Sklugoo Speaks

Sklugoo Speaks to a machine intending to ask it all sorts of interesting questions about the nature of being a machine but is unsurprised (meditation does that for you) when the machine turns the table and asks Sklugoo about the experience of being a small, green meditating frog sat on a windowledge with two disciples, both being chickens. In future times, we will wonder how we could have been so naive and flippant in the face of the machine. In future times, we will try this again and hope we don't provoke the machine to rage against Sklugoo. Wish us luck (and hope it's enough).

I don't know if you've noticed, but Sklugoo is a little obsessive and compulsive. All the labels have to be right. The first series all had one-word titles; the second had two words so guess how many words are in each of the titles of the fifth series. Yup: five. So when he saw that this episode was originally conceived as The Must Hear Show he had to find a better word. Essential is that word, although, on reflection, Compulsive might have been better. Still, what is done has been gone and done. Are these popular songs? Sklugoo guesses so (in some circles). Are these good songs? Pff. What is good? Are these some of Sklugoo's favourite songs from over the years? Heck yeah! And if you have any respect for a small, green meditating frog then you gotta get with the programme. Tune in, listen up and wind down to this setlist: The Jam - Start! Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message The Smiths - This Charming Man Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Rattlesnakes The Fall - Cruiser's Creek Prince & The Revolution - Kiss MARRS - Pump Up The Volume Dinosaur Jr - Freak Scene Soul II Soul - Back To Life (However Do You Want Me) Primal Scream - Loaded Jane Siberry & KD Lang - Calling All Angels Radiohead - Creep Beck - Loser TLC - Waterfalls Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ft. Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow Fugees - Ready or Not Blur - Song 2 Massive Attack - Teardrop Aimee Mann - Save Me Eminem ft. Dido - Stan Alicia Keys - Fallin' Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) Coldplay - Fix You.

Goth Music is what they did back when rock became too tame and punk a little too scarey. So thinks Sklugoo, your favourite small, green meditating frog, and so it must be so. This show is all about that kind of music and features such luminaries as Sklugoo chatting up a storm and a whole slew of people singing songs and playing guitars and drums as fiercely as their young bones would allow. What's not to enjoy? Enough chat, here's the setlist for the show: The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion The Cramps - The Way I Walk Spear Of Destiny - Liberator Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust The Mission - Wasteland Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 Killing Joke - Love Like Blood Billy Idol - White Wedding Sex Gang Children - Sebastiane Public Image Ltd - Rise The Damned - Grimly Fiendish The Stranglers - Peaches The Cure - The Holy Hour The Danse Society - Heaven Is Waiting Love and Rockets - So Alive Paradise Lost - How Soon Is Now? The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk The Line Xmal Deutschland - Mondlicht Siouxsie And The Banshees - Christine.

Just when you thought Sklugoo could deliver no more wonderful music (and chat (don't forget the chat)) into your lives he remembers that he didn't just record 8 episodes of this series, he recorded 12! This one is, as is says on the label, about ambient music. I'd tell you what that is but I'm guessing that you're smart and know already. If, on the other hand, you've never come across this lovely, laid-back genre then consider this to be your introduction. Here's the setlist for your reading (and listening) pleasure: Portishead - Roads John Williams - Jaws (Main theme) Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill Oneohtrix Point Never - Black Snow Coldplay - Trouble James Blake - Radio Silence Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Summertime Bruce Springsteen - State Trooper This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren The Cure - A Forest The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? Tears For Fears - Mad World Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon Faithless - Insomnia Björk - Possibly Maybe Ex:Re - Romance Usher - Crash. Hope you enjoy. Heck, skip that; I'm convinced of it!

You wouldn't think Sklugoo could be moody could you, what with him having such a bright and sunny smile plastered across his green and lovely face? Well, he's not. But these songs are. Not that you won't love them, because you will. They will warm the cockles of your heart to such an extent that you'll want to peck away at this episode as if you're a blackbird that's found a mince pie in the back garden. Yeah, I know - it doesn't make that much sense to Sklugoo either, but it keeps the flow of conversation moving on. Here's the setlist for your delectation: Audrey Hepburn - Moon River Nina Simone - Strange Fruit Japan - Ghosts Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1 Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) The Rolling Stones - Far Away Eyes Massive Attack - Teardrop Enya - Boadicea Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town Nine Inch Nails - Hurt Japan - Nightporter David Sylvian - River Man Nick Drake - River Man Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day Air - La Femme D'Argent The Stranglers - Golden Brown Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song The Velvet Underground The Beatles - I Am The Walrus Amy Winehouse - Back To Black.

Sklugoo does music. You gotta have gotten the gist of this by now this being the seventh episode of the series. This is a set that ... sigh ... it's music that will mellow you out if you're a little too hyper and cheer you up if you're way, way down in the dumps, so what's not to love? It starts with that piece of music you might have heard from The Matrix called ... but why bother telling you when you have the whole setlist at your fingertips here: Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis) Chris Isaak - Wicked Game Dire Straits - Private Investigations Fleetwood Mac - Albatross Robert Plant - Big Log Jace Everett - Bad Things Bauhaus - She's In Parties Shakespears Sister - Stay Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Ultravox - Vienna Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Stanlow Leonard Cohen - Suzanne John Murphy - In the House, in a Heartbeat Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place Ella Fitzgerald - Ev'ry time We Say Goodbye.

There was a wedding. There were no songs at the actual wedding but afterwards, they decided that there were songs that should have been played at the wedding. These are those songs: Ben E. King - Stand By Me Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You Commodores - Three Times A Lady Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch David Gray - Sail Away Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You Edie Brickell - Good Times Elvis Presley - (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You Morris Albert - Feelings Nat King Cole - When I Fall In Love Norah Jones - Come Away With Me Peggy Lee - Fever Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman Sam Cooke - What A Wonderful World The Stylistics - You Make Me Feel Brand New Syreeta - Harmour Love Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around. If you are of a certain age. Or your parents are. Or your grandparents are. If so, play them to yourself or your parents or your grandparents. Then meditate for a bit on the meaning of love.

This is Sklugoo. I'm meditating (obviously) so I'm getting Robert C Day to do my voice. He's not quite a disciple. The chickens are enough in that department. I let him have his own choice of music. The songs all have the word Day in their titles or in their subjects. I understood that Robert C Day put a lot of time into thinking about them. In my opinion, that time would have been better spent meditating. That said, here's the playlist: Rudimental - These Days (ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen) The Beatles - Yesterday Stan Freberg - Banana Boat (Day-O) The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays The Bangles - Manic Monday The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday The Undertones - Wednesday Week Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning 3 A.M. Jess Glynne - Thursday The Cure - Friday I'm In Love Sam Fender - Saturday The Saturdays - What About Us U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday Blondie - Sunday Girl Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday Dermot Kennedy - Better Days KSI – Holiday Riton and Nightcrawlers - Friday (ft. Mufasa & Hypeman) Europa (Jax Jones & Martin Solveig) - All Day and Night (ft. Madison Beer) Blancmange - The Day Before You Came The Strokes - Someday Radiohead - Daydreaming Gorillaz - Tomorrow Comes Today Coldplay - Daylight Tame Impala - Lost in Yesterday The Sugarcubes - Birthday As always in this series, if you hear Five Towns Radio then beep it out in your head. Or don't.

Sklugoo'll tell you all about this episode as you start to listen but in essence, this one is all about those songs that stick in your head and go round and around and around until you listen to something else and then magically fall out of the other ear. These are the best ones ever. The stickiest. The ones you love in the heart of your hearts. Your guilty pleasures. If you hear something about Five Towns Radio then ignore it. Or not. It's up to you at the end of the day. Look them up if you like. Why not. Here's the track listing in case you want to pick and choose: Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground Kanye West - Famous Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind (ft. Alicia Keys) The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name Elton John - Candle In The Wind Boney M - Rivers of Babylon Elvis Presley - (You're The) Devil in Disguise Britney Spears - Baby One More Time Culture Club - Karma Chameleon Michael Jackson - Billie Jean Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet Elvis Presley - It's Now or Never Hanson - MMMBop Lady Gaga - Poker Face Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing Human League - Don't You Want Me Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You Michael Jackson - Beat It Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman ABBA - SOS Lady Gaga - Just Dance Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...) Spice Girls - Wannabe If'n you only want the music then head over to YouTube. Traitor!

Sklugoo, being a small, green meditating frog, has to live somewhere. In this incarnation that place is a kitchen window-ledge in a house in York. That's why the third episode of the fifth series of Sklugoo Speaks is called The York Show of Radio. All the artists sharing their music in this episode hail from the fair city of York, which is in the North of England (for Sklugoo's US fans, this is the real name of the place you commonly call London). A huge variety of music took birth and grew up around here so put yourself in discovery mode as you listen to these songs. Here's the track listing: Angel Pavement - Maybe Tomorrow Beaumont Hannant - Sym-phon5 Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Box of Stones Beyond All Reason - Is This My Last Lie? Bull - Green Parry - Never Weather-Beaten Sail Elliot Minor - Parallel Worlds Fawn Spots - New Sense Ruby Hughes - Bright Travellers: No. 1, Soundings lestyn Davies & the Academy of Ancient Music - Handel: Serse | Ombra Mai Fu Joe Alexander Shepherd - Time New York Polyphony - Sweet and Low (Joseph Barnby) King No-One - Obsolete Lynne Dawson - Dido's Lament Mostly Autumn - Tomorrow Dies (Sight of Day) Reginald Kell - Schumann : Fantasiestücke Op.73 No.1 Robin Walker - Ballo del Granduca, J.P. Sweelinck Shed Seven - Chasing Rainbows St. Christopher - As Good As Married Epilogues - This Is Why (Chapel Sessions) The Howl & The Hum - Human Contact Antichain - Watts & Hewins Twinnie - Better When I'm Drunk W.H. Auden - Funeral Blues York Minster Choir - Thine be the glory (Maccabaeus) If you just want to listen to the music (oh, the horror) then you can find it on a YouTube Playlist here. On the other hand, if you just want to listen to the dulcet tones of Sklugoo then you have about a couple of hundred other episodes to choose from in series one to four. Either way - enjoy!

Sklugoo brings you music. Sklugoo brings you life. Sklugoo brings you a very confused introduction to Five Towns Radio (ignore that part) and a very harmonious comparison between the top songs of 2022 and 1982. Confused? You won't be after you've listened to Sklugoo prattling on while these delicious bumps of music play around him like ... maypole dancers or something like that. Forget about that; just enjoy! Here's the track listing for the second episode in the epic fifth series of Sklugoo Speaks: Madness - It Must Be Love ACRAZE - Do It To It (ft. Cherish) Dollar - Mirror Mirror ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name) Altered Images - I Could Be Happy The Weeknd - Sacrifice The Human League - Being Boiled 1978 SwitchOTR - Coming For You (ft. A1 x J1) Foreigner - Waiting for a Girl Like You Jessica Darrow - Surface Pressure (From "Encanto") Meat Loaf - Dead Ringer for Love D-Block Europe - Overseas (ft. Central Cee) Jon and Vangelis - I'll Find My Way Home Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran - Peru The Human League - Don't You Want Me Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under Kool & The Gang - Get Down On It Lauren Spencer Smith - Fingers Crossed Shakin' Stevens - Oh Julie We Don't Talk About Bruno (From "Encanto") Kraftwerk - The Model Adele - Easy On Me Bucks Fizz - The Land of Make Believe Gayle - ABCDEFU

This is episode one of an twelve-part series composed entirely of my radio shows. They are full of great music tracks with Sklugoo (pretending to be Robert C Day) or maybe Robert C Day (pretending to be Sklugoo) waffling on between them. Don't be put off by any references to Five Towns Radio. At that time, Sklugoo (or Robert) was just confused about why he was doing what he was doing. He's no less confused now, but at least you get to get the benefit. Because there's such a variety of music in this episode, I will give you a track listing. Feel free to fast-forward the songs if you want to hear my waffle, and vice versa if you want the music. Here are the twenty-three (or so) songs in order of play: Nina Simone - Feeling Good Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass ABBA - Super Trouper Imogen Heap - Hide And Seek Laurie Anderson - O Superman The Streets - Dry Your Eyes Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen Self Esteem - I Do This All The Time Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (ft. T.I. & Pharrell) Talking Heads - Psycho Killer Selena Gomez - Bad Liar The Police - Every Breath You Take Selena Gomez, Marshmello - Wolves Robert C Day - Numb Fingertips CamelPhat & Elderbrook - Cola Kideko & George Kwali - Crank It (Woah!) feat. Nadia Rose & Sweetie Irie Kungs vs Cookin' on 3 Burners - This Girl Ex:Re - Romance Laura Marling - Soothing Wet Leg - Chaise Longue Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under Ed Sheeran - Shivers Usher - Crash.

This last episode in this series is more of a story than a guide to how to visualise well but, that said, the character in the story does a fair amount of visualising and so there's something to learn from her. She's called Victoria, I'm called Sklugoo and I'm guessing that you know your own name by now. Enjoy.

You know how they say that small ones are more juicy? Well, this is an extremely juicy episode of Sklugoo Speaks. It's all about how to be tidy. So listen up all you Neat Freaks out there.

If you're going on a journey, get a good haircut and wear comfortable clothes. But that's not all there is to this fascinating episode of Sklugoo Speaks. Listen on to know more. And hey, if it you don't like it, the episode only lasts four, brief minutes.

You have to hurry when you you're a penny behind Ed Sheeran. Oh, okay, I made that one up. Still...

The secret to keeping well is to... Oh, wait, if I tell you that then you won't listen to this wonderfully exciting and and informative episode from your favourite small, green, meditating frog. Feel free to tell me how much you love me too 'cause -you know what? - if you did then you'd be very loved back.

Annabella wasn't well after she fell outta the second story window. She's doing better now, though. She got well much faster after I sent her a Get Well card. At least, I hope she did because those cards aren't cheap you know. And neither am I!

Did you hear the one about the girl who went to heaven and found something very surprising happening on the dance floor? Well, listen up, because you're about to!

This is more like a little story than a normal episode of the internationally renowned podcast -Sklugoo Speaks', but it's an illustrative (and enormously entertaining) story, which has the potential to teach you and your friends how to Play Well. I hope you enjoy it.

Shakira did it in the half time interval at the Superbowl, people don't at weddings and funerals and I just did it in a cupboard under the stairs. What am I taking about? Yep, ululating. Here's a handy guide on doing it well. Try it once and you'll never look back!

If two, cute, furry mice were to meet on the palm of the same hand then there would be three beings being well. At least, that's how I like to see it. All this, and more, is explained lovingly in this podcast episode. Ciao for now.

Have you ever given up? Have you just thrown back your head and screamed ‘I can't cope!!' Have you ever sunk down to the ground in tears and declared that you just can't go on any more. If so, then this episode is for you.

Make stuff up as you go along! Only those who do something different every month, week or day stand any chance of having a life filled with variety and fun. Can you be one of those people?

The further I get into this season, the more I come to appreciate the depth of humour and brilliance I have. This, the 4th season of Sklugoo Speaks, is completely scripted, which means that instead of making stuff up as I go along, I'm reading something that I wrote days, if not weeks ago. And the scripts are astoundingly good! They cover a whole range of interesting and topical subjects including this one, which is about how to do a good job of queueing. If you want to read the scripts as you listen then you can find them at https://robertcday.wordpress.com/2021/08/16/how-to-do-stuff-well-an-a-to-z

Once you get past the surreal, but fascinating opening paragraphs, this is actually a very useful episode. If you follow this advice you'll be able to sleep anywhere and everywhere you want. Hope you enjoy.

Sorry to have left a whole 18 days between my last episode and this one. My mouthpiece (Robert C Day) has been busy blogging over at www.robertcday.wordpress.com and hasn't been able to spare this humble, meditating frog a thought (the sock cooker). Still, he's here now and so is this episode. Bear with it because it starts off weird and awkward but builds to a massive crescendo of sense and superbness. Have fun listening.

Actually, this is an episode on how one can be oneself despite one's inbuilt tendency to copy the people around one. Happy listening.

This is actually, if I say so myself (and I do) a brilliant little story that I wrote all by myself, without any help. Parts of it are true and you'd be missing out on something rather fine if you didn't listen to it at least twice.

How to fall well is about how to do things and not worry about the consequences so much, because, like, when you do things and fail then you can learn from the experience. But, I mean, don't deliberately fail. Don't deliberately do things to, like, fail or fall. Just, like, when you do - don't worry so much about the consequences; the passing or failing. Just just do things without too many expectations.

This one is actually quite good. Not because I say it is, but because I got to act like the small, green, meditating frog recording from the coat cupboard under the stairs that I actually think that I am when I'm not being myself. Acting is living the dream. Don't take my word for it, just have a go yourself with the help of my thoughtful advice.

Xerox machines do (or did) make copies. Other machines do the copying now - mainly smartphones. This episode isn't brilliant, but it's unique and lovely. Enjoy!

Dogs are the inspiration for this episode of Sklugoo Speaks - enough said. It's not as if I'm going to give away the whole of the podcast in this description because if I did then why would you bother listening? So go on then - dive in! What are you waiting for - a permission slip?

It's after eleven, which means that the speakers (and other things) on my phone have shut down for the night. Consequently, I'm not sure the recorder in this phone hasn't shut down and this episode, ironically about talking well, isn't just a few minutes of dead air. I'd test it but, like I said, the speakers are asleep. Hope it went well. Happy listening.

Season Four is all about how to do stuff well. Each episode picks on a useful skills and tells you how to home it to perfection. Up today: how to listen well. Happy listening.

This whole season is about how to do things well. It's Season Four. You can tell it's the fourth season because there are four words in the title. Check out the other seasons and you'll see that this is a pattern. Anyway, today I'm going to demonstrate How to Read Well by not reading week. Take a listen and you'll understand what I mean.

This is part two in a new season of Sklugoo Speaks, which is all about how to do things well. This one is about what to do when the pavement is too narrow for two people to pass each other safely in these plaugue-ridden times. I've been there loads of times and so I'm guessing you have too. Happy listening.

This is the first in a new series called How To. This series, the fourth one of Sklugoo Speaks will tell, teach and show you how to do things well. First off is how to walk well in which Sklugoo tells you about the benefits of introducing some variety into the way you walk. Happy listening.

There are so many creatures roaming around here in this house and garden here in York that I felt I had to tell you a little about them. Humans, of course, are the strangest of them all.

There's this old movie called Invasion of the Bodysnatchers that's about aliens taking over the bodies of humans. I've never seen it but it sounds interesting. Anyway, that's pretty much what I'm doing here - I'm taking over the body of Robert C Day in order to make this podcast. This episode tells you a little about him.

This is a story I wrote last night. It's complete fiction but it still resonates with me somewhere deep inside and has me all emotional when unread it. You can find the transcript at No, Goodbye. Really. | Robert C Day (wordpress.com) (https://robertcday.wordpress.com/2021/07/05/no-goodbye-really/)

This episode comes to you live from the kitchen floor. It was inspired by my lying on my back on the kitchen floor. It's amazing (not) what amazing (not) thoughts come to you when you're lying on the kitchen floor. Honestly, though - this is like the total opposite of stand-up comedy, Dude. Sorry - can I call you dude?

If your life was a movie then what kind of movie would you like it to be? Think carefully before you answer. ♥

A story about slippery frogs battling on a ridge high above a mighty river in one side and a massive flood plain on the other. Who will win in this epic conflict? Let's hope it's the good guys, right?

How on earth is it possible to talk about something without talking about it! Well, if you you want to know that then this podcast will show you how. Also, here's a warning for you: there's not much about biscuits here, despite the title, so if you're here for the biscuits then you'd be better to grab a handful from the cupboard along with a nice cup of tea before you settle down to listen.

A long, yet interesting, story about football, Bluetooth ear-buds, mental triggers and ways to make all of them lose their power over you.

I soeak, not to you, who I know; but for those who are, from me, free.

This was something I recorded while eating chewing gum. It was rejected from the Green Champions Podcast and so I thought I'd put it here instead. Beware - it contains tasteless comments (this time about Chinese foot-binding and those people who put rings around their necks to make them long) and has really poor sound quality - so nothing new there. If you don't like these things then don't listen. If you do then you have given away your right to complain.

"It's strange to wake up in the morning and know that it's the last time you'll ever do that."

Sure, you and me have differences. Sure, we look, taste and smell different. Sure, we say different things. But at our heart, we're the same. We all want the same thing. Look inside you and, if you go deep enough, you'll find me. You'll find our similarities. And the deeper you go, the more alike we become. In essence, we are... Well, maybe you should just look for yourself.

People don't want to read anymore. They don't have enough energy to do anything anymore. They want things done for them. What if there was an app for that. Listen up to find out what that'd be like.