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Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

Personal Journals, S-town, Music, Alabama, Garrison Keillor, Storytelling, Story, Garden And Gun, Southern Living, Serial, Southern Culture, S Town, Old Radio, Lake Wobegon, Stories, Prairie Home Companion, Arts, Society & Culture, Live From Here, Story Podcast

5.0 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to Sean of the South podcast brought to you by Food City,
0:03.9	fresh, local, and full of flavor.
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0:19.5	insurance plans and benefit cards.
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0:32.0	Music Ad. Ad ads.
0:58.9	Ads everywhere.
1:01.1	Look at your phone.
1:02.2	Adds. Turn on your TV.
1:04.7	Ads.
1:05.9	Open up a laptop.
1:07.1	Ads.
1:08.2	Scroll social media to make sure your cherished friends and loved ones are still alive and actively posting angry political memes online.
1:15.7	Ads. Get in your vehicle. Turn on the radio. Ades. Stop at a gas station. A video screen is embedded in your gas pump. Ads.
1:27.9	Well, if you ask me, the TV commercial ads are the worst.
1:33.2	The ordinary American sees roughly 200 TV commercials per day.
1:38.2	Most of these commercials are advertising medications.
1:41.6	Your average American streaming channel airs 80 prescription drug commercials
1:46.3	every hour. Drug commercials have no aesthetic or emotional value. They've become their own
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