#477 - Oasising, The Sero Clan and Trapped in Neasden

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It’s 3 croaky voices in the studio today because Elis and Dave have Oasised once again, and poor old John is unwell. Luckily that means a general vibe alignment is struck, but, crucially, the standards do not slip. For Elis and Dave both have tales of struggling to get out of Wembley, and John wonders which of his awards would be best suited to beating off an intruder.

The other overriding question of the day is would you rather visit historical moments as a person or as a ghost? If that doesn’t provide hours of conversation for you and yours this weekend, we’re not sure what will.

All this plus sexy flags (have we finally found THE sexiest flag?), John makes it into an actual cryptic crossword, and Dave faces accusations of spreading false information.

If you want to offer up your own person or ghost scenarios (Elis and John recording their first ever podcast: person. John eating his first ever 100 chili fish dish: ghost), send them to [email protected], or WhatsApp the show on 07974 293 022.

And remember to check out tomorrow’s Bureau de Change of the Mind, where John challenges Elis and Dave to enter the symposium and back the riff, with mixed results. Only on your friend and ours, BBC Sounds.

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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 energy Even if you 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 I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in.
1:05.0	Hello. Hello, welcome to Ellis and John, and yes, there's a triumphant here in the studio, because you're listening to the champions.
1:27.9	Campiones, champions, ohly, ohly, leo, Dave, what are we? The champions. We're the people's choice, Dave. Oh, yes. At the British Podcast Awards. We won people's choice? No, we're not. The people's choice. What are we? With the judges choice. We're the judges choice. And the people's foe. We're the people's foe.
1:28.2	Yeah.
1:42.8	We won a British podcast award this week. Not the people's choice, won't know. But not the people's choice, because I actually don't care about the people. No. That's not true. I care about the people. All you care about is the people. All I care about is the people. and on this occasion the judges.
1:45.8	One of my favourite things you've ever said is, I have zero interest in elites. I, thank you. There's a great phrase about that in,
1:54.9	I've said this before in Stuart McCone's book, The Nanny State Made me, where he absolutely
1:59.2	summarises how I feel about the elites. And the Nanny State. And the Nanny State. And where he absolutely summarises how I feel about the elites.
2:01.8	And the Nani State.
2:02.7	And the Nani State.
2:03.6	And I'm going to go home and I'm going to find that passage and I'm going to take a photo of it.
2:07.3	And I'm going to text it to you.
2:08.0	Oh, I would love that.
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