#514 - Chinese Geese, Caribbean Soaks and Emre Can Headspace
Elis James and John Robins
Significant Productions
4.8 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
It’s limbs in the studio as a box of brownies and a couple of books have lifted Elis out of a funk. What great news for bookworms with low blood sugar. But the internal glucose alarm isn’t the only one going off as a fire alert causes chaos.
We also get psychological as the boys unpick the idea of the inner monologue, and with that the terrifying engine steering John under the bonnet. Would Freud enjoy this? Potentially. Would it frighten him? Almost certainly.
And from brains to bodies, the show gets panned as the least erotic thing possible, whilst we have a couple of fantastically zoological Mad Dads.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Oh, hello. You have chosen a BBC podcast, but before you listen to it, we thought you might like our podcast too. |
| 0:12.1 | You might. You might. It is called Sightraught with me, Nick Grimshaw. |
| 0:15.2 | And me, Annie Mack. And we talk about the week in music. |
| 0:18.2 | All the news, all the cultural happenings in the UK and beyond. |
| 0:22.2 | And great guests. |
| 0:23.3 | And it's on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:24.7 | Yes, where you can also enjoy lots of playlists, music mixes and live radio. |
| 0:29.9 | Everything from my six music breakfast show to Radio 3 Unwind. |
| 0:34.5 | But obviously start with our podcast, sidetrack. |
| 0:36.3 | Obviously. |
| 0:36.7 | Obviously. |
| 0:38.2 | So if you like music, listen on BBC Sounds. Hello, welcome to this episode of Ellis and John. Do you know what? I needed a reset, a mental reset, and I've actually had one. Have you? Yeah, over the last half an hour. Very grumpy. |
| 1:14.3 | Until about 12-11. |
| 1:17.4 | But in the last half an hour, I've been given two books. |
| 1:21.9 | New Katia Hoyer book, or Weimar, like from the edge of catastrophe, |
| 1:25.0 | and Leah P's three coming of age at the end of history, |
| 1:44.2 | which is a memoir about going up in communist Albania. A meminist? A meminist. That's what Ellis calls them. He reads so many books about growing up in communist countries. He calls them, I'm into a memunist literature. And I read them so quickly. I'm just slamming words together in sort of an answer smash style. Fine. and I've And Helena, sitting on the show, has made us some bourbon brownies, and it's reset me. |
| 1:49.5 | As in the biscuit. |
| 1:50.5 | As in the biscuit. |
| 1:51.4 | Yeah, not the whiskey. |
| 1:52.2 | It's quite nice when Alice joins in with the treats, isn't it? |
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