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🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | What's up nerds! Welcome back to everyone in their mom! |
0:07.2 | Wait, wait, don't tell me! Now with 100% more marshmallows! Yay! |
0:12.5 | Woo! This week we're here with someone who I think would run an extremely efficient vitamin pyramid scheme. |
0:18.9 | It's Tulsi Swoon! What's up Tulsi? Hello, friend? |
0:23.4 | Well, Tulsi, exciting. Did you know that there's a hot new way to jump to wild conclusions based on little to no evidence? |
0:31.7 | It's called Spotify stocking. |
0:33.7 | Hmm. Have you heard of this? |
0:36.2 | I don't have Spotify, so I don't know how you can look at someone's Spotify if you don't have their |
0:43.8 | electronic old devices. I'll tell you about it, okay? So it was an article in the Wall Street Journal |
0:50.4 | and they're talking about when you use Spotify to do some light spy, right? Because what people are |
0:56.3 | listening to can tell you a lot about them. Like if you listen to Adele, you're probably an empath who |
1:02.7 | takes karaoke very seriously. Or if you listen to a lot of Bruce Springsteen, chances are high you're a |
1:09.4 | union man with a complicated relationship with your father. Or your former president Barack Obama. |
1:15.6 | So you're using what people are listening to to try to figure out how they are doing. |
1:21.1 | Yeah, yeah, with their up to. You know, and you know, and people are discovering that it's super |
1:25.5 | useful for keeping tabs on people of interest like a crush or an enemy. So I mean, Spotify must |
1:32.3 | be the most efficient way to spiral out about your ex, right? Like why are they playing a playlist |
1:38.1 | called Smooosh? Is that his sex playlist? Is that his bug killing playlist? Why does it have both |
1:43.6 | the radio edit and the movie version of I'll never love again from the 2018 movie A Star Is Born, |
1:48.9 | right? I want answers to Spotify. I'm too busy for this. Also, playing music doesn't tell you |
1:57.2 | how a person is doing because sometimes people play music opposite to their mood. So say I'm in a |
2:04.1 | not a great mood. I might be playing really jovial upbeat fun music to get me out of this headspace. |
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