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Elis James and John Robins on Radio X Podcast

Episode 11 - Brain Surgery For Dummies, The 1992 General Election & John's Love For Natasha Bedingfield

Elis James and John Robins on Radio X Podcast

Radio X

Comedy

4.93.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2014

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week Elis and John are discussing Guilty Pleasures, so welcome back to yours. Come in, turn the volume up, don't worry we won't tell anyone. The duo talk Lady In Red and Sweet Dreams My LA Ex, plus Elis' new DIY class. There's the usual Winner Plays On, this week featuring the bizarre choice of the 1992 General Election, and Prince is up for debate in Sacred Cow. All this before John enthuses about Toto's Africa. Tune in next Sunday to catch the boys live - 10am til 1pm on Xfm.

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0:00.0

X-Fem. Ellis James and John Robbins on X-FM podcast. Thank you for downloading in our time. Radio

0:07.9

Ford's only kidding. Funny joke. Thanks to download the XFM podcast of Ellis James and John Robbins.

0:15.7

Your nervous laugh makes me feel sorry for you. Does it? Which one?

0:24.4

That's kind of a half-nervous, half-David-Brent laugh.

0:27.6

I've sort of absumed... I don't know, that's not a word.

0:30.9

It bodes well for the podcast, so doesn't it?

0:32.7

I mean, we are on fire.

0:34.1

If in the introduction you're using words that potentially might not exist, I did

0:39.2

it then, because I almost got the word exist wrong.

0:41.3

Obsumed sounds like the sort of word

0:42.8

Will Self would make a point of using in an article

0:45.0

just so everyone reading it won't understand

0:46.9

the word. He is the only writer in the

0:49.1

British press that if I do read

0:51.0

one of his articles, I have to get

0:53.1

a dictionary.

0:57.5

Yes, but he knows you're doing that, and that's what I find quite annoying about him.

1:02.8

He also will pronounce foreign words that have been sort of used in English in a way that I've never heard anyone else pronounce them.

1:05.6

And it really annoys me.

1:07.0

I absolutely love it, love it! When British people say, oh yeah, it's really nice, really nice. My wife and I went there, Caroline and I went there. It was a fantastic restaurant.

1:24.6

I love it. Say restaurant for crying out loud.

1:28.0

Yeah.

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