ICYMI - Clubhouse Doesn't Want You to Hear This
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🗓️ 27 March 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On the second episode of ICYMI, Slate’s new podcast about internet culture, hosts Madison Malone Kircher and Rachelle Hampton take listeners on an all-access tour of Clubhouse, the invite-only audio app that already has millions of users, including everyone from Elon Musk and Drake to Oprah and Joe Rogan. Madison somehow ends up taking a shower with hundreds of other users? The app also doesn’t allow people to record and publish audio, so this episode will probably get us banned.
Then, they try a new segment that we’re calling High Speed Download, in which each of them must try to summarize all of the drama of a recent internet story in 60 seconds or less. This time: the sagas of relationship guru Derrick Jaxn and Jensen Karp, aka Cinnamon Toast Shrimp Guy.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, sorry. I'm new to Clubhouse. So just figuring this out. Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. And I'm Madison Malone Kircher. You're listening to I see YMI. In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:23.5 | There is absolutely so much we could talk about today. |
| 0:27.2 | The internet has been strangely fruitful this week. |
| 0:30.5 | There is a boat stuck in the Suez Canal, keeping us from getting toilet paper. |
| 0:35.8 | Chrissy Teigen quit Twitter. |
| 0:37.3 | We launched this |
| 0:37.9 | podcast? Those are increasing order of importance. Appy. But today, we're going to focus on |
| 0:44.9 | Clubhouse, a newish audio-only app as our main course. And then, for dessert, some cinnamon toast |
| 0:51.4 | shrimp. Yum. |
| 0:59.8 | So like I mentioned, we're going to take you inside my first few nights on Clubhouse. |
| 1:04.0 | It's an invite-only app, though, frankly, if you'd like an invitation, let me know. |
| 1:06.0 | They're pretty much begging people to join at this point. |
| 1:09.7 | Clubhouse is positioning itself to be the next big thing in social media. |
| 1:11.9 | Twitter's already trying to build its own version. |
| 1:16.4 | I'm actually really, really glad we're doing this today because I've heard a lot about Clubhouse. |
| 1:18.7 | I have been invited to Clubhouse. |
| 1:25.9 | And yet nothing I've heard about it or read about it or seen of it has actually made me want to join it. |
| 1:29.3 | But isn't recording and publishing audio from Clubhouse against their rules? That would be correct. But I think the best way to explain |
| 1:35.3 | why Clubhouse is fun and weird and boring and potentially a privacy nightmare is just to hear |
| 1:41.9 | it for yourself. So that's what we're going to do. So what you're telling |
| 1:45.3 | me is in our very first week, we are potentially going to get you banned from an app. Our lawyers |
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