Mr. Brown's Jersey Boys

For the debut episode of Detritus, John and Jack lock and load their podcast pistols and take aim for Autumn 2003, in order to witness the country’s leading stoic showman and positive mentalist, Derren Brown, leave a bullet hole in television history with his craziest stunt yet! It’s ‘Derren Brown: Russian Roulette’.Forget the sinister fake fan networks, bot accounts and ‘visibility’ of today’s rising stars. Brown was determined to win over his public the old-fashioned way - by threatening to shoot himself in the fucking head on television. It’s the highest of stakes, and only a quietly baffled, professional graphic designer and spaniel enthusiast can save him…Did he survive? Did we? Will you? Let us razzle and dazzle your ears with a self-supervised dive into stitched Union Jack shirts, live tiger maulings and Channel Island gun laws. John recounts his own, chronically hungover encounter with Derren, ahead of one of his arguably less successful psychic experiments. Meanwhile, Jack delivers some earth-shaking, heartbreaking personal news to the international Friendly Fires fanbase.Detritus is available now via Apple, Spotify, Youtube, Patreon and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Additional editing and graphics from Gramrcy.