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Nora mentioned on today’s We’re Obsessed that her DMs were getting blown up from people mad about her criticizing Taylor’s wedding castle at MSG.

i checked the Spotify comments on the latest “ever single album” episode where she dropped her takes and wow there are sooo many people ready to be offended on behalf of a billionaire who doesn’t care about you.

i get Nora can come off WASPy or snobby be come on her takes were pretty reasonable.

Nora goes on a month long honeymoon across Europe and Africa and then like a week later goes for a weekend trip to Sicily for a wedding?

am I too poor for this podcast?!? LOL!😂 no judgement good for her but holy crap

meanwhile the Jam Session gals are renovating their Cape Cod homes and spending thousands on the Real Real

Joe Penhale is basically Michael Scot from the office

Both are deeply, sincerely convinced they are exceptional at their jobs, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. Michael thinks he's a masterful manager and beloved freind. Joe thinks he's a razor-sharp law enforcement professional who commands the respect of Portwenn. Neither reads the room. Both are genuniely baffled when people don't take them seriously.

The key similarity though, is that the delusion comes from a place of real loneliness and a desperate need to belong. Michael's whole thing is that the office is his family because he doesn't have much else. Joe is exactly the same. He latches onto Martin, Louisa, PC Penhale's imagined "cases," and the village community because Portwenn is his whole world and he wants desperatley to matter in it. When Joe is shown even a scrap of genuine affection or respect, he almost doesn't know how to handle it.

They're also both, against all odds, occasionally and accidently competent. Michael sometimes lands a real moment of leadership. Joe, when the stakes are genuinely high, steps up in ways that surprise you. The show lets them earn it without undermining the comedy.

The difference is context. Michael Scott's incompetence has real proffesional stakes; people's careers suffer. Joe's bumbling is mostly harmless in a sleepy Cornish village where the worst thing that usually happens is a minor medical emergency and a missing sheep.

But strip away the setting and you've got the same core character: an emotionally needy, professionally deluded, secretly sweet man who just wants to be needed.

Anyone else see this? I feel like I've broken my brian.

I normally can listen to them discuss a topic I don’t know much about but I honestly think the Bravo/reality tv type stuff is so gross I hate that there’s even a market for it.

why does anyone know the names or stories of these awful toxic people

this isn’t a judgement post i am genuinely curious. for those who haven’t listened they spent a good 20 minutes discussing their personal shopping on the latest episode

based on today’s episode

I was a caddy for a rich private country club nearby. Did it for 5 summers I think. I was always pretty anxious/insecure around these rich pricks who could be pretty rude (some were fairly nice) but it was great money for basically 4 hours of work.

sucky part was we had to show up at lile 6:30am and wait for the caddy master to give us a “loop.” sometimes the tee time wasn’t until like 3pm.

we just permanently nostalgic now?

internet feels stuck in a loop of “remember when things were better?” Every app is full of posts claiming “2007 was the last real year” alongside blurry mall photos or high school videos like lost civilization.

every sports sub is “remember when this game was real / hardcore? and we had real athletes?”

In like 2013 nostalgia for me was occasional “90s kid” quizzes on buzfeed and huffpost. Now it feels like the default setting online because algorithms know sentimental content keeps people watching.

Is it just my feed, or is everyone’s internet like this now?

got back my preschooler’s “memory file”from her teacher this morning.

absolutely wrecked by the photo of her holding a “my first day of school!” sign, with recently wiped tears off her cheeks.

i know it’s silly and obvious but it’s crazy to me she’ll never be in PreK again. That chapter of her life is done.