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Elis James and John Robins

#128 - The Isolation Tapes: Ode to the 90s and 00s

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

There's an awful lot of love for the past today. Specifically for the decade when music finished (the 90s), student gigs and the days of misspent youth, as both Elis and John dream of returning to university.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts.

0:04.7

BBC Five Live.

0:07.0

L.S. and John's Isolation Tapes on BBC Radio Five Live.

0:14.2

Hello everyone and welcome to the Isolation Tapes with L.S. John, I and producer Dave,

0:22.8

he, recording from our various lockdown hubs and L.S. has got a look on his face as if to say,

0:31.6

I've just read that schools might not be going back to April and I'm so excited about the

0:35.7

challenge ahead.

0:36.9

May was what I read.

0:40.0

May, May is the summer.

0:43.3

The summer.

0:45.5

Because you're a May baby.

0:47.4

So I was saying, oh John, John's a cool laid back surf dude because he's a birthday

0:51.5

in the summer.

0:52.5

And Matt Hancock said, yeah, certainly not February half term, we ruled that out, certainly

0:58.0

not, which is the date we've all been working towards.

1:03.2

Maybe April, maybe May.

1:05.6

And I considered doing a right tweet about it and I thought, no one will do that because

1:10.4

is he will see and is your panic, I thought, but is he listening to the news?

1:13.6

So she's going to find out anyway by which point the moment for the right tweeted gone

1:18.6

that I thought, may.

1:22.0

And how are you facing that challenge just with arms outstretched and sort of chest pumping?

1:29.4

Yeah, I'll tell you, in all honesty, I never think more than a couple of hours ahead.

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