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Welcome to the Blind By podcast.

If this is your first episode, consider going back to an earlier episode.

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to familiarise themselves with the lore of this podcast. I'm recording this quite late tonight.

I'm sipping on coffee to keep myself alert.

Not just any coffee.

My fetish eyes a quite disgusting Spanish coffee.

It's called Tare Factor. I'm a big fan of cultural scarcity. I'm the last

generation to experience cultural scarcity. I grew up in a time when if you heard a song on the radio

or on an advert on television and it was the most amazing song you've ever fucking heard. If you didn't get the

name of that song in that moment, you may never hear it again. And you just had to accept it.

You had to accept that loss. Or you might be staying up late at night time, flicking through TV channels

because that's all you had was

fucking TV. And there's a film on, a late night film. I remember being a child. Would

have been a Friday or Saturday night, staying up way past my bedtime, probably one in the morning.

And I flicked on the television and there was this movie on.

I'd never seen anything like it at the time.

It was about this teenage girl who ran away from home.

She came from absolute poverty in Los Angeles.

And then this creepy old man tries to pick her up in his car and tries to assault her. But then she pulls out a gun and shoots him into the mouth. And then as I watched the film I slowly realise, fucking hell,

this is the story of Little Red Riding Hood, but it's set in Los Angeles in the 90s. I was 10 or 11.

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