2024 in Review: Why Miss USA is Imploding
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
While the What Next team takes some rest, enjoy this episode, originally aired on May 16.
When Miss USA abdicated her throne, people noticed that the first letters of each sentence of her resignation letter spell out “I am silenced.” Shortly thereafter, Miss Teen USA stepped down with a letter that opens with a quote from Nietzsche.
What’s going on at the Miss USA organization? Has the idea of a national pageant outlived its usefulness?
Guest: Constance Grady, senior Culture correspondent for Vox.
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| 0:32.9 | Hey, what next listeners? This week, we had a feeling you could use a little break from the news. |
| 0:38.3 | So we're re-airing some of our favorite culture and entertainment reporting from the last few months. |
| 0:44.5 | This episode originally aired in May. |
| 0:48.0 | That's when both Miss USA and Miss Teen USA unexpectedly resigned. |
| 0:54.0 | Thank you. and Miss Teen USA unexpectedly resigned. |
| 1:06.0 | Okay, Constance, what the heck is happening at the Miss USA pageant? |
| 1:11.4 | Wild things are happening at the Miss USA pageant. |
| 1:15.5 | Constance Grady reports on culture at Vox. |
| 1:21.6 | Yeah, I mean, how many women with crowns have resigned in the last week? |
| 1:23.8 | It's more than you would think. |
| 1:26.0 | It is more than has ever happened before. |
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