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The Runcast with John Richards

A Random Act of Kindness

The Runcast with John Richards

KEXP

Music

4.6592 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

KEXP's John Richards joins you on your journey to run with songs from KEXP favorites like Kevin Morby, Santigold, Warpaint, and more. On this mix, John shares how running helps him maintain both his physical and mental health, with the right music to keep motivated. As author and runner Christopher McDougall says, “We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.”

  1. Kevin Morby - A Random Act of Kindness
  2. Wild Pink - Q Degraw
  3. Porridge Radio - The Rip
  4. Matthew Dear - Talking Sleep
  5. Dazy & Militarie Gun - Pressure Cooker
  6. Santigold - High Priestess
  7. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Blood in the Snow
  8. Warpaint - Champion
  9. Sudan Archives - Selfish Soul
  10. Automatic - New Beginning
  11. Fontaines DC - Roman Holiday
  12. Bodega - Thrown
  13. Yard Act - The Overload
  14. Working Men's Club - Circumference
  15. F!res - Into the Storm

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the K-EXP Runcast. I'm John Richards, host of the morning show and host of the Runcast.

0:06.4

I've been a runner since I can remember and I've been running for my physical health and for my mental health.

0:12.5

And to be honest, it gets me outside. And that alone is important, especially when you're living in a city like Seattle, where we have had just a cloudy, rainy, nasty year so far.

0:22.7

But it makes your run and it keeps you healthy.

0:25.4

And so these runcasts come out every few weeks, keep you motivated through the months of June through October.

0:30.4

Although you can use them clearly anytime you go running.

0:33.7

It's been so good to hear from a lot of you who have been using the run cast, both new and

0:37.6

old, to train and to stay motivated. And motivation is key when it comes to running. I love what

0:44.0

Christopher McDougal said. He said, we run when we're scared. We run. We're ecstatic. We run from our

0:49.5

problems. And we run around for a good time. I have run when I've been depressed. I have run when I learned

0:56.5

I was going to be a father. I have run when I was freaked out about different things. That may or may

1:02.8

not have been reasons to be freaked out. And I've run many times just to have a good time.

1:08.3

If any of those things or all of those things are happening for you right

1:11.2

now, thanks for having the podcast with you. This is Kevin Morby. I like this one. I think it's a

1:16.0

good running song. It's called a random act of kindness. Out of time. Out of time, out of money.

1:27.3

Out of time, out of money Out of time, out of money, honey

1:30.3

Honey

1:35.3

Out of lust

1:39.3

Out of lost, out of trust

1:41.3

Out of lost, out of trust for the sky above my head

1:49.0

Sun came up through my hands

1:53.0

Sun came up with no plan

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