Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

Who shall it be if not us? Yes.

Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from

43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we welcome back to the show one of the most popular returning guests, Jenks.

As you might expect, he's back in your ears talking us through Tyacultism to coincide with his recently

released Tour de Force, The Tyre Colt.

Let's get to it.

Jenks, welcome back!

Yeah, thank you very much Gordon.

It's good to be back, of course.

Yes, and this time not so much from the land of smiles but the land of frowns. How are things being home?

I'm actually stuck in the garden and it's 7 a.m. because the reception around here is rubbish.

They don't house actually. It's always good to come back to England, you know.

But it does seem to get more miserable by the year.

Yeah, yeah. I guess if you spend all that time somewhere that is, you know, typically

known for sunnier dispositions, it might be, those first couple of days back might be a

bit whoa well it's interesting because you can see the effect of living in

town drifting away you know because one of the things that I adore about living there is the fact that people's default position, the first position is kindness and you know that reminds me of my youth as well and but it's so refreshing and you can see people

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