ICYMI - Kanye West Needs to Log Off
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🗓️ 19 February 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Kanye West recently got into an online feud with his daughter, North West, his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, and her new boyfriend, Pete Davidson. On the show today, Rachelle and Madison run through Kanye’s long history of fighting online, our changing understanding of him as his mental health struggles came to light, and how we should talk about celebrities whose private dramas play out so publicly.
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| 0:00.0 | When someone comes up and says something like, I am a god, everybody says who does he think he is? |
| 0:08.7 | I just told you who I thought I was. A god. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hanthin. |
| 0:14.7 | And I'm Madison Malam Kircher. You're listening to I see why am I. |
| 0:18.5 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:19.7 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.2 | What's going on with you, Madison? |
| 0:24.4 | Well, today we have a main character we simply must address here on ICYMI. |
| 0:29.3 | Yet another main character. |
| 0:31.2 | And this one's not just the main character of the day. |
| 0:33.4 | He is perhaps the main character of the decade. |
| 0:36.7 | We are, of course, talking about one Kanye West. |
| 0:40.5 | Yay West, as he is now known. |
| 0:42.8 | Oh, we know, it's just yay. |
| 0:43.9 | It's just yay, apologies. |
| 0:44.3 | It's just yay, yeah. |
| 0:45.2 | It's just yay, apologies. |
| 0:47.1 | I regret the air. |
| 0:48.5 | Apologies accepted. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm actually a spokesperson. You didn't know? |
| 1:03.5 | I have some questions for you after the show about that. But beforehand, we're going to be discussing the new documentary genius on Netflix. It's spelled J-E-E-N-Y-U-H-S. And it's all about Kanye. |
| 1:13.1 | We'll also be talking about Kanye's decades-long history as an internet main character |
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