Tessa Coates
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What do the hosts say in the opening and introduce Tessa Coates?
Welcome to the off menu podcast. Taking the oyster shocker of conversation, cramming it into the oyster shell of humour, cracking open that bad boy pod, and enjoying all the juicy um oyster um chat on the inside of it. Oysters. That
is a gamble. My name is James. Together we own a dream restaurant every single week we invite in a guest, asking their favorite everstart, a main course dessert, side dish and drink, not in that order. And this week our guest is
Tessa Coates! Tessa Coates, a wonderful comic, James, a wonderful writer, a wonderful performer. So many Director. Director. Oh my god, this is Like Tessa's done everything. We first She's got so many hyphens. I l reading uh CVs, like reading bloody Morse code.
So many height dashes. Brilliant comic. But then uh common character. Yeah. Tessa's show Ride or Die is on Amazon Prime now. Tessa's the showrunner. She created it. Hannah Waddenham is in it. Octavia Spencer is in it. Very excited to see this from Tessa.
Me too. She's fantastic. And she's coming to the dream restaurant to give us her dream menu chat.
But we will kick her out if she picks the secret ingredient. And this week the secret ingredient is yogurt coated. Raisins coats coated. Yeah. I like yogurt coated raisins. I like 'em. My mum used to buy them from Daily Bread, which was a Christian shop. We had the best kids.
You'll get coated raised in the body of Christ.
Exact well, th that a certain part of his body. It's what we're told in Sunday school.
Every different food is a different part of Christ. Yeah. Yeah.
Every different food you can imagine, different part of Christ.
Remember that. Remember that kids.
In remembrance of him.
Yes. This is the off menu menu of Tessa Coats.
How does my hair look? That's my first question.
Okay,
fantastic. That's on
tape. Is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've brushed it especially.
Yeah.
Have we begun?
Yes. Okay,
I'm ready.
I normally do a bit now, but we're gonna start with you saying how does my hair look? Okay. But I'll do my bit. You do be yours, yeah.
I'll be silent. Welcome Tessa to the Dream Restaurant. Welcome, Tessa coach, to the Dream Restaurant. But it's better to give us some time.
Thank you. It is so much more exciting than I thought it would be to see you do that to my face. I've heard it so many times. How
exciting did you think it was gonna be?
Uh sort of fifty percent of that.
Yeah.
Yeah. And it was n way nicer. That's pretty cool. Also, may if I may share another truth.
Please.
I thought you did that bit where you talked about me while I sat here silently.
No. That would be weird, I think. Well,
I always think wow, people are really keeping it together by being silent.
How do the hosts reveal the secret ingredient and start joking about yogurt‑coated raisins?
Everyone ever has kept it together.
I'd better be quiet. Yeah. But it turns out you're we're straight in. We'll do that.
We'll we we'll we do that before slash after you leave. Behind your back. Oh.
Yeah. Behind your back.
Yeah. Because of of course there's a secret ingredient as well. We don't want you to hear the secret ingredient. Is this one of your questions you wanted to ask?
Yeah, I was like, wow, they just hear it. So why of course they're not gonna say it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, understood. Yeah. A lot of the behind the scenes of the working of the restaurant becoming clear. Thank you.
Yeah. The the live episodes are where that's difficult because we have to source the secret ingredient from the audience and we really have to just get the guests to promise they're not gonna listen backstage. Yeah. And then sometimes they just come on and go, Yeah, I listen to it. Yeah, I know what it is. Yeah.
I'd say a lot but then a lot of guests at the suggestion that they would be listening backstage, they are absolutely horrified. They're like, Well no, it's fine, I'm not listening backstage. Yeah, I don't care. I'm a candy crush, you idiot. Listen to the first time. I'm drinking my prosecco you've y you've bought for me that I demanded.
That I insisted on.
Um Great Hair.
Thank you so much. Okay, you don't okay, listen, listen, listen, everybody. I I just got you've got great hair. Thank you so much. I the seating arrangement.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What do the hosts say in the opening and introduce Tessa Coates?
0:13–2:54
2
How do the hosts reveal the secret ingredient and start joking about yogurt‑coated raisins?
2:54–16:03
3
Why do they talk about writing on a napkin when dining alone and the ‘pen‑less’ habit?
16:03–40:02
4
What is the dream restaurant concept and what historical details are requested for it?
40:02–1:19:40