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The Blindboy Podcast

Hanleys Fiasco

The Blindboy Podcast

Blindboyboatclub

Arts, Philosophy, Art, Fiction, Factual, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

I answer yere questions about Art,Scotland and difficult breakups

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0:00.0

Oh, praise BL's above. What's the fucking crack?

0:04.4

Hello, this is The Blind By Podcast.

0:08.8

And before we begin, I'm gonna read out a piece of sharp prose that was submitted

0:15.6

by pop singer, Jade Terawal from the group Little Mix.

0:25.4

And the 9th of May 2018, I placed a Fitbit and the neck of a Heron.

0:30.6

It was given to me by my cousin Dennis from my 27th birthday.

0:35.3

It was given to me by my cousin Dennis from me to place on my wrist and monitor my

0:41.0

health and fitness.

0:43.1

But I chose to wrap the Fitbit around the neck of a Heron.

0:47.8

And the Fitbit app I could monitor from a distance, the Heron's heartbeat.

0:54.0

The Heron frequented a collection of puddles behind my flat and lived a type of dead

0:59.8

sickamortry.

1:02.2

The average heartbeat for the Heron is 48 beats per minute.

1:06.1

Most days, the Heron's heart would beat between 44 and 50 beats per minute.

1:12.8

But some days, its heart would beat as much as 60 beats per minute.

1:18.0

And those days, I would feel energized and happy.

1:24.0

But when the Heron's heart beat returned to normal pace, I would feel sad and despondent

1:29.8

on those days.

1:33.0

So I began to startle the Heron by fashioning a suit made from loud metal and some bells.

1:40.8

I would parade around the back of my flats in the metal and bells suit, making a proud

1:47.8

din, startling the Heron until it screamed and I would feel jy, and I would monitor its

1:56.1

elevated heartbeat using the Fitbit app, elation and pleasure coursing its way through my

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