Coldplay Kiss Cam: Comedy or Tragedy?
The Esau McCaulley Podcast
Esau McCaulley
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
A Coldplay concert kiss cam became the most viral moment of the week. Esau, and bestselling author Nancy French unpack the now-infamous clip of an affair caught on camera. Was it hilarious or heartbreaking, and what does it say about our appetite for public shame? They also debate whether a World War II hero should also be remembered as a TikTok star, whether celebrity-branded Crumbl cookies are harmless fun or late-stage capitalism in dessert form, and if Walmart might actually be... beautiful. Plus, Esau discovers there's a wrong way to invite your producer to a Cubs game.
0:00 - Theme Song
4:00 - D-Day Veteran and TikTok Star
10:25 - Coldplay Outs CEO Affair—Funny or Tragedy?
21:08 - Benson Boone Cookies and Parasocial Relationships
31:24 - An Ode to Wal-Mart?
Ghosted: An American Story by Nancy French: https://a.co/d/0UhumZ5
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome to the Issa Macaulay podcast. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm your host, Issaa McCauley. |
| 0:11.0 | We're joined by our producer, Mike. |
| 0:13.1 | Hey, Esau. |
| 0:13.9 | It's great to have you on the podcast. |
| 0:15.1 | And we have this week, Nancy French, New York Times bestselling author, amazing writer, great person, a cool hang, |
| 0:25.3 | world pickleball champion. |
| 0:27.0 | I don't know what else to call you. |
| 0:28.2 | Is that pickleball, have you won any pickleball tournaments? |
| 0:32.1 | No, I've never even played in a pickleball. |
| 0:34.0 | I've earned a game, though. |
| 0:35.0 | Okay. |
| 0:35.3 | Do you have an overall winning record against David, your husband? Like, if there's like a, is there, if you did a lifetime record, who's ahead there? I don't know. I think he might be. He's actually better than I am. And he hits so hard. He's actually, yeah, I don't enjoy necessarily playing with him. Okay. Yeah, he's hard. He's a hard hitter. |
| 0:54.7 | Okay, then we will say the people's picketball champion. |
| 0:58.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.9 | Pickle ball champion. Nancy French. Now, I want to let you all know because I wanted to start |
| 1:03.2 | the podcast. We have some important issues we need to talk about politically, culturally, |
| 1:06.4 | and these other things. But a lot of times on the podcast, I invite, well, actually, Mike invites himself to events |
| 1:13.5 | in my life. |
| 1:14.3 | And I often say that I'm busy. |
| 1:15.8 | You do. |
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