ICYMI - All Hail the Liver King
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🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Brian Johnson, aka the Liver King, has amassed millions of followers with his bizarre yet addictive workout and raw-meat-diet videos. On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison comb through the king’s core tenets, his obsession with explosives, and of course his taste for liver with a side of maple syrup. Later in the show, science communicator Johnathan Jarry joins for a discussion of why we look to people like the Liver King, and why we can’t look away.
If you’ve listened to the episode, here’s the Google Form that Rachelle and Madison mention. Send them your internet faves and nightmares.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder, Derek John, Jasmine Ellis, and Kevin Bendis.
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| 0:00.0 | We just finished lecturing the cow, and because I'm the liver king, and because the liver is king, we're going to take a bite out of it. |
| 0:12.6 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:14.4 | And I'm Madison Malone Kircher. You're listening to I see YMIMI. |
| 0:17.8 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:19.3 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.3 | Madison, I have very exciting news. You're taking me on a vacation back to Paris. Uh, um, not to Paris, but we are going to |
| 0:32.2 | South by Southwest. I'm not paying for that, but we're going together, so that counts, right? |
| 0:37.2 | Uh, yes, Austin, Texas, the Paris of America. |
| 0:40.7 | Well, while we're on the topic of Southwest, we do actually have a favor for y'all. |
| 0:44.7 | Yes, this is for a secret product. |
| 0:45.8 | That's definitely not at all, probably, for our live show in Austin. |
| 0:50.7 | We need to hear from you about any pieces of internet ephemera that are wedged into your brain. |
| 0:56.6 | So a meme, a viral video, a Twitter main character, something you saw on Tumblr one time when you were 13 that has kept you up at night ever since. |
| 1:04.1 | Sky is the limit. Shoot us an email. DM us. Or we're also going to put a link to a Google form in the show notes today. |
| 1:11.2 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:12.7 | And with that out of the way, Rachel, what is the exciting news? |
| 1:21.9 | Okay, so about two weeks ago during my last lifting session, After almost a year breaking out with my trainer, |
| 1:29.7 | I officially deadlifted my own body weight. Oh, hell yes. I feel like this is a real get-to-know-your-host |
| 1:37.1 | moment and that perhaps the ICYMIMI guys don't know that for the last year, Rachel and I have |
| 1:42.1 | mostly exclusively outside of work texted each other about our PRs in our attempts to become really, really jacked. |
| 1:49.6 | I mean, Madison famously, you're about to lift a car over your head. |
| 1:53.6 | That is what I always say is my goal. It confuses trainers a lot when they're like, do you want to lose weight? Do you want to get more like hourglass shaped? And I'm like, no, no, no. I want to be able to do the two following things. One, lift a car over my head. Two, carry four full, fresh direct bags of seltzer up the three flights of stairs to my walk-up apartment. I honestly feel like the second one is harder. I'm not quite there yet. |
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