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ICYMI: Our Top Internet Moments of the Year (Part 2)

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim are joined by Slate culture writer Nadira Goffe to conclude their list of the top internet moments of the year. In their previous episode, Rachelle and Candice memorialized Elon-held Twitter, the most famous submersible online and reunions that shouldn’t air live. But no moment superseded the viral drama, cultural legacy and aquatic meme-ifcation of a singular historic event that happened on August 5, 2023. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There are days when you're hungry for McDonald's.

0:03.0

Then there are days when you're Big Arch hungry for McDonald's.

0:08.0

You'll get to know the difference.

0:10.0

New Big Arch for Big McDonald's hunger.

0:15.0

Until 9th of September, from 11 a.m.,

0:18.0

participating restaurants only, subject to availability.

0:34.3

Hey, I'm Candace Lim.

0:38.0

And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I.

0:39.7

In case you missed it.

0:42.2

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

0:46.9

And we have a very important guest with us here today.

0:53.0

I-C-Y-M-I-Fave Slate culture writer Naderia-Goff is in the house.

0:54.8

Naderia, hello.

0:56.4

Hey, y'all, what's up?

1:06.0

Wee!

1:14.9

Naderia, thank you for joining us for this momentous occasion for the final installment of our top internet moments of the year. But before we dive into that, we do have to get something out of the way.

1:21.7

Because of a few scheduling logistics, we haven't yet had time to ask Rachel how she's doing after the momentous

1:30.4

news that broke a few weeks back. Rachel, your nemesis is dead.

1:38.8

November 29th, let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. It was a big day. It was a big day for everyone in the world for a few reasons. But the most important one is that Henry Kissinger finally kicked the motherfucking bucket. And while I am not entirely sure if I believe in the concept of hell, I'm still really getting in touch with my spiritual side. We'll figure that out. But I am a firm believer that if hell does exist, that man is being spit roasted over an open flame right now.

2:09.6

So many people reached out to me, including our lovely producer, Sierra Spragley, Ricks, to let me know that Henry Kissinger had passed on to the

2:17.9

Great Beyond. And I am so glad that my brand is so strong that people wanted to let me know

2:22.6

immediately that my enemy is dead. Not just my enemy, the enemy of the free world. You know,

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