ICYMI - Encore: Who Weekly? Explains Bennifer 3.0
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🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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On today’s show, Madison and Rachelle have a short discussion of the recent beekeeper drama on TikTok. Then, they’re joined by Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber, hosts of the Who Weekly? podcast, to discuss Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez getting back together. They talk about what it was like when the pair first got together in the early 2000s, and why it feels so exciting to see these two stars indulge again in their past romance, and how Bennifer 3.0 will play in a new era of social media gossip.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
This episode originally aired on June 5, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | caution. The ultimate spicy meatball from Dominoes is hot. Just not stupid hot. It won't earn |
| 0:05.2 | you mythical status or get you a nickname like Mad Dog or Dragon's Breath. It's hot. Good hot. |
| 0:10.8 | The kind of hot that boosts taste nothing else. The ultimate spicy meatball with Siracha |
| 0:15.2 | Drizzle from Dominoes. It will get you fired up. Subject to Availability. |
| 0:33.2 | Hi Rachel Hansen and you listening to iCYMI. In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet |
| 0:39.2 | culture. And I hope you are all having a phenomenal into your August. I cannot believe it is almost |
| 0:46.0 | September. Weird at the time go. Speaking of time going, we're still taking a break. Yes. We're |
| 0:52.5 | planning some really exciting stuff for y'all down the road and of course attempting to find |
| 0:57.6 | a replacement for Mattis Moneculture. And while we're busy doing that, we wanted to share some of |
| 1:02.0 | mine Madison's favorite episodes. Today we are returning to an episode about a couple that |
| 1:12.5 | manages to dominate the headlines regardless of which decade they get together. I am of course |
| 1:18.4 | talking about Benefer with Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's recent wedding in Savannah, Georgia. |
| 1:23.8 | We thought it would be the perfect time to revisit our episode from June 5th 2021 when we had |
| 1:30.5 | none other than Bobby Finger and Lindsay Webber of the Who Weekly Podcast on. We chatted about |
| 1:36.5 | what it was like when Benefer first united in the early 2000s and how their new relationship plays |
| 1:42.2 | out in the air of social media gossip. We also start the episode with a chat about some old beekeeper |
| 1:48.4 | drama from TikTok which if you remember, your memory is much better than mine. Now without further |
| 1:54.4 | ado, who weekly explains Benefer 3.0? |
| 2:05.4 | The bee drama has indeed been incredible all over TikTok. The girls are fighting and the girls |
| 2:14.2 | are the beekeepers. The girls are atheists. In case you have somehow managed to miss this little |
| 2:21.5 | bit of drama flying across your TL or your FYP, TikTok's favorite beekeeper might be a fraud, |
| 2:29.7 | a phony, a Trump supporter. Erica Thompson on TikTok goes by at Texas B Works. And honestly, |
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