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In the pod

Huddling with podcasts has become a source of comfort for me. I spend a part of my respite time under earphones and tuned to one of these specific three.

At the moment, that rotation is led by Julia Louis Dreyfus. I am caught up on Wiser than Me, which gladdens me (I have been enriched), and I can’t wait for Wednesday.

Anderson Cooper offers wisdom on grieving; perversely, I find tremendous uplift in listening to All There Is with…. I am far from done with the seasons of this series.

Somehow, Brooke Shields snuck on to my listening cycle. On Now What? she interviews people who have dealt with moments of transition. (Who hasn’t?) These shared pivotal moments are  enlightening.

I found myself listening to one of the most distinctive voices the other day. [Bebe Neuwirth has a special timbre when she speaks.]

I appreciate her work as a dancer and actress, but I love her for a moment at a Broadway Cares event some 4 years ago.

The audience was instructed “cell phones off.” A routine command in the theater. Within minutes, a phone went off. 

Ms. Neuwirth rose to the occasion in righteous outrage admonishing the offender.

I hate hearing ringing during a performance, don’t you?

Apparently, she and I are in sync on this one.

Quibbles bangles and bright shiny things

My imagined dialog with Julia Louis Dreyfus over my quibble about the name of her [except for its name, maybe?] impeccable podcast goes like this:

Tamara: Why “Wiser than Me,” Julia, when it should be “than I”?

Julia: Because.. I don’t want to sound prissy?

Tamara: You don’t want to sound grammatically correct, Julia.

[And she aka I, Tamara goes on:] We, none of us do. We throw aints around as if we were born to them.

Now, I will pivot back to the original programming here. I developed this doubt. Than Me/I? He or She vs. Him or Her? Wiser than him? Nah, it’s Wiser than He with the is that would follow implied or unspoken.

So, running back to the quibble that brought me to this diatribe, there is an “am” to end “Wiser than I”. By the way, Julia, great work.