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Jeff Burnige reports from the Den on Sunday evening following Millwall Lionesses hosting of Fulham Women. He also caught up with Liv McGregor and Club Captain Grace Seely post-match.

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16.02.2017  Episode #1 - Someone To Take The Edge Off Podcast - Maedi Prichard

16.02.2017 

I always find that I do the most writing when hungover. I guess it's because you don't really want to see anyone and you just want to be inside. But because I'm hungover I feel like shit and am depressed so all the writing I do is a bit... well depressing. 

I used to write journals that were just 1 line reminders that I was going to be dead one day. It would just look something like this...

23/06/2015 - We all die one day. I will be dead one day. 

And I would do that pretty much everyday. At least to preface the journal or to end it. It seems depressing but I was trying to come at a positive angle... that it might make me live more in moment and be more productive and fearless but as I descended deeper and deeper into an existential depression I found it to be something that just sort of paralysed me and made me afraid of the outside world and social situations. The more aware I became of my mortality only made social situations more difficult as I felt like everyone was far too happy for the reality of life. When I worked in after school care I would look at all the kids and almost be jealous of how far away they were from having an existential crisis... 

Now I think that it's actually far, far better... that you don't think about it that much. If you can have had an existential crisis and then get out of it somehow and then sort of have one foot in and one foot out... I think you can lead a happy yet still honest and aware existence. 

I think that's the way my mind works now... I am actually aware of the fact that I'm denying my death... Which is a weird thing... you wouldn't imagine that was really possible. Logically it doesn't make sense... Although it does make sense that I would be more 'happy'. 

So what is 'happy' then? Is it just comfort? Just security and comfort? Is that all it is!?

I don't know... 

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Anyway. Hello. This is blog for my podcast Someone To Take The Edge Off. A podcast where I talk to (mostly) creative people about craft, creativity, life, existential dread, death, reality, art, etc. It's very much inspired and influenced by WTF with Marc Maron - a fucking awesome podcast. It's pretty much a rip off of the format of WTF - one on one interview/conversation with me and another person for roughly an hour. Talking about all that shit mentioned before with the underlying theme being existential dread and dealing with reality. 

My name is Liam. I love stand up and I do stand up. But I don't feel comfortable calling myself a 'comedian'. If people ask I say 'I've done stand up and it's gone OK sometimes'. 

In this first episode I talk to Maedi Prichard. A great guy... a very unique thinker. A very similar guy to me. An awesome comedian. He was the first person that told me and encouraged me to try comedy. We had a good conversation. 

Episode #1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLftBwSlyac&t=148s

https://soundcloud.com/someonetotaketheedgeoffpodcast/someone-to-take-the-edge-off-ep-1-maedi-prichard

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/someone-to-take-edge-off-podcast/id1203261366?mt=2

He has a board game coming out in the next few months. It's called Delivery Duck. It's going to be really cool and awesome. All the links you need are below. Thanks I hope you enjoyed episode 1.

Website http://maedi.com/

Twitter https://twitter.com/maediprichard

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/maediprichard

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLzs...

Delivery Duck https://deliveryduck.com/

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The music in the intro is me and my friend Mathew Olivier. Me beatboxing and him playing keyboard.

Mathew's Bands - https://www.facebook.com/boonsolivech... - https://www.facebook.com/chupacabra.au Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/mathew-olivier Mathew's E-mail - olivier.mathew@gmail.com

The outro is me.

P.S. 

In this episode I mention the book The Denial Of Death by Ernest Becker a lot and I imagine I will in future episodes. It's a super depressing, fucked up psychology book that influenced me a lot. It's probably the reason for this podcast's theme. I first heard about it on WTF with Marc Maron... Marc would (and still does) mention it a lot. It's basically a book about the seemingly pointlessness of reality... It's a great read but it fucked me up for a long while. I thought I would just make a note of it here as I mention it a bit. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Den...

And also here is a link to WTF with Marc Maron. A podcast that has taught me so much and given me so much joy and cathartic release over the years. And if you haven't listened to it I would highly recommend it. 

http://www.wtfpod.com/

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 Millwall Lionesses host Fulham Women at the Den at 6 pm today. Jeff Burnige previews today's game with joint manager Alex Russell.

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No One Likes Us Talkin team members Jeff Burnige and Debbie Julians attended the Den on the final day of the Millwall Chairman, John Berylson Condolence Book signing. They spoke with fans, staff, and former players, who shared their memories and feelings on the passing of our late chairman, JB, as he was fondly referred to. Music credits: Yugen - Emotional Ethnic Music by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

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