Episode 72
Inventing Booty Shaking, Meeting Stephen Street & Impersonating Prince Phillip
Show broadcast on 27 June 2015
This week stories of Elis' drunk Blur experience, with added water, and John's first TV appearance as a child actor in the 90s. Plus Winner Plays On, Humble Brag Of The Week, Textual Healing and Email Of The Species
John's introduction of Elis
"To my right is the most recent man to be banned from Hyde Park and its surrounds. "
Conversations and riffs
Elis larged it at the Blur concert in Hyde Park and can only remember two songs they played. He also met Blur producer Stephen Street at the back stage party and got to ask him the two questions he's always wanted to ask him but can't remember the answers.
John tells the tale of how when he was 12 he starred in a BHS commercial. He has managed to find the footage from the early 90s, which features his innovative dancing, and they put it out on the show's Vine & Twitter feeds along with John - as he is now - recreating it.
Text-in topic
Listeners text and tweet during the show on this week's topic.
Your rubbish cameo appearances on TV from when you were younger. Including one from Producer Dave who was on TV as a child, pretending to be Prince Phillip.
Textual Healing
A listener calls the show with a problem.
Alan can't not lie.
Humblebrag
More examples of that scourge of social media, the humblebrag.
That time you paid for a meal in a restaurant with your new Apple Watch and almost everyone in there asked you to do it again as they were so amazed.
Winner Plays On
Elis and John face off in the weekly quiz on topics of their choice.
The European Cup 1967-93 (Elis) v the sitcom Friends (John). Elis wins 4-3.
Email of the Species
Listeners' emails into the show.
Radio DJ Pete Tong reading out a very long web page address on air.