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My Perfect Podcast: John Robins

In this column, we ask a pod person about the ’casts that mean a lot to them. This month, it’s John Robins, the Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning stand-up who co-hosts How Do You Cope? alongside Elis James, a podcast where they chat to guests about the major challenges they’ve faced in life

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My Perfect Podcast: John Robins

Which podcast makes you laugh? I’m a big fan of Three Bean Salad. I’ve known presenters Ben Partridge, Henry Paker and Mike Wozniak for years through comedy, but getting to hear their brains all working together on zeitgeist topics such as submarines or flightless birds always makes me howl.

Which podcast makes you sad or angry? I tend not to really seek out content that makes me sad or angry; I get enough of that for free in life. But I guess The Rest Is Politics does make me fear for a world that consistently finds itself under the control of a handful of men who cannot control their egos. 

Which podcast is your guilty pleasure? Well there’s nothing guilty about it, but the output of David Earl and David Edwards has been an incredibly soothing balm in difficult times. I went back and listened to Brian Gittins And Friends during a recent period of illness and at times I couldn’t move from laughing; at one point my bath actually started to overflow because I couldn’t get up to turn off the tap. Now I'm going through their show Random Movie Generator at a pace of knots.

Tell us someone who currently doesn’t have a podcast but totally should? Adrian Chiles. Simple. As. That. He’s the voice of the nation. He’s our conscience and our curiosity.  

Pitch us a new podcast idea in exactly 25 words Adrian Chiles sits in motorway service stations talking to people whilst eating a Whopper Meal and sometimes Goes to WH Smith to read the papers.

New episodes of How Do You Cope? are available every Monday on Wondery.

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