#220 - Batican City, Vape Island and The Dave Dollar

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

They say that if you give a man a fish you can feed him for a day, but teach a man to fish and you can feed him for a lifetime. But what happens if you give two radio presenters 11 different screens in a single studio? I’ll tell you what happens: they'll produce radio that’s exciting and groundbreaking in equal measure, and that’s something you just can’t teach. To get us into the mood for festival season Elis and John speak to a Glastonbury Unsung Hero, John flexes his geographical muscles in a Made-Up Game, Elis struggles to pinpoint a Welsh accent and Producer Dave details his bleak Friday (live from the comfort of MediaCityUK).

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello everyone, welcome to the L.S. James and John Robbins Show Podcast intro.
0:10.8	High stress here in the studio because the BBC system probably date back about 50 years.
0:16.0	Well, the internet.
0:18.0	You actually need to have invented the internet in order to know how to log on to it.
0:21.6	The World Wide Web came in and about...
0:23.8	That's WWW to you guys.
0:26.0	But there was a basic form of internet in the 60s.
0:29.6	But because it was used by things like the MOD and the American defence systems.
0:34.3	But our computers predate that.
0:36.3	They do.
0:37.3	So the microchip...
0:39.1	I think the microchip was invented at some point in the 1960s.
0:42.5	It could be wrong.
0:43.5	Prior to that, computers would run on big valves.
0:46.7	They were.
0:47.5	Those valves are quite hard to come by now.
0:49.6	So yeah, like Brian Mays got them all.
0:52.0	He's got all the valves for the Vox amps.
0:54.2	They're called megachips, right?
0:55.2	They were.
0:56.4	And the thing with the DVLA in Swansea,
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