#472 - 47 Kisses, #NoPowerUps and The More Money than Sense Boys

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Move over Oxford Union, debating has a new home! As Elis and John towers has turned into a hotbed of discourse and deliberation. The big topics are given the respect they deserve and the order of service for today is as follows: What’s the saddest song ever written? Hotels: budget or bespoke? And finally, are baths rubbish?

Aside from heated arguments about the temperature of bath water, Elis and John continue their travels around the UK, this time attempting to spot some rare geese.

John tells a tale of coming perilously close to soiling one of the nation’s royal parks, there’s a self referential game to test the boys’ knowledge of themselves, and a Shame Well-er gets overly friendly with her boyfriend’s colleagues.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.6	Your time starts now.
0:07.2	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:09.4	Absolutely right.
0:11.5	So, you might like to know that the BBC makes loads of other podcasts.
0:15.6	Really?
0:16.4	Wow.
0:17.2	Many of them are very funny.
0:19.1	Which I think means...
0:20.3	A hatful of ha-hars. And energy! Even if we do say so ourselves. I agree 100% to that. Find them all on BBC Sounds. Just tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Just search comedy on BBC Sounds. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in.
0:54.3	Hello listeners.
0:59.6	Producer Dave, John and I are broadcasting under a unique pressure.
1:04.3	Because of an extra-curricular activity, we can't mention the three of us are spending a lot of time in a van. It has brought our relationship under sharp focus.
1:09.3	John, of course, is an old hander touring, turning up at venue seven hours early,
1:13.4	telling our tour manager Giles that he has chosen a bad route and is naive for following
1:17.0	Google Maps, and walking into theatres with such steely-eyed focus that venue managers
1:22.0	then take me to one side to ask if he's all right.
1:25.8	I am conducting rituals that have successfully seen me through 20 years of life performance.
1:32.5	I make sure I eat two hours before the gig.
1:34.9	I do 15 push-ups in the dressing room in case American fitness influence a body by Mark is at any of the shows.
1:41.2	And at showtime, I get Giles to remind me that these gigs are in English
1:45.2	and not Welsh. But then, of course, we get to Dave, the unknown quantity in a live context.
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