#218 - An Irish Odyssey with John Robins: Episode Two

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate entering his fifth decade John Robins decided to undertake the trip of a lifetime. He packed up his beloved compact SUV (the make and model of which will definitely become clear) with a bag of golf clubs, a microphone and a sense of adventure and left rural Buckinghamshire for his destination: Ireland. He went in search of answers, but ended up finding something much more important: content. With the wind in his sails (often being picked up by his microphone) John celebrates his first night in Ireland with a lovely sit-down meal before heading for his first round of golf with host of ‘Diary of a High Handicapper’ and rival SUV owner Jamie. He then heads north to meet up with fellow comedian Andrew Ryan, where they play MORE golf and discuss one of Elis James’s most famous stand-up routines.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.5	Here we are, folks!
0:11.5	Oh my God, what a country, what a town, what a guy, what a car, what a sport car!
0:36.0	I'm in an Indian restaurant on my own and I brought an eight pack of farmers cider
0:46.1	because they don't serve alcohol and I bought it from a petrol station and I just wanted
0:54.6	to record what is either my lowest step or my greatest triumph.
1:05.2	I'm not a huge fan of the music to be honest.
1:11.3	However, I've got eight cans of farmers was seven now and an extra hot king prawn chilli
1:20.0	masala on the way so who knows, I didn't meet a French wife on the ferry but who know,
1:32.0	maybe there's a big beer French wife in the Indian restaurant who will see a man with
1:40.2	eight cans of bought seven cans of farmers and feel that he is a life partner in waiting,
1:54.0	I'm also a masher in Belgium.
2:07.8	Well folks, a mixture of views really.
2:11.3	I think I've learned a valuable lesson that standard does of curry in Ireland, perhaps slightly
2:22.9	lower than in the UK.
2:28.7	I'm in a place called Clondalkin, that's where I am.
2:37.3	Just because the hotel is near where I'm playing golf tomorrow, it's a fair enough.
2:45.7	I went to two pubs, I went to Quinlan's which was massive and they went to the laurels
2:55.1	which was massive.
2:56.4	I had three points of Guinness and like Guinness is really good and the pubs are really nice
3:06.6	in the sense that they were so really busy and buzzing and people seem really nice but
3:12.2	they work quite sort of cabinets.
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