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Elis James and John Robins

#317 - Tasting Collapse, Ken Coe and James Hoffmann

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Never has the mood at Elis and John HQ been more nervous or excitable. For it is a momentous day. The Hoff himself, coffee expert and YouTuber James Hoffman, is on the show. And the boys have as many questions as there are beans in the world.

And more importantly we'll find out, under Espresso making levels of pressure, who definitively makes the best coffee as judged by the coffee king him sen.

If you want to get in touch with the show then email [email protected] or WhatsApp on 07974 293 022

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

0:05.2

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

0:10.2

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.

0:13.0

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

0:18.0

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

0:22.0

But you know I also know that comedy is really

0:24.4

subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer

0:29.6

from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you

0:36.2

fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.

0:40.3

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hello everyone. Thank you for downloading the Ellis James and John Robbins

1:08.0

podcast. Now when news broke of Jordan North's departure from Radio 1, the names on everyone's lips to replace him

1:15.2

were Ellis, John and Dave.

1:17.7

As Britain's youngest broadcasters, they seemed the natural successor.

1:21.5

Dave couldn't be more up to date on modern music having

1:24.4

being part of Kenny Dope's team the bucket heads who brought the world house

1:28.3

classic the bomb. He was also briefly manager of Nickelback. Ellis keeps his finger on the pulse by listening in on playground chat between his two

1:36.8

children and their chums.

1:38.6

Ever present is his black notebook where he jots down trends on the must have toys, unboxing videos and

1:44.1

slime. John is using his insights into youth culture to try and drag some of

1:49.2

Britain's institutions into the 21st century. Over the last six months, he's been at the forefront of attempts to introduce text speak

1:56.2

into the cryptic crossword scene.

1:58.4

He's signed up 50 South London cafes to trial the first Bluetooth fry-up up and is teaching the Archbishop of Canterbury how to twerk.

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