Listeners keep writing that they dismissed Scary Guy for his tattoos, then realized they were doing exactly what he fights against. The hosts talk about the gap between wanting a normal life and being yourself, and how social media's likes and followers mess with that choice.
Do you mind if I share a little bit of the email that you sent to Scary Guy?
Sure.
Because we have had so many emails and messages, and the opening two sentences have been exactly the same. Yeah, exactly the same from everybody. Okay, yeah, your two sentences were, I wanted to write to you some 15 years ago already, back then— this is the bit that everybody says without fail— back then I was zapping through the TV channels and I zapped past you, okay? Because obviously flicking through the channels, see this tattooed dude on there, you go, get past that, because I wasn't in the mood for some biker or tattoo stuff. Luckily, I found my way back to you, realizing I just did exactly what you were fighting against. Judging and prejudice. Scary Guy, back me up. Thousands and thousands of messages. All of them, they say exactly the same thing.
I believe it totally. Yeah. And I love that moment because I felt like I was getting caught, you know, on my hypocrisy. And I'm trying to be a good girl. It was funnily also the year when I tried to be normal, when I decided to have a normal life. I was slowly realizing that's not possible. If I want to be happy, I cannot have a normal life, you know.
You just have to be you, don't you? Yeah, yeah. Don't worry about what other people think so much.
Yes, but that's also hard, you know, because it's very difficult. The, the times are also changing, um, to, to care more about what other people think, you know. You get those likes and, and followers and so on, you know. And even if you don't have anything to share, but yeah, it's all about getting the thumbs up, you know.
Yeah.
