Friday Flames (on Wednesday): Bleak December’s winds ensuin'
Robert Burns wrote that "the best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men gang aft agley," and we're postponing this week's podcast while we cope with a little more agley than we bargained for.
Here's a little peek behind the scenes here at WTFGU: We tend to record our episodes as close to the Wednesday publication date as possible, for two reasons:
We want to refer to current events as currently as possible, which is a challenge when current events lose their currency so quickly, and
We developed our interest in podcasting during COVID lockdown, when almost every potential guest was instantly available and eager to chat with anyone about anything just to stave off the madness.
One of our resolutions for 2025 is the reconsider this strategy, because the latter is obsolete and the former is a fool’s errand.
For example: Now that the holidays are near and our kids and stepkids will be in our lives for the next month, we thought we were being cool by recording what would have been this week’s episode four days ago. Already, however, events have intervened and rendered that conversation mostly meaningless.
We understand that we’re vagueStacking here. For now, we’re just going to handle our business and feel grateful that the business is handle-able. Then we’ll focus on how lucky we’ll be to be together and in one piece. Because in this moment, at this age, you spend a lot of time taking zero things for granted.
We’ll have another podcast before the end of the year that we hope will send off 2024 with all the acclaim and despair it deserves. In the meantime, welcome to all our new subscribers who came on board after our conversation with
! We have a few theories why this was easily our most downloaded episode of 2024, but all we really care about is how nobody’s politics mattered while he talked about finding his place in the Navy, grieving the father he lost this year, and blending in with his partner’s family after her husband died.(He’s basically Captain von Trapp, except Maria had the kids.)
Also, here are two things we learned about Sabrina Carpenter this week: She was born during our honeymoon, and her aunt is Nancy Cartwright, who has voiced Bart Simpson for 41 years.
Thanks for reading, and thou art blest when the present only toucheth thee,
Magda and Doug