Episode 69
Audible Kissing & A Robins Spreads It's Wings
Show broadcast on 6 June 2015
This episode comes with a warning - Please be advised that this Podcast contains Elis James and John Robins acting out how to kiss on the radio. Unsurprisingly its quite unsettling. Other than that though, we discuss how to structure an anecdote correctly. John is slightly peeved by losing out on 10's of thousands of retweets, and the team advise boiling water to sterilize it before putting it in a water pistol.
Podcast intro
John does an impression of a robot and the guys get sidetracked talking about John's body being taken away to be studied by beings from another planet.
Discussion of hipster retro fashion.
John's introduction of Elis
"To my left is the man Bryn Terfel could have been. "
Conversations and riffs
Elis turned down the chance to see Blur play a small warm-up gig along with backstage passes, because he is such a great family man. But he's fine with it.
If you were a river, what river would you be?
Elis starred in a radio play this week and had to pretend to kiss someone on air. Cue E & J practicing making kissing noises in the studio.
John has a flashback to when he got the hardness scale mixed up during a school lesson and accidentally said talc was harder than diamond.
Elis bemoans his girlfriend's inability to tell an anecdote and a punchline to his satisfaction.
Text-in topic
Listeners text and tweet during the show on this week's topic.
When has someone taken credit for your good work?
Textual Healing
A listener calls the show with a problem.
David gets abuse when he puts the top down on his convertible.
A Robins Amongst the Pigeons
John reads aloud from his autobiography.
Chapter 30: A Robins Amongst The Pigeons. John wraps up his moving autobiography with the final chapter.
Winner Plays On
Elis and John face off in the weekly quiz on topics of their choice.
Football kits from 1990 to the present day (Elis) v the music of Bonnie Prince Billy (John). John wins 4-1.
Email of the Species
Listeners' emails into the show.
A few listeners have pointed out that someone took John's excellent riff in last week's show about Nescafé claiming you can't email a hug, and passed it off on Twitter as their own wry comment, scoring 22,000 retweets!