Ryan Holiday

But now, let's grab the kindness and forgiveness and love handle.

Look for it and look away.

They'll wreck this.

It was a pretty stupid controversy.

Josh Gottheimer, a congressman from New Jersey, he got caught photoshopping his 2024 Spotify rap list to include more Bruce Springsteen.

He had added in Thunder Road and Badlands and The Rising to his most listened songs of the year and then posted it on social media.

How did he think he was going to get away with that?

Well, as parents, we probably shouldn't judge.

In fact, we should empathize.

As the apologetic and now even more embarrassed congressman explained after online sleuths noticed the telltale signs of editing, the problem was that he shared a Spotify account with his teenage kids and they had wrecked his algorithm.

Who amongst us has not had our YouTube and Netflix and Spotify accounts horribly skewed by our kids' love of Nerdcore or the Frozen soundtrack?

How will we ever convince Google that we do not, in fact, like Mr. Beast or prank videos?

Will our Netflix suggestions ever recover from the Cocomelon we have watched?

It is annoying to be sure, but it is a small price to pay to help them discover their own interests.

It's a small price to pay for peace in the car instead of whining and complaining and gratuitous insults about our taste.

And someday, almost certainly, one of these songs will come on and we will be hit with a wave of nostalgia, missing that 12-year-old who liked to belt out Taylor Swift,

desperately willing to trade anything for one more road trip listening to the Pokemon theme on repeat.

So we might as well enjoy it while it's here and not be embarrassed about it for even one second.

What are we fighting about, really?

There's a great lyric in the bridge of the new Bruce Springsteen song, Tucson Chain.