Thank you for downloading the Ellis James and John Robbins on XFM podcast.

Thank you for downloading the Ellis James and John Robbins XFM podcast.

Glad to have you on board.

Right.

Well, John has had to nip off because he was broadcasting from Glasgow today because he's doing the Edinburgh Festival.

And I was broadcasting from down in London, Leicester Square. So he's had to nip off to catch a train. So I'm doing the Edinburgh Festival and I was broadcasting from down in London, Lester Square.

So he's a nip off to catch a train.

So I'm doing the intro on my own,

but then obviously it's fine.

It's the show as normal.

But I just really have to read out this email

before we get cracking with today's podcast

because it really, really made us laugh.

This is from John in Cork.

Subject, you've cost me my thin veneer of normality.

Dear John, Ellis, producer Dave, and the vinturn.

Long-time listener, third-time emailer.

As you may be aware from my two previous emails,

I've been trying to coin the phrase,

one quallo doesn't make a summer in homage to your show.

This came to lugubrious nadir this week when a colleague commenting on the depressing

Irish summer were enduring said,

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