Huw Stephens - The Fountain of All Knowledge

The Moon Under Water

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4.8 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

‘Hiraeth’ is a word that’s quite difficult to translate from Welsh into English. Essentially it’s a deep longing for something, especially one's home; but it’s so much more than that. For Landlord John, who resides in The Moon Under Water, it’s something he feels any time he leaves his ‘Pub of the Mind’ to return to the Earthly realm. Thankfully his feelings of hiraeth are about to be expunged as the doors of The Moon Under Water are being flung open once more to welcome this week’s guest. It’s radio presenter Huw Stephens!

Huw grew up in Cardiff which, as well as being one of the all time great pub cities, is somewhere that Landlord John and the regular Robin frequented for a session in their earlier years. He’s also one of the big players on the UK music scene - if there’s a venue that Huw hasn’t been to then it’s not worth knowing about. But what would his dream pub look like? Will it have live music? Will it have a carpet? We just don’t know… yet!

There are still tickets on sale for The Moon Under Water Live. There are two more dates in September, when we'll be inviting special guests to create their dream pub LIVE from a real pub (The George IV in Chiswick). Head over to moonunderpod.com for more info and to grab your tickets. The mystical realm awaits!

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0:00.0	Commence the evening and bepint the sky.
0:15.0	Lay hides upon benches and pour the wine.
0:20.0	Long, glinting blood-red lights cascade around me and
0:24.6	project the fire on my eye. Bewilder me in the moon underwater. Oh, Oh, Oh Oh hallowed night to thee, Robin.
1:05.8	Hello, John.
1:07.6	How are thee?
1:08.5	Take your residence at your favourite barstool and let me pour you a thought or two.
1:14.2	Oh, please too. Pour it out. Let it foam. What will it be tonight for you? I shall have a pint of
1:21.1	moist air. Oh really? Yeah, just air. I just fancy a pint of air. A pint of moist air.
1:28.1	Sort of like breath.
1:29.2	Well, no, like the breath of the wind.
1:31.1	The breath of the cask.
1:32.7	Yes, yes.
1:33.8	That's all I'm in the mood for.
1:35.1	Okay, well, here's a pint of cask breath for you.
1:38.0	It doesn't sound very nice.
1:39.6	No, it doesn't. I was more thinking, you know, like kind of air you might get at the top of a mountain or off the sea, you know.
1:46.2	Oh, right. So it's sort of more natural air as opposed to a sort of fetid damp air.
1:52.1	No, I don't, you know, something more like a gust, but, you know.
1:55.2	Like when there's sort of dew in the air?
1:58.2	Yes, exactly. Or sea spray.
2:00.2	Oh, that's not a bad shout. Okay, pint of sea spray it is for you.
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