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
BlueSky: @imsonotoverit
TikTok: @imsonotoverit
Music by Alex_Kizenkov from Pixabay and Julius H from Pixabay.
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October 1990 (Keeping Up Appearances and the Reunification of Germany)
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10/14/24 • 22 min
We've had some incongruous pairings of stories on this show before - but this one might take some beating. The sitcom Keeping Up Appearances launched and Esyllt Sears has a pretty comprehensive run-down of the facts behind the fun. This is coupled with a rattle through the post-Cold War reunification of Germany as seen through the eyes of Margaret Thatcher - and, as if to symbolize the coming together of two countries, this episode was actually recorded in two locations and later stitched together. See if you can spot the join.
Do get in touch via [email protected] or through one of the following social media accounts...
Instagram: @imsonotoverit
BlueSky: @imsonotoverit
TikTok: @imsonotoverit
Music by Alex_Kizenkov from Pixabay and Bernhard Schürmann from Pixabay.
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February 2004 (Yes, February 2004. Again)
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02/25/25 • 26 min
What happened immediately after the Super Bowl half-time show?
How much money do you get for whipping your clothes off at a major sporting event?
And how DO you pronounce "Houston"?
It turns out there were a lot of unanswered questions after last week's show. A whole episode's worth, in fact. As such, Esyllt Sears is tackling February 2004 all over again. Yes, it's another wardrobe malfunction at Super Bowl XXXVIII - but not the one you're thinking of. Get set for another 20+ minutes about February 2004 (and, once again, Gareth Gwynn has cut out all the bits about WMDs).
Get in touch on [email protected] or through one of the following social media accounts...
BlueSky: @imsonotoverit
Instagram: @imsonotoverit
TikTok: @imsonotoverit
Theme music by Alex_Kizenkov from Pixabay.
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10/28/24 • 20 min
Coming to you, once again, from Aberystwyth Comedy Festival 2024, this is a live recording with a special guest - stand-up and social media star, Eleanor Morton.
Eleanor's appearence is being split across two episodes - and this is part two. Don't worry, it's completely stand-alone so feel free to start here as Gareth Gwynn presents Eleanor and Esyllt Sears with his research into October 1996. We've got a deep-dive (too deep, if anything) into Granada Men and Motors and a specially Scottish story for Eleanor (who is Scottish and not just a big fan of the country/concept).
So... Links, eh? Well look, the Men&Motors webpage is here and the big catalogue of everything is here and that's enough to be getting on with but you can work it out. Have a click around. See what you can find. Enjoy yourself.
Check out Eleanor online on X, Instagram and YouTube - and make sure you spin back a few episodes to find her other appearence as we cover October 2007, Keeping Up With The Kardashians and her "Xennial Dome" choice.
Do get in touch via [email protected] or through one of the following social media accounts...
Instagram: @imsonotoverit
BlueSky: @imsonotoverit
TikTok: @imsonotoverit
Music by Alex_Kizenkov from Pixabay.
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10/20/24 • 26 min
Coming to you from Aberystwyth Comedy Festival 2024, this is a live recording with a special guest - stand-up and social media star, Eleanor Morton.
Eleanor's appearence is being split across two episodes, and in the first half Esyllt Sears is presenting Eleanor and Gareth Gwynn with her findings in-and-around October 2007. Keeping Up With The Kardashians had begun and some astronauts in space needed waking up. We also quiz Eleanor about her earliest memories and she picks and item for our regular feature, The Xennial Dome - selecting a significant TV show for the museum we're building dedicated to late 20th Century life.
Check out Eleanor online on X, Instagram and YouTube - and make sure you subscribe to the feed for another appearence later in the month as we turn our attention to October 1996.
Do get in touch via [email protected] or through one of the following social media accounts...
Instagram: @imsonotoverit
BlueSky: @imsonotoverit
TikTok: @imsonotoverit
Music by Alex_Kizenkov from Pixabay.
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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
BlueSky: @imsonotoverit
TikTok: @imsonotoverit
Music by Alex_Kizenkov from Pixabay.
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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
BlueSky: @imsonotoverit
TikTok: @imsonotoverit
Music by Alex_Kizenkov from Pixabay.
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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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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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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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How many episodes does I'm So Not Over It have?
I'm So Not Over It currently has 120 episodes available.
What topics does I'm So Not Over It cover?
The podcast is about Culture, Millennials, History, Comedian, Comedy, Podcasts, Arts and Trends.
What is the most popular episode on I'm So Not Over It?
The episode title 'October 1977 - Live From Esyllt's Bedroom! (Queen and Frestonia)' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on I'm So Not Over It?
The average episode length on I'm So Not Over It is 30 minutes.
How often are episodes of I'm So Not Over It released?
Episodes of I'm So Not Over It are typically released every 6 days, 23 hours.
When was the first episode of I'm So Not Over It?
The first episode of I'm So Not Over It was released on Sep 22, 2021.
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