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Elis James and John Robins on Radio X Podcast

BONUS PODCAST #ROBINSUNLEASHED

Elis James and John Robins on Radio X Podcast

Radio X

Comedy

4.93.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Sunday, traditionally a day of rest, but not for Robins. Taking to the airwaves solo, John sat in for Ricky Wilson and here are the highlights. Expect some humble brags and textual healing alongside some indie landfill and brand new feature, pub porn. Keep your emails coming in to saturday@radiox.co.uk or pester the boys via Twitter @nomadicrevery / @elisjames.

Transcript

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0:00.0

John Robbins

0:02.1

Radio X

0:05.0

Hello everyone

0:06.7

I'm John Robbins

0:09.4

and to my left

0:10.2

is a haunting space

0:11.6

an emptiness

0:12.7

chill that freezes the bones

0:15.5

because I today

0:17.7

have been Robbins Unleashed

0:19.1

standing in for Ricky Wilson on his Sunday show, Ricky, unfortunately, was caught shoplifting.

0:26.6

And as it was, he'd been given a caution last time.

0:30.0

But this time, unfortunately, Ricky, second offence, you've got to go to the magistrates court.

0:35.9

Best of luck for you, mate, because I know it was, you know, it was out of desperation.

0:41.0

Bag full of makeup and DVDs.

0:44.8

There's a big sort of bag for life lined with tinfoil.

0:49.0

It's an oldest trick in the book.

0:50.9

Unfortunately, he came up against one of the best security guards.

0:54.0

Superdrug has ever seen.

0:57.0

I will be covering Ricky for the next two weeks, one week, for two weeks in total.

1:03.3

And it was my solo radio debut, save from two shows I did on student radio in the early 2000s where I did an hour, two hours of

1:15.5

Lou Reed, followed by two hours of Frank Zappa. It was basically, it was sort of playing to the masses.

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