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Common Sense Optional Podcast

Common Sense Optional Podcast

Written by: Common Sense Optional
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Welcome to Common Sense Optional with Diana and Scott, we believe the best conversations happen when people are free to ask questions, change their minds, laugh at themselves, and appreciate different perspectives.

Common Sense Optional brings people together through honest, humorous conversations about current events, pop culture, and the beautifully confusing experience of midlife. Through the perspectives of two friends from different backgrounds, we encourage curiosity over certainty, laughter over outrage, and meaningful conversation over division. Our goal is simple: to create a space to hang out where listeners can take a break from the noise, think out loud, and leave feeling a little lighter, a little wiser, and a little less alone.

Our hope is that every episode feels like time spent with friends who make you laugh, make you think, and remind you that it’s okay to have questions. Around here common sense isn’t a requirement. Kindness, curiosity, and a good sense of humor are required and they always have a seat at our table.

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Episodes
  • Episode 13 - Blue Wave

    Episode 13 - Blue Wave
    Nov 6 2026

    Join us this week as Diana and Scott catch up on election-week reactions, favorite shows, snacks, and the strange dreams that come from falling asleep to YouTube. Then they play a movie-quote showdown, swap space news, and talk time travel writing, and the stories they’re creating.
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    2 hrs and 25 mins
  • Episode 12 - Writers Tips

    Episode 12 - Writers Tips
    Oct 30 2026

    Join as Diana and Scott catch up on a week of tech and food mishaps, then talk Disney remakes, Muppet movie mashups and a tribute to Star Trek actors Walter Koenig and Sir Patrick Stewart. The main event is a roundup of the worst writing advice on Reddit, including "show, don't tell" and "don't read in your genre." They also cover Halloween plans and their favorite horror movies.
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    2 hrs and 1 min
  • Episode 11 - AITA

    Episode 11 - AITA
    Oct 23 2026

    Diana and Scott turn a string of bizarre Reddit dilemmas into a funny, no-nonsense debate about relationship red flags, boundaries, and bad judgment. From ghostly apartment noises and questionable perfume gifts to workplace drama and dealbreakers, the stories get stranger—and the takes get sharper. If you love messy Reddit drama and laugh-out-loud banter, press play.

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    2 hrs and 23 mins
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