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#106 Is That You, KD?

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.729.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, we help Alex Blumberg understand why a Google engineer ended up complimenting the KKK, and then Yes Yes No turns bizarro. Further Reading James Damore's unedited memo Links to all of the tweets or stories mentioned in Yes Yes No can be found at http://yesyesnos.tumblr.com Article about Kevin Durant (includes screenshots of his tweets) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

From Gimlet, this is Reclaiall. I'm Alex Holden.

0:08.6

And I'm PJ vote.

0:09.9

Welcome once again to Yes, Yes, No, the segment on the show where our boss, Alex Bloomberg,

0:17.6

comes to us with Internet of Femura that he can't make heads or tails of, and then we

0:22.0

try to explain it to him. And then he just feels the deep sense of regret for ever

0:26.6

having come to us in the first place. Hi Alex. Hi, I'm a tweet.

0:30.5

You really know the form of this segment very well.

0:35.1

Back.

0:36.6

I'm back. Yes. Okay, so should I, should I just die right in?

0:42.9

Yeah, okay. The Twitter account is named Manusy in the sky.

0:46.9

From the guy whose Twitter handle is Manucleurbom.

0:50.7

All right, and so this is the tweet ready. The caption is love that I can just slide this

0:58.0

guy's whole thread into the meme. And then there's a picture. And the picture is, oh

1:06.0

God.

1:07.0

All right, it's two pictures side by side. And the right side is like basically a, it's

1:15.9

a series of, you know, when you go to like a photo booth and you get like four pictures

1:19.5

on top of each other, it's like that, except it's like different pictures of sort of,

1:23.8

I guess, skull heads. But with the brains inside sort of exposed. So the top picture is a

1:31.4

skull with a sort of a smaller brain inside. And then the next picture that went below

1:35.1

it is another sort of skull head, although it's got more human features and it's got a bigger

1:39.4

sort of sparkly brain with like stars and stuff coming out of it. And then the picture

1:43.4

below that, the brain is even sparklier and shining. And then the last picture is

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