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Welcome to the Blind Boye Podcast.

This episode is the sixth year anniversary of this podcast.

I've been making this podcast every single week for six years. And what that

means for me is for six years solid, I've been able to earn a living doing what I absolutely love and adore. Before this

podcast I'd spent 10 years in the rubber bandits trying to make it on television and radio and in music, operating very much within the

space of traditional media. And the problem with that is, you're not creating to make the best

piece of work, you're not creating to express yourself.

You're creating to impress a small amount of commissioners in the hopes that they'll give you a job.

And you get a commission and you just take it you're lucky to get one or two

commissions a year and then you have to live off that with complete uncertainty and no way to

financially plan or plan anything about your fucking life and it's a soul-crushing an

inefficient way to be an artist and it's a it's a terrible model for creative

self-expression if you want to fund artists you have to fund artists to fail. You gotta fund artists like, like you'd fund a scientist.

You fund an artist to give them space to experiment and create and to try things. If you do that, you'll get occasional

greatness. TV radio and music industry doesn't do that. They fund artists with the caveat

that the work must be popular to draw in advertisers

and under those conditions what you get is consistent mediocrity so for six years

I've been completely out of that system. I don't have to think about

commissioners. I don't even they don't enter my fucking head. Instead each week I get to deliver the best version of myself, D.E. I get to write, like I'm four years

of age playing with LEGO. Instead of thinking about what I want to make, I'm exploring a feeling of curiosity, using

creativity, and from that I've got a fucking body of work that I'm unbelievably proud of and I get to experience a sense of

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