RC 395: River Is Beatiful

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Hello, welcome to Radio Clash, this is 395, called River is Beautiful, and Curse you, Totom,

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for making a Coldplay Mash.

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Making me play a Coldplay Mash.

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Well, not making me play it, but making me like Coldplay Mash.

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After I said I really can’t stand Coldplay Mashes, Totom has to go and mash the one Coldplay

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song off the one album I can stand, which is the first album, and Don’t Panic.

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Yeah, all the feels, that’s I Promise You Flowers, Don’t Panic, Miley Cyrus vs. Coldplay.

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And at the start we had the Branflakes with Fifty Four Fifty from their 2016’s Ultimate Hits, which

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I missed, I somehow missed.

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I have several, at least one Branflakes album, and yeah, somehow I didn’t know about that

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one.

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I was checking out the discography and went, “What’s this?”

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And it sounds like a best-off, but none of the tracks I’d heard before, so it’s like

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a mock best-off, but I might be wrong on that.

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And yes, it’s called River is Beautiful because I’ve been walking the Thames path, I spent

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two weeks walking a lot of the Thames path.

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I’m not going to say exactly where I ended up, because it’s a bit spoilers, spoilers

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sweetie, spoilers.

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But yeah, I walked from Yantlet, which is where the London Stone is, to quite a bit of it,

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to more than halfway, and it’s 200 miles, so a lot of walking.

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And as this is a YouTube, as this is a video for my YouTube channel, I can’t afford the

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copyright.

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I can’t afford the musical rights to any of these songs.

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So weirdly, during the whole of it, I wasn’t listening to music.

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This episode is kind of a mixture of new stuff that I really dig, and also an imagined soundtrack

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for the Thames Path series.

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It’s going to be called Thames Spring when it comes out.

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I’m just editing it at the moment.

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And yeah, there’s a lot of tracks in here that are London based and river based.

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And yes, if I could license any music, there’d be some of these in that video, but I can’t.

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So talking of London, we can play a track by Hallmighty.

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This is, surprise I’ve not played this.

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This is from 2023, Hallmighty Presents, Disco Deluxe 6.

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This is Take My Heart Back to London, Ed Sheeran versus Stormzy versus Pet Shop Boys.

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That was Hallmighty featuring Lady Tea, with his first ever original track.

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That’s ‘The Rhythm’.

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I like that a lot.

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It’s a good slice of disco, modern disco.

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And then before that we had, yeah, more of that sort of river section.

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That’s ‘Water’ featuring Clara La San by Bicep from 2022.

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Then before that Overmono with ‘BBY’ from 2029.

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And then before that we had Minor Arth

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We had two Minor Arth tracks in that mix, actually.

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There’s ‘Andromedas Teardrops’, Womack and Womacn versus Gorillaz versus D-RAM or

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DRAM, I don’t know how you say that, a very recent mashup.

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I’m not really up on Gorillaz and I’ve been hearing the odd thing that has used tracks

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and I’ve really liked the track they use.

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So I have one later in the podcast, which is one of those, it’s like, “Oh, actually,

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I’ve not heard that.

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I recognise that vocalist.

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I must have this.”

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And of course, you know, ‘Teardrop’ is a classic and it’s apparently namedropped in the Andromeda

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track.

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Then before that, the theme of mine is ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’, for kind of obvious

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reasons I would say, though I never was a radio star.

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Video killed the radio unknown.

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But yeah, there’s very much a thing with YouTube taking on my time that I don’t really spend

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the time.

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I should do with the podcast and other things, blog and etc. are very neglected at the moment,

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which is very bad.

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But you know, it’s kind of like, that’s the way with YouTube.

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You have to be very much all in.

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You can’t just do half cock, really.

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So that’s Mighty Mike with ‘Time Killed the Radio Star’.

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That’s Cyndi Lauper’versus ‘Buggles’.

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And before that, we had ‘Video Killed Digital Love’, Daftpunk versus ‘The Buggles’ by

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Minor Arth

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Again, another new-ish mash.

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And then before that, we had one of me that was kept an obvious with, because everyone’s

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doing Murder on the Dancefloor mashups because of Saltburn.

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Even though I’ve never seen Saltburn, it was for a challenge actually.

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I didn’t win the challenge, but hey, that’s ‘Murder Everywhere’ on the dancefloor.

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Sophie Ellis Bexter versus Fleetwood Mac

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Yes, me doing a Fleetwood Mac mashup.

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Surprise!

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Much surprise.

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And then before the start of that section, we had Hallmighty with ‘Take My Heart Back

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to London’ Ed Sheeran and ‘Stormzy’ versus Pet Shop Boys.

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Yes, I’d love to have stuff like, you know, ‘Bicep’ in my video.

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I just have to use an AI knock-offs of that kind of thing.

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Unfortunately, yes, it’s sad.

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It’s sad.

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So, we’re going to play another London-related track, which is ‘London Calling’ by The Clash.

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Hey, we’re Radio Clash.

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We have to play Clash tunes it’s in the rules

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And this is Phoenix City All-Stars, their version of ‘London Calling’.

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That was men, not just

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any old men, we’re just innocent men.

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Now, MEN, J.D. Samson’s band from 2011, that’s “Who Am I to Feel So Free?” which I know from

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Duckie I’d heard it from Duckie and I heard it again through checking out what J.D. Samson

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had been up to and I was like, “Oh, I know that song.

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Always good to play some queer indy disco.

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Always a pleasure in this podcast.”

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The whole thing that I always love to play is also Jungle, so we had Charla Green

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with Babylon Fall from 2020, not from London, from Sheffield, but yeah.

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Before that, we had some London Elektricity.

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I mean, how could we do a London podcast without some London Elektricity?

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It’s impossible.

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We can’t.

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We cannot.

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We cannot.

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We cannot.

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We cannot have a London podcast without London Elektricity.

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And that’s from 2019’s “Building Better Worlds.”

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That’s “Possible Worlds” featuring Inja.

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I haven’t played a remix of that, but I haven’t played the original weirdly.

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And then we had Oki’s “Walk Idiot, Don’t Stop.”

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You see what I did there?

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Hives vs. Fleetwood Mac the Oki tracks from 2023, and The Unusuals “I’m Walking,

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Babe” from 1965, some classic garage rock.

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I’ve played some Unusualson a podcast before, a very different one with a different vocalist,

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but that’s their other single.

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They’re like three singles, I think, or two singles.

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And that’s that other single.

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They’re more known for their second single, which I forget her name, but it’s quite a

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well-known vocalist who worked with them on their last single.

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I think it was their last single, one of their singles.

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And then before that, we had Phoenix City All-Stars with London Calling, or London Colin, as

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I always call it.

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I can hear you, Colin.

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London Colin.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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So, again, when I was walking down the river, there was one song that was in my head, or

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one statement.

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There was a few songs that I was singing along the way.

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Weirdly not river-based, most of them.

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For some reason, I was always singing Negativland’s

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“I am a man, a man with four fingers.”

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For some reason, I just kept singing that.

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I don’t know why.

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I don’t know why.

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So I kept changing lyrics.

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“I am a man, a man with four locks.

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I am a man, a man with four rivers.

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I am a man with four pastels.”

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I was eating a lot of fruit pastels.

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With four fruit pastels, yeah.

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I ate two and a half bags of, no three and a half bags of fruit pastels.

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And I can tell you, my fruit pastel research, that the original fruit pastels are worse

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than the supermarket-owned brands.

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Even Lidl.

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That doesn’t make sense.

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But, of course, Rowntrees changed the formula, like they did with fruit gums.

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And then ours tastes like shit.

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Whereas the best one is Tesco’s.

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Tesco’s own fruit pastels taste fruitier than the original fruit pastels.

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And they still have that texture.

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I think it’s because they made it vegan.

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They made the original ones vegan.

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And so now they’re just not as nice.

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Sorry, vegans.

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You spoil everything.

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I’m going to get complaints.

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I don’t care.

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No one fucking listens to this.

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But yeah, so I’m not almost now listening to this.

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So what?

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It’s true, though.

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That’s nice things that have been sort of wrecked by having to change the formula because

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of…

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I mean, I get it with allergies, but it’s…

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Yeah.

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I have vegans and I have gluten tolerance and stuff.

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So I get it.

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But I don’t go around insisting everyone should change their crusty loaf.

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I wish there was more gluten bread, but I don’t think people should change theirs.

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But yeah, and I’ll readily agree that the gluten-free versions are dreadful.

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Well, not dreadful.

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They’re getting better.

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But sourdough is all right.

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But a lot of them are just like cardboard.

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And I will freely admit that.

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But yeah, whenever…

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I’ve noticed the vegan version of things.

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The vegan version of jelly gums.

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Unfortunately, I think you do need pigs or gelatin, really.

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It’s part of the flavor and the taste and texture.

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So the thing that I was saying was “Creek is beautiful” rather than saying what is the

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title of this podcast.

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River is beautiful.

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And so I have to play the original.

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So this is from Bluey.

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“Creek is beautiful” and it is a beautiful episode.

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And this is pretty much every Bluey episode.

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All of them actually.

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They are beautiful.

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But yeah, this is a magical paen to…

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Kids going outdoors and playing in the creek.

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It seems to be a bumper podcast for Hallmighty.

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Well I was actually planning to play the two Hallmighty tracks, and then he dropped the original

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tracks, so I was like, “Oh, put that in as well”

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That’s “Hear Me Under the Bridge,” Red Hot Chili Peppers versus K’Naan versus

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Robbie Williams, versus The Beatles.

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I must have agreed, when I first heard that, I was like, “Where’s The Beatles?

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Where’s The Beatles?”

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And it was just like, right at the end, a little bit of Hey Jude.

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And before that, we had the dub classic, “Kunte Kinte dub plate, version two”.

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Everyone plays version one, and I preferred version two actually.

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That’s by The Revolutionaries.

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And it’s weird, because the date on that is like 2007, 2009.

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I can’t find the original version, even though it’s from the 1970s.

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I can’t find it on Discogs because I can’t find what the original version, when the original

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version, release date was.

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I think I won these things that languished on dub plates, and never got properly released,

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commercially released.

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But I’ve certainly heard that organ sound in so many other things.

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So that organ sound was very much copied.

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And The Revolutionaries was the first time that Sly and Robbie got together.

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That was their group.

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Various people came and went.

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I think Ansel Collins was in there, and various people you all heard of came through The

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Revolutionaries.

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And before that, we had Gorillaz with the lost chord featuring Leee John.

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The man with three E’s

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Oh, it’s great to hear Leee John.

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I’m a big Imagination fan.

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I was as a child.

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And I heard that voice in a mashup, and I was like, “Hey, that’s Leee John.

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I’m pretty sure that’s Leee John on a Gorillaz track.”

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Yep.

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It was from 2020’s Song Machine Season 1, “Strange Times.”

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And I don’t know what that song’s about, but every song sounds better with Leee John in it.

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And before that, we had the headless, the headless organist.

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I’m not going to get very far, are they?

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Headless organist.

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Bonk.

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Now, the Handless Organist is Turn Your Radio On from 1984’s Truly a Miracle of God.

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And people describe that as an outsider album, and I don’t think it is.

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Having listened to it, it’s perfectly fine.

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I love the organ work, and I love the singing.

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It’s like, “Oh, it’s an outsider record.

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Just watch, because she’s got a disability, because she has no hands.”

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It’s like, that’s a bit weird.

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No, it’s not.

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It has to be a bit more than that.

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But still, I really like that song, despite the Christian bits.

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It’s just the, “Turn your radio on.”

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It’s good.

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And then before that, we had Billy No-Mates with Saboteur Forcefield from 2023’s Cacti.

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It’s probably the only podcast that went from Billy No-Mates to the Handless Organist,

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I can tell you.

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Then before that, we had a kind of a London section, but not necessarily a happy London

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section.

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It started out happy.

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So we had Kae Tempest with Bad Place for a Good Time, and that was the last single that they

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did for Big Dada.

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That was the last independent single from 2015.

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And then they joined the big bad UMG, unfortunately.

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And before that, we had Solange with Cranes in the Sky from 2016’s A Seat at the Table.

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And I questioned myself about doing this, because it harmonically works so well.

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But I really didn’t want to cramp on the style of Bluey’s and Joff Bush’s.

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“The creek is beautiful.”

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But then I was like, that is basically my walk.

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It was, you’d see a beautiful creek, a beautiful river, and then you turn the corner and there

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would be cranes and the usual London bullshit.

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And so that was why I was like, yeah, I’ll keep it in, because it’s kind of that duality

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is what’s in my video series.

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To come, he’s very much that ugly next to beautiful.

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And the ugly is beautiful and the beautiful is ugly, you know, that kind of thing.

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That’s London.

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It’s all jostled together, the good and the bad.

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And yes, as you might have guessed, my walk didn’t go badly.

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It didn’t, unfortunately, because of flooding, didn’t actually get where I wanted it to be,

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which was depressing.

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But it’s funny, it was Easter and it was like, well, I can’t walk on water.

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I’m not Jesus.

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So I’m going to go back and finish, well, less than half, I think it is.

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I’m totted it up, but it’s definitely more than half.

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Look at the latter bit when it’s summer and it’s less of a stressy thing, because I just

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ended up walking on roads and like walking roads, taking a path in, finding it flooded,

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you know, and it’s like I did take water through socks.

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I was fording across things, but the problem is you can’t hike in wellies.

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So it was a debate.

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I should have took wellies, but then it was like, well, there’d be another thing to carry.

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Some of the bits are impossible to afford.

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Like I got to this thing which I’ve jumped before or around.

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So sort of like this sort of bit, which is like a break in the bank.

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And it was, I actually put my pole and I was like, should I walk through this?

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And it was like, kept going down and down and down.

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I was more than waist deep.

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I was like, no.

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And the field was completely flooded going into unless I sort of forded that.

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And I was like, no.

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So there was a few things like that, but I did, I did ford quite a lot of them and

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I got, got my feet wet quite a few times.

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It got to a point where I don’t need wellies.

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I need waders.

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It’s too deep.

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And so then I was like, no, it’s just silly.

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I was fed up of camping by roads and walking along roads.

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It was just, it was just too stressy.

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Lots of bad places and lots of good places.

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Well, then one.

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But yeah, I’m going to play a track by Working Men’s Club.

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I love this greatly.

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It doesn’t really fit for the rest of it.

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It’s very sort of new wave.

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This is Circumference.

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I almost didn’t make the ending because I fell asleep to my own mashup, which is, I’m

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not sure that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

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That TBC aka Instamatic with Whisper Forever

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George Michael versus the Spice Girls

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I always wanted to do a mashup with Viva Forever.

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I’m not a massive Spice Girls fan, but I do like the feel of that.

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I mean, it was like a whole Geri leaving at that point.

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And you know, I don’t know.

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There’s a whole kind of feel of that.

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Even though it’s supposed to be like the end of a summer romance.

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It’s quite a sad song.

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Then before that, we had Goldie and the Gingerbreads with Walking in Different Circles.

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That’s some classic psych sort of garage from 1967.

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And before that, we had iWillBattle with Feeling Beautiful Good Things, Benson Boone

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versus Muse.

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I didn’t know the Benson Boone song at all.

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It’s always a good sign of a mashup when you really connect to a mashup, but you don’t

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know one of the songs.

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And you’re kind of like, it just works.

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I’ve not heard the original version of the Benson Boone track at all.

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So I don’t know it, but yeah, it just works really well.

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And then before that, we had ah! Alan Hurley with Black Frog Peace One.

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Again, I think that’s one of my favorite mashups of the year.

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That’s the Doors versus Thom Yorke.

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And I don’t know.

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You know, in some senses, I suppose, Radiohead, Tom York versus the Doors might be slightly

02:14:10.200 –> 02:14:11.960
obvious, but it’s not really.

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It feels very intertwined.

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It’s certainly not an obvious choice, the two songs together, but they work so well.

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So that’s the important thing.

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And then before that, we had Danny Macabre with Vampire Creep.

02:14:28.840 –> 02:14:30.920
There’s Olivia Rodrigo versus Radiohead.

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I question myself whether to put that in because the Radiohead is too fast, that really weird

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break in it.

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And I don’t know why the extra drums sound odd, but the combination is brilliant.

02:14:43.400 –> 02:14:51.840
The Vampire Olivia Rodrigo versus Creep, it’s kind of like more than half of a good

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mashup is the song selection.

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The Alan Hurley as well is like the one from iWillBattle.

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The two things just meshing.

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And that’s kind of more than half the battle.

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It’s just choosing two things that sync together really well.

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At the end of the day, the technical side is not as important as having two good tracks

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that work really well together.

02:15:17.840 –> 02:15:19.520
You can kind of overlook some of the bits.

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It’s like, “Hmm.”

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That’s still, yeah, I don’t know if that’s going on with that first break, but anyway,

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first drop.

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And then before that, we had Totom’s.

02:15:28.360 –> 02:15:33.320
Everybody would drown and You’d Too Y.O.U.D. Too.

02:15:33.320 –> 02:15:39.160
How to Destroy Angels versus Billie Eilish versus Culoe Da Song.

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I don’t know the How to Destroy Angels or the Culoe Da Song, but it just works so

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well.

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I know the Billie Eilish and it just is a complete mood.

02:15:49.040 –> 02:15:50.720
A complete mood.

02:15:50.720 –> 02:15:52.560
Hashtag vibe.

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Then before that, we had Working Men’s Club with Circumference.

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And as you might have guessed, that’s selection.

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Yeah, not exactly happy, happy, joy, joy.

02:16:02.640 –> 02:16:05.720
My mental health has been a bit weird since I got back.

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I think it’s just sitting indoors editing.

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I edited the South Downs Way Part 3 last week and now I’m working on the editing for the

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Thames Path stuff and just going through all my old photographs.

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And it’s just been a bit of a kind of like a drudge I think.

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But luckily I’m going out next weekend on another collaboration trip in Felixstowe and

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Harwich.

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So it’s a coast I don’t know well, walking around the estuary.

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Yeah, that should be hopefully good.

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Hopefully interesting.

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But yeah, I think really getting out would be good for me.

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I’ve been trying to keep myself busy because yeah, things have been a bit like, I think

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it’s just probably because I’m about to reach 51.

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It’s always weird about that sort of time and so looking at my achievements and the

02:16:51.440 –> 02:16:55.320
YouTube channel and stuff and just thinking it’s not really where I want it to be.

02:16:55.320 –> 02:16:59.520
I mean, that’s what the two week walk thing was about was just a bit like, you know, I’m

02:16:59.520 –> 02:17:02.760
going to do something big and sort of really push it.

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But it’s a lot of work, a lot of footage.

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A lot of editing.

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I don’t know how long the series hopefully won’t be daily.

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If it’s daily, it’s going to be 12 parts, which is right.

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That’s crazy.

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I’m hoping to do it every couple of days.

02:17:17.880 –> 02:17:21.760
My computer is having to use external drives and stuff.

02:17:21.760 –> 02:17:22.760
Computer’s fall on it.

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It’s just like, a lot of tech issues.

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I’ve been going through all my old photographs and that’s quite fun.

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But also the scanner won’t scan the slides.

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So I can’t include any of the slides unless I get the other scanner in and it’s all that

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sort of stuff.

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It’s just like, oh, so yeah, there’s a lot of that going on and it’s not helping.

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So I hope you’re all well.

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I’m going to play out with a classic from Lee Spoons, 10,000 Spoons.

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Again, I think I heard this on his Megabllast radio show from Noisebox Radio.

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I think it was that.

02:17:58.880 –> 02:18:00.520
I think he played on that.

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I had not heard it before.

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It’s from way back in the day.

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And I have to say, I love it, but it does have that weird kind of, because I’m pretty sure,

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I’m really not sure what time signatures Charots of Fire is in.

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And I think it’s kind of a weird kind of almost Waltz time.

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I’m not sure.

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So there an element of that.

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But even that, it just, it does, it does work even though bits are on like, yeah, where

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is the snare there?

02:18:27.080 –> 02:18:29.920
So this is Chariots Killed The Radio Star, Buggles.

02:18:29.920 –> 02:18:32.240
Yeah, again, Buggles versus Vangelis.

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Speak to you soon.