This week on Who Remembers Spangles? we spiral cheerfully through Britain’s favourite pastimes: overreaction, nostalgia, and finding comfort in things that cost £7.99.

There’s talk of snap political certainty, knee-jerk opinions, and why everyone is always absolutely sure about everything. That leads neatly into a nostalgic Top 5 Times Everyone Got Hysterical About Some Bullshit — including the Ice Bucket Challenge, Blur vs Oasis becoming actual news, dangerous dogs, and the collective emotional meltdown after the death of Diana.

We then look ahead with Top 5 Predicted Hysterias for 2026: carbs being labelled poisonous, digital ID outrage from people welded to smartphones, panic over a cashless society, protests against “AI slop,” and first-contact alien chaos.

Along the way we reminisce about 80s holiday camps, and profess deep affection for Britain’s most dependable mass-produced comforts: Premier Inn, Wetherspoons, PureGym, Greggs, Ryanair — and any other discount concept that delivers familiarity, beige carpets, and zero surprises.

Also some essential comedy-industry navel-gazing: making other comedians laugh, the fear of being “hack,” and whether comedy is now overthinking itself into paralysis.

No experts. No balance. Just gobsh*tes remembering the past badly and musing about the future.

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This week’s episode begins in the most glamorous of settings: Scott broadcasting from a Premier Inn lounge in Sunderland, asking the big questions life throws at a man surrounded by patterned carpet and unlimited coffee refills.

From there, it’s straight into a Top 5 of celebrity deaths that genuinely stopped us in our tracks — from outright murder, to cultural immortals we all foolishly assumed would live forever. Elvis or Amy? Diana. Bowie. Lennon. Expect disagreement, bad memories, and that slightly awkward moment where you realise some of these still properly sting.

Naturally, this then escalates into a Top 5 deaths we’re confidently predicting for 2026, which is either incisive social commentary or a cry for help. You decide.

There’s also a proper industry chat on whether comedy might finally be crawling back after years of legacy-media chaos, thanks to Netflix appointing a new comedy commissioner.

And because this is a local podcast at heart, we round things off with a genuinely baffling news story involving a local MP, AI, and a bikini, which raises more questions than it answers and absolutely should not exist.

Half arsedly structured. Questionable. Occasionally insightful. Oh and Pablo's been playing with jingles again.

These are merely the hooks we hang our gobshite-ary on.

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Which comedian, who is now a household name, didn't pay their fuel contributions in shared car journeys?!

Scott’s back this week after going suspiciously AWOL last episode — complete with a dubious sick note scrutinised by Spangles HR. Surprising snow falls and New

Year’s resolutions immediately start to fade like a politicians promise.

Whilst leaning into comedy industry gossip this week we still trample into Who Remembers Spangles? heartlands with a Top 5 of things we used to say, don’t really say anymore, but… were they ever that contentious?

Manservant gets compared to a top comedian’s tour manager, courting makes a brief comeback, spinster gets a proper re-examination, comedienne refuses to die quietly, and air stewardess goes under the microscope.

What does Rosie Jones say about Ricky Gervais say about Ricky Gervais and Alan Carr? Will Spangles guys agree with her?

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