Smoking a Toad

TRIGGER WARNING: Dave is borderline unhinged this morning. If you are one of “those people” who pretend to be “offended” by adult language and tautology you’ll probably want to skip this episode. - Producer Henri

Some days I wonder – seriously wonder – why I bother to even get up and look at the news.

Look, I get it… I’m closing in on sixty years old and I regularly have to look up shit on the Urban Dictionary because I have zero clue what something means. I don’t watch Tik Tok because 95% of them make no sense to me. At. All. I regularly wear my favorite Rolling Stones T-shirt, and basically every joint in my body makes a loud creaking and popping noise every time that I move.

I get that for 99.99999999999999999999999% of the world population I am completely irrelevant. Most people don’t give a flying fornication what I think about anything. and I’m fine with that.

But for the life of me, I do not get the whole “attention whore” ideology that infects our society today. It’s as if Andy Warhol was off by a factor of several hours. I can’t imagine what he would have said if Social Media had been around.

Anyway, in the middle of the ramp up to World War III, the Corona virus “pandemic,” the Norks throwing missiles around, West Taiwan threatening Taiwan, the impending end of the NFL season, and the stupid frog in our front yard that won’t shut up at night, I learned today that “celebrities” are now “openly talking about” how they are relieving the stress of being fabulously wealthy, popular and socially relevant.

I swear to the Deity, I was absolutely certain that at least one of them was already dead…