How to Go to a School Disco

Nobody Panic

Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin

Education, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Nobody Panic at the Disco! (Oh boy that felt good to write.) After a listener request from Orla, age 11, Tessa and Stevie are heading back to school to dance their way through a step by step guide to going to a disco. Featuring several personal triumphs and disasters, a velveteen waistcoat and lace cravat, and a cautionary tale about racketeering and Panda Pops.

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0:14.0	Hello, welcome to Nobody Panic,
0:16.0	with me Stevie Martin,
0:18.0	what's name? And me, Tessa Coates, that's my name.
0:21.0	And here we both are.
0:22.0	Here we both are. We are each week that well taking
0:25.2	actually your suggestions for how-tos and this week I think is a little special
0:30.6	one. It's a very specific request that we got on email. It's something
0:34.5	that I think most of us will be able to relate to. A bit of nostalgia, but we've
0:39.4	got to help her out. Tessa, please. Please, this one, I think we're both very excited about this episode. I hope we do it justice.
0:46.8	This is the email that we received and I hope it's okay I'm going to read it out in full.
0:50.7	Dear Tessa and Stevie, I've recently started listening to your
0:53.4	podcast and I really enjoy listening to it. You always make me laugh. I was
0:57.1	wondering if you could do a podcast about how to go to a disco. It is something I
1:00.8	struggle with but sometimes force myself to do from Auler age 11.
1:05.2	Could not have related harder to this email.
1:07.6	Auler, we read that and we just both of us, well I personally just slid off the sofa, straight onto the floor.
1:15.2	Like an eel. Like a little eel. I just thought, all that yes, it's so hard and I remembered exactly what it was like to be 11 and how to go to the disco is so tough
1:25.7	Yeah, it's so tough and also then when you go to secondary school and there are discos then and then you're like but now I know less people like what am I supposed to do with it?
1:35.3	A very hard. It's hard it's so hard and it spoke to us deep into our soul.
1:40.9	But we also thought well we can maybe help but also it'd be good to get other
1:44.8	listeners to help you out as well all this. So we this entire episode will be very much directed at one
1:50.3	all this is all for you no it's not. It's for everyone. Yeah, everybody turn it off. This is going to get exactly one download and any more will be very cross. This is all for aller. But yeah, so we got some people message us with their tips as well so that we could get a breath of advice because as well like it's something that you will always in your life have to go to a variant a variation of a school
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