Simpsons did it.
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Therapy Gecko, Bad Friends, Podcast But Outside
Honestly, doing laundry in the basement when I lived on the 3rd floor was the most annoying part of having no elevator.
The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells is a collection of short books in the first perspective of a cyborg. You might enjoy that.
Try out Shokz bone conducting headphones. They are awesome, you can hear the world around you, and the app has a vocal booster mode that makes listening to podcasts much better. It works really well on my 1.5 hour bike commute in traffic with road noise, and I can still hear the cars passing by.
You could wear your Apple Vision Pro on the date and use Tinder AI to get live prompts like a modern Cyrano de Bergerac.
Free passes to local museums too
There are times when the sound effects and other sounds are mixed with dialogue into the original audio, so the English dub doesn't have it. This makes it feel empty and lifeless.
I think it's just not for me. Space operas and the like are too tedious. My preference in writing is for immediacy and action, not tangential explanations of dynastic lineage, lengthy asides on culture, etc.
And now you can take this reasoning and think about all the millions of innocent animals killed every day for meat, often in ways that could easily be considered torture if people didn't pretend it wasn't happening / justified for their taste buds.