ICYMI - Since When Is Everyone an Empath?

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🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Empaths and the great book exchange pyramid scheme are filling up our feeds again. On the show today, Rachelle and Madison explain why every few months, posts circulate about a book exchange that sounds too good to be true, and why empaths aren’t really a thing—unless you’re in a science fiction story. Plus, they play Wordle!

Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.

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0:00.0	The amount of mothers-fuckers that believe they are the empath and they are actually the
0:04.5	narcissist in their story is baffling.
0:06.5	Yeah, I'm always attracting low frequencies, have you thought that maybe you are the low-freedom
0:11.3	seat?
0:12.3	Hi, I'm Madison Malone-Curture, and I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I See
0:17.3	Why Am I?
0:18.3	In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:22.5	And the only internet culture I care about right now is this game called Whirtle.
0:27.4	I gotta establish up front.
0:29.3	I'm still non-tylisher with this is.
0:31.4	I don't know why everyone is posting squares of colors on TikTok.
0:36.7	The name Whirtle makes me think of like a waddling duck.
0:40.2	Like I don't know what's happening.
0:42.4	And does that not already bring you joy?
0:44.6	Rachel, join us.
0:45.6	The water's fine.
0:46.6	Well, I can't swim and I don't like birds, so I walk right into that.
0:56.0	You know what?
0:57.0	We don't have to use the metaphor to bring me into the Whirtle huddle, but you do have
1:01.4	to explain to me what exactly it.
1:03.1	Is it Scrabble?
1:04.5	Is it a crossword puzzle?
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