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Welcome to the Blind Buy podcast. I am currently on an incredibly grueling tour of Australia and New Zealand.

I'm recording this right now in Auckland, or Tamaki Macarau, as the indigenous Maori people would call it.

The name literally means desirable location full of natural resources.

I'm sure the Brits noticed that when they were colonising it.

However, I'm not, I'm not recording this podcast in a particularly desirable location right now. I'm in the

fetal position. I'm in the fetal position in bed, covered by two quilts in complete darkness

because my hotel room is tiled and the sound in my hotel room is atrocious. So the best way to get

good sound on the road when I'm recording my podcast is underneath

two quilts inside and a bed in the fetal position.

And I know you're always saying to me, blind boy, you can miss a week, it's all right,

you can take a week off if you're off on tour or whatever. And I appreciate

that and thank you so much to the people who say that to me. But my personal role is,

if I can fucking put a podcast out, if I can do it, if I can find a way to do it and get a podcast out every week, I'm going to do it. Simple as that. I'm

going to make it happen. A quality podcast. I'm not going to record a podcast on an airplane or in the

car between gigs. I'm not going to do that. But if I can maintain standards and put it out,

I'm going to have fun making that happen. I'm going to do it.

Very simply because of, because of gratitude and humility, I genuinely love and adore making this

podcast. And every single day, I remind myself how lucky I am that the thing that I love doing

is also my job. So that gives me a wonderful feeling of gratitude.

And also, I speak about failure a lot. And about maybe 10 years ago, maybe 11, I think it was

2015. Before this podcast on my books, I was in a musical act and we booked a tour of Australia and New Zealand

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