I'm So Not Over It

Gareth Gwynn & Esyllt Sears

I'm So Not Over It is a comedy history podcast about things you'll remember from the first time round.

Each week comedy writers Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears explore a different month in history – but with a brief stretching from the mid-70s to the present day. Basically, if you could see it, it would be in colour.

It’s politics and pop culture for the eighties, nineties, noughties and beyond, delivered in 20 minute hits because we know what your attention span is like.

So if you remember Westlife but struggle with the Westland affair and if your favourite Aitken was a Tory MP or the one who co-wrote I Should Be So Lucky, we’ve got you covered in this ridiculous historical guide to the information age (even if that information came from a poorly recalled browse of Encarta ‘95).

These weekly episodes are interspersed with interviews with the people who lived through this period to understand whether it has had any bearing on the lives they lead today.

The perfect listen, whether you’re Generation X, Gen X, Xennial, Millennial, Generation Z, Gen Z or whatever Pepsi wants to call you.

I'm So Not Over It is brought to you by the team behind the award nominated Xennial Dome Podcast - Previous guests on that show include Nish Kumar, Jess Philips MP, Trevor & Simon, Isy Suttie and many more and those episodes can be found on the same podcast feed.

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October 1977 - Live From Esyllt's Bedroom! (Queen and Frestonia)

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10/07/24 • 22 min

We're on-location in the place which was once the epicentre of the Pony Poster scene - It's the teenage bedroom of Esyllt Sears. Gareth Gwynn has arrived in Aberystwyth with recording equipment to capture the ambience while the pair also discuss Queen's We Are The Champions and Frestonia.

Gareth Gwynn Declares Indepndence From Wales, a BBC Radio Wales show about independent towns and what independence means, is available here.

I Was There, a BBC Radio 5 Live show about Frestonia presented by Adrian Chiles, is available here.

Do get in touch via [email protected] or through one of the following social media accounts...

(Deep breath, there's a LOT of them these days...)

Instagram: @imsonotoverit

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Little Dome: January 2014 (Asteroids and Antarctica)

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01/09/24 • 21 min

It's all about long journeys this week with January 2014 bringing us an interstellar meteor in Papua New Guinea and a journey across Antarctica for an intrepid 16 year old. We also cover who owns laybys and what was on your Biology GCSE exam. More information on the meteor is available here.

If you walked to the South Pole, get in touch on [email protected] or by one of the methods below...

TikTok: @the.xennial.dome

Instagram: @XennialDome

X/Twitter: @TheXennialDome

Facebook: @TheXennialDome

Myspace: thexennialdome

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Little Dome: 1988 (The Neighbours Game and BBC Press Pack)

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02/27/24 • 20 min

Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears play the Neighbours board game. That's it. That's the podcast.

I mean, if you've only just found us, I wouldn't necessarily start here.

We also cover the BBC/WHSmiths Press Pack club so if you were a member, and still live by The Code, get in touch on [email protected] or one of the following:

TikTok: @the.xennial.dome

Instagram: @XennialDome

X/Twitter: @TheXennialDome

Facebook: @TheXennialDome

Myspace: thexennialdome

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GEMMA ARROWSMITH

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10/31/24 • 47 min

Comedy writer and actor Gemma Arrowsmith (The Tracey Ullman Show, The Now Show, Doctor Who) joins Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears to talk about all things telly from the 80s to the present day. We cover the differences between the TV and live versions of Bottom and why you shouldn't have taken a 10 year old to see the latter. We also cover Ghostwatch, TV telethons, the increasingly baffling finales of kids TV dramas as well as the world's most frustrating computer game.

You can find Gemma Arrowsmith at her website, on X, or check out her TV history themed Substack, Idiot Box. Her BBC Radio 4 sketch show Gemma Arrowsmith's Sketched Out is all here too. Great.

If you're a fan of Ghostwatch, do check out our episode all about June 1977 in which we cover "Alternative Three", a Ghostwatch-esque Science Report special about a secret base on Mars which, similarly, spooked some more gullible viewers! And if you're a fan of Bottom or Rik Mayall, Gareth made a BBC Radio 4 documentary all about the man himself, which is still available here.

Do get in touch via [email protected] or through one of the following social media accounts...

Instagram: @imsonotoverit

X: @imsonotoverit

BlueSky: @imsonotoverit

TikTok: @imsonotoverit

Music by Alex_Kizenkov from Pixabay.

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November 1978 (The Times stops, BBC Radio Wales starts)

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11/05/24 • 24 min

After a short debrief around the Independent Podcast Awards, Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears turn their attention to November 1978. BBC Radio Wales begins while The Times, The Sunday Times and the nation's bakers all take a break. Video footage of the launch of BBC Radio Wales is here complete with talking parrot. An entertaining look back at the early days of the station can be found in I Was There... When Radio Wales Began. They were there, but not all of them were happy about it.

If you're a fan of November, generally, check-out our back catalogue where we covered 1987 (Mates Condoms and Miss World), 1996 (Baywatch and Bill Clinton) and 2000 (The Millennium Dome Heist).

Do get in touch via [email protected] or through one of the following social media accounts...

Instagram: @imsonotoverit

X: @imsonotoverit

BlueSky: @imsonotoverit

TikTok: @imsonotoverit

Music by Alex_Kizenkov from Pixabay.

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The Best Of The Xennial Dome (Part I)

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09/09/24 • 45 min

A Xennial is someone born between 1977 and 1985 - the tail end of Gen X and the older (or "geriatric", ugh) millennials.

The Xennial Dome is/was the podcast which looked back at the Xennial era - Presented by comedy writer Gareth Gwynn and stand-up Esyllt Sears, the show studied the month in xennial history, as well as interviewing notable xennials about their experiences growing up alongside the internet and leaving home just in time for a global financial crisis. Other history podcasts tackle battles and empires, legendary figures and tragic antiheroes and ours does too - but in the form of Northern Rock, 20th Century Fox and Pete Waterman.

This is the first of two Best Of episodes which draw a line under the podcast’s "Xennial Dome" era. We'll be back in October with a new name... But you'll be fine. If you coped with the Marathon, Jif and Opal Fruits rebrands, we’re more than confident you can navigate this.

Sunil Patel’s internet scandal – Full Interview

The Millennium Dome Heist – Little Dome: November 2000

Jess Phillips MP’s school exchange – Full Interview

CAT Scans – Little Dome: July 1983

Richard Branson’s Plane – Little Dome: June 1984

Steffan Garrero’s summer holiday – Full Interview

Prince Andrew’s Stag Do – Little Dome: July 1986

Want to get in touch? Drop us a line to [email protected]. And also these all exist... For now...

TikTok: @the.xennial.dome

Instagram: @XennialDome

X/Twitter: @TheXennialDome

Facebook: @TheXennialDome

Myspace: thexennialdome

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ANU VAIDYANATHAN

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10/24/24 • 45 min

Engineer, athlete, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur and comedian Anu Vaidyanathan joins Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears for a chat about cultural phenomena from the 1970s to the present day. Growing-up in India, we discuss her earliest memories, her tech-savvy family and her move to the USA - before the conversation, like her life, takes a left-turn into discussing the difference between an Ironman and Ultraman Trialthlon - and some of the characters she met along the way, while persuing both! We also discuss Clown School and Catholic School. Y'know, the two types of school.

Follow Anu on Instagram and X.

The edition of Kiri's Comedy Club about stand-up in a second language, featuring Anu and Esyllt is here.

Do get in touch via [email protected] or through one of the following social media accounts...

Instagram: @imsonotoverit

X: @imsonotoverit

BlueSky: @imsonotoverit

TikTok: @imsonotoverit

Music by Alex_Kizenkov from Pixabay.

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Little Dome: March 1989 (Exxon Valdez, Like A Prayer and the Vague World Wide Web)

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03/26/24 • 19 min

Tickets for The Xennial Dome's Little Dome - Live at Machynlleth Comedy Festival on 5th May 2024 are available here.

In this final March episode, Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears familiarize, or refamiliarize themsleves with Exxon Valdez mobile spill, the Pope's reaction to Like A Prayer and we find out the initial reaction to Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for the World Wide Web.

If you've ever invented anything, you can get in touch with the show on [email protected] or one of the following methods:

TikTok: @the.xennial.dome

Instagram: @XennialDome

X/Twitter: @TheXennialDome

Facebook: @TheXennialDome

Myspace: thexennialdome

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Little Dome: July 1987 with Dan Thomas! (Live at Machynlleth Comedy Fest)

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07/01/24 • 21 min

Coming to you from Machynlleth Comedy Festival 2024, this is a live recording with a special guest (and Xennial) stand-up comedian Dan Thomas!

In addition to his dome choice, we also cover July 1987. Dan talks Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears through the questionable graphics, pick-up lines and ethics of the computer game Leisure Suit Larry - or maybe it's not as bad as we think? Plus, we cover the Channel Tunnel Act of 1987 and the movie Splash! Or was it Mannequin? I've literally just edited the episode and can't remember, such is the extent they have merged in my mind. Think it's Mannequin, actually.

In a baffling scheduling move, the "leftovers" from Dan's episode have already gone out, so if you enjoyed Dan and want to hear more, spin back to early May and the episode "Little Dome: Late Live & Leftovers" for a quick dash through May 1997.

Did you play Leisure Suit Larry? How have things worked out for you? Let us know on [email protected] or via...

TikTok: @the.xennial.dome

Instagram: @XennialDome

X/Twitter: @TheXennialDome

Facebook: @TheXennialDome

Myspace: thexennialdome

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