X-M. Ellis James and John Robbins on X-FM podcast.

Hello listeners. Thank you very much for downloading the Alice James and John Robbins

X-FM podcast. I was broadcasting from London in Leicester Square and John was coming live

from a sad business park in Glasgow because he's at the Edinburgh Festival of John. Are you still there?

Yeah, I'm still there, man. Good stuff. Isn't technology incredible? We did the whole, I mean,

I didn't think that the show suffered in fact, even though that usually John and I, well, like

this of Jimmy Hendrix experience, everything has done on nods and winks. You say technology

is amazing, but the headphones they have up here are so old that the

foam sort of covering has started to fall apart.

What's that word that Alan Partridge uses?

Perish.

Yeah, perish.

And so I've got this sort of black dandruff round my ears from the rubber which has perished.

Oh dear.

Last week we were talking about excuses for missing work, weren't we?

Yeah.

We've had two good messages about this.

First one's from Stu.

He says, a girl where I work once rang in sick because

quote, she had run out of waitabics. Suffice to say, she didn't stay with us very long.

I want. This is a good one. This is good morning chaps. I had to tell you about my friend's excuse to

miss work. My friend Mark is a huge sports fan and will literally watch anything sports related. During the ashes a few years ago, Mark had to take off work,

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