ICYMI | The Alarm Clock That Woke Up #DemonTok

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by Slate contributing editor Angelina Mazza to explain why Christian creators are throwing away their Hatch alarm clocks. The company’s Halloween commercial was so spooky that it was accused of having “demonic ties,” and now people are claiming they hear voices coming out of the device. The question is not, “Is the devil really hiding inside of a $200 alarm clock?” But rather, “Why do Christians keep thinking the devil is in their technology in the first place?” This podcast is produced by Daisy Rosario, Vic Whitley-Berry, and Kate Lindsay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	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.
0:21.7	And joining me in the studio is Culture Writer and Slate contributing editor Angelina Matza.
0:27.2	Hello, is that right? No.
0:28.9	Yes, yes, you did it so well.
0:30.6	I was laughing because of how well you did it.
0:33.0	Oh, yeah, yeah, that's not that classic thing.
0:36.0	Angelina has technically been on ICYMI before, but it was a plus episode about her deranged take that Goodreads is actually a good website.
0:44.6	So if you want to hear that, go ahead and become a Slate Plus subscriber because that on its own is worth checking out.
0:51.2	But you are here now to sit across from me to discuss something entirely
0:56.0	different, but not dissimilarly demonic. But before we get to that, we do have to ask you
1:00.8	the question. We ask all first time guests. What is your first internet memory?
1:12.5	My first internet memory is being in like the computer room of my grandma's retirement home when I was 10.
1:20.5	Yes.
1:20.9	This was like my computer time.
1:23.3	And I have this vivid memory of going on this website
1:30.3	that I'd heard about called YouTube.
1:32.3	Uh-huh.
1:33.3	And at the time, I was like, oh, I'm going to, obviously, like, what do I search?
1:39.3	I have an interest.
1:40.3	My interest is Hannah Montana.
1:42.3	Yep.
1:43.3	So I typed in Hannah Montana into YouTube.
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