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The Runcast with John Richards

Ragnar 2023: No Sleep Till Langley

The Runcast with John Richards

KEXP

Music

4.6592 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Join the KEXP Radioheads as we take you 200 miles through forests, over mountains, and along the sea. We’ll bring you along throughout this podcast with musical picks, reflections and exploits during this year’s Ragnar Northwest Passage road race. 

  1. Bully - Days Move Slow
  2. Broncho - Class Historian
  3. Grrrl Gang - Rude Awakening
  4. Hurry - Beggin’ For You
  5. Spirit Award - Fantasy
  6. Genesis Owusu - Get Inspired
  7. Roosevelt - Luna
  8. Pahua - Porque Yo (feat. Eva de Marce)
  9. Soft Kill - Molly
  10. Rahill - Fables (feat. Beck)
  11. George FitzGerald - Mother (feat. SYML)
  12. Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f
  13. Glasser - Vine
  14. Georgia - Give It Up For Love
  15. TSHA - The Light
  16. Golden Features - Yield (feat. Rromarin)
  17. Wild Pink - Hold My Hand (feat. Julien Baker)
  18. Kevin Morby - A Random Act of Kindness
  19. Bdrmm - It’s Just A Bit of Blood
  20. Sea Lemon - Cellar
  21. Palehound - The Clutch
  22. The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field
  23. Great Grandpa - Bloom
  24. The Budos Band - Frontier's Edge

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0:00.0

All right, it is KXP's runcast, the Ragnar edition of the Runcast.

0:05.9

I'm Kevin Cole here with Megan Jasper.

0:08.5

Hello, Kevin.

0:10.0

And it's a little different this year.

0:11.6

It is.

0:12.2

So it's going to be an interesting experience, and we're going to bring you some of the sounds and the feelings and what we're experiencing over the course of this podcast, over the course of

0:22.9

our running the Ragnar this year, which is about a 30-hour race.

0:28.6

Yeah, we're going to be running nonstop all day, all night, and anyone who has done any

0:34.8

endurance sport knows that it really is all about curveballs.

0:39.7

And we've already had a bunch of curve balls because we've had injuries on our team.

0:44.6

We've had people who have had to duck out, people who last minute have had to duck in.

0:49.4

So we're starting with curve balls.

0:52.0

100%.

0:52.7

And first of all, Megan is a curveball um Megan is amazing to

0:58.2

have you here on on uh the Ragnar relay because you're such a integral part of the KXP experience with

1:06.7

Ragnar and you're hurt you're injured so you can't actually run this year. I can't run. I have a

1:11.6

meniscus tear, and I've been told not to run, and I still really want to be part of the team and

1:17.8

contribute. So the team was nice enough to keep me included, and I am the designated driver

1:24.0

so that you guys can just focus on running. I am going to get that van everywhere it needs to go and just keep things orderly in that way.

1:33.3

And that's hero status because normally we don't have a designated driver.

1:37.6

So John can't make it this year.

1:40.1

He's injured and he had to bail like a week or two ago.

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