Hey, I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I, or in case you missed it,

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And today on the episode, we have writer and comedian, Young Me Mayor.

Welcome, Young Me. I'm so glad you're here. I'm so sorry. You're sick.

Hi, thanks for having me.

This will be all your energy for the day. You can kind of store it all for this,

and then hopefully you can just sleep.

Yeah, whether I like it or not, I feel like that's the truth.

But here, maybe I can list some of your credentials to raise your, raise your spirits.

Okay, I'll try to be funny.

Young me, you've been profiled

by the New York Times. You wrote a memoir titled Laughing Because I'm Crying, and also you host a

podcast. It is called Harry Butthole. And you also wrote a sub-sac essay earlier this month that is

going viral. But before we get to any of that, we're going to talk about the thing

we ask all first time guests on the show, which is their first internet memory. What comes

to mind when you think of the first time you use the internet? Okay, so this is the funny thing,

because I came up, I'm older than the internet, you know, I'm 41. And so I came about right as like,

the internet blew up when I was like, I don't know, in middle school, which is probably the

worst time ever. I like to say that I'm the same age as Mark Zuckerberg. So, but so my memory of

the first thing I saw on, on the internet is that space jam's website.

Yes.

But I think, I think I've like that, that's an artificial memory that was implanted later on because that website blew up.

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