Oddly I stopped listening to the only podcast I really listen to today. Its not odd but concurrently, I guess…I think I started listening because perhaps some young person mentioned the show to me, I’m not even sure now, but it was hilarious for a time, even though I didn’t wholeheartedly agree with the hosts most of the time and rarely knew anything about the games or young celebrities they were roasting. The jokes landed for me most of the time and on long drives it was like having some friends in the car so I stayed with it. It was a helpful listen because I could bring up topics relevant to the young people I work with, so I don’t seem entirely out of touch- but being out of touch is kinda my M.O. I get giddy talking about Superman comics or musicals so I am well aware that my taste isn’t exactly for the trendy. Anyway, today I deleted the whole thing from my phone and I will likely never listen again. I don’t think that who I am should be something that I have to listen to anyone else debase voluntarily, on my damn leisure time. I’m not really a fan of the artist they continuously worship but that wouldn’t have made me stop listening since politically the hosts and I fall on the same side of the fence, which is a much more important distinction when you’re choosing whose voices you allow into your skull. Had they been this egregious when they were younger on the episodes I heard I would have been gone. They also talk extensively about their love for their pets and good gracious, I couldn’t care less about that. I’ve started fast forwarding episodes by 15 seconds just to get passed the doggie designer doohickey discussions. Anyone who has met me for five minutes knows I don’t do little furry slave friends. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again if I am having a pet it will be a human male because duh. I’m not keen on having to clean up anybody’s shit either, what kind of friendship is that? I only had 1 child for that reason, one was plenty and he’s human so I damned sure am not going to raise a person and then go raise a creature, for what? Don’t get me started …
Anywho- tangent complete, I was getting kind of sick of all the episodes about their dogs that they refer to as children. Look, I don’t care if people humanize their pets, not my business and although it was a drag to listen to it still wasn’t a reason for me to quit the show, especially since I’ve been listening for about 5 years now.
They recently started dragging Gen X people and specifically mentioning that part of the problem is that they are from the 13th generation of Americans in their arguments. Ew. I don’t know any people in my age group that go about using these labels for real in discussions about what ya’ll do- its the old people and the young people. We are kinda in the middle of that and have been for our whole ride here. Can’t speak for all of us and wouldn’t but I personally don’t again care to hear any of this if I can choose to listen to literally anything else. These humans haven’t been on earth as long as us so I can’t even understand why age would play a factor in their upset about the actions of the individuals they were ripping apart. The past couple of months have been rants about people who are in relationships with large age gaps and how gross it is to them and I’m thinking you choose to pick up dog shit every day for your own amusement and you listen to terrible music and now you think May/December romances are problematic? Like same age ones, aren’t? Yikes.
Well how could I continue to listen after that?
A friend of mine, who is 29, which is half my age, wants to see if our platonic connection could withstand a sprinkle of romance. If you have read my blog over the past 13 years bitch, please. I can’t see the issue. So I said to my friend, hey our age gap is huge and for some people its a problem. I respect that you feel this way but I don’t want to be the cause of any issues in your world. The fact that we are having this discussion at all, to some people makes me a pervert. So let me be the first to say, yeah, its very likely that I am a pervert. Do you still want to be my friend?
We will see what he says but the podcast has gone discouraging. It was fun while it lasted but it ain’t no fun no more. Count down to my birthday. I’m leaving everything I don’t need to keep behind, period. Who is coming with me?
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