ICYMI - Amanda Mull on Titanic Fandoms and Frog Subreddits
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim is joined by Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Amanda Mull, whose pieces investigate your favorite big-box stores, the cult of exercise and the girlboss economy. They dive into Mull’s internet diary, which includes her golden rule for arguing online, her most beloved @dril tweets and why she’s changed her mind on Peloton.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario and Candice Lim.
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| 0:23.6 | Adobe Express, the quick and easy create anything app. Hey, I'm Candace Lamon, you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I. |
| 0:46.9 | In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:50.4 | And I'm so excited to have Bloomberg Businessweek senior reporter Amanda Moll on this show with me today. |
| 0:56.1 | Hello, Amanda. |
| 0:57.5 | Hi, how are you? |
| 0:59.3 | I'm so good. I'm even better because you're here. |
| 1:02.5 | Look, Amanda, you write the buying power column, which follows the intersection between culture and commerce. |
| 1:09.0 | On top of that, you have had an amazing five-plus-year |
| 1:12.6 | run at the Atlantic, where you have written some of my favorite culture pieces of the last decade. |
| 1:17.8 | But before we get into that, I have a warm-up question to ask you. Are you ready? Yes. |
| 1:26.1 | It's July. It's hot outside. It's heated online. What is something that has made you happy online recently? It could be a meme. It could be a song. It could be a tweet. |
| 1:37.1 | This is not a terribly original answer, I don't think, but I have loved enjoying my brat summer. I have... okay, talk about it, talk about it, talk about it. |
| 1:46.3 | I was not really a Charlie XX fan before this. Like, I was aware of her. I thought she was cool. |
| 1:51.1 | She seemed fun. I had heard some of the songs and enjoyed them, but I had not like sought out |
| 1:54.8 | her albums to listen to around the time that the album came out. I was getting used to a new |
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