podcast friday
Aug. 30th, 2024 07:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyJamie Loftus' Sixteenth Minute (Of Fame) has been amazing so far, but a few weeks ago she broke from the topic to do something different. And painful. Her father, Mike Loftus, died of cancer. In fact, the entire show thus far has been recorded under the shadow of her father's illness and death, sometimes from hospital rooms. In "grief, pt. whatever" she talks about her father, his life and death, his influence on her life, and how she, as someone with OCD (and very clearly the daughter of someone with OCD) documents and analyzes the grieving process.
It took me awhile to listen to it because I thought I'd relate too much and cry a lot, and I did and did. For one thing, Jamie should never experience a moment of sadness ever. There's something particularly moving about listening to a Professional Funny Person lay bear her own raw grief for an audience. It brought up a lot of feelings I still have over the death of my stepdad, the fears I have in general as my family and friends age and sicken around me. And it ties in, subtly but deftly, the ways in which our mental health issues and neurodivergences can both be a strength—OCD almost certainly made both Mike and Jamie better journalists—and devastate us.
It's a hard listen but it's so beautifully written and delivered that it's cathartic in the way that listening to very sad things is cathartic. She does a lot of great podcasts but this is one of the best.
It took me awhile to listen to it because I thought I'd relate too much and cry a lot, and I did and did. For one thing, Jamie should never experience a moment of sadness ever. There's something particularly moving about listening to a Professional Funny Person lay bear her own raw grief for an audience. It brought up a lot of feelings I still have over the death of my stepdad, the fears I have in general as my family and friends age and sicken around me. And it ties in, subtly but deftly, the ways in which our mental health issues and neurodivergences can both be a strength—OCD almost certainly made both Mike and Jamie better journalists—and devastate us.
It's a hard listen but it's so beautifully written and delivered that it's cathartic in the way that listening to very sad things is cathartic. She does a lot of great podcasts but this is one of the best.
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Date: 2024-08-30 07:22 pm (UTC)raises a light
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Date: 2024-09-01 04:12 am (UTC)Thematically accurate, and breaking down barriers.
She gave her father the 16 minutes of fame he'd not have had otherwise.
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