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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?

13.396 - 29.92 James Acaster

Welcome to the Off Menu Podcast, taking the crepes of conversation, adding the sugar of friendship and squeezing over the lemon juice of humour, James. A traditional. Yeah. Trad crepe. Or pancake. We should say pancake.

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30.321 - 41.922 Ed Gamble

That is Ed Gamble. My name is James A. Cassidy. Together we own a dream restaurant. And every single week we invite in a guest and ask them their favourite ever start, a main course, dessert, side dish and drink. Not in that order. And this week our guest is Will Arnett.

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42.363 - 44.888 James Acaster

Will Arnett. International trej, James.

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45.168 - 52.116 Ed Gamble

Absolute comedy royalty in my opinion. Very excited. And mine. Yes, yes. I never want to speak on your behalf.

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52.336 - 59.928 James Acaster

No, but I think we're on the podcast together. We have a shared opinion. Everything we say is our opinion. Okay, that's interesting.

59.948 - 63.514 Ed Gamble

That's an interesting new spin on it as we move forward with the same opinions. Yes.

64.235 - 65.617 James Acaster

Okay. Not Benito's, though.

65.857 - 86.526 Ed Gamble

No, we don't share Benito's. Oh, dear God. The spiciest of opinions, that guy. I imagine if we shared Benito's opinions, that would be bad. I mean, Arrested Development, BoJack Horseman, Blades of Glory. The list goes on. He's done so many amazing things. And most recently, 30 Rock, of course. Ed Special is subject to Mastermind. Nothing gets past this guy. Because we have the same opinion.

86.546 - 91.133 Ed Gamble

We have the same knowledge as well. Does that mean I did better on Mastermind now? You did pretty well anyway, didn't you?

Chapter 2: What is the significance of Will Arnett's new film?

201.551 - 202.212 James Acaster

Chloe Radcliffe's in it.

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202.493 - 216.59 Ed Gamble

Our friend. Chloe Radcliffe, our friend. Shout out to Radcliffe. But... Will Bish go to the Oscars? Oh, yeah. That's what the whole country's thinking. Our comedian, John Bishop, will he end up on the red carpet at the Oscars?

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217.132 - 222.123 James Acaster

Well, that's a shame, isn't it? Because there's the red carpet for the stars, and then there's a bit, there's just a red car.

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222.544 - 223.626 Ed Gamble

It's red carb it.

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224.107 - 225.49 James Acaster

He has to eat spaghetti.

225.51 - 225.771 Ed Gamble

Oh, right.

225.751 - 249.16 James Acaster

and bread and all sorts they make you eat loads of carbs I thought it was a bit where there's just a car he's in the car park the red car bit yeah he's in the car park John Bishop yeah Johnny Bish we've not had Bish on we've got to get Bish on now that we've had Will on I can't believe we've not had Bish on our comedian yeah but we've had Will Arnett on who's playing a John Bish style character he's someone else's comedian Will Arnett an actor

249.697 - 252.361 James Acaster

People will be excited about this episode and we're banging on.

252.601 - 272.087 Ed Gamble

Yeah. Sorry, guys. We're getting in the way. Secret ingredient? Secret ingredient is Club Sauce because of Interested Development. He is reading the menu to his mother, Lucille, and everything is with Club Sauce. And he really delivers it in such a hilarious way. It's a great, great moment in a classic comedy show. So Club Sauce is the secret ingredient. We hope he doesn't say it.

Chapter 3: How does the podcast discuss the themes of comedy and relationships?

324.306 - 326.99 James Acaster

So I look like a fucking Easter Island head. So enjoy that.

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327.431 - 330.255 Ed Gamble

He looks beautiful. That won't surprise anyone.

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330.836 - 332.278 James Acaster

I feel awful.

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332.438 - 335.222 Ed Gamble

He feels awful. So if you want to see us...

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335.945 - 363.623 Ed Gamble

both feeling awful and like check out the YouTube just like absolutely hating the fact that Ben's made us film the episodes now go on YouTube and you can see just how much we're I guess hopefully not hating our lives I think we'll be quite excited to speak to Will oh so excited but yeah we won't be happy that it's being filmed yes but watch it on YouTube tomorrow yeah watch it on YouTube tomorrow you gotta make sure you do that or just put it on and just walk out of the room yeah either way yeah yeah works for us

363.907 - 377.202 James Acaster

This is the off-menu menu of Will.net. Welcome, Will, to the Dream Restaurant. Can I just say?

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You may.

378.704 - 381.728 Will Arnett

Can we just comment on Ben for a second? We should, yeah.

382.109 - 384.673 Ed Gamble

Welcome, Will Arnett, to the Dream Restaurant. We've been expecting you for some time.

Chapter 4: What are the hosts' thoughts on the restaurant experience?

485.295 - 503.479 Will Arnett

Yeah, I know. What an affront to all your former North American kids. I will say, so I, you know, what I thought was when they told me that I was going to do this, I thought erroneously that we were going to enjoy the meal. And I'm not the first, obviously, who thought that.

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503.699 - 504.54 James Acaster

Yeah, a few people have thought that.

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504.6 - 507.383 Will Arnett

So I skipped a meal.

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508.024 - 515.852 James Acaster

So I'm famished. Yeah, and it's the worst way to do this podcast is hungry because we're going to be talking about the food. There's going to be some stomach gurgles on Mike.

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516.413 - 526.186 Will Arnett

Yeah, but I am going to eat afterwards. Yeah, no, you should, absolutely. I'm going to have, and I'm going to get as close as I can to this meal that we're going to talk about. Oh, that's good. Yeah.

526.206 - 534.357 Ed Gamble

That is good. I don't think anyone's done that yet. Is that true? People obviously do go and have eat after the podcast, but no one goes, I'm going to try and replicate it as close as possible. This is great.

534.437 - 557.415 Will Arnett

Well, the question is, these are people who clearly don't know how to manifest. Yeah. You have to put out into the world what you want, and then it will come into your experience. And that is my belief, billion dollars. And for me, it's just about really keeping that idea alive, billion dollars. You know what I mean? I guess I've always just billion dollars believed that.

558.813 - 562.237 James Acaster

But you're going to start with the meal afterwards and then we'll see what happens. Well, race boat.

562.317 - 569.045 Will Arnett

I think that I... Race boat. I don't even know what that means. Race boat. You sound like a 12-year-old boy now.

Chapter 5: What makes Will Arnett's experience in Ratatouille unique?

2370.439 - 2375.448 Will Arnett

I'm really honored to be here as a representative of Ratatouille.

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2375.648 - 2378.633 Ed Gamble

I mean, I assume you were just...

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2378.613 - 2401.97 Will Arnett

you in a booth doing multiple lines all day on your own, or was there a- No, I was actually in a, on a sort of a, on a stage, on a, you know, mixing stage, sort of a recording stage with Brad Bird, the director, in there with me, which was exciting. And I've told, he knows this, but I've, because I've said before, I got there, I don't know what happened.

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2402.01 - 2415.132 Will Arnett

I didn't realize that Mike, he was like, you know, and we're going through and he had all the materials there and he take me through all the boards and I was in there and he goes, and obviously, you know, Horst is German. And I went, obviously. Christ.

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Chapter 6: How does Will Arnett describe his process of voice acting?

2415.152 - 2435.728 Will Arnett

And I broke into a sweat. Yeah. And like really quickly, I was like, and I, you know, I don't, I'm not like known for my accents and, uh, or am I? And I, and I, so I was like, oh shit, like I do like a German, like a, just like a bar tricky, like to your friends. So anyway, so I just did it on the spot and like, all right, he's like, you ready to go? I'm like, yeah, totally.

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2436.971 - 2439.956 Will Arnett

And then kind of got through it. How did that information not get through to you?

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2439.976 - 2440.978 James Acaster

Is that, did you not read the email?

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2440.998 - 2454.858 Will Arnett

I have the worst representatives. One of them is here today. He's the worst of the bunch. He's on the thinnest of ice. He's out there right now. He's probably listening. It drives me.

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2455.139 - 2456.64 James Acaster

Knowing him, he's not listening to this.

2456.66 - 2463.889 Will Arnett

Exactly. He's on his phone scrolling X. X, by the way. What?

Chapter 7: What are the key elements of Will Arnett's dream meal?

2464.189 - 2489.948 Will Arnett

Come on. X? Shut up. Named by a four-year-old. What are you doing? We're going to go on X. Okay. Ding dong. Anyway. It's about time someone took that guy down. I mean, he's taken himself down. Yeah. Fuck is he unfunny. But he's smart. But fuck is he unfunny. Okay. So here's the other thing. Opuav. Yeah. Oui. Right. That's in the middle of the plate.

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2490.569 - 2493.834 Will Arnett

And you're probably thinking like you're having that on its own. Are you going to have some sides with that?

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2495.05 - 2505.383 Will Arnett

It's not living alone on the plate. It's got a side, but that side needs to be right next to it. You want to husband it with that. Touching. They're touching. They got to be touching a certain part.

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Chapter 8: What dessert does Will Arnett choose and why?

2505.964 - 2539.674 Will Arnett

And you're going to understand why. Because it is a nice medium cut, dark golden brown French fry. A pile of them on the side. For a second, I thought it was one. Not a single one. No, no, no. I'm not insane anymore. A pile of fries. Beautiful, perfect French fries. And you're going to find a good fry like this, sort of a steak-free type of fry. You're going to find it in France, like in Paris.

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2539.734 - 2559.011 Will Arnett

In Belgium, you'll find a delicious fry. Because with a moule frite, if you want, you could go. That's not what we're having tonight. But I'm saying it's that caliber fry on the plate. And the reason being, as you start enjoying this delicious steak, the juices start to run.

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2560.052 - 2589.403 Will Arnett

And under that pile of golden goodness, it starts to pool a little bit with the steak juice and the au poivre, the peperoncone, if you will. And it creates this soggy base of fry that you're then able to put your fork in. And now you're applying some soggy... And if you want, and I might want to do this in this meal, I might, excuse me, and call back.

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2589.664 - 2590.185 James Acaster

Yeah.

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2590.205 - 2598.562 Will Arnett

And I might get like a thing, and I can taste it now. I might ask for like just a little side of like a creamy horseradish sauce.

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Yes.

2600.047 - 2606.678 Will Arnett

Every other, not every bite. Every other bite might have a little creaminess. And now everything's working. And it's all soluble.

2607.339 - 2609.382 James Acaster

I love that you're not initially asking for the horseradish.

2609.783 - 2610.163 Will Arnett

No, I wait.

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