Ep. 01 - Interdependence, Trump Flags, and Taylor Swift

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The first episode of our new call-in show is here, and we have two callers who seemed to be totally unrelated: a new rancher in Texas, and a Swiftie with Cerebral Palsy in New York. But (get your red string and your tinfoil hat) everything is connected! Especially us. That’s easy to forget when we’re constantly pushed to see each other as the enemy, and something we need to remember now more than ever. For full episodes, the full back catalog and a listener community, you can join us here. Want to be on the show? Call or text 612.568.4441 or email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi guys, it's Nora. If you like what we've done here on Terrible Thanks for asking, you might
0:06.3	want to check out our YouTube channel. We have two new videos going up every week over at
0:12.9	YouTube.com slash at feelings, A-N-D, co. That's feelings and co. There's a link to it in our show description. So see over on
0:23.2	YouTube if that's what you're into. What a sales gal I am. Um, how are you? Most of us say
0:34.0	fine or good, but obviously it's not always fine, and sometimes it's not even that good.
0:41.2	This is a podcast that gives people the space to be honest about how they really feel.
0:47.1	It's a place to talk about life, the good, the bad, the awkward, the complicated.
0:53.9	I'm Nora McEnnerney, and this is thanks for asking.
1:02.0	What do Taylor Swift lyrics, Trump flags, and cerebral palsy have in common?
1:08.0	Well, thanks for asking. We're going to talk about it.
1:22.9	It's the year 2025, and things are not great. The wealth gap is widening to widths we never thought possible. We have sorted each other into us and them, picked teams and retreated
1:30.0	into our respective corners. Us versus them is Democrat versus Republican, right versus left, right
1:38.5	versus wrong, urban versus rural. There are and always have been countless ways to slice and dice us up, to divide us,
1:46.9	and we are happy to do it. And as a result, the social fabric feels like it is in tatters. And though
1:54.2	the horrors persist, somehow, so do we. We aren't thriving, but we are surviving, and that's something. It is very American to believe that you are exceptional and also the exception. It is very American to believe that you are independent. You don't need anybody at all. And it is very American to be very wrong about both of those things. Because like it or not,
2:20.5	we do need each other. Our fates are all entwined. Even with the people that we dislike, the people
2:27.5	that we despise, the people we want nothing to do with. To quote one of the greatest action movies
2:33.3	of all time, bad boys,
2:34.8	we ride together, we die together, quite literally. Today on Thanks for Asking, we have two
2:41.4	very different callers, calling in about two things that sound and seemed very, very different
2:47.7	until I had the conversations and realized, oh my gosh, we're talking about
2:52.7	the same thing. These are topics that are unexpectedly, surprisingly, and insert a third word here,
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