Yes Music Podcast · Kevin Mulryne and Mark Anthony K

Yessport (or Yessports) - 692

·1 hr 3 min·5 clips

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Sport is the stated excuse, and episode 692 has fun with it. Kevin sets up a fan-built wander through Yes-related sporting links, then Mark Anthony Kaye joins after the site and listener housekeeping. Thomas De Vries gets the ball rolling through Patreon, while Dave Watkinson, Henry Potts, Geoff Bailey, and John Pickles help stock the conversation with examples. Brentford gets treated carefully. Kevin points out that the football club is now in the English Premier League, but Rick Wakeman's involvement belongs to a more modest chapter. That small correction tells you a lot about the episode's mood: warm, nerdy, and fussy in the best Yes fan way. Football, or soccer, is the broad doorway, since the hosts treat it as maybe the world's easiest sport to recognize. Then Iron Maiden wanders in from the side. Bruce Dickinson's fencing history lets the show move from Yes trivia into rock-and-sport oddities without dropping its collector's-note feel. The specifics do the work. Dickinson began fencing at 13, became school champion and captain by 15, trained with the UK Olympic squad in the eighties, ranked 18th in Britain during 87 to 88, and later reached number seven in the UK. Mark adds the touring detail: Dickinson apparently brought his foil and gear on the road so he could keep practicing during Iron Maiden tours. Martin Birch brings the punchline. The producer, described as a black belt karate expert, supposedly insisted one drunken evening that karate could beat Dickinson's foil skills. Kevin and Mark know exactly what kind of story this is: silly, specific, and worth keeping. The episode closes in familiar YMP fashion, with a patron roll call, Patreon reminder, and social links. Even with sport in the foreground, the show stays itself: names, corrections, side routes, and affectionate progressive rock bookkeeping.

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A breezy tour of Yes's sport-linked corners, with a few well-placed historical turns.

Yes Music Podcast episode 692, Yes Sport, revisits the band's sporting links with a conversational, contributor-backed discussion that moves from football to fencing and a few other sidetracks.

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When you want Yes sporting links that cross football, fencing, and listener-supplied examples.

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