ICYMI - Meet NPR’s TikTok Boy
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4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim are joined by Jack Corbett, one of the people behind NPR’s Planet Money TikTok account. In the three years that have passed since @planetmoney was started, the account has amassed over 14.1 million likes, thanks in no small part to Corbett. Here he discusses his daily internet diet, his controversial take on deleted tweets and the dark side of becoming the face of a corporate media brand.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Rachelle Hampton, Candice Lim and Daisy Rosario, with special thanks to Emily Charash.
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| 0:00.0 | I made you think you was real. |
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| 0:58.6 | Someone from a competing news site, a journalist, commented something like, yeah, like really creepy, like about me. |
| 1:06.6 | And I was just like, I'm just like never going to work at that institution ever. |
| 1:10.5 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 1:12.4 | And I'm Candace Lim. |
| 1:13.5 | And you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I. |
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