Episode 27
Nicknames, Anecdotes, and A Rio Endorsement - The First Saturday Show
Show broadcast on 16 August 2014
All change! The first Elis and John show to come to you from their new home on Saturday mornings - and it's a belter. There's the usual Sacred Cow - and it gets rather heated this week - a Textual Healing, Winner Plays On, plenty of your emails, a brand new game, and Elis tells some anecdotes. Don't say you weren't prepared.
John's introduction of Elis
"And to my left is part stakeholder in Blaenavon's last branch of Rumbelows, it's Mr Elis James."
Conversations and riffs
Second outing of Elis' Rachel Stevens' exam pressure dance anecdote.
Elis' first name revealed as Owain.
Fridge or cupboard.
Should men wash their hands after a wee (John first date conversation).
Text-in topic
Listeners text and tweet during the show on this week's topic.
Nicknames - After John's wikipedia page was sabotaged with surreal nicknames (Allied Bearings Ltd. The third way. Mugabe jazz benefit)
Textual Healing
A listener calls the show with a problem.
Clint, whose girlfriend never puts lids on anything.
Sacred Cow
Should this celebrated band / artist go into the paddock of sacred cows or be doomed to the abattoir?
Radiohead (nominated by Elis) - Paddock
Winner Plays On
Elis and John face off in the weekly quiz on topics of their choice.
Wales in the 1958 World Cup (Elis) v WCW Wrestling (John). Coin toss: Heads. John wins (Paradise City by Guns n' Roses)