John Robins (Part Two)

If you've got an interior monologue, if you spend a lot of time with yourself, if you're just trying to get through life, you are noticing things and being like using an Allen headspace can get you through some quite boring life moments.

I was driving back from a gig last night and stopped at Stafford Services for dinner, basically, because I hadn't had a chance to eat.

And if you're Alan, in your mind, a services is like a sort of a theme park of things to notice.

You know, why are they selling child's wetsuits in Stafford Services, WH Smith? Something's gone badly wrong there.

Still, 12.99. Might get one.

Don't have any kids.

Why is that? Because my life hasn't worked out as planned.

You know, you can sort of amuse yourself.

Otherwise, what else are you thinking?

I find a really helpful coping strategy to talk to myself in an Alan voice.

Sometimes muttering to myself probably makes me look mad.

But I don't just do it in here.

I'll sort of say,

oh,

it's a two for one there on the Toblerones.

Do you need two Toblerones?

I can happily just browse a supermarket sort of as Alan.

there's a very similar moment of that just relatable, him just picking through what's around him.

And I was really looking forward to it when I heard Steve Coons spoke on a podcast that the first episode of series four of Roast House, he got trapped in the porch bit of Lynn's house.

And he said, he starts looking through pizza menus and what, and I knew it would be brilliant.

And it is, it's, I must've listened to that already.

I don't know, 10 plus times.

I just find it-

The farts sound too real to be sound effects.

I think.