#315 - The Tap Scene, Spanish Deception and Cheaper Derby

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

We’re a month into the Great Reset and Elis and John are so into the swing of things that they’re practically Tarzan and Jane swinging through the Digital Jungle. John is Tarzan due to his ripped physique and long arms suitable for vine grabbing. Elis is Jane due to his dainty disposition and ability to flutter his eyelashes.

And the boys’ suitably good form provides a backdrop to a (quite literally) dream game, a wild inductee to the 80 Daves pantheon and the thoughts of being lowered six feet under to daytime TV themes.

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0:41.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hello there you have successfully downloaded the Ellis James and John Robbins
1:09.2	podcast a reassuring shard of light in an increasingly murky world, or as Director General of the BBC Tim
1:16.2	Davy described it as in an internal memo to top media execs, the steady hand on BBC Sounds
1:22.1	is Tiller of Chat.
1:24.0	Despite being on the BBC for five years now,
1:26.8	constant content creation means that our objectives have changed.
1:30.9	Producer Dave has gone from harboring ambitions of being an award-winning radio producer to wanting to be a Tik-Toc millionaire because being big on the socials is actually worth more than bricks and mortar. Don't get me started on crypto. I have gone from wanting to be the
1:45.0	voice over artist on a second series of the secret life of farmy-eyed animals
1:48.8	to wanting to be the world's must physically fit light-hearted sports podcaster. John has gone from wanting
1:54.6	to be the first person to be awarded a double knighthood to being happy to just fill time
1:58.8	until death. But what can you expect from today's show? Well, as ever, it's a salad bar of what matters to you that you are the listener at home.
2:08.0	As two of the most fleet-footed broadcasts in Europe, chat could range from who or what at Paris Fashion Week, Equity release,
2:15.8	what really causes potholes and whether it's possible to find someone intimidating if they're
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