The John Robins Vibemail - Issue #10
Ahoy there! It's me! The good ship HMS Johnny JR! I do hope your waters are calm as I sail into your electronic port? On that, I've been having the damndest time getting these emails past various spam blacklists, so the next time I get in touch it may be from a slightly different #digital #interface. Why can't things just be simple! Why is life so complicated! Why does technology make me so anxious!
But I tell you what doesn't make me anxious, our old friend the leaf! That's right, leaves are absolutely calm as f*ck. And as I write this now I can see butt-loads of the little smashers! I would say 78-80% of my view right this instant is pure green. Couple of bits of sky knocking around, but otherwise it's as green as a US dollar, and that chills me out.
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His Royal Highness The Crown Prince Of Content Viscount Johnny JR CGC GSO
The People vs Wimbledon
If you were at the march in London last week you will have witnessed first hand the public outrage at the fact that Elis and my episode of Pointless Celebrities was pulled from the schedules of the SO CALLED BBC in order to facilitate footage of a tennis match featuring a player who has admitted spitting on a fan. It was a lawless affair and I for one think it's a disgrace that HER MAJESTY'S "broadcaster" deemed it appropriate to replace a quiz show raising money for CHARITY with a display of disrespectful behaviour towards umpires, dilly dallying and, to be fair, gripping tennis. Luckily our petition reached the highest members of state and I can confirm that our episode will now be broadcast at 8pm on Sat 13th August.
Edinburgh 2022
Much to my surprise my run of work in progress shows at the fringe this year has sold out. Thank you to everyone who bought tickets and to those who missed out
A. Don't worry it will be incredibly loose and you're not missing all that much.
B. Maybe a lesson learned about timeliness and prioritising?
C. There will be many more opportunities to see me reading off notes
D. I'm doing an extra show in Edinburgh in a slightly bigger room on the 23rd August. It's in Just The Tonic's Spiegeltent in St James Quarter and tickets are available HERE
This Sportaged Isle
In April I went on holiday on my own and drove through Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland (and England and Wales actually). It was, on reflection, a bad idea but one that couldn't escape my commitment to content. As such my sporadic voice notes have been made into a podcast (my words) / six-part bingeable digital drop (Dave's words). They are available on BBC Sounds or anywhere else you get your podcasts from and there's nothing Nick Kyrgios can do about that!
Bad Golf Merchandise
To any fans of my youtube channel Bad Golf, a golfing revolution created by myself and Alex Horne, there is new merchandise available! Puma polos as well as restocked towels, pitchmark repairers and ball markers are now on sale. The last batch sold out very quickly and due to unforeseen costs and very fine margins earned us a total of (no kidding) SIXTY QUID. So grab the stuff while you can and earn Alex and I enough money to buy a bad meal with wine or a modest meal without wine. You can have a look here
Legends Under Water
The Moon Under Water is now available on BBC Sounds which means I can finally plug my project on 5Live with an Elis-like freedom previously denied me by BBC top brass. It's still available everywhere else too and we've also simplified our Patreon offering so that for six quid a month you get
Monthly bonus episode 'Behind The Cellar Door'
Extended episodes
Bonus guest choice
Ad free episodes
Membership of The Moon Under Water Social Club
48 hour live event presale ticket access
Supporting this dear old pub (of the mind)
What's not to like?!
Any Other Business
As you know Elis is the new face of Fantasy Football on Sky TV! We are all very #proud of him and #acceptingofthedemandsthisplacesonhisavailability. I'm not sure when it airs but do make sure you tune in as Elis is great and will be utilising many of his sixteen different voices in the skits they film. Also Matt Lucas is one of the nicest people I have ever met.
You can book me for your bespoke digital messaging needs on cameo at https://www.cameo.com/johnrobins please give as much info as possible about the person / occasion the message is for to enable me to fully enter the #RiffMatrix
That's all my dears! I wish you all happiness and godspeed to your plans!
Love you!