Untied State of Anxiety

Remember the 80s and 90s? If you’re reading or listening to this, prolly not. You’re prolly watching some shit on TikTok. We’re talking before your phone became a permanent, glowing appendage fused to your face. A time when the only thing "going viral" was a case of mono you and your homies got from sucking face with that nasty person behind the bleachers. Looking back, it seems like people were,...

It was Tuesday. Or maybe Wednesday. Who fucking knows. Turns out in early retirement days blend together into a featureless blob of doomscrolling and questioning my life choices. In a fit of what I'll generously call "profound boredom," I decided to do something productive: hold a seance. My target was my old friend Danny. A little background might be helpful. As a child, I was deathly afraid of t...

Let me start with a clarification, though I doubt it’ll penetrate the target audience. When I try to articulate my deep frustration with our political hellscape, people say, "You just hate him," as if it’s a simple personality clash. I’m old enough to remember the last real President. You know, the two-term guy before "45" and Biden. The constitutional lawyer who still promoted honor, promise, and...

I figure y’all could call me a modern-day Prometheus. Alright, settle in, because I’ve had my morning coffee and I’ve figured it all out. All of it. War, poverty, climate change, that weird noise my car makes—the whole shebang. And the solution isn't some complex, multi-trillion-dollar, 75-point plan that requires international cooperation and nuance. Please. We don't have time for that. The answe...

Gotta be honest, one of the best perks of my job is a little thing I like to call "The Great Reversal." If you were one of us—a card-carrying member of the library lunch club, the locker maintenance group, or the AV squad—you know exactly what the fuck I’m talking about. And I, for one, am loving the view from the top, . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscr...

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