The Weekly Mix, Vol. 783 - Runcast, Vol. 24
The Runcast with John Richards
KEXP
4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
It's the latest edition of the Runcast, hosted by John Richards and powered by incredible music and quotes from the likes of Confucius, Danny Rojas from Ted Lasso, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. As Emerson said, "Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage."
1. Bartees Strange - Going Going
2. Dinosaur Jr - Garden
3. TORRES - Thirstier
4. The Joy Formidable - Chimes
5. Film School - Superperfection
6. Flyying Colours - Big Mess
7. Foxing - Where the Lightning Strikes Twice
8. Songhoy Blues - Worry
9. Kele - Between Me and My Maker
10. Yves Tumor - Jackie
11. Binki - Clay Pigeon
12. Lala Lala - DIVER
13. Shamir - Running
14. Wet Leg - Chaise Longue
15. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Cold as Weiss
16. Geowulf - Round and Round
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| 0:00.0 | It's another edition of Kexp's Runners podcast. I'm John Richards, a runner and a DJ at Kexp, |
| 0:08.4 | so totally qualified to be here playing you music, trying to motivate you, and congratulating you |
| 0:15.0 | on running. Now, for me, if you listen to this at all, you're listening to the morning show at |
| 0:19.4 | Kexp, I am all about getting through this thing called life and using music to do so. But for me, running is life. I don't know if you watch any Ted Lasso. I love that show. Danny Rojas, Danny Rojas keeps saying, football is life. And it made me think of running. To me, running is is life it's a metaphor for life it's just you |
| 0:40.1 | your body you're on the road you're challenging yourself and you're getting through this thing |
| 0:46.3 | called life i'm really proud of you for taking one step at a time remember the first mile does |
| 0:51.8 | lie so get past it and also remember it does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. |
| 0:59.3 | That's Confucius right there. |
| 1:00.8 | We're starting off strong. |
| 1:02.1 | Bartis Strange here. |
| 1:03.0 | This one's called Going Going, just like you are doing right now on the runners' podcast. |
| 1:08.4 | Some days you'd find us inside with the land to not flood. You're podcast. The gun in my pocket waiting for morning to come. |
| 1:30.3 | Come on down and get me. |
| 1:36.3 | Come on down and get me |
| 1:45.0 | When you go |
| 1:51.0 | You go |
| 1:55.0 | You go |
| 1:58.0 | I can tell you'd always run. |
| 2:06.6 | Now you've gone, go, gone. |
| 2:12.6 | Black folks would dance, we were glad on a tightro. |
| 2:23.3 | The women that loves me whipped me with switches, out in them ditches Dodging tornadoes |
| 2:36.0 | Hoping the cavalry come |
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