My Toaster Needs Instructions… and I’m Not Okay With That

Send us Fan Mail It started with a toaster. A simple, innocent appliance whose only job used to be: bread goes in, toast comes out. But not anymore. In this episode, I spiral (gracefully… mostly) into the modern insanity of “smart” everything. What used to require one button now demands decisions, settings, updates, and—at one point—reading the manual… for a toaster. A toaster. From there, things only get worse. We take a walk down memory lane to a time when: TVs had knobs instead of so...