The freedom this gave them was truly Freedom You Can Trust™. Would the corporate bigwigs at Miramax have seen the inherent cultural value in John chatting to the maker of Wordle about his Wordle spreadsheet three years after everyone else stopped playing Wordle? No, they’d have wasted their money on another Transformers film (Dave, check who makes Transformers).
Would the pen pushers and creativity squashers at Netflix let Elis continue to shore up the morale of an entire country by successfully connecting with random Welsh people almost half of the time? Lord no – they’d have looked for the next “vehicle” for an “A list” celeb to attract “viewers”. Pah! Not on our watch!
Elis and John have continued to prioritise you, the you the listener / viewer (if you follow us on Instagram or subscribe to the BBC’s secret YouTube videos it wants to make but not advertise for reasons we don’t understand.)
Meeting Chesney Hawkes, complaining to Tim Key that you weren’t invited to the premier of his film and igniting the great Cooking Oil Inventory debate of 2025. You pay for this. And that’s the way it’s going to stay. You’re welcome!