John Robins: the many moods of podcasting, mental health, and Wordle (Elis & John / How Do You Cope / Howl) #608
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by comic and podcaster and friend to us all, JOHN ROBINS!
A naturally evolving podcast which goes from subject to subject while remaining focused and sober at all times. It's almost as if the two people being recorded are podcast professionals. What kicks things off though is a very interesting and revealing chat about mental health, considering the potential saturation with the constant pursuit of happiness (and 'optimisation fatigue'). Elsewhere you'll be treated to a rundown of ways John is similar to Pip, separating the Crossfit politics from the actual actions which are - all said and done - body movements, a good chunk on Wordle (so prepare for that if you are done with Wordle!), politics, toxic podcasting, time anxiety and the benefits thereof, and the joy of Lou Sanders! Because almost all of the world's issues can be solved by enjoying Lou Sanders. And Bonnie Prince Billy, which John and many of us (producer Buddy typing this...!) share. A ton to enjoy. Get started!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is The Distraction Pieces podcast episode 608. And I've got some podcast |
| 0:07.4 | royalty on today. Don't look, but I'm only chatting with John Robbins, isn't I? I stammered on |
| 0:13.5 | his name. I've got a stammer. You've got to allow that. You can't get annoyed at that. |
| 0:17.8 | Otherwise, it's prejudice. I bloody love John Robbins. |
| 0:21.5 | I was so excited to chat. |
| 0:23.6 | This chat flew by. |
| 0:24.9 | I got through about a third of the things I wanted to get through, |
| 0:28.4 | so we're definitely going to have another chat in a year or so. |
| 0:31.7 | John was kind enough to welcome me into his home. |
| 0:35.7 | We're both people who spend a lot of time in our homes on our own |
| 0:40.5 | and don't welcome many people in. So I felt honoured. It was a joy to, to enter and to chat. |
| 0:47.5 | You'll hear more about our similarities. You'll hear, yeah, you'll hear more about our similarities. |
| 0:53.1 | I'll tell you that much. |
| 0:56.1 | If this is your first time tuning in, |
| 0:59.2 | flipping heck, there's a lot of episodes. |
| 1:03.2 | I've put out an episode a week for over a decade. |
| 1:07.9 | If you like your comedy, you could go and listen to the Loose Sanders episode. |
| 1:09.9 | You could listen to the Tim Key episode. I mean, literally pretty much every |
| 1:11.8 | comedian that you can, that you could want to list, I've had on. Go into your podcast app, |
| 1:17.4 | put distraction pieces, and then the name of any comedian, and it will pretty much bring them |
| 1:23.2 | up. We're talking Nish. We're talking A-caster. We're talking Gamble. We're talking Cairns. We're talking Nish, we're talking Acaster, we're talking Gamble, we're talking Kearns, we're talking Pasco, we're talking B, as in Ashlyn, I'll go with Ashlin on that one, we're talking Ashlyn. |
| 1:38.3 | There's just been an awful lot of people. Last, fairly, That wasn't actually that recent. |
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