Scott declares an “epic” Only Bley Friday
Scott opened the podcast in a celebratory mood, declaring that his latest It’s Only Bley Friday had been “epicness personified”. The previous week he had worried that his weekend shout had lost its force, but he now decided he still had it and was not ready to retire the headphones just yet.
Stark Sports was already having an effect beyond the studio. Annie rang from Waterlooville after watching teenagers play poor tennis with her two young sons, then realising she had started describing the players as rubbish. Scott apologised for the influence, but maintained that the footage would have been perfect for their imagined channel.
The programme also acted as a brisk digest of Revision Week. Scott replayed his French song about losing a rucksack, Chris’s doomed German exchange story and the experiment that turned GCSE geography into a comedy-club chant. The phrase “magma, lava, rock” had become the week’s unlikely educational achievement.
Billy Piper’s contribution to the Lady Gaga documentary appeared again too. Her observation that Gaga had a broad range of leotards was presented as a compact but valuable piece of celebrity analysis, exactly the kind of talking-head moment Beccy had been collecting.
It was a compact Friday edition, using the podcast to gather the week’s best-running jokes before the weekend. Scott’s triumphant Friday announcement, the increasingly credible Stark Sports concept and the revision material all showed how readily the team could turn a throwaway office idea into a recurring feature.
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