ICYMI - Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk Crates
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🗓️ 1 September 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The milk crate challenge, an online viral challenge where people attempt to walk up and down a pile of milk crates stacked to resemble steps, has become so popular that it even shut down a highway and two parks in Atlanta. On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison recount how this challenge rose to viral fame, talk to Keith Dorsey who coordinated the Atlanta event, and even try to find some milk crates of their own.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
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| 0:00.0 | This is going to be when you get to the top. |
| 0:05.8 | This is going to be when you get to the top. |
| 0:07.2 | We got through crates. |
| 0:08.6 | We got through crates. |
| 0:09.9 | Stop playing. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher. |
| 0:15.1 | And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why am I. |
| 0:18.7 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:20.0 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.4 | All right. We are getting right into it today with a dairy nice topic, if I do say so myself. |
| 0:27.7 | Why must you do this to me? I must. Shout out to the approximate 10 zillion people who asked us |
| 0:35.0 | for this. Shamira, T.J. Carrie, Michaela, Drex. |
| 0:39.1 | This one's for you. |
| 0:40.5 | And by this one, we mean we are finally, finally |
| 0:45.2 | tackling the milk crate challenge, |
| 0:47.5 | which is a feat of core strength, bravado, |
| 0:52.0 | some might say stupidity, and honestly a delightfully surprising amount of community |
| 0:57.3 | togetherness. |
| 1:00.7 | What more could you want? |
| 1:02.7 | But perhaps more importantly, where the fuck that this come from? |
| 1:06.3 | What inspired people around the country to wake up one day, form a makeshift set of stairs out of milk crates, and tempt fate. |
| 1:15.8 | Are people robbing a milkman? |
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