#461 - Elis, Man City’s Back Four and Will The Drummer From Coldplay

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We start in the anecdote Wild West. Specifically it was wild [north] west London for Elis as he’s been to Oasis in credibility damaging seats. The best seats in the house, surrounded by some of the most famous people in the country. He *could* have asked for General Admission. But he didn’t and that suggestion is shoved up the tunnel of anguish.

City backline Akanji, Dias and Gvardiol were all with him and all saw him in tears. Incidentally Gvardiol was papped on commando retreat this summer smeared in war paint. Something you wouldn’t catch Elis doing as he nibbles on his prawn sandwiches.

But there are others swinging into the anecdote town, including the most handsome cowboy around, Luke McQueen. We also receive reflections on Elis’s inability to remember Pythagoras' theorem and open up his big ideas box which contains the phrase “health podcast”. *AND* there's a potential ill-thought out feature in the offing. It's hit after hit.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. Hello, welcome to this Friday's Ellis and John,
0:30.6	and it's an Ellis and John with a slight difference this week, because I am in bliss.
0:35.6	I am in a bliss state. Well, we're living... I've experienced bliss. We're living in a one anecdote town. And it's good because it's got... He's got to find the negative. That's not a negative. That's a positive. It sounds like a negative. It's like they built a town. I can feel my bliss diminish. I. I'm no, I'm being positively flak.
0:54.6	That's a contradiction.
1:04.6	It's like, it's like the old West.
1:07.8	Yeah, yeah.
1:08.5	So, Frontiersmen, that's you and I,
1:11.5	are looking for a place to settle.
1:14.7	Right.
1:15.5	And we happen about a place
1:17.7	that has very high levels
1:20.6	of naturally occurring anecdote.
1:22.5	Yes.
1:23.2	So we build a saloon.
1:24.7	Yeah.
1:25.2	We build a bordello.
1:26.6	But it's lawless.
2:00.8	It's lawless. It's lawless. It's lawless in there. We have a sort of, as we build, other people come. Yeah. They say, hey there, what's you doing now with that bordello and that saloon? Can I open up an ironmongers? Yeah. And we say, well, there's an awful lot of anecdote here. I'll be adding to the anecdote pile. And it's the great anecdote rush of 1912. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. We're the conduct of anecdotes. Suddenly we've got a booming town. Yes. And Lovejoy moves in and starts swearing a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And all the British viewers are like, is that... No, not him, Lovejoy.
2:02.3	No, no, do you remember? Ian McShane is in Deadwood. Yeah, one of the greatest TV series of all time. And what's weird is, I remembered him as Lovejoy. Yeah, you do. A sort of, you know, an antiques merchant with an edge. And a Blu-Sorn leather jacket. and a blue sun leather jacket.
1:57.8	And a topless cabriolet driving around very chic, middle-aged women.
2:22.0	To look at Edwardian chests.
2:24.6	What's his friend called Tinkerbell or something?
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