My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places — Who Decides What’s Normal?
Many everyday disagreements begin with an assumption neither person realizes they are making: that their own way of doing things is simply normal.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places by Mary Roach as our lens, this episode explores the comic friction created when different habits, anxieties, expectations, and definitions of common sense collide.
Roach’s essays move through hygiene, clutter, shopping, technology, health anxiety, aging, travel, household routines, and marriage. Rather than treating…
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