#405 - My Integrity, A Million Pounds and Why Can’t We All Just Be Clerks?

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

You thought you were safe from Wordle? Hasn’t everyone else stopped talking about it? Well, you were wrong. But don’t switch off, come back, come back!

For it’s an etymological *feast* today - is that a good eliminator word?! Because alongside Old English word origins and some quite impenetrable tactics chat, there are some astonishing revelations about Johnny JR’s mental approach to the global word game.

But there’s also good news in the Robins Realm because his young bum has been signed off. A young bum that yearns for the simpler less filth-ridden times of the 1930s.

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting.
0:04.7	Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC.
0:08.4	I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book.
0:11.4	But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts.
0:15.4	I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into
0:19.2	a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to
0:25.2	give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole
0:30.0	new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories
0:34.2	that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC Sounds.
0:40.8	BBC Sounds Music, radio podcasts. Hello, thank you very much for downloading Ellis and John, slightly earlier start than usual.
1:11.1	We're recording this a good
1:12.7	hour and a half before we'd usually
1:14.7	start recording. Dave has
1:17.0	got that early morning euphoria
1:18.9	that some people get.
1:21.1	Dave and John
1:22.2	John looks like he wants to die.
1:25.9	I had a very restless night's sleep, actually, honest.
1:28.9	Did you?
1:29.6	Yes, didn't get to sleep for ages.
1:32.6	And I'd set my alarm because we're starting so early.
1:35.9	Oh, goodness me.
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