r/Harmontown • u/MovinginStereo34 • 1d ago
Near death Harmontown experience
I was listening to Harmontown while walking my dog today. Got in my dad's brand new car tonight after a movie and my phone automatically hooked up to the Bluetooth and begins playing the episode I was in the middle of, "It's Not Personal, It's Business." It takes me a minute to realize what's happening. I quickly hit pause and turn off my Bluetooth, only for the car to somehow switch it back on and hit play again. I have no idea how to stop it, I'm sweating as I keep turning off my Bluetooth only to have the car turn it back on and reconnect.
"What the heck? Stop doing that!" I say repeatedly, hoping to drown out whatever Dan, Jeff, and Mitch may be saying.
I'm frantic, my heart is racing, I think I might pass out. I finally just power off my phone, praying that works, only to look at the car screen and see "Harmontown: It's Not Personal, It's Business" in big fat letters. My parents have no idea I listen to this and have no clue what it is.
Both my parents are in the car by the way.
I hurriedly try to change to the radio. The dulcid tones of Dave Matthews Band play as I begin to breathe again.
I just thank god I wasn't listening to the previous episode.
Somehow, they didn't say a single inappropriate thing. Dan didn't start rapping, Jeff didn't start rapping with one "p." I think I used up all my luck tonight.
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u/amystico 17h ago
Do you live in some strange Footloose town where listening to comedy podcasts is outlawed by the ultra-conservative government?
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u/SoundRebound 19h ago
Were you afraid your parents would like it too much?
Honestly, I cannot see what your problem is at all. The only near death experience i had listening to Harmontown was when „It Gets Worse“ was played the first time and I almost choked on my bagel because I couldn‘t stop laugh-crying and I was in the middle of the road on a cross-walk
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u/angrytreestump 12h ago
Wow, stories like these sure do make me thankful my parents gave me my sense of humor lol.
Highlights:
—My dad playing “Team America” for us on movie night when I was like in 3rd grade, and eventually deciding to fast forward through the 5-minute graphic puppet sex scene while we were all cracking up.
—My mom taking me to see “Bruno” in theaters when I was 15 and half-assedly putting her hand over my face 10 seconds into the 30-second Meatspin scene while we were both cracking up.’
…comedy is comedy, dude. And your parents saw you naked and piss and shit yourself for multiple years. They’re arguable the closest people in your life you’ll ever have, whether you like it or not, and they in some way led you to listen to Harmontown (even if as an act of rebellion against some anti-Harmontown rule that I’m betting they don’t actually have…? 🤔)
Just don’t sweat it. I thought this was about an actual near-death experience like trying to rush to change the playlist while driving and almost hitting something lol.
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u/Obsessive_Yodeler 23h ago
lol wtf dude? You’re acting as if playing harmontown over a speaker is equal to your laptop screensharing porn on your living room tv…