ICYMI - Encore: You’re Using “Woke” Wrong
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🗓️ 1 January 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
From “woke bae” to “woke-a-cola,” the word woke has taken the internet and mainstream media by storm. But how many people who use the word actually know what it means? On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison (but, really, mostly Rachelle) explain the decades-old origins of the word, and how its meaning has evolved as it’s gone from being sung as a call to “stay woke” by the likes of Erykah Badu and Childish Gambino to being wielded as a slur by the likes of Mike Huckabee.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder, Derek John, and Jasmine Ellis.
This episode was originally published on June 19, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | The monopoly game is back at McDonald's, and guess what? It's still twice as nice, because |
| 0:04.6 | with double peel, you can peel on pack. Then peel a game on the McDonald's app, to when |
| 0:08.8 | prizes like, brand new mini-electrics, lovely McDonald's food, HBO and gaming laptops, |
| 0:14.5 | to be holiday vouchers, a thousand pounds in cash, plus tons of other incredible prizes. |
| 0:19.3 | 18 plus UK only selected items, subjects of serving times and availability, and 17th |
| 0:26.0 | October. Game play and prize claims may require McDonald's app, seemingly rules.co.uk. |
| 0:30.0 | Let's play World Wars! First question. Are you doing the work? |
| 0:37.4 | Um, I'm going to go with, like, probably not. |
| 0:43.2 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and I'm Madison Malone-Curture. You're listening to ICYMI. |
| 0:48.0 | In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:52.0 | Pop the ship, pay! Happy New Year's, bitches! |
| 0:56.9 | We hope you're all recuperating from a fun New Year's Eve. I know we are. There is glitter |
| 1:00.8 | on the floor after the party, as my, uh, my close personal friend, Taylor Swift, Putsay. |
| 1:05.3 | And I'm hungover. I'm assuming y'all are too. So while you clear up the crate paper, |
| 1:11.6 | contemplative, you should take those resolutions seriously. |
| 1:15.7 | May I take a little hand, the dog? We wanted to bring you one of our absolute favorite episodes |
| 1:21.1 | of the last year. It was published on Juneteenth, and it is all about the word woe. |
| 1:28.5 | In it, we explored the decades-old origin of the word woe, and what people actually mean when |
| 1:32.9 | they use it, and how the internet has shocker, completely warped its meaning in recent years. |
| 1:40.3 | Basically, it's a history lesson that could help inform your New Year's resolutions. |
| 1:44.8 | And the New Year's resolution should maybe be just not using the word woe, or at least use it |
| 1:50.4 | correctly. Without further ado, here's your using woe wrong. |
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