Living in a bubble

I listen to podcasts as I work. Usually Adam Carolla and Joe Rogan, but others.

This week, Rogan had Michael Douglas. Looked like it could be a good interview and a break from the eggheads he’s had on lately. I can only take so much alien talk. Turns out, it’s not great. Old boy nattered on like an old woman, digging up trope after trope. Hell, I thought I was listening to one of those idiotic crones on the View.

First we got to hear about poor brave Ukraine, standing bravely up to the Russian bear. This is old. That war is a “let’s you and him fight.” that they are going to lose. They had the makings of a deal before Boris Johnson went there and convinced them not to. Now, the deal is worse, if they even are offerend one. They were never getting Crimea back, they’ll lose not only the Donbass, but all the way around to Odessa. They’ll be a landlocked rump state as many said back in 2022. The only difference now is they’ve lost a generation of men, we’ve lost a ton of ordinance, and money I won’t even get into what the EU did to itself.

These two old women are convinced Putin is a big meany Hollywood villain that revels in the blood. I don’t see it that way. He’s been quite honest where the red lines are. They’ve been mostly the same since the 1990s. There’ll be no peace deal. Why would Russia do this? They’re winning. Ukraine is at the forefront of an epic clobbering coming this fall. If you follow the different feeds, it’s already started.

Then he got into gun control. “Why, we need a license for a car, I don’t see why we don’t have them for guns” and “Who needs a military style weapon anyhow?” To his credit, Rogan proffered that people have been seeing these riots, and “teens” out of control and rightly feel they need the protection.

These coddled, old boomer actors live in a bubble. The seem like legion, and I’m really sick of their preaching.

I think the funniest was Oprah, one of the times she shed ballast. She told us anyone could do it if she could. Really? Who has the money to hire a BFF trainer and chef who does all the cooking and shopping? Hell, it’s easy to lose weight if someone is handing you healthy fare for your meals. Most of us have to do that ourselves.

I won’t get into the rest of her silliness, as well as the dribble from the other yentas on the View, especially that insufferable Sunny Hostin.

None of these people live in planet real world. Most of them never did.

Our boy Michael grew up in a safer, nicer, time and place with a movie star father, Kirk Douglas. Even though his parents divorced, I don’t think he was out on the street. I gather from the interview that he was taken care of better than most before getting into the family business.

All the preaching does for me is put them on the do not watch list. I can’t stand seeing DeNiro, Mark Ruffalo, and now this idiot.

I barely made it an hour before turning on an old Zman podcast.