Rod, Justin, and Karen discuss Justin hanging out with his mom, falling asleep early, Fantasy Football, work holiday parties, The Message, Cordae, Dear Silas, Behind the Bastard Diddy podcast, The Harvard Plan, “Hello, Fake Boyfriend” and listener feedback.
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Hi everybody! Karen, you mentioned the romance book you’re reading, and knowing that you like cozy games, I wasn’t sure if you knew about cozy romances? Probably the most popular author is Laurie Gilmore who writes “Pumpkin Spice Café” and “The Cinnamon Bun Bookstore”. Don’t let the homespun titles fool you – I hear these are spicy! Anyway, I started reading romances again after the election, and I have thoroughly been enjoying myself. I felt weird and a stigma at first, but then I learned how many women love these books. Yes, even women you wouldn’t think of, like PhDs and architects, etc. I also got intrigued about the culture of romance books. Turns out it’s quite progressive in its centering of female pleasure, representation of diverse love, and in allowing women of all race and sexuality to self-publish. Is romance woke? I don’t know, but I do find enjoyment, and life is too short to only read books to learn.
Tik Tok is like an online version of Walmart Super Center. People end up there because it has everything. A lot of times, you can get what you need, for cheap but it won’t be pretty because you have no control over what you see when you turn down an aisle. But if you a discipled, you can avert your eyes, get the contact paper and get out. But if you don’t…
You will wind up in a live about different varieties of apple trees, all cus you were looking for fresh spiked apple cider recipes on a different platform. The folks in the apple tree live are discussing which apples pair best with different alcohol so you stay. But then, someone mentions how they bury the pulp to ward off aliens and nobody calls BS. And THAT is when you’ll realize that half of the people in the live are there because they believe apples are really mutant cherries brought to earth by aliens. But the algorithm brought y’all all to the same live. *cue Deborah Cox’ Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here*