Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:12 - Stackwaddy quiz
07:26 - Record shopping
14:58 - Hot weather
20:08 - Daniel Lanois and instrumental music
40:36 - What we've been listening to this week

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Chasing the shade and slapping the Sunscreen on this week’s overheated news, we pour a tinkling drink and reflect upon the following …

… British people in hot weath-ah!

… when rock stars you haven’t seen for 50 years pop up on Zoom

… Lennon’s tooth? Timberlake’s toast? Mooney’s school report? Weird things sold at auction

… Paul Horn playing in the Taj Mahal, Sonny Rollins on the Williamsburg Bridge, U2 in Slane Castle

… are new vinyl albums now ‘luxury goods’ and old ones ‘antiques’?

… where you can hear the Abbey Road building on the Dark Side of the Moon

… the cinematic records Daniel Lanois made in an abandoned movie theatre near Santa Barbara

… Summer In The City: the Lovin’ Spoonful’s road-drill and Regina Spektor’s cleavage

… Cat-calming music! Gym motivation! Stress-busting songs for Spurs fans on Judgement Day! The age of the prescriptive playlist

… the new dawn of instrumental music, “a public utility like turning on a tap”

… and the single Sinatra recorded for Maureen Starkey (only one copy made!).