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John Rain🥇

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I do Smersh Pod https://bsky.app/profile/smershpod.com I co-do A Wheezing Groaning Sound. Author of Thunderbook, Explodobook and Superbook. https://linktr.ee/itsjohnrain www.patreon.com/SmershPod shows.acast.com/smershpod

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 9h

Who's Harry Crumb a lil bit, but a bad film.

John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 10h

And until he does Billy Connolly material again.

John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 10h

Bit in the doc that made me cry first was Culkin saying Candy was the only adult who could see he was having problems with his dad and asked if he was ok.

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 11h

Watched the Candy doc. Christ. Actors and comics die all the time, but watching this made me realise that Candy is one that is truly MISSED. Like when you see him in full flow, you sort of ache for the hole he left. It's rare, but I think it was that he had such humanity, such warmth, such pure love

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 14h

Couldn’t enjoy the trailer to Netflix’s The Twits as there was this horrible grave-spinning noise that blocked out all the sound.

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 16h

Ah. There goes John Lodge. youtu.be/cgJE-UY0a5o?...

Justin Hayward / John Lodge - Blue Guitar 1975

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 1d

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 1d

Night all.

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Simon Love @simonloverules.bsky.social · 1d

If you’ve never seen “The Betamax Years”, you must see “The Betamax Years”

Here.

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betamax years

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 1d

And this is a proper banger www.youtube.com/watch?v=csk6...

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 1d

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Here I Am

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 1d

LL Burns is very good. youtu.be/smY6OOgFVeY?...

Don't Call Me at Home

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 1d

Awful aftershave.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 1d

"You're a big, fat, smelly nonce"

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 1d

It's John Lennon's birthday, so here's that picture of him out on the town with Edwina Currie.

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 1d

*checks the pattern*
...I'm guessing Tim Westwood will get baptised soon.

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Castles in Space @castlesinspace.bsky.social · 1d

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