Running to Add Life to Your Days
The Runcast with John Richards
KEXP
4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 208 minutes
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Summary
To close out Season 2 of The Runcast, John Richards brings you a marathon mix of 53 songs filled with hope and inspiration to get you moving. Plus, a sprinkling of quotes from famous runners like, um, Benjamin Franklin? It'll make sense once you start listening, and running...
- ODESZA - Hopeful
- George FitzGerald - Venera
- Maribou State - Blackoak
- Tycho - Time to Run
- Jungle - Dominoes
- LP Giobbi, DJ Tennis, Joseph Ashworth - All In A Dream - LP Giobbi Club Edit
- Activity - Department of Blood
- Noble Rot - Casting No Light (feat. Colin Newman)
- Genesis Owusu - Get Inspired
- Ghost of Vroom - Still Getting It Done
- Skinny Pelembe - Like a Heart Won’t Beat
- M83 - Oceans Niagara
- Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee - Los Angeles (feat. James Murphy)
- Deeper - Tele
- Shalom - Happenstance
- Jake Shears - Devil Came Down the Dance Floor (feat. Amber Martin)
- Golden Features - Flesh
- Bonobo - ATK
- LP Giobbi - Body Breathe (feat. Monogem)
- Roosevelt - Ordinary Love
- Grouplove - Hello
- Palehound - The Clutch
- Bully - Days Move Slow
- The New Pornographers - Angelcover
- Lucky Lo - I Will Always Be You
- Temple of Angels - Tangled in Joy
- Lanterns on the Lake - String Theory
- deary - Fairground
- George Clanton - I Been Young
- ODESZA & Yellow House - Heavier
- Bonobo & Jacques Greene - Fold
- LP Giobbi - Georgia
- Golden Features - Yield (feat. Rromarin)
- Barry Can't Swim - Dance of the Crab
- Edapollo - Opalescent
- Nation of Language - Too Much, Enough
- Blonde Redhead - Snowman
- Sea Lemon - Cellar
- Alaska Reid - Back to This
- Beach House - American Daughter
- Andy Bell & Masal - Tidal Love Conversation in That Familiar Golden Orchard
- Steve Mason - The People Say
- Generationals - Waking Moment
- Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day
- Temples - Afterlife
- Film School - Tape Rewind
- Grian Chatten - Fairlies
- Ladytron - Misery Remember Me
- Death Valley Girls - Magic Powers
- Temples - Gamma Rays
- The New Pornographers - Really Really Light
- Blondshell - Joiner
- Black Belt Eagle Scout - Don't Give Up
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Runcast with me, John Richards, your running buddy, each and every runcast episode. |
| 0:07.8 | Although we've had some really great guests this year. |
| 0:10.2 | Big thanks to everybody who was a guest. |
| 0:13.8 | LPG Obey was a guest. |
| 0:15.2 | Kevin Cole, our whole Ragnar team. |
| 0:17.2 | And we'll be doing that more in the future. |
| 0:19.7 | I just want to let you know that this one |
| 0:21.1 | is going to wrap up this year's runcast episodes, though you can keep coming back to them. |
| 0:26.8 | And we will have more. That's right. KXB has the wisdom to continue to keep having these runcass. |
| 0:33.4 | They seem to be pretty popular. And I'm really happy y'all supported it over the years. |
| 0:39.6 | It's been awesome. So I'm a runner. I've been actually in this interesting place of a recovery |
| 0:45.0 | journey while I start to train. And I'm in New York today recording this podcast. I've had the |
| 0:49.6 | opportunity to go out and run Central Park almost every day from where I'm located. And I have to say, |
| 0:55.5 | you may relate to this, maybe not, but I just am reminded that I really like running. |
| 1:01.8 | It's been so frustrating with my injury and I'm doing other things, other exercises. But I |
| 1:08.8 | have kind of refound that as my leg has been feeling better. Just being out here |
| 1:14.1 | with everybody at the park has been just really great. I'm a pretty solo runner. So to be out |
| 1:19.1 | with everybody has been super fun. So yeah, I'm on a journey as well. I'm hoping for a race in |
| 1:23.5 | March. I'll keep you update on that. DJ John Richards is where you follow me on Instagram so we can stay in touch overrunning while these run casts. Take a slight break as we need |
| 1:33.4 | to regroup, you know, start to get rights to music again and start booking guests, things like |
| 1:38.9 | that. So we'll be getting the runcast going again. Tell everyone you know about it. We got a best |
| 1:42.8 | of here on the Marathon Runcast. |
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