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Wolf & Owl with Romesh Ranganathan and Tom Davis

Harry Styles, Chocolate Cake and the World Cup

21 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What humorous moments arise from chocolate cake and eggs?

1.398 - 7.688 Romesh Ranganathan

You've made a right mess. Don't use your right hand because you've got chocolate all over your right hand.

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10.593 - 27.321 Tom Davis

What the fuck am I doing? What am I doing watching you eat a cake? I'm watching a football match.

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27.807 - 61.843 Romesh Ranganathan

Welcome to another episode of The Wolf and Owl. Obviously this has been a bit of a strange opening to the episode because you were devouring a chocolate cake. I wasn't devouring, I didn't realise it was... I didn't realise how quickly we were getting into the app. We came in the studio three times. We sort of like preemptively sort of came in and came out.

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Chapter 2: What alternative activities do the hosts prefer over the World Cup?

62.564 - 65.247 Romesh Ranganathan

And you came in with it. How's my face? Have I got chocolate on it?

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Chapter 3: Why didn't Romesh get Oasis tickets?

65.267 - 69.733 Romesh Ranganathan

Well, you look beautiful as always. You look, by the way, I've never seen you eating a cake before.

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Chapter 4: What are Tom's favorite One Direction songs?

70.474 - 80.207 Romesh Ranganathan

With your hands. I think I've seen you eating dessert with a spoon. But sort of the way you seductively lick your fingers. It's quite... Welcome to the wall for now.

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Chapter 5: How do the hosts feel about live performances and concerts?

82.077 - 85.699 Romesh Ranganathan

Where we... How would you describe the podcast? Have we ever described the podcast?

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Chapter 6: What insights do they share about being roasted in comedy?

85.719 - 109.771 Romesh Ranganathan

Where we sit down and shoot the shit, chew the fat, And to discuss various things. That just basically sounds like every podcast at all. Two guys, no preparation. This is the wolf of the hour, my mate. It's so stupid because we thought this was like a thing. The gimmick of the podcast is that we don't have any prep. But actually it turns out that every podcast has no prep.

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109.831 - 112.174 Romesh Ranganathan

Can I say, by the way, I've done quite a few now.

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Chapter 7: What happens during brunch at Tom's place?

112.515 - 125.816 Romesh Ranganathan

There is prep done on some of them. Okay. And they are better, aren't they? Oh, yeah. Well, this would be significantly better if we came to it. By the way, can I say how much it's been like sort of other people have made an effort to make the surroundings. Yeah.

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Chapter 8: How do the hosts feel about flying and travel experiences?

125.937 - 144.773 Romesh Ranganathan

And it's like not that we've upped our game. We're still coming in with the same trivial crap that we were spouting when we were just doing it on Zoom. Yeah. A bit nervous about having eaten this cake so close to the F, actually. Yeah. I'm saying, by the way, can I say everyone else is waiting for the... There was an open thing said, let's wait afterwards for the cake to be eaten.

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144.793 - 159.249 Romesh Ranganathan

I'd already started at that point. I know, yeah. No, but I had an individual vegan one. Yeah, I know. Yeah, so I started eating that. Can I say for the first... Sorry, Tom, just stop a second. They got the knives and the plates out, so obviously that is... I thought they're going to start cutting the cake, and then they went, oh, should we do it afterwards? Yeah, because of sugar crashes.

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159.269 - 175.304 Romesh Ranganathan

And by then I'd started. Yeah, I saw you do that little thing where you lick the top and... I didn't do that. You gave the raspberry a little lick. No, I didn't give the raspberry. I took the raspberry off. Oh, I thought you licked it and ate it. No. I wasn't watching you like a hawk until you came in. Well, it feels like you were. You've just done a fucking impression.

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178.428 - 213.593 Romesh Ranganathan

Cupcakes are quite difficult to eat, actually. Not if you eat like a horse. A horse eating an apple. I'm just saying that you had that vibe to you. Okay, anyway, welcome to the podcast where a man and his favourite **** talk about stuff. I don't know who's doing that scenario. I think we do. I think we all do. Please, could you remember to like and subscribe? We don't want casuals here.

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213.673 - 235.096 Romesh Ranganathan

We do want casuals as well, but we want to turn those casuals into regular. Regular, yeah. It's a big thing now. It's a community. Subscription is a huge thing. It's the way all the numbers are being analysed. Are you into analytics? Am I into analytics? Yeah. No? Do you know the thing? Although I do think they're useful. Stephen Bartlett uses them a lot. Have you ever done a diary of a CEO? No.

235.116 - 253.165 Romesh Ranganathan

I guess you have to be some sort of CEO, don't you, of that level. Yeah, of course. I'm literally... You're not a CEO, are you? No, but I'm sort of... I'm the CEO of sort of my area. What's that? I'm big dick.

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LAUGHTER

254.405 - 276.615 Romesh Ranganathan

What you've done is I was doing a bit there and now by fucking taking the piss out of me doing the bit, it makes it look like I was serious. So that's a fucking... But that's what happens. I think you get on Diary of a CEO and it sort of, it can alter your mind because you feel, because it's called Diary of a CEO, by nature you think everyone on there is going to be a CEO or something.

276.747 - 296.881 Romesh Ranganathan

I think that's how it started. Yeah. And then he ran out of CEOs. Yeah, now he's just like people that think bread is poisonous or whatever. By the way, with him, is there a friendship there? I didn't speak to him before or nor have I spoken to him afterwards. Not even via DM. I've had no contact with him apart from that.

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