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If there’s one thing that’s constant, it’s change. Oh the irony. Even time isn’t constant anymore. A few weeks ago, New Zealand’s clocks went forward for the summer. This meant that I started my show an hour later, since we keep US Eastern time, which didn’t change.

Last weekend, the clocks went back in Europe and the UK. This meant that for the last week, Mushroom FM shows have been an hour earlier in that part of the world, since US Eastern time hadn’t gone back.

It’s true! Due to a lack of qualified personnel, I’m back with another edition of The Mosen Explosion on Mushroom FM at 2 Pm Eastern, 7 PM in the UK.

It’s getting more and more common to find our digital assistants bleeping in the middle of song titles that were always thought to be perfectly innocent. I mean, dude, even Aunty BBC has played these songs! I’ll give you some examples, and can assure you that whenever possible, the word Soup will continue to be bleeped on this show as it ought to be.

Despite the fact that I am a major political junky and have been following the unpredictable twists and turns of the Brexit drama, despite the fact that the UK House of Commons will be holding its first Saturday session since the Falkland Islands war, despite the fact that I’ll probably be a very tired dude having been up all night listening to history unfolding, I’ll be here with you on the Mosen Explosion this weekend at the usual time. What can I say, I just love catching up with our listening family too much.

Revolutions and explosions often go together you know!

When life changed in amazing ways for me with my new job, I was confronted by three seemingly irreconcilable truths. The first truth is that if I thought I had been leading a busy life before, I ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

The second truth was that the Mosen Explosion had been going for so long that even though more people heard my podcasts, I couldn’t give it up, it was purely a heart over head, sentimental thing. I love the atmosphere we’ve all created together and it’s a great escape.

50 years ago, on 5 October 1969, a crazy, ground-breaking show called Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired on BBC television for the first time. No one quite knew what to expect and the cast wondered if it was going to be too weird for the public. Of course, the rest is history. It’s some of the best-loved comedy of all time.

SO we don’t need much of an excuse to dust off the old Monty Python. If you have a favourite Monty Python sketch of song, feel free to get in touch and request it.

With a very heavy heart, I begin by noting that last Sunday, Julia Aguilar, who at one time was my wife Julia Mosen, died after a short illness. For 3.5 years, she hosted several popular radio shows here on Mushroom FM. We’ll take some time to remember Julia in her own words and music.

We’re baaaaaack! Oh yes we are! We’ve survived another week of changing climates, political madness, iOS bugs and in some cases, even soup! Oh my word anything, anything but the soup! But we’ve made it to another Mosen Explosion, live at 2 PM Eastern, 7 PM UK, 6 AM in New Zealand.

We will of course be finding out how you’re getting on with iOS 13, and looking ahead to Amazon’s big announcements in the coming week.

We are back yet again for another fun four hours of music and conversation on The Mosen Explosion.

This week, we’re going to talk about superstitions. There is a remarkable number of these, things that apparently bring you bad luck if you do them. I’ll tell you the story that got me thinking about this topic, and I look forward to hearing things that you don’t do because they bring you bad luck, or superstitions you’ve learned about from others.

Once again, tiny techy tots, with their iOS all aglow, will find it hard to sleep. It’s nearly Apple event time, and there may be a few gadgets beyond the expected. I’ll take a look at what might be coming, and I’d love to hear from you about what you’re hoping for.

We’re back live on Mushroom FM this Saturday at 2 Pm Eastern, 7 PM UK time, that’s bright and early on Sunday morning in New Zealand for another Mosen Explosion.

And as you may have heard, we now slice and dice the show to make up the new Mosen At Large Podcast, available in a podcast app near you! It’s amazing what you blind people can do nowadays eh?

It’s Father’s Day here in New Zealand, and I’m sure for those who travel, it must get very confussling with Father’s Day happening at different times all around the world.