Ep 290: Daisy Ridley

Summary

Podcast Title: Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Episode: Ep 290: Daisy Ridley
Release Date: April 30, 2025

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Introduction

In Ep 290 of Off Menu, hosts Ed Gamble and James Acaster welcome the talented actress Daisy Ridley to their whimsical Dream Restaurant. Known for her iconic roles in Star Wars and the upcoming Sky Original Cleaner, Daisy brings her unique perspective to the show as she navigates through her dream meal selections.

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Scheduling Shenanigans and the Secret Ingredient

The episode kicks off with a lighthearted discussion about scheduling mishaps involving the producer, Benito, leading to Daisy's appearance being moved unexpectedly. The hosts humorously emphasize their commitment by stating, "There are not many guests I would cancel a day of relaxing for," highlighting their excitement about having Daisy on the podcast ([07:18]—Ed Gamble).

As customary, the hosts introduce a "secret ingredient" that, if chosen by the guest, would result in them being kicked out of the Dream Restaurant. This week's secret ingredient is rabbit, a nod to Daisy's role as Cottontail in the Peter Rabbit film. Given Daisy's vegan lifestyle, it’s unsurprising that she avoids this ingredient:

James Acaster (07:37): "And this week the secret ingredient is Rabbit."

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Daisy Ridley’s Dream Starter

Daisy faces a delightful dilemma when choosing her starter. She prefers the bean dish—a savory option featuring butter beans in a creamy sauce, complemented by crusty sourdough bread for dipping. Additionally, she mentions the impossible cigars from Crossroads in LA, showcasing her appreciation for innovative vegan cuisine:

Daisy Ridley (25:04): "So I have two options here. One is...[description of the bean dish]... butter beans in a creamy sauce."

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Main Course: Sausage and Mash with a Vegan Twist

For the main course, Daisy opts for a classic sausage and mash. However, being vegan, she selects plant-based sausages paired with mashed potatoes, peas, and a drizzle of vegan butter and bisto gravy from a nostalgic red carton:

Daisy Ridley (31:10): "Saussage and mash with bisto gravy and peas."

The hosts engage in playful banter about the presentation and portion sizes, reflecting Daisy's emphasis on comfort and tradition.

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Side Dishes: Crisp Brussels Sprouts and Maple Miso Carrots

Daisy’s choices for side dishes are both flavorful and plant-based. She selects crispy Brussels sprouts, aiming for that perfect crunch, and maple miso garlicky carrots, which add a sweet and savory dimension to her meal:

Daisy Ridley (43:42): "I'd say Brussels, but I also have started doing these carrots very recently that are a maple miso garlicky."

The hosts express genuine interest in her cooking techniques, with Ed exclaiming, "I can’t wait to watch it again," upon hearing about her innovative carrot preparation ([44:47]—Ed Gamble).

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Dessert: Lemon Polenta Cake with Vegan Lemon Curd Ice Cream

For dessert, Daisy reminisces about her mother's hedgehog cakes but introduces a sophisticated twist with a lemon polenta cake paired with vegan lemon curd ice cream. This combination reflects her love for baking and her ability to create delectable vegan desserts:

Daisy Ridley (58:20): "So my mum used to make us hedgehog cakes... This is nigella cake. It's a lemon polenta cake that is so tasty."

The hosts commend her baking prowess, with Ed humorously noting, "That's a film," in response to Daisy’s skilled dessert descriptions ([63:01]—James Acaster).

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Dream Drink: Lychee Martini

Daisy chooses a lychee martini as her dream drink, preferring it for its sweetness and balance:

Daisy Ridley (52:42): "I'd go for a lychee martini."

Ed and James engage in a comedic exchange about the drink's strength and Daisy's allergy to wine, adding a playful layer to her selection.

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Additional Conversations and Insights

Throughout the episode, Daisy shares anecdotes about her experiences on Bake Off, her vegan lifestyle, and her approach to cooking for others. She reflects on the emotional connection she has with food and how it symbolizes home and shared moments:

Daisy Ridley (31:10): "Food for me is so emotional and home signifying that."

The hosts also delve into light-hearted topics such as wedding experiences, cooking mishaps, and the challenges of managing dishwashers, all while maintaining a humorous and engaging atmosphere.

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Conclusion

Ed and James wrap up the episode by thanking Daisy Ridley for her delightful participation and sharing her carefully curated dream menu. They reflect on the engaging conversation and the unique insights Daisy brought to the Dream Restaurant, leaving listeners both entertained and inspired to think about their own dream meals.

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Notable Quotes:

• Ed Gamble (07:18): "There are not many guests I would cancel a day of relaxing for."
• James Acaster (07:37): "And this week the secret ingredient is Rabbit."
• Daisy Ridley (25:04): "So I have two options here... butter beans in a creamy sauce."
• Daisy Ridley (58:20): "So my mum used to make us hedgehog cakes... This is nigella cake. It's a lemon polenta cake that is so tasty."
• Daisy Ridley (52:42): "I'd go for a lychee martini."

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This episode of Off Menu offers a delightful blend of culinary dreams, personal anecdotes, and the charming rapport between the hosts and guest, Daisy Ridley. Whether you're a foodie, a fan of Daisy, or simply enjoy witty banter, this episode serves up a satisfying listen.

Transcript

[Ed Gamble]

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[James Acaster]

James Big announcements.

[Ed Gamble]

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[Daisy Ridley]

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[Ed Gamble]

Download the Amazon Music app today. Welcome to the Off Menu Podcast. Taking the chips of conversation, adding the cheese of humour, pouring over the gravy of friendship. It's Chips, Cheese and Gravy. The podcast.

[James Acaster]

Oh, I thought you're doing like a poutine thing, but I guess that would be just Birds.

[Ed Gamble]

No, I'm going old school, baby. I'm going uk. Chips, cheese and gravy.

[James Acaster]

It's lunchtime on a Friday.

[Ed Gamble]

Lunchtime Friday at school.

[James Acaster]

That's what we would do at school on a Friday.

[Ed Gamble]

Is it? Is that your Friday lunch?

[James Acaster]

Yeah. We'd go to the chip shop around the corner from the school and some kids would just get a fish and, well, just chips with so much vinegar on it. And then they would huff it and make themselves inhale it and then like, see if they would splutter and cough and stuff. But other kids would get chips, cheese and cream gravy.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. And would you. What would you do?

[James Acaster]

I had a p. Lunch. That's a gamble. My name is James A. Together we own a dream restaurant. In every single week, we invite in a guest to be asking their favorite ever start bake course, dessert side dish and drink, not in that order. And this week our guest is Daisy Ridley.

[Ed Gamble]

Daisy Ridley, a wonderful actor, of course.

[James Acaster]

Yes, Amazing actor. You would have seen her in Magpie, the Young Woman in the Sea, Star Wars. But soon you will be seeing her in Cleaner.

[Ed Gamble]

Cleaner.

[James Acaster]

A Sky Original.

[Ed Gamble]

A Sky Original.

[James Acaster]

Daisy stars alongside Taz Skyler and Clive Owen. It's very exciting. Directed by Martin Campbell. We're going to talk more about it when Daisy is in the dream restaurant.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, absolutely. Have you seen it, James?

[James Acaster]

Yes, I have seen it. I'm very excited to talk about it.

[Ed Gamble]

Is that true?

[James Acaster]

I haven't. I don't. It's not out yet and I don't get sent. I mean, I might have got sent a link, but.

[Ed Gamble]

We should have been sent a link, Benito. But I tell you why we might. We've not been sent a link is because this wasn't supposed to be today.

[James Acaster]

Oh, yeah, I forgot that we were going to destroy him in the intro.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Benito told us that this was. And Daisy doesn't know this and we are not going to mention this today.

[Ed Gamble]

No, we're professional.

[James Acaster]

But Benita said to us, Daisy Ridley is coming in next Friday, when actually.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, he sent his list through. He sends this filthy little list.

[James Acaster]

He sends a list through.

[Ed Gamble]

Every time we get a new guest booked in, Benito sends a whole list through of all the podcasts that we're doing on the dates and the times. And it annoys me because rather than just send through the new one, he has to put it on his stupid filthy little pervert list.

[James Acaster]

I love the list. The list for me.

[Ed Gamble]

You love the list.

[James Acaster]

I always. I've always been in favor of the list. It's a nice reminder. Here's the full schedule.

[Ed Gamble]

And do you check your diary every time the list comes through?

[James Acaster]

No, I. When my diary tells me, hey, you went off menu today.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Then I can go on the off menu, WhatsApp. And because he posts the list regularly now, it means I'd have to scroll back very far to find the list and go, what time am I in? I'm in that time.

[Ed Gamble]

Hang on, you don't put the time of the interview in your diary.

[James Acaster]

No, because originally Benito will just say, block out a full day. He'll go, can you block out these days?

[Ed Gamble]

But then he'll say, why? He'll say, why? We're blocking out a full day. So it'll be like, no, no, no.

[James Acaster]

Daisy Ridley at 3pm no, initially he'll just go, block out. These days he will.

[Ed Gamble]

But then he'll say, here's who we have on the day and the time. That's when you put it in the diary. So you block. Regardless of what else tries to come in, you block out a whole day. Even if we only have one episode.

[James Acaster]

I don't wanna be doing anything else than enough menu date. Are you kidding me? That's why I give so much energy to the pod.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that's true. You do give a lot of energy to the pod. But this was supposed to be happening on Friday 14th March. Was on the list. On two lists, in fact, two lists penciled and then confirmed. Daisy Ridley, Friday the 14th of March. It's the 7th of March, today at noon, Benito messages saying, daisy Ridley in today. Get here for about 3:00pm yeah. You went, yep, see you then.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Because I. I looked at. I was like, oh, I've got it in for next week. But I must be wrong. It must be me who's wrong. And Benito, so wise. He must be right.

[Ed Gamble]

Whereas I checked my diary.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Wasn't in for today. Had a whole lovely day planned, relaxing. Then I checked the list, Friday the 14th. I was right.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Benito has been strung by his own stupid list.

[James Acaster]

And you, you brought it up. And then Benito was quiet for a bit. It was, miss me and you on the group. I was going, oh, I. I actually did notice this, but I wasn't confident enough. And then we're like, benito, where are you? And then we were doing a little riff that he'd fainted because he had painted and he fainted and that I.

[Ed Gamble]

Imagined him with his head and his hands rocking back and forth.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. And then he did come back on and he was like, oh, oh, oh. Oh, guys. Oh, this is my fault. I'm so sorry. And he was. He was very.

[Ed Gamble]

Can you still do it? Can you still do it?

[James Acaster]

Yeah. You still do it. If you can't, I'll just go with my tail between my legs. I'll tell the PR that I fucked up.

[Ed Gamble]

We could still do it.

[James Acaster]

We're good. Guys, I canceled the wedding I was going to.

[Ed Gamble]

And it was your own one as well, wasn't it?

[James Acaster]

My own wedding? Sorry, baby.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

And Ed's cancelled his day of relaxing.

[Ed Gamble]

Day of relaxing. Happy wedding.

[James Acaster]

But we're okay with that because we feel very lucky to have Daisy Ridley on the podcast.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, absolutely. Very excited. There's not many guests I would cancel a day of relaxing for.

[James Acaster]

No, it's not. I mean, if it was huge, Davis, she wouldn't have cancelled.

[Ed Gamble]

No way.

[James Acaster]

Now, as always, we have a secret ingredient, and if Daisy Ridley picks it, she will be kicked out the Dream Restaurant. With a heavy heart.

[Ed Gamble]

With a heavy heart. Yes.

[James Acaster]

And this week the secret ingredient is Rabbit.

[Ed Gamble]

Rabbit.

[James Acaster]

Daisy Ridley was in the Peter Rabbit film as Cottontail. So we've chosen Rabbit.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, we really. We try so hard with these secret ingredients to relate them to people's work.

[James Acaster]

I'm saying that if you voiced a cartoon rabbit, surely you can't eat rabbit now. I can't eat mice.

[Ed Gamble]

No, that's true. Because you're a mouse.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. John the mouse. So I reckon that because Daisy played Cottontail the rabbit, she won't pick rabbit.

[Ed Gamble]

You can't eat scientists.

[James Acaster]

I couldn't if I tried. Parabiologists.

[Ed Gamble]

Sorry? You loved eating parabiologists before. Ghostbusters, Frozen Empire. Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Couldn't get enough. But now.

[Ed Gamble]

Now you empathize with them.

[James Acaster]

Now, I played Lars Pinfield, the parabolist. I cannot eat parabolists.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[James Acaster]

Even if I wanted to.

[Ed Gamble]

This is the off menu menu of Daisy Ridley. Welcome, Daisy, to the Dream Restaurant.

[Daisy Ridley]

Thank you.

[James Acaster]

Welcome, Daisy, at the. To the Dream Restaurant. But it's been here for some time.

[Daisy Ridley]

Thank you.

[Ed Gamble]

That was big, James. You went for it.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, well, yeah, you've been saying that a lot lately, so maybe you've just got to get used to that. That's the level I go in at.

[Daisy Ridley]

The influx of energy.

[Ed Gamble]

But I feel like it's because I've been saying it to James that he now feels like. Because, you know, for the listener, James now pushes himself into the back wall.

[James Acaster]

It's really soft, this back wall. And I like how it feels when I push my head into the back of it. So I don't mind doing that. And I've just had my haircut.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Literally, before coming here, I came here straight from getting a haircut. Daisy. I've never done that for any other guests.

[Daisy Ridley]

Thank you.

[Ed Gamble]

What do you think of the haircut?

[Daisy Ridley]

Nice. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

I actually thought that looks fresh. Yeah.

[James Acaster]

First time I've been to this particular hairdresser. I'm not going to. I, I.

[Daisy Ridley]

How do you feel about it?

[James Acaster]

I hate it.

[Daisy Ridley]

Don't you hate the haircut?

[James Acaster]

I hate it.

[Ed Gamble]

Really?

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

It's nice.

[James Acaster]

I hate it.

[Ed Gamble]

But don't you hate a haircut every time on the first day of having it, when it, when it looks fresh? I find it mortifying. Then people know you've had a haircut.

[Daisy Ridley]

I haven't had my haircut for a while, so, you know. But here I shaved it off a few years ago and I did go to a barber and paid 15 pound for them to just do that.

[Ed Gamble]

Wow.

[Daisy Ridley]

The problem was I'd bleach my hair. So when it was shaved, I felt quite cool.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

Because it was blonde. And then shaved off the blonde and that was not cute. That took a long time to be okay.

[James Acaster]

Were you wearing a hat during that time?

[Daisy Ridley]

Yes.

[James Acaster]

Did you have a particular go to hat that was like. That's my. When I'm.

[Daisy Ridley]

I had. Was it that hat that I was wearing at the time? I had a bucket hat with daisies all over it that I was given.

[James Acaster]

Wow.

[Ed Gamble]

Nice. Just in case.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

People like, remember your train with my name on it.

[James Acaster]

Do you meet many daisies? I meet James's all the time. And they try and make a big deal of like, oh, good. James too. It's like it's a common name. I don't have a connection with you, mate. But do you have that with Daisy? Do you feel connected?

[Daisy Ridley]

I worked with an actress called Daisy Head. Fantastic.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

And I worked with an ad called Daisy Rogers. Fantastic.

[James Acaster]

So just in the biz. It's an industry.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

Maybe it's an industry. I'm trying to think. I probably have somewhere else. But those are the two that come to mind.

[James Acaster]

My agent's called Daisy.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, really?

[James Acaster]

Industry shout out. It's an industry name.

[Ed Gamble]

Producer of the taskmaster podcast. Daisy. Oh, there you go.

[Daisy Ridley]

There we go.

[Ed Gamble]

Turns out it's nominative determinism really, isn't it? If you call Daisy, you're going to be in the biz.

[Daisy Ridley]

Exactly, yeah.

[James Acaster]

Anyone listening called Daisy? Who's not in the biz? You. You have let yourself down. Very embarrassing.

[Ed Gamble]

Daisy Man Cooper.

[James Acaster]

Daisy Man Cooper. Oh, yeah, yeah. We'll just do this for the rest of it. Or we could talk about Cleaner, your.

[Daisy Ridley]

New film that you loved.

[James Acaster]

I absolutely loved it. I thought it was so good.

[Daisy Ridley]

Watched it, loved it.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Well, you know, your favorite moment, I thought the whole thing, I felt, was like just very. The tone was lovely. I like the performances, and it made me feel. It's very thought provoking as well. Which. Which I guess did that come across in the script when you read it? Is that what drew you to it?

[Ed Gamble]

That was so good, man. Yeah, that was really good. And you just like Sky Originals, don't you?

[James Acaster]

I mainly like sky originals, the genre that I like of film.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yes, the sky movies.

[James Acaster]

Yes, I like sky originals.

[Daisy Ridley]

It. What's an actual answer to this question? I really wanted to work with Martin Campbell. The great Martin Campbell directed two of the Bonds, directed some of the best movies ever. So when I saw his name there, I was very excited. But I loved the script. It's proper, great action movie. And the relationship that you might have been referring to, the tone of the relationship with me and my brother in the movie is really genuinely lovely. So getting to explore that with Matt, who plays the role of Michael, who's my brother in the movie was really lovely.

[James Acaster]

Was there a scene that, like. Because you say that you really want to work with Martin, was there a scene where you were like, yeah, this is what, like, stands out in your head. That's like, yeah, this is like a really good day at work. Really fun film in this scene. And what I thought it would be like to collaborate with this guy.

[Daisy Ridley]

It's interesting because I was rewatching his movies as we were filming, and what I was really struck by is we all know the great action set pieces that Martin does, but rewatching his movies, there's always so much humor and real resonance in the characters, relationships. So one of the things that felt very fun to do in that way, a very sort of charged relationship. I've also never sworn as much ever in a movie. I swear so much at my boss in the film. He is such a plonker that.

[Ed Gamble]

That I love that you didn't even swear. Describing him there, you were like, I've done all my swearing. We're just gonna call him a plonker.

[Daisy Ridley]

But he was. That was very fun. And that's the sort of humor I think that Martin does really well in his films. And then, honestly, falling from the ceiling and, you know, I refer to it as my spider woman moment and putting a plastic bag over someone's head and resting them to the ground and taking them out.

[Ed Gamble]

Did you do all that stuff? Were you trying to trip James up?

[Daisy Ridley]

No, I did. Oh, my God. Does that sound like that's real?

[James Acaster]

All that stuff happened? Yeah, yeah, all that stuff happened.

[Daisy Ridley]

James knows.

[Ed Gamble]

I was just waiting for James to go. Yeah, I love that bit with the ceiling of you to go. Well, that didn't happen in that.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, did happen. I rewatched that scene and rewound it. Yeah, rewound it, rewatched it.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

I thought, that's definitely come up when you put the plastic bag over someone's head. How much rehearsal are you doing for that?

[Daisy Ridley]

That one was actually. That was a moment where I thought, I actually don't know that I can carry on because the adrenaline was so high. Getting used to. I mean, I'm used to stunt riggers who are incredible, but a lot of what we had been doing was, you know, pre programmed, so you know where everything's going to end up. But the moment that I'm referring to, I had two stunt riggers holding me up and I'm however, I don't know, 15ft in the air. So someone had to hold my toe so I wasn't swinging when I dropped. So someone would be holding my toe to keep me still. Then they'd run away. We'd already be rolling and then they'd have to drop me. And it was a heavy drop.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

So I had to drop and hope I didn't hurt my ankles. And then getting the bag over someone's head and then there's a sequence of things that I have to do that it took like 15 goes to get it right. And my adrenaline was so high I was shaking.

[Ed Gamble]

So you're actually, actually dropping from the ceiling and killing someone with a plastic bag.

[Daisy Ridley]

I mean, one of the real funny moments in the shoot was my makeup artist Charlie came up to me and she goes, God, can you imagine if you were on the side of the building and this was happening inside and you had to save the day? I was like, that's literally my job.

[James Acaster]

Constantly imagining that, yeah, this is going to segue into food. Watch this.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, when you do this, but we've been through this. Don't announce a segue before you do the segue.

[James Acaster]

Watch this. Okay, when you're doing a scene like that, are you like. And the adrenaline's all over the place, Are you eating anything, drinking anything to get yourself going, get yourself, get your, get your energy levels up?

[Ed Gamble]

Not a good segue. Stop tapping me.

[Daisy Ridley]

Well, I. For the first time ever, I ordered meals for this shoot because I knew it would be incredibly taxing physically. So I had a structured meal plan which was very good and so on, making sure I had what I needed. But we actually had our 4 o'clock hot chocolate club, which was really nice. We had an amazing barista, Kahlo on set. It was actually a very nice way to break up the day because often on a. With this, we were in the same location for a lot of it. And it's nice to just have a little afternoon moment. So a hot chocolate in the afternoon.

[Ed Gamble]

Who's in the hot chocolate club?

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, it was me, Tamsin, hair and makeup designer Charlie Simon, the writer. And then various people would sort of come in and out, but we were the. I called us the Fireside Crew because we had a heater. It was very cold in the studio.

[Ed Gamble]

Clive Owen not in the hot chocolate Club.

[Daisy Ridley]

He could have been. It wasn't that he wasn't invited, but he wasn't there for.

[James Acaster]

The door was open.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, the door was open. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

But I can't imagine.

[Ed Gamble]

Can't imagine Clive Own in the hot. In the Fireside Crew.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Imagine Clive Owen drinking a hot chocolate on his own. Imagine that. Why? Imagine that man drinking a hot chocolate.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yes.

[James Acaster]

No way.

[Ed Gamble]

What do you imagine him drinking?

[James Acaster]

I can't imagine him smiling.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, my God. But also, you will know that I've done a film with Clive before.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, I do.

[Ed Gamble]

What was the name of it again?

[James Acaster]

Huh?

[Ed Gamble]

What was the name of it again?

[James Acaster]

Post or pre production?

[Ed Gamble]

The release. What was the release of the film called?

[James Acaster]

Big. Big Bird.

[Ed Gamble]

Big Bird, yeah. Big Sesame street universe movie.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah, It's a Sesame street movie with the perspective it's a Big Bird origin story.

[Daisy Ridley]

Also, just to be clear, Clive is fantastic. He wasn't in that much, which is why he wasn't in the Fireside Crew.

[James Acaster]

I think he's fantastic and I think he's. I bet he's got a sense of humor as a laugh, but I can't imagine him drinking a hot chocolate. If anyone can imagine Clive Owen drinking a hot chocolate, then they should be in Actor. That's a good imagination.

[Ed Gamble]

A martini, maybe. Could you imagine?

[James Acaster]

Of course. And that's why he got close but no cigar. Yeah. We always start with still a sparkling water. Daisy, do you have a preference still, please.

[Ed Gamble]

Very, very to the point.

[Daisy Ridley]

I struggle to understand sparkling water.

[Ed Gamble]

You struggle to understand it. You can't even conceive of it.

[Daisy Ridley]

Like, I have a few sips, but it's one of those things that. When people are just having glass after glass, I think, oh, it's just like a. It's not for me.

[Ed Gamble]

No.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. That many glasses is kind of crazy. I think if you're having more than one glass sparked in water, then that is quite psychotic.

[Ed Gamble]

I'll glug it.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

That's so strange.

[James Acaster]

Point made.

[Daisy Ridley]

If it's mixed with something like. I'm a big fan of a fizzy elderflower. So if you've got elderflower cordial on there, chug away. But not by itself.

[James Acaster]

Chug away at the elderflower cordial. What is it about? Because I've. I've never been able to get on with elderflower court, really. But I would say my mum, my sister, my partner, all huge fans.

[Ed Gamble]

So I Clearly you're trying to make this agenda thing.

[James Acaster]

Oh, dear. Oh, no, I've done it. I didn't even realize. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

What you're saying there is.

[James Acaster]

I'm making it agenda thing.

[Ed Gamble]

You ladies love elderflower. That's what you're trying to say.

[James Acaster]

Why do the ladies love elderflower?

[Daisy Ridley]

I don't know why the ladies plural do. But I love it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

I gave up fizzy drinks years ago for Lent, so I never really went back to the. The big brands. I don't know if you're allowed to say one here. The Cokes and what have you.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

But for whatever reason, because my mum likes elderflower, so I think I, you know, I took it from her.

[James Acaster]

Maybe it is agenda. Any fellows who like elderflower? Tweet. The podcast.

[Ed Gamble]

Tweet.

[James Acaster]

Huh?

[Ed Gamble]

Tweet is so outdated.

[James Acaster]

Oh, yeah, don't. Yeah, don't do that.

[Ed Gamble]

Any fellas who like elderflower. I'll have an elder flower. I like an elder flower.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

With fizzy water.

[James Acaster]

Cancel the tweets. It's been disproven already. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

What else have you given up for Lent in the past?

[Daisy Ridley]

I think I tried to give up chocolate. That didn't happen. Glad to hear that was the only thing fizzy drinks. And I really stuck to it.

[James Acaster]

That's. That's the only one that's got completely. You did it.

[Daisy Ridley]

Did it. I remember talking to my gran at the time and I said, oh, do you give up anything? And she was a Christian.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

And she said, you get to my age and you don't need to give anything up. She said, I have my pleasures and that's what I like, you know? Yeah. And I thought that was quite lovely.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. I think if my grand. Said to me, I. I Have my pleasures.

[Daisy Ridley]

I know the way I said it, I would say she didn't say it like that.

[James Acaster]

And I really apologize you for Lent never coming here again.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh my gosh.

[James Acaster]

Oh dear.

[Ed Gamble]

No, but that's nice. Once you get to that age, it's like, no way.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Why would. Why would I do that? Why would I sort of weirdly punish myself?

[Daisy Ridley]

And then actually someone said something about taking up something is quite a lovely thing to do.

[Ed Gamble]

Smoking for Less didn't do that.

[James Acaster]

That's anti Jesus, isn't it? Yeah. He wasn't taking up anything for the. In the desert.

[Daisy Ridley]

Is that what it was?

[James Acaster]

I don't know. Is it in the desert? I think it's like he goes in the desert, doesn't he? He's in the desert for ages and then he comes out on Pancake Day or something.

[Daisy Ridley]

No, Pancake Day was this week. Pancake Day's been ye.

[James Acaster]

So Pancake Day kicks off Lent pancakes.

[Ed Gamble]

Before he went in the desert. To give him enough energy, Pancake Day.

[Daisy Ridley]

Cleared out all of the cupboards of people who were about to embark on Lent. I do know that.

[James Acaster]

So he had a pancake, went into the desert and didn't have any fizzy drinks while he was there. Correct.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh my God.

[Ed Gamble]

Certainly not Elderflower.

[James Acaster]

Then at the end he went, I have my pleasures.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

He said to one of the people writing the Bible, write this down. Yeah, I have my pleasures.

[Ed Gamble]

I have my pleasures.

[James Acaster]

I could have probably do it, but write that in the Bible.

[Ed Gamble]

The guy following him around writing the Bible.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah. There was a few of them, weren't there? Four of them at least. The main guys.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Writing a lot of it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

If your grandmother ever told you this stuff, she must have.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh my God. I'm still mortified at how I expressed my grandmother's sentiments.

[James Acaster]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

You made her sound like a person.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, God, yes.

[James Acaster]

But please don't ask us to edit it out though, because it was funny and you come across fine. It's an understandable mistake to make. Pops or bread. Pop ups or bread. Daisy Reddy. Pop ups or bread?

[Daisy Ridley]

Bread. Well, I suppose it's a case by case thing. If I'm in an Indian restaurant, of course I would take a poppadom, but for the most part I would take bread. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

But we're not in an Indian restaurant for your dream meal.

[Daisy Ridley]

No, no.

[Ed Gamble]

Do you have a look of a restaurant for your dream meal? Like what atmosphere do you want to be dining in?

[Daisy Ridley]

So I have actually spoken about my mother's dining table before, but to Me that encompasses love and shared food. So it would probably look a little something like that where there's too many people for the table, there are too many chairs. Obviously, you want the dream restaurant to be comfortable, but that, to me, is the epitome of sharing in something when there's not quite enough room, you know, so just a cozy space. Do people talk about table shape often?

[James Acaster]

Not enough.

[Ed Gamble]

Not enough? I'd say. Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

Because my. The difficulty is if you're with a lot of people on a circular table, you can't speak to the person opposite you. So I feel like a rectangular table is nice because then you've got the person to the left or right of you and the person opposite, but then you can't speak to the person down the other way. So I suppose it would be a change each course situation, Change the table.

[Ed Gamble]

Shape or change the.

[Daisy Ridley]

Change the seats.

[Ed Gamble]

I mean, we could change the table shape. It's the, you know, it's the dream restaurant. So it can be a constantly evolving table.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, I'd say a rectangular, long table. And people change seats every time.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, nice.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

But it has to be a proper shuffle around, not just, like, move one.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah. Unless you're in the middle of a really good conversation, then you wouldn't want to move.

[Ed Gamble]

How do you feel about situations like a dinner party or something, though, or a wedding where you're deliberately sat next to someone that you don't know?

[Daisy Ridley]

I'm not a huge fan of that. No, I just feel like it can be uncomfortable. Although I went to my friend's wedding last year and I actually ended up knowing someone that was there. Not accidentally, because it wasn't accidental, but I was like, oh, okay. But the earlier part of the wedding, everybody went to the pub. So there was the ceremony, then we went to the pub, then we went back. And I. I told myself to be brave, and I walked up to a group of people and said, hello, I'm alone here. Can I chat to you? And they were so lovely.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

So it was a. It was a good lesson in overcoming that real intense awkwardness.

[Ed Gamble]

I would usually feel how much of it was. They were lovely. And you went up and said, hello, I'm alone. Let's talk. Can I talk to you? And how much of it was. It's Daisy Ridley.

[Daisy Ridley]

No, it wasn't that.

[Ed Gamble]

It wasn't.

[Daisy Ridley]

Because later on they went, oh, my God.

[Ed Gamble]

Right. Okay, that's good. That's the best. That's the best case scenario.

[James Acaster]

They were faking that. We haven't known you Very long. Are you a gullible bastard? Oh my God. No, they were faking it. They had a few drinks with them later on. Oh my God.

[Daisy Ridley]

No, everyone had had a few. Everyone had a few. But I have to say it was, I mean, shout out Lois and Kieran. It was one of the most joyful wedding sort of parties. Everyone was so lovely and everyone really spoke to each other.

[James Acaster]

That's impressive.

[Ed Gamble]

There's normally a rogue person at a wedding.

[Daisy Ridley]

I know. Yeah. I did go to three other weddings last summer. There were no rogue people anywhere actually.

[James Acaster]

What kind of bread we talking?

[Daisy Ridley]

I mean, probably a sourdough because that's what tends to be in a restaurant. But fresh out the oven real warm.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

And I'm a vegan, so I'm not taking butter. But I will take a delicious olive oil and balsamic dip and with a sprinkle of salt.

[Ed Gamble]

How much salt are you putting on? Because I put on the amount of salt when I'm in public that I feel like is socially acceptable. But if I was by myself, it's gonna be about four times. Four times the amount.

[Daisy Ridley]

I don't know that my salt depends on peer pressure. I feel like it's a just standard sprinkle.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Your dream starter.

[Daisy Ridley]

Okay, so this is the one that I think I actually. Well, I have two options here. So one is there's a vegan restaurant in LA called Crossroads that is so tasty and they do impossible cigars.

[James Acaster]

What?

[Daisy Ridley]

So yeah, it's. It's like filo pastry with impossible meat inside and it's rolled up and they do like an almond dip and it is just so nice. But there's also a restaurant in Liverpool and I wish I could remember the name, but it's an Italian restaurant down a tiny little alleyway that my husband was doing a TV show there and we were recommended it and they had this dish that was butter beans in a creamy sauce. The non vegans had parmesan on. I did not with truffle. And it was mind blowingly delicious with a delicious crusty bit of bread to dip into it too.

[Ed Gamble]

That sounds great.

[James Acaster]

Are you doing research, Benito? You trying to find the name of this place?

[Daisy Ridley]

I actually tried to find it because we went back there. It's off. If the bombed out church is here and you walk up the road before you take the right onto Hope street, it's in there. And I remember this because the hotel's called Hope Street Hotel. Yeah, it's in there somewhere. So it's really close to the Hope Street Hotel and the bombed out cathedral.

[James Acaster]

While Benito's trying to search for it. Are you too young to remember Blazing Squad?

[Daisy Ridley]

No, I'm not too young. I love Blazing Squad.

[James Acaster]

Are you capable of going across roads and not thinking about them?

[Daisy Ridley]

See you at the crossroads. Stop crying, love. Blazing Squad.

[Ed Gamble]

Who's your favorite member of Blazing Squad?

[Daisy Ridley]

How many members were there?

[Ed Gamble]

A lot.

[Daisy Ridley]

There were.

[James Acaster]

Right?

[Daisy Ridley]

There were a lot.

[Ed Gamble]

And I feel like there were like four or five main ones. And then what they'd done quite nicely is they just got a load of their mates to be like, they're in the band as well. Even though they didn't do anything, they just gave them names. Yeah, I think Kenzie was sort of the lead guy. Right.

[James Acaster]

I didn't know you were such a.

[Ed Gamble]

Aficionado, Kenzie from Blazing Squad. I know there was one called Strider.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, there was Strider. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And then I'm struggling, really. I remember Kenzie and Strider, but it.

[Daisy Ridley]

Was like so Solid Crew, all those amazing big bands.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, but same with so Solid Crew. I don't think we heard from a lot of them. Asha d, of course, but I mean, just like when they were so solid.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

There was a lot of people who were clearly on admin roles.

[Daisy Ridley]

Well, also, I saw an interview with who Was it? And they said 21 seconds came from the fact everyone was allowed 21 seconds to have their piece from the band.

[James Acaster]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

How great. What a dramatic way of showcasing on that song. Yeah.

[James Acaster]

21 seconds each.

[Ed Gamble]

They all had 21 second verses. Yeah.

[James Acaster]

We should have that role on the podcast, me and you.

[Ed Gamble]

21 seconds each.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. At a time. Not throughout the whole pod, but like, Benito should start a stopwatch every time we start talking. And then we got to stop by 21 seconds.

[Ed Gamble]

How do you think that. How do you think that experience would be for you, Daisy, if the Hosts spoke for 21 seconds each?

[Daisy Ridley]

Why don't we say yeah? Yeah, let's find out.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, I'll get stopwatch up.

[Ed Gamble]

This is quite similar to something that happens on one of Benito's other podcasts.

[James Acaster]

Is it? What happens on one of his other podcasts? I don't listen.

[Ed Gamble]

Perfect brains. They do the conch, which is this idea, basically.

[James Acaster]

Is it?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[James Acaster]

Forget it. So you got to choose between these two dishes.

[Daisy Ridley]

Okay. In. In speaking about them, I'd say the. The. The bean dish.

[Ed Gamble]

I think the bean dish. You. You're really into that. Bean dish.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, so good.

[Ed Gamble]

The fact you listed exactly Basically the coordinates of the.

[Daisy Ridley]

Of the restaurant.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, I feel like.

[Daisy Ridley]

And then actually there was another time I was really torn because there's also a great vegan restaurant called down the Hatch in Liverpool. But I wanted the Bean so much that we went there for starters and then went to down the Hat and a Dessert.

[James Acaster]

So you can do a vegan crawl around Liverpool. Yeah, they got some good options.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But down the Hatch. Yeah. I feel like in most cities there's one amazing vegan restaurant. There was one in Sheffield. I can't remember the name, but there's always one really good one.

[James Acaster]

Bean dish. Sounds like one word to me.

[Daisy Ridley]

Bean dish.

[James Acaster]

Bean dish. Yeah. Every time you kept saying it, like fiend dish. Like fiend dish.

[Daisy Ridley]

Fiend dish.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah. I just thought it was a nice, Nice name for the fiendish bean dish. Halloween dish. Yeah. That was when Jesus went into the swamp and he came out and scared a lot of kids.

[Ed Gamble]

Very Christian festival, Halloween, isn't it?

[James Acaster]

Yeah, very Christian.

[Ed Gamble]

Do you do Halloween?

[Daisy Ridley]

I want to be someone that does Halloween and I end up. Not really. The last time I actually did Halloween, I was in LA and went to someone's house and it was amazing. The neighborhood was amazing. But I had very quickly got a costume together. You know, in Mean Girls, when she turns up in the. That, it was like that. Everyone else was so put together. And there was me. I didn't have fake teeth in, but sort of grayish makeup I didn't even have. Everything was just off.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

And I felt really embarrassed and I wish I hadn't dressed up at all.

[James Acaster]

What were you dressed up as?

[Daisy Ridley]

I had found this. I had found this dress in a vintage shot and it was so itchy, too. It was horrible. So I was a dead. I don't know, something.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

So you hadn't thought about what you were.

[Aura Ad]

I've.

[Ed Gamble]

I mean, I've done those Halloweens before as well. You're just like, well, I'm. Yeah, I'm done.

[Daisy Ridley]

And I wanted to take part.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, you should have said that to everyone.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Just walk in and go, guys, I want to take part. Just want to let you know I'm a dad. Something.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, I'm here.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[James Acaster]

You must have had people dress up as you for Halloween.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yes, yes. I've never seen anyone in real life do it, but I've seen pictures. Yeah.

[James Acaster]

So we go with the bean dish. The bean dish.

[Ed Gamble]

But Shout out to Crossroads.

[Daisy Ridley]

Shout out to Crossroads.

[Ed Gamble]

Is that in la?

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah. Oh, did he. Yeah, yeah. So tasty.

[James Acaster]

Oh, there you go. So there you go. Cigar already on the. On the pod.

[Daisy Ridley]

So I'm adding this.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Which makes me think I probably asked the Blazing Squad question before.

[Ed Gamble]

Maybe. But this was a long time ago.

[James Acaster]

Crossroads back then, Ed. And not saying the Blazing Squad thing.

[Ed Gamble]

When Sam Carter was on the podcast very early on in the life of this podcast, and he picked. He picked the cigars. You must have done the Crossroads stuff.

[James Acaster]

I must have, yeah. I apologize.

[Daisy Ridley]

That's okay.

[James Acaster]

Because I have no memory of this, but clearly I've repeated. We can see how close the riff was to identical, what you brought to it.

[Ed Gamble]

You know, I bet you can lay the riffs over the top of each other and you just say the exact same thing.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. I'm just saying the same thing for Gil. This is off the top of my head. It's great. Your dream main course.

[Daisy Ridley]

So this is the one that's very difficult for me. So for me, I feel like in trying to think about. I go to similar restaurants. I often try things, but I try to be trying other things. But, you know, they're my favorites that I come back to. But I think food for me is so emotional and home signifying that. Part of me feels like. Honestly. Sausage and mash with bisto gravy and peas. That's one. And I'm a vegan now, but my gran used to make a casserole with boiled potatoes and peas. So that is also another.

[James Acaster]

Is that.

[Ed Gamble]

Is that the pleasures Gran?

[Daisy Ridley]

Yes.

[James Acaster]

I was gonna say the Christian grand, but fair enough.

[Daisy Ridley]

That my.

[James Acaster]

Was the casserole one of her pleasures, I think.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, my God. Sorry, Mum. And my mom now does it, but now I obviously don't eat it. But in terms of emotion and home, that's it. And then you're looking at an honest burger, the classic vegan bacon. But I know that's not really. But those are the things.

[James Acaster]

Why aren't you thinking the burger?

[Daisy Ridley]

Well, because I feel like people, you know, talk about incredibly luxurious things.

[James Acaster]

Not really.

[Ed Gamble]

Sometimes they do.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You've got to go with what you.

[James Acaster]

Feel, what you genuinely want to eat.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah. Unlike a. Not that. As I was saying, I haven't worked in a little while, but at the end of a work week, what I would love to do is sit down with either a burger or sausage mash. Probably.

[Ed Gamble]

Then I think that's what you got to go for if it's your dream meal.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You're putting together.

[James Acaster]

How about.

[Ed Gamble]

Literally what you want? Here we go.

[James Acaster]

How about this? Daisy. What?

[Ed Gamble]

Go on.

[James Acaster]

You get the burger. Yeah, we get the burger. We get it, we get it. Well, this is what we're going to do.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[James Acaster]

We put it on a plate. What if we did this and then we build the mash around it with the sausages in it, and so you have the sausage and mass and then inside you've got your. Your burger there.

[Daisy Ridley]

That sounds horrible.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that sounds so gross.

[James Acaster]

What if we put the burger in a bell jar.

[Ed Gamble]

And then the mash over the. Yeah, I think that sounds worse. Imagine.

[James Acaster]

Lick it over there.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, but you've got to get. The mashall will be stuck to the bell jar.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, but for sure, it always has to be bisto gravy.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

And I know the gravy purists will say no, but for me, the bisto gravy out of the red carton.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

The bomb nostalgic.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

But then I also do love a roast dinner.

[Ed Gamble]

Bisto, surely making an appearance there as well. Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

And I do also, yeah, I cook meat, although I don't eat it, so that is usually involved in the roast. But maybe it would be roast potatoes with sausages.

[James Acaster]

Oh, dear. Oh, I don't think there's a lot going on.

[Daisy Ridley]

Also, I think by virtue of being away a lot for work, it is just about home.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

So it's funny because even the idea of a restaurant, I picture everything in.

[Ed Gamble]

A home with everyone sat around there.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Sat around the table.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Which, by the way, loads of people sat around the table. Too many people. And everyone's reaching in and sharing.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Is my nightmare.

[Daisy Ridley]

Is it? Well, I don't like the reaching and someone's getting burnt and whatever. Like if there was a way that the food appeared on everyone's plate at the same time. Yes, perfect. And there were enough gravy jugs that it's not running out by the time it gets to the other end, you.

[Ed Gamble]

Know, because if you're at the wrong end and you can see the gravy going around and it's getting less and less so anxious.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And even if someone says, like, your mum or whatever, oh, well, there's more gravy in the kitchen, don't worry about it. You're like, well, fucking bring it in now. Yeah, bring it in now and let's start down this end.

[Daisy Ridley]

I eat quite quickly, so me and my mom cooked for my mom's friend last week for her birthday, and then I was sort of wedged in, so I wanted to go and get more and I couldn't get out. And that was quite stressful.

[Ed Gamble]

How much were you wedged in?

[Daisy Ridley]

There wasn't much room. Well, there were two people aside of me, but you know, there were too many people.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah. That's far too many people. If you're wedged in, you can't even get up.

[James Acaster]

Even.

[Ed Gamble]

You did the toilet.

[James Acaster]

Well, I mean. I mean it's people just passing the food to you and you're just like in the corner.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

So then eventually I was passing more and then. And then I left and sort of stayed down the other end so I was free.

[Ed Gamble]

Just when it stood in the corner.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Standing up, holding your plate.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Just facing the wall, like. Blow away.

[Daisy Ridley]

Asking for more.

[James Acaster]

Ye, that's nice. You and your mum making something for a friend.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, I. I was only meant to do. What was I doing? Oh, I was doing jeweled rice for it. So I was only meant to be doing the jewelled rice and then ended up doing.

[James Acaster]

What's that? What's that?

[Daisy Ridley]

Well, I had been to New York a couple weeks before.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

And I went for dinner with my publicist in this delicious restaurant. Again, Wish I could tell you the name. Can't. And it's.

[Ed Gamble]

Where is it exactly? Do you remember?

[Daisy Ridley]

It's 15 minutes. No idea.

[James Acaster]

East of the Lago.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, it was. It was a 15 minute drive from the hotel I was staying in. Anyway, she wasn't into it from. It wasn't giving what I think the restaurant was actually giving. And we went in and it was a Super bowl day, so it was quite empty. So you never can tell, you know, if a restaurant's a bit empty. But they did this, I think in America they do fried Brussels sprouts so.

[Ed Gamble]

Well on like every menu as well.

[Daisy Ridley]

Every menu. So they had done amazing sprouts and then they did this jeweled rice that was just perfect. And it had all of the fruit and everything in it, but then it had crispy onions on top.

[James Acaster]

There's fruit in this rice.

[Ed Gamble]

That's the jewels, baby.

[Daisy Ridley]

That's the jewels, yeah.

[James Acaster]

What fruit? Bananas?

[Daisy Ridley]

Well, the one I made was slightly different, so it was not bananas. Dried apricots, dried cranberries, pomegranate, almonds, pomegranate big one. Various other things.

[James Acaster]

Oh, nice.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, it's delicious.

[James Acaster]

You make a good one.

[Ed Gamble]

What do you think the jewels were?

[James Acaster]

I don't know really. I guess like something nice and sparkly in the rice. Yeah, Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

A bell jar.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Well, that would be good, wouldn't it? Device around a bell jar. I have some jewels in the. Under the bell jar.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

So once you've finished all the rice, you get a nice load of jewels to take home with you.

[Ed Gamble]

That would be the opposite of you saying, I don't want anything too fancy and saying, actually, I do want a pile of rice with some jewels. Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Yes, please. Are you leaning towards any of these options? You've got three options here.

[Ed Gamble]

Bisto makes a play in all of them, I think.

[James Acaster]

Not in the burger.

[Daisy Ridley]

Not in the burger.

[Ed Gamble]

Although we can chat about that.

[Daisy Ridley]

No, no, no, no, no.

[James Acaster]

No, you wouldn't. Poor bista on a bird.

[Daisy Ridley]

No. If I went for a chip shop chip, which sometimes. Yeah. I would never order gravy, but I would occasionally use gravy to dip my chips in. I mean, really, I'm thinking about sausage and mash.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

And peas.

[Ed Gamble]

And Are we going back to a time before you were vegan?

[Daisy Ridley]

No. No. So this is a. This isn't the. This isn't sausages. That's the brand name.

[Ed Gamble]

This isn't.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. This isn't. Sausages is the brand name.

[Daisy Ridley]

The brand name is. This isn't.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

And these are the. This isn't sausages.

[James Acaster]

It's wordy, ain't it?

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, not so much. It's just. This isn't.

[James Acaster]

This isn't.

[Ed Gamble]

This isn't.

[Daisy Ridley]

They do all sorts, but the sausages are very good.

[Ed Gamble]

This isn't sausages.

[James Acaster]

This isn't sausages.

[Daisy Ridley]

And I will use a vegan butter in the mash, of course.

[Ed Gamble]

What's vegan butter like? Is it even a successful recreation of butter, do you think?

[Daisy Ridley]

I haven't had it in. I haven't had butter in so long that to me it's delicious, but so.

[James Acaster]

It tastes like normal butter to me. So you just taste the butter? Yeah, I've had that stuff. I had it with. With cocoa. I just gave up all caffeine, just like you were saying.

[Daisy Ridley]

Actually, did you just say you had butter with cocoa?

[James Acaster]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

You would do that?

[James Acaster]

I have butter with cocoa. I do always do that. I'm gonna give it up for Lent. Sorry, I've had too much butter and cocoa. No, I gave up caffeine and then I didn't have caffeine for ages and so I didn't have Cokes and then I started drinking Diet Coke and it just tasted like normal Coke.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, I can't get on board with the diets.

[James Acaster]

I don't do them anymore. So giving it caffeine again, which are you gonna have? I think you're leaning towards us. Are you settled on the sausage?

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, I'd say sausages and mash.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, Sausage and mash.

[Ed Gamble]

How many? This isn't sausages. Are you a standard portion of Daisy's sausage and mash?

[Daisy Ridley]

I'd say I probably put three on my plate and come back from a fourth.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

Come back for a fourth. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You can't go four on the plate for the first helping.

[Daisy Ridley]

No. And I feel like I try to be. Cause I often do myself quite a big portion. I'm trying to be a bit daintier, you know, so I'm trying to do something and go, oh, I'll just have a bit more.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

Because I feel like that's quite civilized.

[Ed Gamble]

Even if you end up having eaten the same amount.

[Daisy Ridley]

No, I will eat exactly the same amount, but I feel it's quite civilized to go for seconds.

[James Acaster]

So it's not gonna look like the Beano sausage and mash.

[Daisy Ridley]

No.

[James Acaster]

That's great, though.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

That Beano sausage and mash. I wish.

[Ed Gamble]

I. I don't like the sausages sticking out the mash.

[James Acaster]

I do.

[Ed Gamble]

You do?

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

But then how. You're gonna have to take them out the mash to cut them anyway. Right.

[Daisy Ridley]

That's so true.

[James Acaster]

That's great. Looks great, you know, that's great. Yeah, yeah, That's. First bite's with the eye. Would you agree, Josie?

[Daisy Ridley]

First bite is with the eye, for sure.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

Because that's the thing, too. Sometimes if people put too much on my plate, I feel it's overwhelming my senses. And actually, I'd rather it.

[Ed Gamble]

Look, I like going back for seconds as well. Even when I get a takeaway and me and my wife disagree on this. She'd rather put everything on the plate.

[Daisy Ridley]

Interesting.

[Ed Gamble]

In the kitchen, then take it through and eat it all on the plate. But I go. I go, starters.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, I don't do that on a plate.

[Ed Gamble]

Then I'm like, I eat those quickly.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Then we have to pause the telly again because I'm straight back up again.

[Daisy Ridley]

No, we do a lot of pausing.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Guess who decided I'm on in this? Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

No, I would put everything on a plate, but I feel like if you're getting a takeaway, I would have a little quick nibble before you've sat down for the start.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, yeah. You've got to have a quick nibble.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Walking. Walking to wherever you're sitting.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

But, yeah, I'm. I'm just taking the starters through. What's the problem with that?

[James Acaster]

It's crazy.

[Ed Gamble]

What? So if you order a Curry. And you get some samosas, onion, bargie, whatever.

[Daisy Ridley]

All on the plate.

[Ed Gamble]

All on the plate with the cup.

[James Acaster]

All on the table or somewhere that's near the tv. So I'm not having to pause it.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm not eating at the table, especially.

[James Acaster]

If the other person's doing. All on the plate. I'm not gonna just go, just starters, have those pause the thing you're watching. Go away, load up your plate again.

[Ed Gamble]

That goes for her, doesn't it? She should then go, well, you're doing this. I'll join in with that.

[James Acaster]

No, because yours makes less sense two ways.

[Ed Gamble]

What? Having starters. If you're in a restaurant, which are not. But it makes more sense. If you ordered the bargies, you just. You'd get those first, wouldn't you?

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

But then I still. I still feel like I like them. I like a few and then I still like them to be there when I'm having my main.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah. You know, that's the. That's the, like, advantage of doing it at home is that you don't have to do it one by one. You can mix the mains and the starts. Like Daisy says, it's not an advantage.

[Daisy Ridley]

Interestingly, I did actually go to one of the restaurants that had been recommended on this very podcast.

[Ed Gamble]

Did you?

[Daisy Ridley]

And it was very good. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

By us.

[Daisy Ridley]

I won't name which.

[Ed Gamble]

By us or the guests, you can name it.

[Daisy Ridley]

Apparently it had been named a couple times. But what's. What's sort of funny about the whole thing is I wasn't supposed to go to this dinner. There's a group of people that go for dinner often and one of the people invited me and another person and we went and that person didn't go. So we had a really nice time, but I already felt slightly surplus to requirements. Also, shout out. Because one of those people listens to this lovely Nick. But it was. Yeah, they said, oh, this restaurant had been recommended a number of times. So we went and it was.

[James Acaster]

And they didn't like it either.

[Daisy Ridley]

No, it wasn't good.

[James Acaster]

Oh, my God. Yeah, go on. What was it? Bleep it out.

[Daisy Ridley]

No, genuinely, I actually. I don't know what it is, but also because I looked on Google, because I really judge restaurants by Google reviews, and the Google reviews were so low. Like below 4.3.7, I think.

[James Acaster]

Race the rudders, Race the sails.

[Ed Gamble]

Race the sails.

[James Acaster]

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[Ed Gamble]

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[Daisy Ridley]

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[James Acaster]

Your dream side dish.

[Daisy Ridley]

Do you know, I. I was thinking about this because I was gonna say if I didn't have the impossible cigars for a starter, maybe I'd do those for a side. But actually maybe I'd do brussels sprouts because peas are included already. Right. That is my main dish.

[James Acaster]

I mean, the mash.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, sure, yeah, yeah. So you've got, of my thing, three.

[Ed Gamble]

Sausages and then one in. One in the kitchen.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah. And I've got mashed potatoes, peas on the plate, and I got.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

So I can have another side dish.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all one dish. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

I'd say Brussels, but I also have started doing these carrots very recently that are a maple miso garlicky. Oh, yeah, carrot. You put them on the hob for a little bit, put them in the oven. So good. So maybe those two.

[James Acaster]

I feel like we can let you have both of them.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

You know, one of those dishes that's.

[Ed Gamble]

Like split in the middle and you can put two different things in.

[Daisy Ridley]

Nice.

[Ed Gamble]

How are these Brussels prepared?

[Daisy Ridley]

Well, I just don't know how they make them so good because whenever I try to do them at home, they just don't work. So presumably there is a deep fried process somewhere.

[Ed Gamble]

Right.

[Daisy Ridley]

But always cut in half, always crispy around the edges. Quite simple, garlicky, oily.

[Ed Gamble]

I feel like roasting them is just as good, to be honest.

[Daisy Ridley]

But sometimes roasting makes them soft. And these are particularly crisp.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. I think leaving the outer leaves on is important as well. When I've roasted them, you leave those outer leaves on that you would normally take off. You go, that's disgusting. Leave those bad boys on. They're crisping up.

[James Acaster]

You guys really know your stuff about vegetables. I don't know how to do any of all of this is, like, news to me. I'M learning.

[Ed Gamble]

You've been saying that for five years, man.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, I learned a lot. I mean, pretty impressive. We've been doing the podcast for seven, so that's quite clear.

[Ed Gamble]

You refused to learn for the first two.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah, I didn't learn anything.

[Daisy Ridley]

Now look at you. All the research, watching all the films.

[James Acaster]

And people coming on multiple times.

[Daisy Ridley]

Multiple times. Rewinding your favorite bits.

[James Acaster]

Cleaner. Out now, out in a few days.

[Ed Gamble]

It's not out now. James, how did you watch it?

[James Acaster]

Live in my house. I got sent it. You do a lot of cooking?

[Daisy Ridley]

Yes, I would say so, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You're saying you're cooking meat at home but you're not eating it? Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

So I cook meat for my husband or. Well, the other day I cooked one omelette for my husband, one omelette for my mum. What did I cook for myself? And I was like, wow, I'm literally preparing three different meals for breakfast. Yes. So I cook all sorts, but, yeah, I think cook quite a lot.

[James Acaster]

My mum's a veggie, so. And does like most of the cooking at home, so now my dad's just a veggie at home.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, really?

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Why's your husband demanding meat?

[Daisy Ridley]

It was funny. For a long time in lockdown, there was no meat cooking. I'm very unjudgmental. Like, people do what they want to do. It's really. It's my choice. It really does not affect anybody else. But it's quite funny because apparently I cook meat really well, but the only way I can judge it is by the people's faces who are eating. And there is a real lovely satisfaction in watching people enjoy something that you really actually can't enjoy.

[Ed Gamble]

That's mad, isn't it, that as a vegan, you've been blessed with the skill of cooking meat so well.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

That's a film.

[Ed Gamble]

That's a film.

[James Acaster]

Come on, let's take this. Let's take this to the big guys.

[Daisy Ridley]

Who were they?

[Ed Gamble]

Come on. You know the Big Sky Original?

[James Acaster]

Sky Original?

[Ed Gamble]

You must have met the big guys.

[Daisy Ridley]

A couple of them.

[Ed Gamble]

House.

[James Acaster]

How cheap and Happy days.

[Ed Gamble]

How much more detail do you think we'd need before we went to the big guys? The lead character in our mind, played by Daisy Ridley.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

She's a vegan, but she's been cursed with the skill of cooking meat.

[James Acaster]

Really?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, blessed or blessed, depending on how you look at it. That's the question the audience to ask. Yes.

[James Acaster]

Is it a curse or a blessing?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

And we can say you're attached.

[Daisy Ridley]

Sure, yeah.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you.

[Daisy Ridley]

Let's go to the big guys tomorrow.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. How long do you think we'd last in the big guy room?

[Daisy Ridley]

I don't know if I'd lost in the big guy room.

[Ed Gamble]

You'd lost in the big guy room. Come on.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're the last one they'll kick out in. In the. In the pitch.

[Daisy Ridley]

Just get rid of us all.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, but you'll be. We'll get kicked out slightly earlier than you. We'll be waiting for you in the. In the next room.

[Ed Gamble]

Right?

[James Acaster]

They kick you out too? Yeah, yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

How'd it go? Not good.

[James Acaster]

Not good. I tried to carry on the pitch on my own, but it was mainly your gut. You guys were the passionate ones about it. I didn't really. I could tell my heart wasn't in it.

[Ed Gamble]

Have you ever been in a meeting where at the end of the meeting they go, well, nice to meet you. And then as you're walking out, the person you're with, they go, could you stick around? I've got something else I wanted to talk to you about.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Really? Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Of course.

[James Acaster]

Who was that?

[Ed Gamble]

I think it was my manager, actually. They were like.

[James Acaster]

I clearly wanted to talk about one.

[Ed Gamble]

Of his other clients. Oh, yeah. And it hadn't gone well, you know, that's great.

[James Acaster]

But maybe it was just you. Unless somebody else would have told you about. Door closes. You to drop that.

[Ed Gamble]

That guy sucks. What's that guy's name again? I hate that guy.

[James Acaster]

We had respect for you before you brought that guy in here. We're never having a meeting with you again if you don't drop that guy.

[Daisy Ridley]

I do feel like people have become quite okay with saying things that are sort of a backhanded compliment, but the opposite. What would you say a backhanded compliment for? The opposite is a front handed insult. Insult. Yeah, a front handed insult. Someone came over to me at something recently and I was with someone who was in something they really, really liked. So that person was getting a lot of feedback. Fantastic. But someone came over to me and they go. I watched. Sometimes I think about dying, which I know you loved. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[James Acaster]

It really comes into its own on the fifth watch.

[Daisy Ridley]

Exactly. And they came over and went, watch that. It was really interesting. Really, really good. And I thought, all right, why are you saying it like that? Like it was a. It was a front handed.

[Ed Gamble]

Interesting is such a. I hate that.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

Because I think he did mean that he liked it. But also there was a. There was an element of him Saying it was, how did you do that? You know.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, you should become a comedian. That's all we get. Yeah, all we get is, how do.

[Ed Gamble]

You think that went?

[James Acaster]

I would absolutely kill for interesting.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

They come up to you and go, all right, my girlfriend thinks you're quite funny. I don't get it, to be honest. I think you're.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, yeah. Well, people do your face well. Interestingly, in. Sometimes I think about dying, you'll know. I am opposite a stand up comedian. Yes, he was in Ramy, but this was his first foray into film and he was phenomenal. But one of the moments was what I thought was an improvised moment. We're walking up this hill and he has to try and make me laugh. So he was telling me this story and I think he got a bit of a chuckle out of me. And I went and saw him last summer he was here and I saw him do some standup and I was talking to his friend after the show and he had used it before and he said on set that it was a totally new story he'd come up with. With.

[Ed Gamble]

And he only got a bit of a chuckle out of you.

[Daisy Ridley]

You got a little chuckle.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that would have been that. He would have felt bad for that.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah. But he wasn't the one that told me. His friend was. His friend said, oh, my God. When I watched the film, he used that bit on me. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

But I mean, as he's delivering it to you. Well, by that filming and you're only chucking like.

[Daisy Ridley]

Well, he knew that, my friend. I'm not a. I'm not like a huge belly laugher all the time. So I think he knew that it was going to be a little tricky and the obstacle was to make me.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

Really laugh.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

That's a terrifying note to get in a film, isn't it?

[James Acaster]

Make her laugh.

[Ed Gamble]

Make her laugh.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Make her barely laugh.

[James Acaster]

Walk up a hell of Make a laugh.

[Ed Gamble]

You can just make a laugh.

[James Acaster]

Don't do any. Don't do any old material.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

Do people do that to you at weddings and things make me laugh or.

[Ed Gamble]

Like such a bad vibe at a wedding. No one's going to ask him to do that.

[Daisy Ridley]

Fair.

[James Acaster]

No. I get a lot of hassle at a wedding.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

What came first to chicken or the egg, do you think? Bad vibes because you know people are going to ask or.

[James Acaster]

No, I definitely. I think I was pretty good Vines before I became a stand up and people.

[Daisy Ridley]

Right.

[James Acaster]

Come up to you and say whatever they want. And now I'M like, oh, no, here comes someone I don't know.

[Ed Gamble]

Right.

[James Acaster]

This is going to be bad.

[Daisy Ridley]

Right.

[James Acaster]

Whereas when I started out in Stand Up, a very vivid memory of, like, I would be on the train hoping I meet a crazy stranger and we can connect and talk about life.

[Daisy Ridley]

Right.

[Ed Gamble]

And now I like that version of you.

[James Acaster]

Oh, I like that guy. Hey. I don't like me at any point.

[Ed Gamble]

Yucky.

[James Acaster]

But now I'm just like, I, I don't, I don't talk to any of them because I've been stung too many times when they come up. And even if it starts good, it's going, it's going bad at some point.

[Ed Gamble]

That's why he DJs at weddings a lot. Because then the idea is no one comes to talk to him.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, but then, but then you get requests. Yes. So that's backfired quite a bit. Had a guy square up to me at my friend's wedding. Really, really angry because I wasn't playing Brian Adams.

[Daisy Ridley]

Right.

[James Acaster]

And it was, I had no, it was in this really weird venue. I had no WI FI signal, so I could only play the playlist the bride and groom were giving me. It was just as a favorite.

[Daisy Ridley]

Right.

[James Acaster]

And he was thinking, this big shot, right, Isn't playing. He refused. What the people want. Right, right, right, right. And he was hammered. And I was just, I was having a deal with the whole thing while trying to make sure the bride and groom didn't see it. So I want to ruin their day.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, did they ever find out?

[James Acaster]

They, they found out afterwards, right. When someone else said to them, james had a stressful night.

[Daisy Ridley]

And then it was like, did they find it funny?

[James Acaster]

No, they were, they were a bit like, we're so sorry. I was like, you don't need to do with you guys.

[Ed Gamble]

Right?

[James Acaster]

Let's just. I'm just glad you didn't know.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

When I was like, well, I'm gonna get beaten up. But I just get beaten up very.

[Daisy Ridley]

Quietly because muffled your pain.

[James Acaster]

If you're gonna kick my head and we get under the deck. You beat me up there, hold a.

[Ed Gamble]

Cushion at my st. Stomach. You punch me through.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your dream drink.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, my God.

[Ed Gamble]

You know what?

[Daisy Ridley]

I'd go for a lychee martini.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, lovely.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah. But quite a sweet one.

[James Acaster]

Not to have fun. I think we have our answer to who's playing Bond.

[Daisy Ridley]

Just a sweet martini.

[Ed Gamble]

Quite sweet.

[Daisy Ridley]

No, I went to because I, I, I'm a fan of a lychee martini occasionally. And then I went to. I'm not gonna fucking remember the name of it.

[Ed Gamble]

Of course not.

[Daisy Ridley]

I went to somewhere very fancy in LA for a drink with my team and I asked for a lychee martini. And it was so strong, I took one sip and I don't drink very much. I was off my dittatas. It was intense. So I would really err on the sweet, not too alcoholic side. Drinks are strong in America, so, I mean, it was. It was a martini with a touch of, you know.

[Ed Gamble]

But any drinks are just like. They're just free pouring and then putting a tiny bit of mixture in. Yeah, I love it.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. I take that over the sweet ones, but I get.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, really? Yeah, yeah.

[James Acaster]

Is there a lychee popped in there?

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, yeah. Always bobbing around, bopping them out. Yeah. And then I'd go for a. Because I'm allergic to wine. So I don't go for a wine, but I'd always go for a dessert wine because for whatever reason, I think the sugar content cancels out the.

[Ed Gamble]

What are you allergic to in the wine.

[Daisy Ridley]

Basically, the last time I had wine, I was so, so, so sick out of a cab, but I hadn't drunk that much that the only answer was, I'm allergic to wine. Because it had happened previously at a charitable dinner. So sick. So sick. And then weirdly, like a hangover the next day, but an emotional one for a number of days. Yeah, it was horrible. But I think higher sugar content and things sort of cancels that out. So dessert wine, I'm okay with.

[James Acaster]

Will.

[Ed Gamble]

There'd be. Yeah, I guess slightly lower alcohol as well, but. Yeah.

[James Acaster]

What?

[Ed Gamble]

What? Is there a particular dessert wine that you're into?

[Daisy Ridley]

I mean, Tokai. God, I've actually remembered something. Or a Sauterne.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

Or the Elysium.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, no, I don't know.

[Daisy Ridley]

It's a. It's a little screw top. It's delicious.

[James Acaster]

If you were Bond.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

I mean, I assume you'd say yes if they offered it to you.

[Daisy Ridley]

This is so funny. Sure. Yeah. I am Bond. Surprise, surprise.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. That question. Would you say yes if they offered it to you? Is absolutely. And I don't mean it like this, but that is the most clickbait journalist question you could possibly ask.

[James Acaster]

Is it?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Would you say yes to Bond if they offered it to you? Yeah, of course. Daisy Ridley says that she would love to be Bond.

[James Acaster]

Oh, exclusive.

[Daisy Ridley]

I wasn't trying to get you exclusive from the podcast. Yeah, I am Bond.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Yeah. Would you do it? Would you want to make some little alterations to it? Have a Lychee martini. Maybe change some of the catchphrases, you know, do things differently.

[Ed Gamble]

Are you saying that we couldn't have a lady Bond who has a normal martini?

[Daisy Ridley]

Elderflower martini.

[Ed Gamble]

Sparkling elderflower?

[James Acaster]

Yeah, you could say elderflower martini for the ladies.

[Daisy Ridley]

Have you ever seen Operation Mincemeat?

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, it's fantastic. You know, they have the running gag with him trying to sell James Bond.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, it's so good. Excellent show.

[Ed Gamble]

It's a very, very good show.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, I've actually been a number of times. You haven't seen it, huh?

[James Acaster]

Yeah, even that I watch it most nights.

[Daisy Ridley]

This troop of friends did. Oh, it's just one of those amazing stories.

[Ed Gamble]

My management produced it, so.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, really?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, that's what. That's what the person wanted to talk to his agent about. He gave me tickets. The website crashed. I'd really love to get tickets. Operation Mincemeat. Tell Gumball you can come. I'd love to be called Print Gumball. Okay. Well, now that you've met. Now that you've made it that I'm changing Bond because of the gender thing, that we can't. Can't. Can't do that anymore.

[Ed Gamble]

What do you mean?

[James Acaster]

Well, I went up with the lychee martini thing. Build a new bond.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, well, we can do that. No, I can't any other. Would you. Would you change the catchphrases or would you change the.

[James Acaster]

Why because she's a lady doesn't know.

[Ed Gamble]

It doesn't work as much as you going, would you have a martini or would you have a lychee martini? A sweet martini.

[James Acaster]

Would you change the catchphrases? Daisy?

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, my goodness. This is so ridiculous.

[James Acaster]

You don't have to answer if you think it's going to become clickbait. I'm worried about that now.

[Daisy Ridley]

I think there was the conversation previous about Jesus in the desert. I feel like that's more.

[James Acaster]

That's on us.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, that's on us.

[Ed Gamble]

If they offered you the part of Jesus, would you take it?

[James Acaster]

Would you play Jesus? Okay, you got three options. You can play either Jesus.

[Ed Gamble]

They're all filming at the same time.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

Jesus James or Jesus Bond or.

[James Acaster]

Oh, why did I say free option? And I don't prefer Race the rudders, Race the sails.

[Ed Gamble]

Race the sails.

[James Acaster]

Captain, an unidentified ship is approaching. Over. Roger.

[Ed Gamble]

Wait, is that an enterprise sales solution?

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[James Acaster]

Dream dessert.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, so this is nice because we've got a drink that sort of takes you from the mains through to the sweetness of the. Of the lychee martini.

[Daisy Ridley]

Shake it up again. I've got a couple options, one of which I think this is the one I'll probably go with. So my mum used to make us hedgehog cakes when we were little for our birthdays. So the look of that to me is wonderful.

[Ed Gamble]

You said. Oh, yeah, yeah. Like you've had a headshot.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

Like with matchmakers stuck in it.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Holders.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

So is it like.

[Daisy Ridley]

It just looks like.

[Ed Gamble]

It just looks like a hedgehog and then what? So it's matchmaker.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah. Spikes.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, it can be.

[Daisy Ridley]

There's other chocolate fingers for eyes. Oh, chocolate fingers. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[James Acaster]

I've seen. I've seen people do it with just milk buttons or even just do it by like manipulating the icing in a way that looks like spikes. I've seen people do that.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that feels like a rip off that.

[Daisy Ridley]

I can't do that. People that can. Well done. But we always went for the matchmaker sort of sticks and then you get.

[Ed Gamble]

An extra thing as well. Right. You don't.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, exactly. Different texture. So the look of that. But recently her friend and I actually said to my mum, how would you feel about me saying this? Because it's her friend, not something she made, but her friend makes this Nigella cake. It's a lemon polenta cake that is so tasty. And then she did a lemon curd ice cream all vegan on the side and it was really, really tasty. So that's sort of what has been present in my mind as I've been thinking about this.

[Ed Gamble]

I love, like any polenta cake, like, so good. It's so good. It's so moist because you put. Oh, is it made with olive oil as well? Is it that. I think I've had that exact.

[Daisy Ridley]

So crumbly.

[Ed Gamble]

So good.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, so, so tasty. So I feel like that's sort of what I'm. That's what I'm being drawn to.

[James Acaster]

So lemon curd ice cream. Like, is it just taste of lemon curd or is it.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, it's so tasty. It's just creamy and lemony and enough tanginess, but sweetness.

[James Acaster]

Do you have a favorite vegan ice cream? Like a brand that you look out for if you ever.

[Daisy Ridley]

I had a vegan magnum the other day. Very tasty. Yeah, Yeah. I had made. I didn't make it actually. My husband made it. He had made dinner for two of my friends and we were thinking about dessert and I thought, what can we do? That's easy? And I thought magnums actually.

[Ed Gamble]

Hang on. So he cooked the main?

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah. I don't know why I was trying to take the crack.

[Ed Gamble]

Were you in charge of dessert?

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah. And I think it's been a busy day.

[Ed Gamble]

You went shop?

[Daisy Ridley]

We went shop, yeah. Yeah. And I thought scooping of the ice cream, sometimes you're waiting for it to defrost. All of that stuff.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

A magnum. There's something quite nice about that.

[Ed Gamble]

It's definitely the lowest effort dessert you can eat.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, 100%. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I tend to be. I tend to bring like a lemon drizzle cake to a situation. So they know I do bake.

[Ed Gamble]

You've established your credentials already.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

So they know you do do that, but you don't wait for them.

[Daisy Ridley]

No. Honestly, one of my sort of sad moments was I did stand up to Cancer Bake off and I'm actually quite a good baker. And I did so horribly on the show that it was sort of a running joke with my friends and family that I can't bake, but I can. But then you don't wanna look like a brat. Usually I'm really good and it's for charity and all of those things, but the pressure in the tent, the whole.

[James Acaster]

Thing is a stitch up. The whole thing is like that. It's not fair the way it's done. So it makes very curbaceous look very fair.

[Daisy Ridley]

They did leave it a long time. So some of the others things hadn't set, but by the time they came to taste them, they had set.

[Ed Gamble]

Who are we on with?

[Daisy Ridley]

I was on with Rob Beckett.

[James Acaster]

A cheat.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, my God. Alexandra Burke. Tom Allen.

[Ed Gamble]

There you go.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, it was such a fun episode.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, lovely. Tom and Rob went to school together.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, it was fantastic. The two of them together were great.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Well, then maybe that was it. You were just, you know.

[Daisy Ridley]

Well, they had all practiced a lot.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Beckett practice.

[Daisy Ridley]

He did. He did his things looked professional. Yeah. And I Yeah. I was just really, God, I'm good. And I had actually made jam and I took jam and I wasn't given any credit for the jam. It was so long ago. I should let it go.

[Ed Gamble]

You're right. Looking down the cameras, it's all going wrong. Saying I'm so good is really.

[Daisy Ridley]

I literally started by saying I'm either going to win or lose horribly. And I lost horribly.

[James Acaster]

I feel like you should have got credit for the jam. Come on, you may have a jam.

[Daisy Ridley]

I mean, I've said it a number of times. They're like, get over it. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I thought I would do really badly at that. And then I did better than I thought I would.

[Daisy Ridley]

Interesting.

[Ed Gamble]

About halfway through the day, I was like. Like, I'm doing way better than I thought. And that. That was the killer.

[Daisy Ridley]

Because then.

[Ed Gamble]

Then I didn't win and I was livid.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I was so angry, I forgot my toothbrush in the trailer.

[James Acaster]

That's interesting.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

You told me at the time that you actually were okay with the fact you didn't win and it was all right. And I thought in my head, that's soft breath.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[James Acaster]

And it's good that I found out now that rightly.

[Ed Gamble]

Example beat me.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, I forgot. Example beat you. That one.

[Ed Gamble]

And he used to be a chef, so I think that's cheating.

[Daisy Ridley]

Definitely.

[Ed Gamble]

He may be a superstar DJ now, but he used to work in catering.

[James Acaster]

I'm from catering, of course.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, God.

[James Acaster]

You see my Bake off episode? Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

I actually will have done. Yeah, I watched them all. Yeah, great.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, I did.

[Daisy Ridley]

Well, I for sure see more of your work than you see.

[James Acaster]

No, come on.

[Daisy Ridley]

I think the Just Bake off generally is one of the best shows ever made.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Daisy Ridley]

It's just joyful. It's just delightful. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

That's why I like it when someone gets genuinely angry on there.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Because they're ruining it. They're ruining the whole spell of the show.

[Daisy Ridley]

And there are a few we've rewound. I don't know if you remember when the guy's like, his knife sort of got stuck in the cake and he threw it in the bin, but the knife was stuck in the cake, so there are a few. It's just fun.

[Ed Gamble]

Was that. That wasn't the baked Alaska guy, right?

[James Acaster]

No.

[Daisy Ridley]

Was it?

[James Acaster]

That's Ian.

[Ed Gamble]

That's Ian. Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Way back when.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

I feel like.

[Ed Gamble]

I remember he threw at baked Alaska in the bin.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Because I think that, to me, represents every time I cook.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, really? That reaction, do you give up entirely if one thing goes wrong? Are you like, I'm done.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't give up. I plow through. But if I'm cooking for someone else and I feel halfway through, it's not gone as well as I thought it should do.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I'll complain about it and then when everyone's eating it, I'll spend the whole time going, I'm so sorry, this is awful.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

It was meant to be.

[James Acaster]

And it's always delicious. Ed's cooking is fantastic.

[Daisy Ridley]

Who's the better cook out the tea?

[James Acaster]

Ed? By like a million miles.

[Ed Gamble]

But neither of us really do it.

[James Acaster]

That much, so we decided between the cakes because I. Yeah, I'll go for.

[Daisy Ridley]

The, for the lemon polenta.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that does sound really good.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

But shout out to your mum's cooking.

[Daisy Ridley]

Just shout out to my mum's hedgehog cake.

[Ed Gamble]

Should we shout out the name of your mum's friend who made this?

[Daisy Ridley]

No, no, no.

[Ed Gamble]

Is this. Is it the same friend that you and your mum cooked for the other night?

[Daisy Ridley]

Interestingly, it's not. But she was at that dinner and she had done the polenta cake but with orange, which was quite tasty.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

But I still prefer the lemon one.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Come on now, don't mess around with the classic.

[James Acaster]

I love it. You're all cooking for each other, hanging out.

[Daisy Ridley]

My mum is really a wonderful hostess. She cooks for people. She has a lot of people around. My parents house is like a merry go round. Anyone that needs somewhere to stay goes there. Anyone that needs a meal goes there.

[James Acaster]

Would Ed and I be welcome?

[Daisy Ridley]

Of course.

[James Acaster]

You reckon your mum would accommodate us?

[Daisy Ridley]

100%.

[James Acaster]

Like, you know, can I get around this table? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

I do always end up doing the washing up, which is fine, but you.

[Ed Gamble]

Know, I'd happily help with that.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, it likes that.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm good. I'm good at that.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, I can swerve it. I can like, I, I usually just like, I'll get the tea towel and just be there with the, like drying up one plate for a long time while socializing.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, see my. It might be a controversial opinion. I don't like drying things up.

[Ed Gamble]

I know, I agree. That's not controversial.

[Daisy Ridley]

Okay.

[Ed Gamble]

For me.

[Daisy Ridley]

Some people can't get their head around why. I don't. But I think we'll let that dry and then I'll come back to the next bit when that's dry.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[James Acaster]

You want to create space on the training board.

[Daisy Ridley]

I thought you said training board. Training board, yeah. Yeah. But I feel like, you know, do it in.

[Ed Gamble]

That's the board that you start on.

[James Acaster]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

And then only when you're ready, you move up to the basin.

[James Acaster]

But no water.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Invisible. Just.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I bought a new washing up brush recently. Big day in my house.

[Daisy Ridley]

Interesting.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Stiff bristles. Very exciting.

[Daisy Ridley]

Nice. I go the eco. So I've got those walnut scrubbers. Walnut scrubbers, very good.

[Ed Gamble]

I think I've seen the walnut scrubbers.

[James Acaster]

What? The walnut scrubbers.

[Daisy Ridley]

Well, you know, because sponges are terrible because they're plastic, so the walnut is made of recycled plastic and walnut bits and they get everything clean off.

[Ed Gamble]

Are they sturdy?

[Daisy Ridley]

They're. They're fairly thin. So they're a scourer, essentially, but good. And no scratching.

[Ed Gamble]

I just prefer a brush.

[Daisy Ridley]

Interesting. I feel like I like to be a bit more tactile with it.

[Ed Gamble]

I like a sponge, I like a bit of distance from the plate.

[James Acaster]

How much distance are you talking?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, the length of the handle.

[James Acaster]

That's not very far, Ed. You may as well get in there. Who are you kidding?

[Daisy Ridley]

I don't know that I'd go for a brush. I'd always go for a sponge.

[Ed Gamble]

Try the brush out, tell me how it goes.

[James Acaster]

Well, I think I would look forward to saying the phrase walnut scrubber more than I would brush. Where's the brush? It's gonna feel like I'm far away from the plate. I'd rather be like, if anyone's seen the walnut scrubber, I need to scrub some dishes.

[Daisy Ridley]

How long ago do you think people turned this one off? Is this from the episode where you're like, no one wants.

[Ed Gamble]

No, this is. This is the meat. This is the meat of it now. You must be joking. Talking about walnut scrubbers and washing up brushes.

[James Acaster]

Reward for all the people who've got to the end, they get to hear the walnut scrubber chat. Yeah, but I'm team drying up.

[Daisy Ridley]

Just interesting.

[James Acaster]

Just. I'll go on that.

[Ed Gamble]

What'd you do when the tea towels wet, though?

[Daisy Ridley]

Because I don't like that.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, when it's all soft, you're washing up, mate. You're interacting with the wettest thing in the world. Water.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, but.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, but it stays wet.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Then it's. The water is wet.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, all the time. But then what you do, you've dried.

[Ed Gamble]

Three plates in a pan and then you've got a soaking wet detail.

[James Acaster]

Oh, soaking wet.

[Daisy Ridley]

Grow up after a little while. That is a super wet detail.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[James Acaster]

Still does the job man still does the job. If you're good and you're able to utilize the different parts of the tea towel while you're washing, you're not just doing the whole thing.

[Ed Gamble]

Different parts of the tea towel. It's a square.

[James Acaster]

Oh, you. This is why. This is why your team washing up. You don't know how to make a tea towel last. I'm good at it. I'm really good. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. I got a dishwasher as well. Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

I tend to restock other people's dishwashers too.

[Ed Gamble]

Do you. Do you not like them?

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah. I'll do the washing out, the things that need to be washed up and then I'll.

[James Acaster]

I'll restack because they've stacked it badly.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

What annoys you most about other people stacking wasted space? Yeah.

[James Acaster]

You're doing it alphabetically.

[Daisy Ridley]

It's just use what you've got. Just get them in there. Or people running it on half cycle. So annoying.

[Ed Gamble]

I always go eco.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah. Actually, eco is not always the best way because sometimes it goes double the time. Mixed messaging everywhere.

[Ed Gamble]

So it's not the. It's not the most ecologically friendly way of doing it.

[Daisy Ridley]

I think basically the quickest cycle is the most eco cycle.

[Ed Gamble]

Right. This is it. They're tricking you every single time.

[James Acaster]

You've been tricked. How does that feel?

[Ed Gamble]

I've been tricked by big dishwasher.

[James Acaster]

Big dishwasher. Got you. It feels pretty bad by the big boys.

[Ed Gamble]

And it's not even a big, big dishwasher, it's a half size one. You got a little half size, which annoys me sometimes. I go, come on, you're doing well. Why have you only got a half size dishwasher?

[James Acaster]

You talk to yourself.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, my agent's on speakerphone.

[Daisy Ridley]

We started this with me saying, gosh, you know, it's so great for you guys to ask different questions and I have truly never been asked most of these questions. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Daisy came in and said it'd be nice to, you know, chat about some other stuff.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And now she's regretting that.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. She's like, I'll ask you what it's like to act with BB8. Ask me about BB8 for Christ's sakes. Talk to these guys about dishwashers. Are you kidding me?

[Ed Gamble]

He could have been a dishwasher.

[James Acaster]

BB8. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Chuck him in there.

[Daisy Ridley]

Traverse your.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Don't, don't. That's clickbait, mate.

[Ed Gamble]

Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, I'll be all over the tabs all over the tabloids. Daisy Ridley says. Yeah, BB8 should have been in dishwasher.

[Ed Gamble]

I said he could have been a dishwasher.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, but you're just setting her up. That was a trap. Well done for not falling for it. That was a trap if ever I heard one. You should be ashamed yourself. Yeah, yeah. I'll read you your menu back now, see how you feel about it. Still water.

[Daisy Ridley]

Still water. But you didn't ask me about ice or lemon or lime.

[Ed Gamble]

Tell us now.

[Daisy Ridley]

No ice. Yeah, bit of lemon. If I'm. If I'm feeling restaurante.

[James Acaster]

Like white. One slice, yeah?

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah. No, one slice looks classy. Although then sometimes you have to deal.

[Ed Gamble]

With it flapping and that's not classy when it's bumping up against your top lip.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

No way.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, it gets stuck there.

[Ed Gamble]

Just rather swallow the whole thing while no one's looking.

[Daisy Ridley]

Everything that's now being said sounds so dodgy.

[James Acaster]

It's all clickbait.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

We're all going down to the end of all of our careers.

[Ed Gamble]

It's simply one of my pleasures.

[James Acaster]

Poppy observed. You would like sourdough with olive oil and balsamic vinegar and a sprinkle of salt. Starter butter beans and creamy sauce with truffle from the place in Liverpool with.

[Daisy Ridley]

The crusty sourdough dipped in that came with it.

[James Acaster]

That's very important.

[Ed Gamble]

Near the Hope Street Hotel.

[James Acaster]

Yes. Main course, Three quarters. Three, four. Like a fraction.

[Ed Gamble]

Three quarters of a sausage, I thought.

[James Acaster]

I don't remember this. Three slash four. This isn't sausages. And mash with bisto gravy and peas. Side dish, crispy Brussels sprouts and maple miso carrots in a little dish that divides down the middle. Yes. Drink a lychee martini, Brackets, quite sweet. Sweet, not boozy. I guess what you could say when you're bonding. Dessert, Nell's lemon polenta cake with vegan lemon curd ice cream.

[Ed Gamble]

Beautiful. I'm very excited about that.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, great.

[James Acaster]

Does sound good.

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Those carrots, I'm gonna try making those.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, they're really tasty.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

The trick is you have to cut them sort of chunky on the hob with the miso garlic, bit of maple. And then in the oven with the lid on for 15, take the lid off for five.

[Ed Gamble]

There you go. Yeah, I'm doing it. James, I'm inviting you over.

[James Acaster]

Oh, thank you.

[Ed Gamble]

For carrots.

[James Acaster]

I can't wait to see you sitting there going, oh, those carrots. Don't eat those carrots. Them.

[Daisy Ridley]

You try and Find a detail.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry, what the. Is this what I smoke? You're doing okay. You're doing all right. Everyone being like, is that okay?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Making you go through. And getting one carrot first. Bringing it through.

[James Acaster]

Pausing, cleaner, and then go ahead and get our men.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm not putting cleaner on when you come over. You've seen it already.

[Daisy Ridley]

I can't wait to watch it again.

[James Acaster]

I'm the one who's gonna be bringing it over.

[Daisy Ridley]

And remember your favorite bit?

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

We talked about it.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

Which bit?

[James Acaster]

The song.

[Ed Gamble]

Daisy, thank you so much for coming to the Dream Restaurant.

[Daisy Ridley]

Thanks for having me.

[James Acaster]

Thank you, Daisy.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you so much to Daisy for coming on the podcast. James, what a great menu and a lovely chat.

[James Acaster]

I'll get myself a walnut scrubber. I love it.

[Ed Gamble]

So we're presuming that's all staying in the pod, right?

[James Acaster]

If it doesn't stay in the pod.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Then still keep me saying that I'm gonna get a walnut scrubbery.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that does. I mean, Daisy wasn't convinced it was going to stay in the pod.

[James Acaster]

No. But Daisy is, like, you know, overestimated how exciting our chats are.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[James Acaster]

Like, you know, it wasn't Daisy's fault that that conversation was boring. It's because that's what we draw out of people and what we inspire and what we bring to the table ourselves.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't think that chat was boring. I maintained talking about Brush v. Sp Sponge is actually a really good chat.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. And washing up, the drying up. It was two in tandem.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. So I know Daisy's probably used to a different sort of interview, and so she thought maybe people will turn this off, but our listeners know.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

That brushfeed sponge is very much in our wheelhouse.

[James Acaster]

We're kicking off all over the web now.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God.

[James Acaster]

And Daisy did not say rabbit.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[James Acaster]

Why would she? She's a vegan, so, you know, there was no chance of that happening.

[Ed Gamble]

She didn't. Yeah. As soon as she said she was a vegan, I was like, we're safe.

[James Acaster]

We're safe.

[Ed Gamble]

We're good. Maybe. Maybe that's. She's a vegan. We should have asked because she voiced cottontail.

[James Acaster]

Maybe it was because she voiced cottontail and then vegan.

[Ed Gamble]

We should have asked that. We didn't ask anything about that. We didn't ask anything about Star Wars.

[James Acaster]

No. You know, we get different things out of guests.

[Ed Gamble]

Brush, free sponge, for example, whether you have a brush or a sponge, in that moment, you are a cleaner. So make sure you go and watch Cleaner.

[James Acaster]

How did we not bring it back to that? Yeah. In the actual episode?

[Ed Gamble]

I don't know, man. Hindsight's a beautiful thing. Is that the phrase?

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Hindsight's 20 20.

[James Acaster]

Oh, that was a bad year.

[Ed Gamble]

Message the great bonito Brush or sponge.

[James Acaster]

Make sure you message the great bonito and say, beniti. Boniti. I got a little treaty for you. And then you say it's an either brush or sponge.

[Ed Gamble]

Brush or sponge.

[James Acaster]

That's the boniti. Boniti. I got a little treaty for you. It's brush or boniti. Boniti. I've got the little treat you for you. It's sponge.

[Ed Gamble]

And then what will happen then if you message in and then Ben will.

[James Acaster]

Count them all up.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

And a week. So you have one week to do this and then a week later he will publish the results.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[James Acaster]

Sometimes he cuts these bits out, but we'd like to remind him at this point, he fucked up today so hugely that it would be really a bad sport to cut this out at this point. So, yeah, he really does have to. And if he cuts it out, let us know.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. If you are in Australia or New Zealand, I am coming on tour to you in June. Edgamble.co.uk for tickets going to lots of different places in those countries.

[James Acaster]

Limey cobbers, get yourself down there.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes, thank you, Cobbers.

[James Acaster]

Myself, I do a podcast called Off Menu. I co host it with my friend Ed. If you could listen. Every Wednesday. Every Wednesday it goes out.

[Ed Gamble]

You know what?

[James Acaster]

Wherever you get your podcast genuinely fills.

[Ed Gamble]

My heart with warmth that you remember the day that this podcast goes out.

[James Acaster]

No, that's when we get a WhatsApp from old Listy. Yeah, that's what he WhatsApp.

[Ed Gamble]

That's true.

[James Acaster]

It's out now.

[Ed Gamble]

Old Listy sends us the links in the picture for no reason. Cause you're not on Instagram.

[James Acaster]

Who am I sharing?

[Ed Gamble]

And all I have to do is accept the collaboration.

[James Acaster]

And I don't know how to use WhatsApp properly. So all that means for me is that I've now got to delete a photo from my actual photos on my phone because they're all still anyone WhatsApps me a photo. It gets saved in my photos immediately. I know. Turn that off.

[Ed Gamble]

Are you kidding me?

[James Acaster]

I don't know how to turn it off. I don't know how to turn it off. I don't know how to use WhatsApp. This week, Kyle Smith Bino messaged me on WhatsApp and. And it was from a number I didn't recognize. I don't have his number. So to prove it, he sent me a photo of himself and I noticed that he didn't have a contact pic, so I tried to make it his contact pic and I accidentally made it my profile pick on WhatsApp. And now my profile pick on WhatsApp is Kyle Smil in the trailer of some, like, TV series he's doing. That's it. Now hang on.

[Ed Gamble]

To prove that he was him.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

He sent you a publicity photo of Kyle Smith.

[James Acaster]

Biden wasn't publicity. It was him sitting in his trailer.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, right. Okay.

[James Acaster]

Smiling at me.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Like looking, like deliberately looking quite comical. So that's my photo now.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Is Kyle.

[Ed Gamble]

You don't know how to change that?

[James Acaster]

I don't know how to change that now.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

And he, he told me to keep it like that.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

So I got a honor. My word.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. Well, thank you very much for listening. We'll be back next week with more japes from the Off Menu boys.

[James Acaster]

Oh, dear.

[Ed Gamble]

Whoopsie daisy. Oh, Ridley.

[James Acaster]

If you like detailed and immersive audio storytelling, you might like Canadian True Crime.

[Daisy Ridley]

Crime.

[James Acaster]

Praised by listeners as thoughtful, well researched and empathetic, Canadian True Crime began as a passion project by Aussie Canadian host Christy Lee. With curiosity and a keen eye for detail, Christie carefully unravels the full stories of some of Canada's most compelling cases. Going beyond the superficial to uncover the real story behind the crime. Find Canadian True Crime wherever you listen to podcasts.

[Daisy Ridley]

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[Ed Gamble]

Download the Amazon Music app today.

[James Acaster]

Hello there Off Menu listeners.

[Daisy Ridley]

It's me, Amy Gledhill, and you might remember me from my episode of Off Menu when I chose to have seaweed on mash. And I'll be taking no further questions.

[James Acaster]

And my name is Ian Smith and you may remember me from the one line of dialogue I had in a non Broadcast Channel 4 pilot. Maybe you were in the studio audience at the time.

[Daisy Ridley]

Who can forget?

[James Acaster]

But that's not what we're here to talk about.

[Daisy Ridley]

No. Nor the news. Our podcast is coming back for series four.

[James Acaster]

And don't worry, it's not a boring news podcast.

[Daisy Ridley]

No way. We're two northerners living in London and every week we catch up on the weirdest, most bizarre local news from up north. Things like woman in tears after spotting spitting image of dead dog in bath mat.

[James Acaster]

Pure evil blackbird named Derek terrorizing Yorkshire village and attacking children.

[Daisy Ridley]

And we're joined by special correspondence every week.

[James Acaster]

Like you.

[Daisy Ridley]

One and only Ed Gamble, who you might have heard of.

[James Acaster]

You'll remember him from this pod. The one you're listening to now. Yeah, he hosts it. Yeah, co host.

[Daisy Ridley]

He was on my episode of Off Menu.

[James Acaster]

Was he?

[Daisy Ridley]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[James Acaster]

I think he was in the non Broadcast Channel 4 pilot I did as well.

[Daisy Ridley]

Oh, he will have been. He's a nice guy.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Daisy Ridley]

So that's northern starting next Thursday, the 1st of May, and then every Thursday after that. Join us.