Rachel Koster
Appearances
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WWDTM: Josh Gad
Merriment came to a halt on Christmas morning when the champion of a local Welsh food competition was caught cheating. The cheers were deafening when preschool teacher Bethan Hughes broke the 10-minute world record by eating 72 pickled cockles, which are small mullets that, I'm sorry to say, look like baby birds' heads.
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WWDTM: Josh Gad
The audience showered Bethan with roses while she took the stage to receive her gift card to Tesco's worth 20 pounds. LAUGHTER The celebration was interrupted, however, when the beloved stray tomcat of the town, Mr. Jellybeans, leapt to the stage and began pawing at Bethan's sleeve. It was clear something was really wrong, said a police officer.
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WWDTM: Josh Gad
Mr. Jellybeans does not like drama, so this had to be big. Sure enough, with one tug, a funnel tumbled out from Bethan's sleeve with the shellfish with it. The audience gasped and Bethan shrieked, come on guys, no one really likes cockles, which was drowned out by booing. Some people are just plain bad, wept the mayor. Mr. Jelly Beans has been gifted a key to the city.
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WWDTM: Josh Gad
Me too. I used to be a barista, and we found out that somebody wasn't cleaning the espresso machine at the end of the day.
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And it turned out that it was me, and I just had no idea that that was part of my job. Because the person who taught me was getting paid $14 an hour, so it wasn't really in her best interest to go above and beyond. And I never really asked, so people were getting really scudsy espressos for like months. My bad.
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WWDTM: Josh Gad
Midair. How much you talk. No. How much you cry. If you need a blanket.
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WWDTM: Josh Gad
For me, they know to put me between two tennis stars. Two boy tennis stars. I watched Challengers maybe 14 times on the way here. It's a two-hour flight. I went really fast.
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I went on vacation one time to Iceland, and I think if we're going to go for something awesome, that's the place to go. They had a lot of little chubby horses and a place that only had white Russians. If we're going to go for something far away but close enough, that's the one to do.
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WWDTM: Josh Gad
And to ask about it so they can look out for their fellow man. Or how to make a Chinese order, pretending that you're like British or something so it's not so scary.
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WWDTM: Josh Gad
You were put on the phone to make a Chinese order when you were a child. When I would order Chinese food as a child, I would pretend that I was British because it made it less scary because when I'm me, it's vulnerable. When I'm British, I'm glamorous. And no one's going to say no to me about mooshu pork.
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WWDTM: Josh Gad
Hello. I'm 30 years old. And I would love to get Mapo Tofu. Definitely always start an order with your age. Darling, extra cookies for my daughter.
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WWDTM: Josh Gad
In order to watch the YouTube video of the subway taker next to you's phone, you'll have to give them a fiver.