TPS 60: Feeling "Wedged?"

And probably one of the reasons that we're talking about sports and can't get away from it is because trying to talk about this is so incredibly distasteful.

So I'm going to beg just right from the start.

I'm going to beg.

I understand you notice we have no commercial sponsors on this show.

We don't do banner ads.

We're not like the normal clickbait reality of American media today.

We don't do that stuff.

This is old school.

So I'm not shilling for any commercial entity or sponsors.

We don't do that here.

But I am begging listeners to not turn away because unless you're living under a rock to endure – and I've been in five states in the last three weeks.

Unless you are living under a rock, it is so awful.

to have a television or radio turned on or any streaming service, particularly, and I'm a fan of YouTube, particularly YouTube, you're losing your mind, your lunch, and maybe even wondering if you can keep your salvation and keep the television set on in America during election time.

And worst of all, even during baseball games, they're running spots.

Yes.

Yeah, you can't get away from it, even if you are just trying to watch some sports.

You can't even get away from the marketing on text messaging because the messages are getting more rude.

Yeah.

You haven't filled out our survey yet.

Those are for me, Melanie.

Those are for me.

Rob.

That was yelling at me on text.

And for those of us who have young kids in our lives, you really are sometimes concerned about what these messages are being shown to them, the kind of topics they're talking about.

You're like, I didn't really want to talk to my 11-year-old about this right now.

And probably one of the reasons that we're talking about sports and can't get away from it is because trying to talk about this is so incredibly distasteful.

So I'm going to beg just right from the start.

I'm going to beg.

I understand you notice we have no commercial sponsors on this show.

We don't do banner ads.

We're not like the normal clickbait reality of American media today.

We don't do that stuff.

This is old school.

So I'm not shilling for any commercial entity or sponsors.

We don't do that here.

But I am begging listeners to not turn away because unless you're living under a rock to endure – and I've been in five states in the last three weeks.

Unless you are living under a rock, it is so awful.

to have a television or radio turned on or any streaming service, particularly, and I'm a fan of YouTube, particularly YouTube, you're losing your mind, your lunch, and maybe even wondering if you can keep your salvation and keep the television set on in America during election time.

And worst of all, even during baseball games, they're running spots.

Yes.

Yeah, you can't get away from it, even if you are just trying to watch some sports.

You can't even get away from the marketing on text messaging because the messages are getting more rude.

Yeah.

You haven't filled out our survey yet.

Those are for me, Melanie.

Those are for me.

Rob.

That was yelling at me on text.

And for those of us who have young kids in our lives, you really are sometimes concerned about what these messages are being shown to them, the kind of topics they're talking about.

You're like, I didn't really want to talk to my 11-year-old about this right now.