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Sean of the South

What I Love About America

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

5.0546 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

A list Sean calls "What I Love About America." God Bless them all, including you. To subscribe to Sean's daily blog, https://seandietrich.com/subscribe/ For information on events or other Sean of the South news, visit https://seandietrich.com/ To sponsor an episode, email LauraBeth@SeanDietrich.com Sean Dietrich is a columnist, humorist, multi-instrumentalist, and stand-up storyteller known for his commentary on life in the American South. His work has appeared in Newsweek, Southern Living...

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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

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0:06.3

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0:21.6

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0:28.0

Find your nearest store at foodcity.com. Today is a podcast that I kind of have been looking forward to because when you are podcasting, you have this overwhelming sense of who really cares idis.

1:11.3

It's a disease that plagues a lot of people who, like myself, who just struggle to figure out why anybody out there is even listening to this.

1:22.4

When you're right, you can kind of put yourself in another mode and you can deliver whatever you want to say behind the veil of text and a big white screen and a blinking cursor.

1:38.6

No one's looking at your face or listening to your voice.

1:41.0

But when you are talking directly to people like this, you have this overwhelming

1:46.9

feeling that who really cares what I have to say? I'm not sure I care what I have to say.

1:51.7

Actually, I can tell you, I don't care what I have to say, because who am I?

1:56.8

And what in the world do I have to offer you that could be worth you listening to me on your drive in your minivan or, you know, while you're working out, God forbid, while you're on the treadmill, you poor suffering soul?

2:14.3

And I'm overcoming this who cares what I have to say, Idis.

2:20.7

The whole world is angry with each other.

2:24.4

I can sense it in my daily writings when they come out and they're unleashed to the four or five people who actually care about them.

2:35.2

Mostly people who are trapped in nursing homes and cannot reach the off button to their device.

2:41.2

So they're forced to read it.

2:42.6

God help them.

2:44.1

The feedback I'm getting is anger.

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