Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster - #TheShowMustBePaused

Episode Date: June 3, 2020

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Hello, listeners of the Off Menu podcast. It is Ed Gamble here from the Off Menu podcast. I have a very exciting announcement. I have written my first ever book. I am absolutely over the moon to announce this. I'm very, very proud of it. Of course, what else could I write a book about? But food. My book is all about food. My life in food. How greedy I am. What a greedy little boy I was. What a greedy adult I am. I think it's very funny. I'm very proud of it. The book is called Glutton, the multi-course life of a very greedy boy. And it's coming out this October, but it is available to pre-order now, wherever you pre-order books from. And if you like my signature, I've done some signed copies,

which are exclusively available from Waterstones. But go and pre-order your copy of Glutton, the multi-course life of a very greedy boy, now. Please? Hello. Ed and James here. You may have noticed that there is no episode of Off Menu today. We took the decision that with everything that's happening, with the Black Lives Matter protests and police brutality and the murder of George Floyd, all the absolute horror show that's occurring in the US and all the discussions that it's sparking off over here and around the globe that today probably wasn't the best idea for a light-hearted podcast about dinners that we recorded a fair few months ago. So we've made that decision. So we thought we'd

use this platform to let you know some places that you can donate, some places that you can do some more reading, and hopefully help out a little bit. We're certainly teaching ourselves some stuff as well. Yep. There's loads of opportunities online at the minute to get involved and support various organizations. The show must be pause.com, where there's loads of links on how to donate to causes and how to support other people. BlackLivesMatter.com as well has lots of resources and instructions on how to take action. Also, if you search for the Act Blue bail funds, then you can donate to that. And the donations we divided between different bailout funds

as well. And certainly at no point am I telling you to go and learn things that I already know. My education on these topics is absolutely woeful. So I'll be using the time that we normally would have put into promoting the podcast and chatting about the podcast to go and read those things and donate myself. But I hope everyone out there is keeping themselves as safe as they possibly can be. And we will see you soon. Hello, it's me, Amy Glendale. You might remember me from the best ever episode of Off Menu, where I spoke to my mum and asked her about seaweed on mashed potato. And our relationship

has never been the same since. And I am joined by me, Ian Smith. I would probably go bread. I'm not going to spoil it in case. Get him on, James and Ed. But we're here sneaking in to your podcast experience to tell you about a new podcast that we're doing. It's called Northern News. It's about all the news stories that we've missed out from the north because look, we're two Northerners. Sure. But we've been living in London for a long time. New stories are funny. Quite a lot of them crimes. It's all kicking off. And that's a new podcast called Northern News we'd love you to listen to. Maybe we'll get my mum

on. Get Glendale's mum on every episode. That's Northern News. When's it out, Ian? It's already out now, Amy! Is it? Yeah, get listening. There's probably a backlog. You've left it so late.