You had told a lot of lies about achievements.

They called you when they got you to believe it.

Thumb and finger held to their foreheads in an L ship trapped in a capital of salescape.

Let's fight back in half.

And have some talks about class in the massive costs of the disasters brought to fascists and knots.

Fat cats and Fox.

It's a thousand natural shocks. A bad with money podcast. Hello and welcome to A Thousand Natural Shocks, A Bad With Money Podcast. I'm your host, Gabe Dunn. And with me today, we have Aiden Wharton. Do you want to tell my audience who you are and what you do? Oh my God, I would love to. Hi, audience. Hello, listeners.

My name is Aid Wharton.

I am the writer of Gay Buffet on Substack and the host of the podcast Getting Close, which is all about reviving connection in our digitally isolated world.

Yeah, can you explain, I was about to say, like, getting close.

Can you explain, like, why you wanted to do that?

Yeah, the podcast or the name. Both, both, both. Yes. It started with Gay Bafay over on Substack,

which I've been writing for a couple years now. It really sort of took off. And as I was talking to my agent, he was like, what's next? Like, what are we going to do next?

And he wanted a book.

And I was like, I feel like a book is the third step.

And I feel like a podcast is step number two.

Very smart.

I really found that no matter what I wrote about, so on Gabe of Fay, I write a lot about, like, queer culture and sex and intimacy and connection.

And in every article, like the through line was connection.

And I'm fascinated by tech and how it is driving us apart, driving us away from each other.

So I was like, okay, this through line that I'm doing, everything that I'm writing about is all about connections. So I really want to build a podcast, make a podcast that

inspires people and gives them actionable tools to understand the world that we're living in

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