This is the story of how a group of people brought music back to Afghanistan by creating their own version of American Idol.

The joy they brought to the nation.

You're free completely.

No one is there to destroy you.

The danger they endured.

They said my head should be cut off.

I'm John Legend.

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Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. And welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh, there's Chuck. We got the clam diggers on and we're ready to go to do a little mudlarking, which just happens to be the subject of this short stuff.

Have you ever heard of this term? I want to say yes but sometimes my brain makes up

memories just to be cool. I'm not sure I would assume that

etymology I didn't even look it up because I just assumed that mud larking was just having a larking

having a lark in the mud.

It's gotta be it, right?

Or maybe you flitter about from one place to another like a lark in the mud?

Okay.

I like them both. Can we both win like a soccer game?

Sure. I love it. I love it.

Mudlarking is the thing that we're talking about, that it's a term you probably here in England more readily and

specifically even maybe London originated in the 18th or 19th century and

back then it was basically when people with

lesser means would walk along the the mudbanks at low tide of the river Thames.

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