LAGER TIME: On Discrimination Old vs New

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Latest Lager Time episode is up

This one is called On Discrimination Old vs New, it’s taken from a quote from Book 9 of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Look then at what is happening now. Only the intelligent creatures have forgotten the urge to be unified with each other: only here will you have no confluence BOOK 9 - 9.3

As ever, you can find it on SUBSTACK, also, Youtube, as below, Spotify, APPLE etc

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LAGER TIME PODCAST: On Music Enjoyment Denial

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I’ve just uploaded another episode of Lager Time - this one is called On Music Enjoyment Denial - where I talk about about why I didn’t like Grime, when it first emerged in the early 2000’s.

It’s based on Book 4 of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. It’s the fifth one (including the intro) in this series I’ve written and I’ve very much enjoyed it.

You can listen below via Substack, or you can Subscribe to my Substack where it’s hosted and where you can also read it as a blog.

As ever, if you like this odd little niche thing that I’m doing over here, please recommend it to a mate, and if you fancy whipping the wallet out, you can make a donation on my Ko-Fi account, Buy-Me-A-Lager – there’s a few copies left of my first book the Suburban, which you can grab on my website alongside a couple of other bits – then of course there’s music on Spotify, Apple, and videos on You Tube and all that caper.

Peas and taters

Paul

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LAGER TIME PODCAST: On BullS*it Detection

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Another week, another Blog / Podcast for Lager Time is up. Continuing with my work, writing peices in response to Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

This week, I get stuck into a quote from BOOK 3 of Medittaions - it’s called on On BullS*it Detection

As ever, I host it all on Substack where you can listen to it as the podcast but also have the text to read, as well as other benfits, like Substack only stuff. It’s also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and bare others.

Hope you enjoy

Keep it Larger than Life

Paul

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Lager Time: On Moaning, Self-Loathing and Pointing the Finger

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The latest Lager Time podcast / blog epiosde is up. It’s called On Moaning, Self-Loathing and Pointing the Finger.

In this one I get stuck into a quote from Book 2 of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, I talk about mental-health stuff, managing stress, etc etc. It;s not as misreable as it sounds….

As usual, you can listen on Spotify below, also Apple podcasts and bare other podcast providers, but if you want to be a certified Lager Time Lagerlite, then subscribe on Substack where I host this thing, if you do that, you can read it in blog-form occasioanly I’ll slap some extra stuff on there. There’s no fee or anything but you do have to bang your email address in.

Hope you enjoy it anyway

Paul

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LAGER TIME: On Reading Books / Meditations on Meditatations - Intro

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I hope you are well in the land of lager, or whatever your equivilant tipple-is-that-serves-somewhat-as-metaphor-for-getting-some-things-off-your-chest.

The latest Lager Time episode is up. In it, I talk about my relationship with reading books and introduce will be the next little season on Lager Time. I’ll be writing twevelve repsonse peices, for the twevlve books that make up Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations; I also explain why it is I’m doing this, aside from just giving me something to do.

Hope yous all enjoy

Have a banging Christmas and all that

Peas and taters

Paul

LAGER TIME: Young UnProfessional EP 5 - Time Management

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Easy Lagerlites of Lager Land.

Latest Lager Time episode is up, it;s the 5th story in the Young UnProfessional series, this one is called Time Management

Reece gets sent on a Time Management course, he’s not very happy about it, but uses it to inspire him to document his working day, this is the finding of his reasearch

If you like, there’s a link to Subsribe on the substack below and a Spotify link too; if that’s your preferred medium

Have a banging weekend

Paul

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Lager Time: Young UnProfessional EP 3 - Alpine Down-Dressing

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Another week, another Lager Time episode is out. This week it’s EP 3 of the Young UnProfessional series - Alpine Downdressing

This episode sees Reece goes for a few beers with his fellow New Town ex-patriate Stuart Simmons, but they’r both at very different stages in life

You can listen below on Spotify or Apple, or better still on Substack, where you’ll get extra bits, blogs etc

Nice one

Paul

Lager Time: Spin, written by Christana Lei

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This week’s episode of Lager Time was a special one, as it’s the first time I’ve put someone’s else’s work on there. That someone is a very good freind of mine, called Christana Lei, who’ve I known for number of years now and we’ve colloberated before on a few projects.

The story is called Spin. I asked Christana to write an introduction for it; so see below

SPIN

Written by Christana Lei

Voiced by Paul Cree

Intro by Christana Lei

This story is a chapter that never made it into a novel I’m working on.
Inspired by my love for the young people I was lucky enough to spend serious time with, when working in a PRU back in 2010. Inspired too by the lyrics of a song called Sad But True by the legendary Metallica (1991), whose lyrics are used throughout. When I write, I tend to imagine my writing like a film playing out in front of me, and if I had the production budget, Metallica would be the soundtrack to this one.

Maybe you’ll hear themes in the story but that’s not intentional: It was just an exercise in witnessing and acknowledging the violence that happens with no rhyme or reason, no matter how much we want to find reasons for it, in an attempt to impose order on chaos. It seems that the attempts to do this by those of us who are on the edges but not in the violence; an attempt we make to preserve our own sanity and faith in human nature, more often than not just leads to victim-blaming.

I hope Spin pays homage to some of the experiences some of us (hopefully) survive in this messy, sometimes brutal business of being human. And that now Paul has performed it, I can forget about it completely, because it is out of my system. (Which means Paul is now kind of an Exorcist). Enjoy.

Christana Lei

Lager Time: Not Quite Live Edition EP 3

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Earlier this week, I recorded a Not Quite Live Edition of Lager Time. It’s essentially me running through a set poems, stories and some music on the loop-station. Had a few live gigs coming up, so this was good preperation for me

FULL SET LIST

1 - Trap It

2- Times of Respect

3- Whoever Said It Was Easy

4- Fair & Square

5- Chair Wars

6- Not quite A Cheetah

7- Premium Speed Ghost Train

8- Slow and Steady

9 - No Milk For The Foxes

10 - Now, What Do You Want To Say?

11 - Watts & Pommerlers

Lager Time: 22.9.23 - Young UnProfessional - EP 2

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The latest Lager Time podcast is out. This week it’s the second instalment in the Young UnProfessioanl series. It’s called The Urban Explorer (but in Sick Trainers)

Reece decides, on a whim, to have a little adverture over in London’s trendy Brick Lane.

Have a blast - you can find Time on Substack, Apple Podcasts, Spotify etc

As I menton at the start, this is a new series which I’m writing as I go, so I’m slowly finding my feet with it; I’m having fun

Paul

LAGER TIME PODCAST: Young Unprofessional EP 1

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This week’s Lager Time episode is the first in a new seires of monologes / stories called Young Unprofessional. It’s about a character called Reece, who’s in his mid twenties and has just moved to London and is trying to his feet. It’s set in the mid 2000’s.

I’ve written a number of things over the years, in the charcacter of Reece, but could never quite settle on one thing. Feeling good about this new series; more to come..

You can subsribe on Substack

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Lager Time is back! McGeezer The Machine

Greetings

After a bit of a hiatus, I’m back producing podcasts and blogs for Lager Tine. It’s been a busy few months for me; with work and a course I was undertaking. All is explained and more, if you listen to this episode, better still, subscribe on Substack and you’ll get it direct into your inbox every week, or if you prefer just the audio, you can get it on Spotify, Apple and all them!

This week’s epsiode featured the last in the series (strange timeing, I know) of the Satteltie Stories series which I’d done; all base don my experiances growing up in the Gatwick area. This is about the summer after the middle school I attened closed down.

Have a blast

Paul

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