My husband came clean about his Norm Macdonald podcast obsession after three years.

When we were first dating I asked my now-husband what his favorite podcast was. He said that he didn’t really listen to podcasts. I teased him saying that it was 2018, what was he doing with his life?<br><br>Then, we moved in together. One day while I was doing the dishes, he asked Alexa to play the news and I heard Norm’s voice come through the speakers doing his impression of a cable news anchor. I asked my husband if he listened to the Norm Macdonald podcast and he said that he had never heard of it. Then Norm started doing his impression of a typical podcast guest so I stopped doing the dishes and turned to my husband and said, “Then what is this?”<br><br>He said that he was just asking Alexa to play the news, it must have been a mistake. I asked him “Why do you ask her for news, what’s so interesting about a typical day’s headlines?” He said that he sometimes just wants to know what’s going on. I asked him if he ever actually listened to it, Norm’s bit was on for like 5 minutes at that point, and he said no, he just turns it off after hearing “world autistic” and goes about his day.<br><br>Then, one day he was out doing errands and I decided to clean out his car. My husband always keeps his car remarkably clean and there was nothing much to clean out of it. However, under the passenger seat I found an iPod. I plugged it intoaux and turned it on and Norm’s voice came through the speakers. I was shocked. There were over 100 episodes of his podcast on that iPod, which is insane considering it was 2018. The actual Norm Macdonald podcast had only been around for a year. <br><br>This was so bizarre. So when I got home, I told him what I had found. First he said that it must have belonged to the person who he bought the car from, but I told him that there was a bunch of recent episodes on it. He became flustered and told the truth, that he listens to Norm’s podcast “all the time”, and he didn’t want me to know because he was afraid that I would judge him. He said that he was only trying to protect me from knowing the depths of how much he loves Norm’s podcast. <br><br>He then told me that he listened to almost every episode at least three times and that he continues to listen to new episodes as many times as he can before re-listening to all of the old ones again. I asked him why he didn’t just come clean about this and he said that he was afraid I would think he was weird. I told him that that amount of Norm podcast episodes is weird, but I wasn’t going to judge him for it.<br><br>That was 3 years ago. Now, when we are in the car together he will sometimes play the norm podcast and then quickly turn it off when I get in the car, like he’s addictive behavior is something that he should be ashamed of. He’s not even consistent with his duplicity.