Hey, I'm Candice Lim.

And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see I am I.

In case you missed it.

Sleets Podcast about Internet Culture, and Candice,

Candice, I've got a story for you.

Ooh, do tell.

Okay. Okay, last time I gave a celebrity story was Bradley Cooper failing upwards at the New York

but harmonic.

This one is, I would say, even more fascinating as both you and longtime listeners of the show know I have

Oumpit crush on one Jeremy Strong I'm not proud of it. I'm not proud of it. But the heart once with the heart once and my heart once that deeply earnest man. But you know this our listeners know this and my best friends know this including one who is a culture editor for the New Yorker and as a result gets tickets to literally every show in town, including the revival of Homery-Ibsen's 1882 play The Enemy of the People that's currently on Broadway,

starving, one, Jeremy Strong. So I'm the kind of person who if I can I prefer to go into something

blind. I don't want to know the plot. I don't want to know what people are saying.

I want to be in the moment as the theater God's demand. Which is to say I walked

into the theater. I was handed my playbill, and I

found out what the play was about. Okay. So Jeremy Strong plays a doctor in a

small town that has recently opened like a bathhouse

spa sort of thing that's taken many years and a lot of money to build. We're also

somewhere in the past I would say comfortably turn of the century of like from 1800s to 1900s and

and we're also somewhere in Europe. On the eve of the bathhouse's opening this

doctor discovers that the water source that the bathhouse is opening, this doctor discovers that the water source that the bath

houses rely on is full of microorganisms that are making people sick. They are just

learning about the concept of bacteria. So people are getting typhoid sick.

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