Hi there, it's Micah, producer of the slowdown.

Today's guest episode is hosted by the poet and editor Leslie Signs.

I hope you enjoy, and rest assured that Major will return to the host chair on July 1st. I'm Leslie Signs and this is the slowdown.

I'm Leslie Signs and this is the slowdown.

Mine is the slowdown.

Mine is the generation of buzzfeed quizzes, the Cosmo Quiz, and the resurgent popularity of the

Myers-Briggs and Eniagram personality tests. of the and against the backdrop of 9-11,

LimeWire, the Star Wars Kid,

and leave Brittany alone.

Niave and trusting, we clicked every link, played flash games with religious fervor, and hoped

sites like Quizilla and the Spark would reveal ourselves to ourselves. The Internet gave us something no other generation

had previously experienced, the unprecedented freedom to discover what an unprecedented technology could tell us about who we are.

If you've ever indulged in a personality quiz, whether it be which sex in the city character are you, or what

kind of elemental bender would you be, you've no doubt been hit with one of the most banal binaries

of the quiz genre,

Beach or mountains.

Having grown up in Miami, Florida,

I found it impossible not to scoff at the question.

Beaches are painfully overrated, I thought.

Even if I'd never seen a true mountain before.

Mount Trashmore, a 225-foot high landfill in Broward County, did not, in fact, count.

Surely, mountains reign supreme over sun migraines, sand in every

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