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Absolutely Not
Dear Media
4.9 • 14K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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On this episode, Heather checks in from an icy, chaotic winter weekend. She gets deep into mahjong, considers stepping away from TikTok, and reflects on the current political landscape—speaking honestly about the fear, frustration, and responsibility that come with it.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:06.5 | Welcome to the Absolutely Not podcast, where we do the most and the least at this same damn time. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm your host, Heather McMahon. I want to start a fire. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another episode of the absolutely not podcast. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm your host, Heather McMahon. |
| 0:36.6 | How are you? |
| 0:39.8 | Hope you were staying warm wherever you are. |
| 0:47.2 | And if you're in like California, like Newport Beach, just shut up. The rest of us are freezing our dicks off. |
| 0:55.9 | Man, really got a winter weather situation this past weekend. And I hope everybody's safe. I've been really, really thinking all of my friends in Nashville and those surrounding areas. And then in Oxford, |
| 1:00.5 | Mississippi, I mean, dude, the whole town is straight up ice, no power, lines down everywhere. |
| 1:08.0 | Really a scary situation. I mean, I have no idea how my house is doing. |
| 1:12.3 | Weren't able to get in touch with anybody. I know that it's all, all ice. And, you know, I've |
| 1:17.3 | gotten reports from some other people. It's a pretty hairy situation there. So I want everyone to |
| 1:24.2 | know that I'm thinking of you and I'm praying for you. And I hope everybody's okay. |
| 1:32.4 | You know what I've never understood? I have never been able to wrap my head around this. |
| 1:41.0 | The heat and the hate that weather men get, weather gals, weather people, I don't understand it. |
| 1:46.6 | If they say there's a weather and pattern coming, we're following the model, the model looks like it's going to be a bad one, and then it ends up being lighter, everybody's |
| 1:52.2 | fucking sending death threats to these weather folk. |
| 1:56.5 | Why? |
| 1:57.5 | I'd rather them say category six hunkered down and then, hey, surprise, it was lighter. Because every time in history that we've said, oh, category five coming, you know what, I'm going to be chill about it. I'm going to be chill. I'm going to be chill. I'm going to go to the gym and I'm going to be chill about it. Next thing you know, you're on the roof. You're on the roof, SOS, with a flare going, |
| 2:19.1 | somebody help me. Like, we've learned our lesson before. And I'm not making light of former |
| 2:25.2 | harrowing situations, but I was following this whole thing in Atlanta and one of our |
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