#540 - Hate Merch, (Non-Predator) and Institutional/Pedantic Failures

Elis James and John Robins

Significant Productions

Comedy

4.8 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

“Life’s too short to drink bad wine, when people are wine, and drinking is being near them and having them in your life.” Another wise and pithy quote from the mind of John Robins. You’d think that’s included in his wise and pithy autobiography about alcohol. In fact it’s not, because he gives them out for free here. Gratis.

Speaking of all the relevant pith, John’s a bestseller! Isn’t that neat. No. 2 General Hardback. And No. 1 if you include a vast variety of audio platforms which Big Bird Book won’t care to mention.

Elsewhere, Dave’s brought a present, a listener has been radicalised against Elis and there are yet more sackings in John’s crosshairs.

Plus, for the RSS & Patreon lot amongst you, you have been ringfenced! And in said ringfence the boys demonstrate their expertise of doing yet another incredibly easy to understand plug.

And do remember, t-shirts can be given to people for different reasons.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. The Ellis and John's cinematic universe is now available to all.
0:04.6	Yes, head to patreon.com slash Ellis and John for loads of extra content,
0:09.0	including our brand new film series The Adventures of Ellis and John,
0:12.7	fully visualised podcast episodes twice a week and behind the scenes bonus content.
0:16.7	So to watch shows, get ad-free episodes and come on adventures with me, Ellis and Dave.
0:21.9	Head to patreon.com of Ellis and John and Dave's doing something very sneaky.
0:52.8	Dave's gone all silly.
0:54.0	He's just said, oh, nice one, everyone. We're all dressed in black. I'm wearing blue, and he's wearing green. I looked outwards, as in not including myself in the attire analysis. Forgetting that I was in quite bright. The entire analysis. I saw pep. Judge his clothes.. The entire analysis. And that's basically black Alice. This is like the blue dress debacle. I would say similar to a Scottish rugby top. Yes. In terms of clue. Yeah, in terms of clue, sorry, in terms of colour. But with a pocket on. They wouldn't need that. No, no, no, no. Unless it's to put in their repute, I don't know whether they're willing.
1:29.6	Are they good?
1:30.4	Only one recently?
1:32.2	They're all right, the Scottish rugby team.
1:34.0	They beat England and they're in the Six Nations.
1:36.2	We'll allow you to talk about rugby for 30 seconds.
1:38.4	No, I don't want to talk about rugby.
1:40.2	I wanted to talk about French rugby league last week because I think it's a very interesting story.
1:44.3	It is.
1:45.0	But I was talked over and I'm over it now.
1:47.7	I'll just save it for a different podcast.
1:49.7	What about my attire analysis?
1:52.3	Well, you're wearing my favourite, it's a new one,
1:56.4	but it's my favourite of your Frank Zappertie shirt.
1:59.4	Well, it's a newbie Frank Zappa T-Shia,
	...

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