[Unknown]

I'd say the party's over for most people.

[Ed Gamble]

Everyone's going home. Yeah, everyone's going home. Happy Halloween.

[Ella Purnell]

God, this is such a horrible story, but it's also so fucking funny. Anyway, so we never spoke again. And turns out this restaurant had this. This crazy outbreak of norovirus. I was so unwell for about a week. It was so embarrassing. We. It was just. It's the worst. It's the worst. It keeps me up at night, but also because of the three brothers. I tell it all the time. I tell the story all the time. I tell parties.

[Ed Gamble]

It's great.

[Ella Purnell]

It's hilarious.

[Ed Gamble]

Great story.

[Ella Purnell]

It's also just after that, I just. I couldn't believe my luck. I'm sorry. I had to say. I had to do it. I'm so sorry. I just. I had to end like that.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

I couldn't believe you.

[Ed Gamble]

That was fit.

[Unknown]

Batman projectile vomiting because you projectile vomited. Or did he also have norovirus from the.

[Ella Purnell]

He had norovirus from the restaurant.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah. My publicist is in there wanting to fall into a hole into the ground I'm gonna get fired from.

[Ed Gamble]

My publicist knows what does the rounds on social media. This is absolutely the best thing that could have happened. Sweet pea is gonna be watched by everyone.

[Ella Purnell]

I've ruined it. Yeah. No, I don't. He also had norovirus.

[Unknown]

Yeah. So that must have made you feel a bit better about it.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, it did. I mean, look, we're all human, aren't we? You know, no body is strong enough to withstand the amount of tacos that I ate full of norovirus. I've eaten straight norovirus. I mean, look, it's gonna happen.

[Unknown]

Yeah, of course.

[Ella Purnell]

It's fine.

[Unknown]

Of course.

[Ella Purnell]

Really, It's a good story. It could have been an amazing and that's how I met your mother moment. It just neither of us were strong enough.

[Unknown]

Also, it's good for Halloween. Projectile vomit's good for Halloween, isn't it? So on brand, if you'd been dressed as the girl from the Exorcist, it would have been perfect.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, yeah, that would have been so good. Also, why don't we just, like, pretend that was part of the Halloween, you know, party decoration?

[Ed Gamble]

It's hard to do that, I guess, when you stink of sick and shit.

[Unknown]

Yeah. Also, you made a big thing about. You're like, I look fit. I look so fit.

[Ella Purnell]

You kids. What a waste of an outfit. Yeah.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Had to burn it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

That would be crazy. I didn't burn it. My mom had to come pick me up, though. Oh, so embarrassing. Mommy, you picked me up. I've shot myself at a party.

[Ed Gamble]

I shat myself. And as I turned to tell my date I'd shat myself, I puked a lot for him.

[Unknown]

And then he.

[Ed Gamble]

And then he puked, and then he puke. Can you come and pick me up, please?

[Ella Purnell]

Please pick me up. So anyway, Diet Coke. How do we got to that Diet Coke, right?

[Unknown]

You had Diet Coke the next day and it cured your ass.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, and it cured my. That. That's. Yeah, yeah, that is how. Why did I tell that story? We can bleep that whole thing, right?

[Unknown]

No, yeah, we're gonna bleep the. It's gonna be one long. One long bleep.

[Ella Purnell]

We can.

[Unknown]

Sure.

[Ella Purnell]

We won't.

[Unknown]

We can.

[Ed Gamble]

We know what our listeners like. Yeah, we've told. There's been many stories told in this podcast of.

[Ella Purnell]

You know.

[Ed Gamble]

That's one of the. That's one of the more dramatic ones.

[Ella Purnell]

Was it? I like a good dramatic reading.

[Ed Gamble]

It's a good one. Don't tell my Myself story.

[Ella Purnell]

You. Ben.

[Ed Gamble]

I mean, I hate to have to say this, but which one? I mean loads of times.

[Ella Purnell]

How many times?

[Unknown]

As an adult.

[Ed Gamble]

As an adult.

[Unknown]

We can't go right back to when.

[Ed Gamble]

You'Re a little baby. It's got to be 18 as an adult twice. I think, I think I've told both of them on the podcast. One was when I. I think I had a quesadilla from.

[Unknown]

From a truck.

[Ed Gamble]

Mexican food truck. Then did a TV show. The next day I was in la. I did a stand up set and then instant and then my agent and stamp set didn't go well and my agent at the time wanted to go to a steakhouse. Then I went to the steakhouse, shit my pants and while you're at a urinal. Why is that a urinal?

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, you were in a bathroom.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, but it doesn't count. What are you talking about?

[Ella Purnell]

Doesn't count if you're in my bathroom.

[Ed Gamble]

I wasn't sitting on the toilet.

[Unknown]

His story is not. I was sat on the toilet.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. I shit myself all the time. I shut myself this morning. I was sitting on the toilet. Thank God. God. So once again the old toilet caught.

[Ella Purnell]

It, I guess you.

[Ed Gamble]

Repeatedly myself every. Every day into a toilet. Oh no, I did it again. Oh, don't want to tell people this.

[Ella Purnell]

Fine. At least you're in private.

[Ed Gamble]

I was having a. I was urinating standing up with my trousers and pants on. And then. Yeah, because I thought.

[Ella Purnell]

What did you think?

[Ed Gamble]

This is a far. Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

One of those, eh?

[Unknown]

Yeah, one of the men who stand at urinals and fart while they're pissing.

[Ed Gamble]

The. The whole bathroom was empty. The gnomes in there. So I was like, I've never pissed.

[Ella Purnell]

Danny out, so I wouldn't know how easy or not easy or what. I don't know the connotations.

[Ed Gamble]

It's the best feeling in the world.

[Unknown]

There'll be. There's men who stand.

[Ella Purnell]

That's the best feeling in the world.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

There's men who will proudly fart while they're stood up.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. They're bad men.

[Unknown]

Yeah. And it's normally most people fart when.

[Ella Purnell]

They'Re standing, don't they?

[Unknown]

Yeah, but not.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

To fart.

[Ed Gamble]

They don't need these guys. These guys are like.

[Ella Purnell]

These guys can.

[Ed Gamble]

Who knows how they do it? You see a beatboxer and they can do, like, the bass line and the drums at the same time. You're like, how the is this guy? That's what these guys, these men are.

[Ella Purnell]

Like the baseline of the drums at the same time is so good.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. That's what I do.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm gonna live in my head rent free.

[Unknown]

Is it?

[Ella Purnell]

That's amazing.

[Ed Gamble]

But yeah, that's what. That's when I did it. Bonito is demanding that you say more about Diet Coke.

[Ella Purnell]

Right.

[Ed Gamble]

But, like, I don't. I don't know if you want. You don't have to.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm trying to get a Diet Coke sponsorship. I don't. About you guys. I'm out here trying to get free Diet Coke for life.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Do you remember, like, the Nando's black cars? I don't know if they were actually real or not.

[Ed Gamble]

They were real. We know people about them. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

All right. Weird flex.

[Ed Gamble]

I've seen them.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm trying to get a Diet Coke black car. That's all I want.

[Unknown]

And that's why you told the puking story.

[Ella Purnell]

Because I. Because I think that's gonna really help their brands.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Really help their image.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

That. It cures all ailments. That's the focus.

[Unknown]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

It can cure norovirus.

[Unknown]

Can cure norovirus.

[Ed Gamble]

Wow.

[Ella Purnell]

I've said it now.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Am I gonna double down? Yes, I am.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Unknown]

This has gone very Joe Rogan, this. This podcast.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's bound to happen eventually.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

We'll eventually get straight into those waters. Yeah. Pull that up.

[Unknown]

Bonito.

[Ella Purnell]

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[Ryan Reynolds]

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[Ella Purnell]

Because I've been looking for these because the best deals go fast, save big with up to 60% off. Sam Edelman, Sorel Free People, Cole Haan, and more cold weather fines. Great brands, great prices. That's why you rack.

[Benito]

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[Ryan Reynolds]

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[Ed Gamble]

Your dream dessert.

[Ella Purnell]

The donuts from Adventure island on Southend on tv. You ever been there? Adventure Island, South End on sea. So good.

[Unknown]

Ben is calmly nodding because of course he's been.

[Ella Purnell]

And you've had the donuts, I assume. Everyone's had the donuts. No, you haven't.

[Ed Gamble]

He likes theme parks and stuff. He's definitely been to the. Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

You like a theme park? I love a theme park. I love a roller coaster. It's my favorite. Well, second favorite after games. Third. Third after games.

[Unknown]

I love that your thought process there was like, oh, no, I've just betrayed games I have betrayed by saying I like roller coaster. I love roller coasters. They're my favorite.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm nothing. Not loyal. Yeah, very loyal. And I love a list. So it's important to me to know what my favorite things are in order.

[Unknown]

But interestingly, lists are not at the top of the list.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, shit. You keep doing this. You keep sort of confusing me and you give me a lot to think about. I'm going to just lie in the dark looking up at the ceiling, thinking about where lists ranks on my list.

[Unknown]

Of favorite things, you know?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Well, do you love lists more than games and roller coasters?

[Ella Purnell]

I use them more than I use games and I definitely visit a list more than I visit a roller coaster. Roller coaster. You can't do too much. It loses. I came in really strong with that opinion. I do feel quite strong about it. You can't do a roller coaster too much. It loses the impact. Once you know where the drop is, it's less. It's less fun. You forget or close your eyes.

[Unknown]

Yeah, but with a list it's fun every time, right?

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah. Yeah, it is.

[Unknown]

You can't close your eyes with a list.

[Ella Purnell]

I quite like reprioritizing a list. I do it like multiple times a day. Oh, that doesn't deserve number number two. That should be really like number 10. Yeah. Big list person. I keep list of everything didn't weirdly make a list for this.

[Unknown]

Yeah, that's interesting.

[Ella Purnell]

Sort of the only thing I should maybe have made a list for.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

But I wanted to be surprised.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah. And we've been surprised.

[Ella Purnell]

And you, I wanted to surprise you.

[Ed Gamble]

Some of your choices.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Did I succeed? Are you surprised?

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, very surprised. Constantly.

[Ella Purnell]

Good.

[Ed Gamble]

Been so many surprises. I didn't expect you to puke after shitting yourself.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah. You thought you knew the ending of that story, didn't you?

[Ed Gamble]

I didn't know.

[Unknown]

You didn' no.

[Ella Purnell]

The surprisee becomes the surprise. Her.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, exactly.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah. I spent a lot of time in Southend on Sea. My nan lives there and I spent a lot of time there when I was a child. Arguably too much time. Had my birthday party there when I was nine.

[Ed Gamble]

That's nice.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, it was really nice. Really, really nice. It's a really, really good time.

[Unknown]

Why are you so aggressively telling us it was nice?

[Ella Purnell]

Because it wasn't very nice? Because it was fine. It was just, it was, it was a birthday party and I, you know, I didn't, I didn't have a ton of friends and so I invited, I invited nine people and then my mom made me invite everyone in the class, which was just, it's just, it's automatically just very embarrassing.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

You've got to get on a train and by the time you've got there, you know, you've spent two hours on a train with 23 people that don't like you very much.

[Unknown]

Oh, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

And then you get to Southend on Sea and it's raining and no one's been to Essex before.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

You know, so you've got to introduce all.

[Ella Purnell]

Welcome to Essex.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

And you know, I'm now picturing myself like sort of a nine year old Essex tour guide.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

And then, and then you say, try these donuts. But the donuts were a hit. Maybe that's why I want the donuts because it's a happy memory.

[Ed Gamble]

Because the kids were cool.

[Ella Purnell]

Because all kids were like, yeah, she's really cool.

[Ed Gamble]

Do they have anything on them, these donuts? What? What?

[Ella Purnell]

Sugary, sugary donuts.

[Unknown]

Are they fresh? Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

12 little ones in like, like a bag. They're just like, it's nostalgic and it's. And it's, I guess like the sugar high combined with the, with the roller coasters, it's just like, it's a good time, it's a good day. And then, you know, you eat as many as you can. You feel really sick again. That's part of the south and on sea experience. It's feeling sick on the roller coaster. And they're hot. I said that already.

[Ed Gamble]

Sugary.

[Ella Purnell]

Did I say that? Yeah, Lots of sugar. Yeah, yeah, we know that they're sugar.

[Unknown]

Do they come with, like a sauce or anything, or are they just plain, the little.

[Ella Purnell]

Actually, I don't think so. I'm not really much of a sauce. I don't really. I never like the sauce. I like my crumble plain. I don't like, really ice cream or custard or anything on the crumble. Is that red flag you're looking at me like that?

[Unknown]

No, it's a red flag. I think it's interesting, but, you know.

[Ella Purnell]

Both of your voices went very high when you said that. You're betraying yourselves.

[Ed Gamble]

No, it's fine.

[Ella Purnell]

It's fine. I really tried to get high there. It didn't come out.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that was.

[Ella Purnell]

That was quite disappointing.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, look, I was more like, oh, why have we jumped to crumble straight away?

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, right.

[Ed Gamble]

You know, it was like.

[Unknown]

I think it was to illustrate that you're not a source girl.

[Ella Purnell]

To illustrate that.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's fair enough.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Do you wanna.

[Ella Purnell]

It's a good analogy.

[Ed Gamble]

Have a guess at who I'm thinking of, because otherwise the listener's gonna be like, why did that gamer guess who just never.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. So do you want to ask me one of your famous.

[Ella Purnell]

I think you should ask me.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, got it.

[Unknown]

She's got you.

[Ed Gamble]

So you're thinking about one of these two.

[Unknown]

Never try and game the gamer.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, so you're figuring one of these two.

[Ella Purnell]

The game here has become. Yeah, I'm thinking of one of the people in this room, but it could also be you.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, Right.

[Ella Purnell]

One of the three people, not including me.

[Unknown]

Ask a question.

[Ed Gamble]

Huh?

[Unknown]

Ask a question.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, I will ask a question. When they were a little boy, did they frequently eat a dish called the picker's basket?

[Ella Purnell]

None of you have got very. Oh, no. Maybe you've all got very good poker faces. Is it Ben? Are you Ben?

[Ed Gamble]

Hold on.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm going purely.

[Unknown]

There's a few.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm going purely off. I'm going purely off the bokeh. What do you mean? What is this game you have placed on?

[Ed Gamble]

You're thinking of one of them, but.

[Ella Purnell]

No, you're thinking of someone. Oh, no, I'm thinking of someone.

[Ed Gamble]

You're thinking of someone, and I'm asking you based on your rules. Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Wait, no, no, no.

[Unknown]

Also, Ella doesn't know. No, no, no.

[Ed Gamble]

We've got the game wrong, Ella.

[Ella Purnell]

I've got to think of someone.

[Ed Gamble]

I know more about you guys.

[Ella Purnell]

But then. Hang on a minute. Why have you asked me a question?

[Unknown]

Because that's how Guess who works.

[Ed Gamble]

No, it is. You told me to.

[Ella Purnell]

No, but then so true. It's also this very hard game because I don't know you guys. We've just met. Don't know anything about.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, okay. I do want.

[Unknown]

Do you know anything about the people on Guess who?

[Ed Gamble]

I guess.

[Ella Purnell]

I guess not.

[Unknown]

Yeah, I guess not.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[Unknown]

But it can't be a background question. It has to be a vibe question.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay. Do they look like. If they picked up.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, I say yes or no. That's how the game works.

[Ed Gamble]

A bowl full of cereal, their little wrists would snap.

[Ella Purnell]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Is it Ben?

[Ella Purnell]

No.

[Ed Gamble]

Is it me?

[Ella Purnell]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

I never knew you that by this.

[Ella Purnell]

I can't believe you just asked me a question then and I guessed the person I like. I've so grossly misunderstood the concept of guessing. I quite like it. I quite like this game. This is good. It's good in person. It's a good in person game, actually.

[Unknown]

Delighted to be last on the list of people whose wrists would snap if they picked up a bowl of cereal.

[Ella Purnell]

I mean, wrists don't look like they would. Would snap.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

If I picked up.

[Ella Purnell]

Also, it's quite hard, is that you have to not look at the person to check their wrists.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

They didn't walk in here and immediately look at everyone's wrist, so I had to. So I actually only picked you because you were the only person whose wrists I could see in my peripheral vision.

[Ed Gamble]

So you couldn't see Ben's.

[Ella Purnell]

Well, I didn't want to go like that because you're looking at me. You would have seen me go like that.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

I've moved my eyes.

[Unknown]

I thought you would have made a wrist list.

[Ella Purnell]

A wrist list.

[Unknown]

No.

[Ella Purnell]

Well, I walked in.

[Ed Gamble]

I've walked in.

[Ella Purnell]

I've gone on my phone and gone, best wrists. Also from 1 to 3.

[Ed Gamble]

Weren't you already meant to be thinking of someone? So you should have already been thinking of me?

[Ella Purnell]

No, I.

[Ed Gamble]

So then when I asked you that.

[Ella Purnell]

Question, usually I've got a board in front of me. I've never done it like this. And I sort of had to do a little bit of mental gymnastics to get there. And then now I understand the concept of the game. And now I am. And now I'd like to play a game.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay. Well, now I'm thinking of Someone and.

[Ella Purnell]

I've got to ask questions.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, but this is mean.

[Ed Gamble]

No.

[Ella Purnell]

Because I don't know you.

[Ed Gamble]

You can't hurt their feelings. These guys or mine. I think of one of you three.

[Ella Purnell]

So wait, I. Now, hang on, I've got to do the mental gymnastics again. You're thinking of someone.

[Unknown]

Yeah, See, now you're getting annoyed. But you were the one who tried to.

[Ella Purnell]

No, I know, but this is happening with game. I am very competitive and I'm annoyed at myself because I haven't immediately grasped the rules of the game that I came up with.

[Unknown]

Yes.

[Ella Purnell]

You see what I mean?

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm thinking what you mean.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm getting very annoyed.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm thinking of someone in this room. I'm thinking of someone in this room and you have to ask me.

[Ella Purnell]

I have to. Who you're thinking of.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. And it has to apply to their. Vot.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Or your imagined history of them.

[Ella Purnell]

Oh, yeah. True. Is your person look like they could be like. Are they like a live action animator? Do they look like they're an animated cartoon character? Do they look like they're the face of a cartoon? Uh, yeah, Sorry, Just having a look.

[Unknown]

Just look straight at me, by the way.

[Ella Purnell]

No, I'm allowed to move my eyes. Move my mind.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. I'm allowed to look at everyone.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm allowed to look at everyone. So I'm really taking a bunch of different. It's funny because actually now everyone looks a bit animated.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Do you look like you could. You could be like. Like a. Like a Scottish white walker from. From Game of Thrones.

[Unknown]

Wow.

[Ed Gamble]

I have not seen Game of Thrones, but I'm gonna say yes.

[Ella Purnell]

Are you, Ben?

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Ella Purnell]

You don't look like a white walker, by the way. It's just because you've got blue eyes. It was the only thing I could think of.

[Unknown]

Yeah. You could be in the. You could be.

[Ella Purnell]

It's literally just the blue eyes.

[Unknown]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

And also, I don't know where Scottish came from. I think it's because you've got a bit of stubble and in my head. In my head, that's like. Like stubble equals Scottish. I don't know why. It's a weird.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Connotation.

[Unknown]

It's weird. So you're learning about yourself in this game as well.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Good game. Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah. Unfortunately, I'm not learning good things about myself.

[Unknown]

This is how we like to come towards the end of the podcast, is we have, like.

[Ella Purnell]

We've been talking for 100 years.

[Unknown]

That's what we like. We like, people to feel like it's been 100 years and for them to.

[Ella Purnell]

Go at the end of it.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

No, I had a great chat. This has been really fun.

[Ed Gamble]

Do you want to play another round before I read you your menu?

[Ella Purnell]

I can go on, but I thought. Should we let someone else have a go?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, Ed, think of someone. Okay. Do you want to ask Ed?

[Ella Purnell]

All of us should ask questions. Are you not allowed to speak?

[Ed Gamble]

Me and you can take turns asking Ed a question.

[Ella Purnell]

Okay.

[Ed Gamble]

Do you want to go first?

[Ella Purnell]

Should I go first?

[Ed Gamble]

There we go.

[Unknown]

There's the sound again.

[Ella Purnell]

Do you. That's my thinking sound. Do you look like you were bullied as a child? I mean, all my questions are really mean, and I can't.

[Ed Gamble]

No, it's fine. But bearing in mind that what you're trying to narrow this down to is between the three of us, you were not narrowing it down very.

[Ella Purnell]

I mean, can I. Can I.

[Unknown]

Can I get rid of that question? Can I force people to come to your birthday in Southend?

[Ella Purnell]

I know. It's literally no wonder I had no friends. I was actually just a bully. I was a bully.

[Ed Gamble]

I wasn't the bully.

[Ella Purnell]

I was the bully. No one wanted to hang out with me. They're so mean.

[Unknown]

You can. You can throw that question out.

[Ella Purnell]

So I'm gonna throw that question out. Can you go? I'm panicking a bit.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Did the person you're thinking of once shit themselves and then puke all over their date?

[Unknown]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Is it Ella?

[Unknown]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm gonna read your menu back to you now, see how you feel about it.

[Ella Purnell]

Did you write that down? Hold on.

[Ed Gamble]

You would like tap water popping onto bread. You want warm sourdough with Marmite butter from Heaney's in Cardiff. Starter, you would like pork soup dumplings from Joe Shanghai in New York. Main course, you want the Spy Kids burger, but, like, from how you remember it, side dish, you want a concept of salad and cheap supermarket prawn crackers. Drink, Diet Coke. And dessert, donuts from Adventure island in Southend on Sea.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah. That sounds like a lovely menu.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Happy with that?

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

We haven't even talked about you and all your mates eating each other on the island. This is a food podcast.

[Ella Purnell]

Seeing as we just talked about a bunch of school kids going to Adventure island, we might need to just clarify that that's not what you're referring to. Question mark.

[Ed Gamble]

No, I'm not referring to that. I'm referring to you and your friends with the plane yellow jackets.

[Unknown]

Yes. Yeah. The TV show. Say I'd say lead with Yellowjackets TV show acting.

[Ed Gamble]

Burying the headline there.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

They all ate each other.

[Unknown]

You and all your friends ate each other on an island.

[Ella Purnell]

We've never had Adventure Island. When you took all your friends from Adventure island, you gave them the donuts and then you ate them all.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, you ate them all.

[Ella Purnell]

Only one child returned back to London that day. And happy birthday, me. Yeah. Yellow jackets.

[Ed Gamble]

That's messed up.

[Ella Purnell]

That is really messy.

[Ed Gamble]

We never had anyone on the podcast before who's been that heavily involved in cannibalism. And this is a food podcast.

[Ella Purnell]

I know it's a bit of a thing. I'm gonna get a reputation because it's happened in two shows. I've done that one and Fallout. Yeah. People are starting to talk. It's not good.

[Unknown]

But it's always in a situation where it gets a bit desperate, right?

[Ella Purnell]

I'd hope so.

[Unknown]

It's never like. You've never been in a show where you're like, ooh, I'm hungry. I'll just eat a.

[Ella Purnell]

No. Well, in Fallout now, I don't eat anyone, but the ghoul does eat other ghouls, sometimes humans, I think. Actually, I don't think he does eat humans. He makes ass jerky out of another ghoul's bum. Obviously. Wouldn't make it out of his elbow, would he? No, silly.

[Unknown]

Well, if you don't know your ass from your elbow.

[Ed Gamble]

Wow. Best in the biz. He's the best in the biz. Quick question before we go. Then you've got to eat another actor who you've worked with in the past.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Just who's it gonna be? It has to be someone you've worked with.

[Ella Purnell]

That's a really good question, because are you gonna go for, like, what are the circuit? What's the contacts? What's the circumstances? I've got to eat them because I'm desperate because I'm very, very hungry. Or you've got a gun to my head and you're like, you've got to eat them now. But I'm not that hungry. How hungry am I?

[Ed Gamble]

You're very, very hungry.

[Ella Purnell]

I'm very, very hungry. Am I starving? Am I on, like. Is it a yellow jacket?

[Ed Gamble]

It's a yellow jacket situation. Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

So I want someone with, like, big muscles. Right. Cause then that's, like, more protein, probably.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Ella Purnell]

Right. Who's the most muscular actor I've worked with? The guy that I threw up on was pretty muscly. He's not an actor that I Work with. I mean, yeah, he is someone that I know that's got muscles. I'd probably eat him.

[Ed Gamble]

Or Aaron.

[Ella Purnell]

Aaron from Fallout. He's been working out a bit lately. Yeah, I'll eat him.

[Ed Gamble]

What's his surname?

[Ella Purnell]

Moten. Aaron Moten.

[Ed Gamble]

Aaron Moten. You're getting eaten.

[Ella Purnell]

Eaten, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Sorry.

[Ella Purnell]

Aaron, He's a lovely guy.

[Ed Gamble]

That's a compliment.

[Unknown]

You said he's muscly.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah, I did, actually, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Been working out.

[Ella Purnell]

Yeah. I forget that that's a compliment.

[Ed Gamble]

But much to his detriment because now he's getting eaten.

[Unknown]

The more. The more you work out, the more likely you are to be eaten.

[Ed Gamble]

That's the mole of the podcast.

[Ella Purnell]

Wow.

[Unknown]

Didn't expect it to end like that. But thank you so much for coming.

[Ella Purnell]

To the dream restaurant.

[Unknown]

There we are, girl. Wow, what a nap. Wow, what a nap. What a chat.

[Ed Gamble]

Twist and turns.

[Unknown]

She's so much fun. I loved that.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. I mean, it's. It's nice to have the memory of a food on the menu, especially when. But it was sad to show her that it wasn't what she remembered it. But that's.

[Unknown]

That's memory for you.

[Ed Gamble]

It was sad, though. See, someone had to put someone through that.

[Unknown]

Yeah. Hopefully she can forget about that and go back to her original memory. Just like the platonic ideal of a burger from Spy Kids.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, hopefully that is the herd room meal. Yeah. Didn't say Nuka Cola, though.

[Unknown]

So that's a good Diet Coke. Went with a traditional Diet Coke rather than Nuka Cola.

[Ed Gamble]

We could have pushed it.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

So the listeners might have a go at us for that. We got sidetracked with the vomit story. And Benito did say to us, maybe talk more about Diet Coke, and maybe that's where he was heading. He wanted.

[Unknown]

But that's unfair, I think, to push people into the secret ingredient, I think is unfair.

[Ed Gamble]

I think it's unfair. But maybe people were like, well, you didn't get a brand. What if she meant diet Nuka Cola?

[Unknown]

She said Diet Coke, which is the brand. Right, Right.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Yeah. So I think I. I think. I think we've. We've got to accept that. But also then we wouldn't have heard about the donuts.

[Ed Gamble]

Exactly. Wouldn't have heard about those lovely donuts. And we wouldn't be able to say what's Sweet Pea. Everyone, it's on Sky.

[Unknown]

Yes, Watch Sweet Pea. It's on Sky. And now it comes out on October 10th. That is tomorrow, if you're listening to this on the day that it's released but otherwise it is out now on now and Sky. I'm gonna watch it. I'm excited.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm gonna watch it. I'm excited.

[Unknown]

I am currently on tour doing my show Hot Diggity Dog until the end of November. Come along. Going to loads of different places if you live in London. I'm doing the London Palladium on November 23rd. I'm also in Manchester. Well, Salford next year, January 19th and 20th at the Salford Lowry filming some shows.

[Ed Gamble]

That's exciting. Filming the shows.

[Unknown]

So come along.

[Ed Gamble]

Not much news over here, I guess. I mean, I'm gonna go home and try and lift a bowl of cereal just to prove some people wrong, but that's about it. Yeah.

[Unknown]

Thank you for listening to the off menu podcast.

[Ed Gamble]

Goodbye Goodbye.

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