David Sedaris
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2,542 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 17 Aug
David Sedaris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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My mother couldn't remember our names half the time, much less care whether we felt anxious or depressed.
One of the worst things that's happened to us as a country is that people are having fewer kids than they did in the past.
Sure, it's good for the environment.
Fewer people means less demand for resources.
The problem is that single children receive a freakish amount of love and attention.
Most graduate at least twelve times before leaving high school.
Their every move is recorded and celebrated, and it gives them an outside sense of their own importance.
Our parents thought we were okay at best, and I think that really helped us in the long run.
Ask someone now if they have kids and they're pretty much guaranteed to use the word amazing as in I have an amazing six year old daughter.
Amazing because she just discovered a cure for MS.
Or because she speaks three words of Spanish.
I always wanted to ask.
I mean, just how low have you set that bar?
The solution isn't for every couple to start having five kids, but maybe for one chosen couple to have five, and the other four couples to go without.
Either have a full litter you can't dote on, or nothing at all.
If our schools are a mess, it's in large part due to these parents who think their kids are special, who get mad if you contradict their brilliance, if you give them a bad grade, or, God forbid, try to take their phones away.
Had one of my teachers told my mother that I was acting up in class, she'd have said thank you so much for letting me know.
Then she'd have come to wherever I was, in front of the TV or at the side of the TV, making my way to the front of it, and slapped my sister Gretchen so hard her eyes would have crossed.
What was that for?
Gretchen would have asked.
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