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This podcast episode is an audio version of “Deal with God,” a story by Scott Holleran.
The short story is inspired by “Running Up That Hill” by Kate Bush (EMI Records, 1985), about which the singer and songwriter once said:
You see, for me it is still called 'Deal With God'. That was its title. But we were told that if we kept this title that it would not be played in any of the religious countries, Italy wouldn't play it, France wouldn't play it, and Australia wouldn't play it! Ireland wouldn't play it, and that generally we might get it blacked purely because it had God in the title."
Listen to Scott Holleran discuss the song—including first hearing it while dancing at Smart Bar Chicago in late summer 1985—as a recurring love theme for life on the non-fiction Autonomia podcast.
