Wolf & Owl with Romesh Ranganathan and Tom Davis
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Tom Davis and Romesh Ranganathan return for an email special, diving into listener questions about parenting guilt, greeting habits, memorable life exchanges, and guest appearances on television. Throughout the episode, the hosts debate the psychological burden of leaving young children with grandparents for date nights, share embarrassing anecdotes from travel shows and on-set mishaps, and improvise a gritty gangster film scene featuring a hitman from Woking. The conversation balances candid reflections on friendship with absurd banter, touching on everything from television cameos in The Gentleman to unfortunate colonic irrigation experiences.
Hosts greet listeners, promote subscribing and emailing for stories and questions.
Hosts explain the minimal involvement of the cat and swan in the podcast.
Hosts discuss front‑row tickets to Tom’s tour and personal excitement.
Hosts share feelings of guilt over leaving children while touring.
Hosts promote travel apps, merch sales, and club night ideas.
Hosts recount humorous and embarrassing moments from past shows.
Coping With Parental Guiltinsight
The hosts discuss the lingering guilt parents feel when leaving their children behind for a night out, noting that while it never fully disappears, it eventually becomes easier with time.
The 80 Percent Statdebate
The guest criticizes the popular statistic about spending eighty percent of your time with children before age twelve, calling it a quantifying and arrogant way to view parenting.
An Awkward FaceTime Encounterstory
The guest recounts an embarrassing moment when a punditry colleague facetimed him during half-time while he was trying to tell Thierry Henry he was a legend.
Accidental Colonic Exposurestory
The guest shares a mortifying anecdote from filming where discomfort during a colonic irrigation session caused him to pull off his towel and expose himself to the entire crew and cameras.
Improvising a Tough Hitmanstrategy
The hosts improvise a gritty scene where the guest plays a ruthless hitman from Woking hired to execute a cleanup job with extreme methods.
“I think the vulnerability from the last podcast is still playing a part because of the naivety.”
“It's that horrible stat here that you spend 80% of the time you're ever gonna spend with your children before they're 12.”
“Those moments, they're the moments that stay with you.”
“I found it like they, it really felt weird, right?”
Why Are Romesh & Tom Flashing Their Balls? In this episode of Wolf & Owl, the boys embrace the autumn weather, discuss the guilt of leaving their kids, and trial some new greetings that definitely shouldn’t catch on. Plus, Romesh shares the story of flashing his balls during a colonic and, for reasons that will become clear, a special F you to Theo James and Guy Ritchie. A Ranga Bee Production. Chapters 00:00 Intro02:50 Is Romesh nice to Tom?04:30 Dealing with parent guilt 16:40 Greetings revealed 19:40 A moment Romesh will remember forever 21:00 Tom flashed his balls (& so did Romesh)23:54 Tom’s cameo on The Gentleman27:12 Roleplaying a killer called Trigger from Glasgow30:05 Romesh’s Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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