For Whatever Holds The Sacred
The Runcast with John Richards
KEXP
4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Inspirational music and messages to lift you up wherever you are on your running journey.
- HÆLOS - Last Days
- Petite Noir - Blurry
- Kele - Someone to Make Me Laugh
- Fever Ray - Carbon Dioxide
- LP Giobbi - Body Breathe (feat. Monogem)
- Acid Arab & Wael Alkak - Ya Mahla
- Jake Shears - Devil Came Down the Dance Floor (feat. Amber Martin)
- Bonobo & Jacques Green - Fold
- Skinny Pelembe - Like a Heart Won't Beat
- Shalom - Happenstance
- Noble Rot - Casting No Light (feat. Colin Newman)
- WITCH - Avalanche of Love (feat. Sampa the Great)
- Ritmo Machine - Isla del Ritmo
- Beach Vacation - Lay Low
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode two, season two of the KexP Runcast. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm John Richards, your resident runner. |
| 0:07.5 | And as these podcasts are being put together, I'm getting my mileage back up. |
| 0:12.2 | I had a few injuries, had a little stuff going on, but you know how it goes. |
| 0:16.5 | And I'm just starting to come back from that. |
| 0:18.2 | So it's kind of fitting that I'm finding the motivational |
| 0:21.1 | music here for you to run while I'm trying to motivate myself to get running. And before I get things started, I just want to read this email. This one hits. I just love this email. And I'd like to read it to you from one of our runcast faithfuls out there. I think it's motivating to get things started. Marcel wrote in, he said, I was diagnosed with cancer at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic. |
| 0:41.1 | It put me in a... out there. I think it's motivating to get things started. Marcel wrote in, he said, I was diagnosed |
| 0:37.9 | with cancer at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic. It put me in a dark place for a while. |
| 0:43.1 | Working from home is nice, but without my usual bike commute, my depression only had claustrophobia |
| 0:48.1 | to keep a company. Well said, but I could still run. I ran alone. I ran with our dog Diesel, |
| 0:52.9 | my youngest son Ivan and with my wife, |
| 0:55.1 | Rachel, who is the fiery and powerful engine that drives his family. I ran through the heat, |
| 0:59.4 | through the cold, through the sun and the rain. I started to run out of defiance of cancer and death. |
| 1:04.7 | Now I run because it's become a church, a temple, a synagogue, or whatever holds the sacred for you. |
| 1:09.7 | It heightens my experience of the unfathable |
| 1:12.2 | unlikeliness of being, not just being alive, but of existence itself and my part in it. It blows my |
| 1:18.5 | mind that it does this while also grounding me in the nitty-gritty of being a human and connecting |
| 1:22.5 | me to everyone else I see running and walking around me. All of this high-flown metaphysical language is in part |
| 1:29.3 | thanks to you. Your show engages my brain with songs and artists I'd never come across without your |
| 1:33.7 | help. Some of your inspirational quotes have become mantras that guide my thoughts. And finally, |
| 1:38.0 | the messages from other listeners give me a sense of empathetic connection to people I've |
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