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Elis James and John Robins

#219 - An Irish Odyssey with John Robins: Episode Three

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 24 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. It’s the final part of John’s windy journey around Ireland, and in this episode he explores the pubs of Belfast, Andrew Ryan offers some sage ulcer advice, and John looks ahead to his next adventure.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.6

Hello everyone, you join me on Day 4 of an Irish Odyssey with John Robbins'

0:29.6

Records in a Keir Sportage. What a day it's been, more golf with comedian, influencer,

0:38.8

Andrew Ryan. But there's more important things to discuss because the quality of the mattress

0:44.2

in your spare room where I'm residing, not a lot of people would be brave, would be bold,

0:50.8

would be confident enough to go with such a firm mattress, but it's an absolute delight.

0:56.3

You never neglect the spare room, John. The spare room is a visitor's paradise and when

1:03.6

I moved into this property, one of the key aspects for me was that the comfort for the

1:08.0

spare room visitors and as you are, like this is a three and a half star accommodation

1:12.0

home, you're a tree star guest and you are staying above your means. No, I live my life

1:22.5

on hotel mattresses. So for example, when I buy a mattress, I always go for firmress, a

1:27.8

jewelry's in, a hilton on hers, dare I say it a best Western, not one person has complained

1:34.4

about a sleeping at room. Another thing I want to bring up to you listeners, are you

1:37.6

aware of what you're snoring, John? I am, yeah, do you hear it in here? I don't hear

1:42.6

it in here, but I did go downstairs last night, the kitchen light was left on, I'm just

1:46.2

going to give you a bit of a... Oh, that's probably a burglar broken into the light.

1:49.6

I'm really joking and I could hear you snoring and it's just an observation, it didn't

1:55.0

impact me. I snore on myself, so we have two snores in the property which I must be

2:00.0

unsettling to the neighbours. Do you know what the problem is? I used to sleep on my front,

2:04.3

okay, for 20, 30 years, I can't speak for my very early development, always slept on my

2:09.6

front hugging a pillow so it wouldn't leave me, but that gave me a bad neck and a bad

2:16.8

shoulder, so I converted myself to sleeping on my back. Not good. It's caused enormous

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