#203 - Midnight Onions, Balmy Abodes and Headlamp Laments

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

As Elis sat down to present this week’s slightly shorter show he turned to his right to see an empty chair. It’s the place where John Robins would usually sit himself down to broadcast to the nation, but today he was nowhere to be seen. Thankfully, all Elis had to do was turn his head 30 degrees to the left to look at his computer screen to see Johnny JR staring right back at him, ready to battle through 60 minutes of top quality radio. Yes, due to factors John was unable to be in the studio with Elis and Producer Dave for the show today; but thanks to the power of technology (and sheer will power) he was still able to join in the fun from home. The guys play a makeshift Made Up Game, a football-based law is debated in Petty Parliament, and Dave answers the call of duty… by sharing his emergency scripted intro.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.4	Hello there, wherever you are. Thank you very much for downloading the L.S. James and John
0:08.6	Robyn Show Podcast. This is the first post-show podcast in true we've done for a very, very,
0:15.6	very long time, Dave. I've got no idea when that would be. I'm not going to say pre-pandemic,
0:21.2	am I? No, no, we will have done it. We will have done it. No, since we've been in this
0:25.9	studio. Yeah, yeah. Okay. I mean, not that it matters. But anyway, we're in a slightly different
0:31.2	position because we know how the show went and I'm going to say best show ever considering
0:36.7	the circumstances because our hero, John Robyn, is only a hero to many. Slush villain to
0:42.6	some. What a more of a heel. It's not a real, you've got a little bit of a slick. Yeah, everyone
0:50.5	loves John really. I'm going to hold back on that. Anyway, John isn't very well, but he
1:00.0	was broadcasting from home because even though he's not very well, my god, he's tough. What
1:05.3	a trooper because John has got Covid. But yeah, I thought you did tremendously well in
1:11.8	circumstances. Yeah, a couple of strategic mutes. My voice is actually better now than
1:18.0	it was at the start of the show because it's warmed up a bit. So I feel a little bit more
1:21.9	normal now. There's still an earthy tone to it. There's no huskiness. There's still a
1:27.6	sort of irresistible masculinity to it. God, yeah. What you do, I sound less ill now, I
1:34.2	think. Yeah. But what you've got is that type of cough or that type of condition where
1:40.6	you can't really laugh too loud or too heartily at things. Can you? Because then you just,
1:44.8	you just move into a full on cough. Yeah. So when I was responding hilariously as I want
1:51.3	to do because comedy is in my bones and humour is in my DNA, you would laugh and John would
1:57.4	go, yeah, yeah. Well, I pride myself on being a very good at cough management and I've
2:08.6	been reading up. I do actually the vicious cycle of a, of a chesty cough because what happens
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