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Sean of the South

What's Your Password

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

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Sean says what we're all thinking. 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, Reader's Digest, Garden and Gun, and his colu...

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0:00.0

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0:28.5

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0:33.0

Sean South starts now.

0:40.9

Yeah. South starts now. I'm not. I'm not complaining, so help me, I am not.

1:01.5

Idiots complain, and I am not a complete idiot.

1:05.6

You see, idiocy is all about percentages, and I am only 40% idiot, but the other 75% of me is batted math.

1:14.2

But this morning I was logging into one of my personal accounts, entering my personal password,

1:19.8

which is a long, complicated password that is at least eight characters long, contains one

1:24.1

capital letter, one symbol, one article of punctuation, and the blood of a sacrificial

1:28.5

goat. And I got to thinking, did you know that the average American has an average of

1:36.1

168 personal passwords across their individual accounts, with another 87 passwords for work accounts, meaning that

1:48.0

the ordinary American has an average of 255 passwords.

1:55.6

This is true, which is why I found myself wondering how we got here.

2:01.7

Have you ever stopped and thought about all the analog things that have disappeared from our lives?

2:07.6

For example, where did coin-operated horses go?

2:12.3

You know, the ones that used to sit outside the supermarket.

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