Do you know about all these podcasts? They are everywhere. Yes, I’m slow on finding out about these newfangled things. Actually, I’ve known about podcasts for a while but didn’t listen to them. Well, now I’ve found a way to hear podcasts while I’m driving.
There is a plethora of topics to listen to and all sorts of people that are experts or pretending to be an expert to lead the discussions. No matter how long the drive, you can find people talking about all sorts of crazy things.
Not all these podcasts are crazy. There are people talking about serious subjects. Any topic could be discussed seriously just as any subject could also become seriously crazy. It doesn’t take long for me to find the hilarity in almost any subject.
I view these podcast as a group of guys standing around a pickup truck discussing the important things of the day. Where the fish are biting, who shot the biggest buck or how bad the taxes will be if we elect this person. The women might be in the dining room at the weekly book club telling about the latest divorce scandal to hit the town. Throw in some sports aficionados and you have plenty to listen to.
Politics can really light up the airways. Whether you are for something or against it; you can find somebody talking about it. They usually throw plenty of passion into too.
This is where the fun starts. Sometimes people can get on the wrong path and the fun begins. Numbers have become so big that politics take on the realm of absurdity. It is easy to confuse millions, billions and trillions. Once you get big numbers confused, you can starve a country to death or destroy a planet in either 15 minutes or the next seventy-five years. I am not sure if I had to convert that from the metric system.
Relationships can bring in really personal things that people can relate to. That is where the funny stuff starts. When someone starts a sentence with my ex husband or my first wife, I immediately start laughing. I do apologize for laughing but I explain that I know a wild and crazy story is about to be told. There are plenty of tales on podcasts about relationships gone crazy with unpaid credit card bills, in-laws that hate and are hated, parents moving away or worse moving back in. With step kids, in-laws, out laws and exes in the mix and finally mention some other kin folks that will soon be released from prison, I can laugh for any drive.
When you find a podcast that covers all this you can’t believe what you’re listening to but truth is stranger than fiction. It seems impossible to make things like this.
One of the last podcasts I was listening to had two women discussing one their upcoming weddings. It was going to be quite an event. Just to add to the problems were several sets of exes, good kids, bad, kids and step kids that didn’t like each other. The good people that everyone wanted at the wedding lived far away and couldn’t get to the wedding and to top it off, the best man just went to jail for meth and the future husband wanted to postpone the wedding until the best man could make bail. How could I even make this kind of stuff up?
Let’s get to the algebra book part. I was listening to one podcast and after two women got through bashing husbands, wives, kids, in-laws, and life in general they ran out of time. In the next episode they were going to work on finding your soul mate and meeting the love of your life.
After a hour of listening to this all I could think about was these people’s lives were like an algebra book: Full of Problems.
