It’s been hard to focus enough to read anything, so I bring you some podcast episodes that you can listen to:


You bulljivin’ me?- Shannon Sharpe on All the Smoke


If you’re 30 and you have a crew, a squad, or a tribe, you’re mentally ill.- Ali Segel on 90 Day Fiance Slumber Party (link)


Jan Martin

And a gentleman came up to me and actually thanked me for the adopt a street light program. He had just written a check to the city for $300 to turn all the street lights back on in his neighborhood. And I did remind him that for $200 if he had supported the tax initiative, we could have had not only streetlights, but parks and firemen and swimming pools and community centers. That by combining our resources, we as a community can actually accomplish more than we as individuals.

Robert Smith

And he said?

Jan Martin

He said he would never support a tax increase.

Robert Smith

So for him it wasn’t the money. He was willing to pay more to turn on the street lights than to pay for all city services.

-From This American Life, Episode 459 What: Kind of Country (link)

Written on April 2, 2020