For me this show was such an addiction.  It’s basically mindless drivel.  I used to listen to it on the train, while I was playing video games and just when I was walking around the city.  It’s not evil or anything.  I don’t have a problem with the filth etc. Like most people who complain about this show do.  It’s something else.

First of all, it’t not great to pour mindless stuff into my head 4-5 hours a day.  That is just a lot.  Also that adds up to sometimes 20 hours a week.  That is a part time job.  That means that this show was having more influence on me than anything else in my life.  That is a lot of time to something that is at best non-productive.  I have been trying to quit for a while because it limits my productivity.

Also I am really emotionally empathic.  For example when I’m reading a serial killer book, I keep looking over my shoulder.  When I read a sci-fi book, I dream of robots and space travel.  Listening to this show often puts me into a negative state or a victim mentality.  At best it turns off my talking and puts me into a purely listener state.  So that if I’m on the train and I see a cute girl, listening to this on my ipod creates a bigger hurdle for the approach.  I have to turn off the show and change my state, just to open.  That’s too much work.

Even worse is the frame that the show imposes.  Beautiful women have all the power and men must serve.  Only by being rich can one hope to snag a beautiful woman.  It’s just all too much of the wrong frame.  The world is only like that if you believe it.  It’s not the way to be.  Women don’t have that kind of power over men and there is more to life than just looks.  Honestly, listening to this show and not paying attention just implants the exact reverse of the mindset I want.  I date women that are unreasonably good looking in my estimation.  So this show is incongruent with my world.  I can’t have two things in my life that are at war.

So think about the things you watch and listen to.  They influence you.  I still keep wanting to listen to this show.  At some points it’s so hilarious.  But I can’t live within that negative frame anymore, life is just too good.