February 14th, 2008 - Podcatching: Escape Adulthood
Ooops, I forgot that I listen to another personally produced podcast. This one’s also a husband-wife team: Escape Adulthood podcast with Kim and Jason in Madison WI. She’s a former kindergarten teacher and he’s a cartoonist. They focus on things that help you continue to be childlike–the Feb podcast was an interview with a man who makes up candy for Willy Wonka! That was so much fun to listen to, even though WW is owned by Nestle, which I boycott (for failing to stop using child slave labor for chocolate production even though they promised, and for pushing formula on poor women in Africa who could not safely use it outside the hospital due to poor water while if they had been taught to breastfeed they could have easily continued to feed their babies).
Anyway, their whole thrust–they also have a blog, website, store, and go around the country giving talks–is that we need to stop being such serious adults and escape adulthood. And they are making a living off doing this!!!! I think that’s so cool. They cover topics like eating candy, dressing up for Halloween, favorite stories from childhood, making your favorite childhood foods, and so much more.
Sometimes, I don’t like the podcast, like the Halloween one, simply because that’s not a favorite holiday of mine and they kind of put down anyone who didn’t like Halloween. They also always have an ad for something in their store, poorly hidden as “cool thing of the month.” On the other hand, they often do feature neat, silly things. And it’s far better than the real ads of podcasts that are supported by companies–those I really hate. They always have a fun trivia question (Jason asks Kim the question at the beginning of the podcast, she takes a guess, and then you get to think about it for the rest of the house and they reveal it at the end. Did you know the largest snowflake on record was 15 inches in diameter!!!!)
They also had a fun escape adulthood challenge a few years back. I followed this one on their blog–I don’t think they did a podcast back then. They and 10 friends and family each did the challenge every day and reported back on it. They might have had to go buy their favorite candy or write a letter to a teacher they still remember or go do nothing for an hour or buy some Silly String or other fun things to shake loose from the regular routines of being an adult. It was lots of fun to read, even though I didn’t follow along myself.
February 17th, 2008 at 1:34 pm EST
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