Hey, I'm Candice Lim.

And I'm Candice Lim.

And I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to Icy Y-M-I.

In case you missed it.

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And Kate, it is so great to see you again.

For those who haven't heard the last episode you were on,

we talked about the state of dating apps,

and you're a culture writer,

you're the co-founder of the great sub-stacked embedded. So I just want to ask, how are you doing?

I am good. I am in New York and if you've been in New York recently, it kind of feels like the

summer of hot, hot humid hell is over we're having

what I believe is known as fake fall.

I love that. Kate, I'm going to be honest. I bring up seasons because summer is slowly ending and I am actually a bit of an indoor cat you know I like to observe the

streets from my window so tell me what is going on out there yeah so we're

we're officially at the end of Brat Summer and so I think this is a good time to reflect and it's kind of

interesting because I noticed sort of in the background another trend

happening this summer. So last summer was like a big summer of breakups but this summer I'm calling it the

shoot your shot summer.

Wait, okay tell me more, tell me more.

So first there was Travis Kelsey who actually last summer shot his shot with Taylor Swift by sort of

calling her out on his podcast and out this summer they've been like the couple.

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