#515 - Lads FM, Acquire It and Do you Want Vibes with That?
Elis James and John Robins
Significant Productions
4.8 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
It’s a shame this year’s Oscar nominations have been named because John’s new film idea could have swept the board. Watch out John Ford with your record 4 wins for Best Director, watch out James Cameron with your highest-grossing films, there’s a new auteur in town.
However, it isn’t all positivity for our Robins. After the highs of creativity, the lows of having your heart broken by someone you thought was a good friend. Elis’s foul-mouthed review of one of Frank Zappa’s albums leaves a sour taste in the mouth, and ends up with Elis being put in the Dweeb Gang with fellow Zappa detractor Snoop Dogg.
Elsewhere there’s a Winter Olympics-based Made Up Game where Elis just simply will not show his workings, Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken leave John a heartwarming message, and a harmless game of 20 questions goes down like a lead balloon.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Steve Bracknelly, are the assistant manager of Sunday League team, the Royal Oak FC. |
| 0:12.0 | Are you sick of changes to our beautiful game? |
| 0:15.0 | Five minute stoppages for VAR checks. |
| 0:17.0 | VAR, the talking point again after a five minute plus delay. |
| 0:20.0 | Cryotherapy ice chambers. |
| 0:22.9 | Olls in back at socks. |
| 0:25.3 | XG double pivots and inferred wingbacks. |
| 0:28.2 | The game's well and truly gone and I'm here to bring it back. |
| 0:31.9 | Games gone. |
| 0:32.9 | The Steve Bracknell podcast. |
| 0:34.9 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:58.1 | Music Steve Bracknell podcast. Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello everyone. Welcome to the Ellis James and John Robbins Show. |
| 1:03.9 | Following on from the success of Is This Thing On, the film adaptation of the life of John Bishop, |
| 1:09.0 | Hollywood is on the lookout for stories of UK comedians that will make a splash on the big screen, |
| 1:11.6 | and I'm proud to announce that significant productions, in association with A24, is bringing the story of Ellis and John to a cinema |
| 1:17.1 | near you. Do you want vibes with that? And admittedly uneasy compromise between English |
| 1:23.9 | vernacular and American slang tells the story of Oxford undergraduate John Robbins, |
| 1:29.8 | Timothy Shalame, who is beset by addictions due to having an undiagnosed mega-mind. |
| 1:35.9 | Robbins turns to stand-up and overcomes his demons for a bit before returning to them, |
| 1:40.8 | which sparks a 14-year career plateau. |
| 1:43.8 | Along the way, he meets fellow stand-up Ellis James, Danny DeVito. |
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