The "ENJOY THE PAIN" Runcast
The Runcast with John Richards
KEXP
4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The Runcast is back! DJ John Richards kicks off season four with new messages, motivation and most importantly GREAT music from the likes of Ben Gibbard, Sharon Van Etten, Deep Sea Diver and many more. Remember, one run can change your day, many runs can change your life. Let's get running!
Barry Can’t Swim - “Kimpton”
Yannis & the Yaw - “Rain Can’t Reach Us”
Tunde Adebimpe - “Magnetic”
Markus Nikolaus - “Enjoy the Pain”
Sea Lemon feat. Ben Gibbard - “Crystals”
Sharon Van Etten - “Southern Life”
Maz - “Kiss Kiss Boom”
Ribbon Skirt - “Cellophane”
Deep Sea Diver - “Billboard Heart”
Blondshell - “T&A”
The Convenience - “I Got Exactly What I Wanted”
Hamilton Leithauser - “Knockin Heart”
Waves Crashing - “Parts of Me”
Adwaith - “Miliwn”
Goat - “Nimerudi”
Martin Luke Brown - “This is Me Now”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of the K-E-XB Runcast. I am so excited to be back for another season of running and mental health and community and all the things that keep people together, keep people sane, and remind them that they are not alone and you are one of those people so welcome |
| 0:22.1 | to the runcast my name is john richards i also host the morning show at kexp you can always check |
| 0:27.6 | that out at kexp.org in the kxp archive if you run out of runcast but we got a lot of runcast to get to |
| 0:33.3 | and this season there will be an extra focus on mental health and music, because I think we all need that right now, more than ever, in our lives. |
| 0:42.8 | So let's start with this quote from Robert Rook. |
| 0:46.1 | He said, I don't run to add days to my life. |
| 0:49.1 | I run to add life to my days. |
| 0:51.5 | So let's start adding some life to our days right now. I'm Oh Wow Oh |
| 1:11.6 | Wow |
| 1:12.6 | Oh |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah |
| 1:14.6 | I Everyone Al-A-Mahm Amen Amen |
| 1:28.3 | Amen |
| 1:29.3 | Ha' |
| 1:31.3 | A-haven I'm gonna be a man I'm gonna Oh my |
| 1:45.0 | Oh my |
| 1:48.0 | Aura |
| 1:49.0 | Aura |
| 1:50.0 | Aura |
| 1:51.0 | Mena |
| 1:52.0 | Aura |
| 1:54.0 | A man I'm gonna be a little a little Mado Mado |
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