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My favorite pirate joke is “why does it take pirates so long to learn the alphabet? Because they spend years at c” not because it’s THAT funny but because it’s a relatively simple joke that nobody ive told it to has ever correctly guessed the punchline for because they all think it’s gonna be a joke about arrrr

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Good morning!  I hope you slept well and feel rested?  Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.  Welcome to the weekend!

Wow!  Here we are again: Friday!  Where did that week go?  No, seriously, where did that week go?

Thursday was a very productive day!  I produce a lot!  Started work at 6.00 a.m. and finished around 10.00 p.m.  Got an email about some re-sit marking, so I couldn’t get out for my walk.  Gutted but duty calls!  Going on to the campus today to see my fabulous students.  Teaching from 10.00 – 4.30. 

The Trouble and I were talking about someone the other day and she said, “I think he’s just angry at the world.”  I thought about it for a second and said, “I think a lot of people are angry at the world.” 

I suspect a lot of people reach their forties or fifties and suddenly realise life has not gone to plan.  Or maybe they feel life has dealt them a bad hand?  Their childhood dreams are behind them, it’s too late to fulfil an ambition, which leads to regret, frustration and, at times, anger.  Me?  Christ, the mistakes I’ve made!  Thankfully, I’m not angry about the poor decisions I’ve made.  It is what it is, as they say. 

VERY happy that I’m now doing TWO brilliant gigs on Sunday, May 5th: The White Lion all-dayer down on Streatham High Road, then up to Cinnabar in Stevenage Old Town for ‘Let The Music Play’.  There may possibly be another gig in late May plus, of course, the Soul4U weekender in Birmingham in September. 

Hope you can join me tomorrow for ‘The A-Z Of Mi-Soul Music’.  No executive producer this week, just me playing with myself.  It’s going to be a themed two-hour special before we start The Letter U next week.

Going down to Hove straight after the show.  Two extra people for Sunday lunch.  Gonna be a bit rowdy!  You’ll see a five-person selfie some time on Sunday afternoon.

Have a fabulous & funky Friday!  I love you all.  You’re probably thinking, “You don’t even know me!” but, if people can hate for no reason, why can’t I love?

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morning 😊

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Good morning!  I hope you slept well and feel rested?  Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.

In the evening, we went for dinner with one of our favourite couples, and we took the beautiful Miss Di Greeneyez with us.  We went back to our favourite Indian restaurant and enjoyed a tasty feast.  Wednesday night: the place was packed, full of Indian people!  “What cost of living crisis?” my mate said.  “Indians must be good with money!” I said.  They wanted to know what my two-hour special is this weekend.  No one will know until 1.00 p.m. on Saturday.

At the end of the evening, I asked him if I could take a selfie.  “You can,” he said, “as long as you don’t publish it!”  I didn’t push the point.  “I’ve been off social media for four years,” he said, “and I love it!” 

Could you come off social media?  I know I couldn’t!  My students actually hold their phones in their hands most of time and can’t go more than a minute without looking at it.  FOMO is a deadly disease!  What are they missing out on?  Family.  Work.  Money.  Social life.  Gossip.  A few encouraging words from that person they fancy.  For Gen-Z, their world is in their phone.  For the rest of us, life is much more interesting. 

Finally making some bloody progress!  These are messages on my phone: “You’re walking more than you usually do by this point.”  “This year’s daily step count is similar to last year’s.”  This ‘Steps’ feature on my ‘Health’ app is working!  True, I ate a whole pile of delicious food last night but I will be walking again today!

See, my thing is: there is no point in me going on any kind of diet.  I work very hard and I need fuel.  I need food.  I like food.  Food makes me happy.  So, I am going to eat food but I’m going to keep it moving!  People go on diets and then sit around dreaming about food.  Sod that!  If you go on one of them diets (which always cost a fortune), you need to get out and do something; either walk, or run or dance or, if your luck’s in, get jiggy!

Have a throbbing and thrusting Thursday (with hopefully a few thrills through your thoroughfare?)  I love you all.

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Good morning!  I hope you slept well and feel rested?  Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.  Happy Hump Day!

Yesterday at college was brilliant!  Really enjoyable classes and the building is full of very cool people.  My beautiful friend Tia De Gannes-McGregor says that my status reminds her of ‘Run’s House’.  Remember Rev. Run sitting in the bath writing messages to his flock?  Man, we loved that show! 

And my beautiful friend Michelle Motley asked if she could have a selfie with me.  She says her family used to listen to Kiss FM and were a bit shocked when she said she was working with Lindsay Wesker.  Michelle asked, “Do you do selfies?”  I showed her all the pics on my phone.  I said to her, “I am The Selfie King!”  We talked about photos and I told her that my mum took thousands of photos when we were growing up, and she’s hung emotional collages all over the house in Hove.  Beautiful memories of special people.  This is why I take selfies. 

I’ll be working from home today but my plan is to find time for a walk.  As we know, April has not been warm but I need to get out there and work those glutes!  This evening, we have dinner with some of our favourite people.  We haven’t had dinner with them for years (literally, years), so we are really looking forward to breaking bread with them!  I shall try not to eat too much but I can’t make any promises.  One of our party will NOT want a selfie but, if you don’t ask, you don’t get!

It was definitely sad to hear about two black music industry deaths in the past few days.  MC Duke (younger brother of one of my besties) was one of the first UK hip hop artists and signed to my cousin Simon Harris’s excellent Music Of Life label.  He paved the way for many.   Also sad to lose top DJ, Roger Johnson, the first DMC World Mixing Champion (1985).  Geezer had skills! 

Have a wonderful and well-endowed Wednesday.  I love you all.  Yes, a crazy, bald man loves and cares about you.  

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Good morning!  I hope you slept well and feel rested?  Currently sitting in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.

So sorry if you didn’t see yesterday’s status.  It was very controversial and included some very strong language, so it might have skipped you?  Needless to say, it was all killer no filler.

I am using that expression more and more.  I’m not sure where it originates from.  I first became aware it through the Canadian rock band Sum 41, whose debut album was called ‘All Killer No Filler’.

I firmly believe that’s why the music industry collapsed, because there were too many albums that were mostly filler with just a few killer tracks.  I’m sure you’ve got a large number of albums with just one or two decent tracks.

Why would an act release an album like that?  Record company pressure. possibly?  You can imagine them barking from the A&R office, “Just record anything!  We need to release the album!”

Of course, the general public grew sick of paying £10.99 or £11.99 for an album with just one or two decent tracks on it.  Which is why, when illegal file-sharing came about, people were lapping it up!  People were like, “I don’t need to buy music anymore!  Let me go to Limewire and download the one good track from the album!”

The majors had the chance to sit down with Napster in 2000 but they walked away from the table.  So, now we’re stuck with streaming!  Music consumption in which a small minority of artists make decent money.  Yeah, great!

It’s not just music acts and comedians that go on tour, British evolutionary biologist, zoologist and author of ‘The God Delusion’ Richard Dawkins is about to go on a UK tour.  It’s so good to see that people want to have a civilised discussion with a wise man.  People are seeking answers and they deserve to hear some cold, hard facts. 

Got an invitation to a wedding in May of 2025.  It’s going to be beautiful, I’m sure, but it’s not happening in the UK.  Guess where it’s taking place?  Those that know me will be able to guess.  When The Trouble told me, I just laughed! 

Have a tremendous and tumultuous Tuesday.  I love you all.

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Good morning!  I hope you slept well and feel rested?  Currently sitting in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.

Welcome to the working week although, for those of you working in the NHS, welcome to just another day.

Last week, I saw two viral videos of violent racists verbally attacking women.  How come they don’t verbally abuse big strong men?  Hmm, I wonder why?  There was one guy in Romford telling these Muslim women to “go home”.  We should find out what football team he supports and suspend all the non-English players and players of colour and see how his team does! 

And, talking of worthless morons, didn’t I see some big man walking down the street trying to hold back two big dogs?  He must have thought he was a big man owning two such powerful dogs.  However, he wasn’t man enough to clean up after his dog took a huge dump on the pavement.  We’ve got THREE schools on Crownhill Road, so all the families will have to walk around that pile tomorrow morning!  (Though somebody is bound to step in it!) 

And, talking of pitiful human beings, have you seen the stupid little twerps trolling Declan Rice, saying his girlfriend is “fat” and “ugly” and he could find a better WAG.  Imagine someone saying that to YOU about your missus!  The language would be a bit colourful, right?  Imagine if someone were to say I could do better than The Trouble?  I’d laugh my tits off!    

On Sunday, I finally did something significant on TikTok.  My last video peaked at just over 500 but yesterday’s video went through 5000 views.  To be honest, most of the people who stopped on my video only stopped for a few seconds.  When they saw an ugly old man, they immediately scrolled on.  If I’d been a pretty chick with shapely boobs, they would have watched my video.  In fact, they would have hung on my every word.  Maybe AI can help me?  

Many thanks to everyone that listened to the radio show.  Thank you for all your kind words (throughout the four-hour show!)  If you missed it, the shows are up on Mixcloud.  Next week: a two-hour theme special before we start on The Letter U.

Have a marvellous and momentous Monday.  I love you all.

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