ICYMI - The Greatest Love Story Ever Told…Through TikToks
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🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Rachelle is joined by her best friend Danielle Hewitt, a producer at Prologue Projects and, formerly, Slate’s daily news podcast What Next. In a deeply revealing exercise, the two go through a selection of the 250 TikToks that Danielle sent Rachelle while the latter was on a six week long social media break.
But first, Candice breaks down the highlights of Jennifer Lopez’s new documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton.
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| 0:16.9 | Hey I'm Rachel Hampton and I'm Candice Slim and you're listening to Icy Y Am I in case you missed it. |
| 0:19.0 | Sleeats podcast about internet culture. So, Candace, when we last spoke, you said you had watched the |
| 0:26.8 | JLA movie This is Me. D. Now, and you said you were hype for the documentary which came out this week, correct? |
| 0:36.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:37.0 | So, yes. |
| 0:38.0 | Did you watch it? |
| 0:40.0 | Hell yeah, I did and it was longer than the film but guess what I think I liked it more |
| 0:49.2 | because I learned a lot more from it. Wow. |
| 0:53.2 | Okay, I'm gonna give you the floor like we're |
| 0:56.2 | in the House of Congress. |
| 0:58.5 | I need you to give me, let's say, five highlights of this cinematic masterpiece, would you say? |
| 1:09.2 | Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Absolutely. |
| 1:15.0 | So first things first. |
| 1:17.0 | This entire musical film started because when Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez got back together, |
| 1:22.1 | Ben gave Jen this black box full of like their letters and emails and photos |
| 1:28.3 | that they had sent to each other over the years and we see it and J-Low has apparently been letting her like team of producers and songwriters |
| 1:35.2 | flip through the box read the letters all of it and Ben was like oh just like that |
| 1:42.0 | okay cool cool and cool, cool. |
| 1:43.0 | And from this box comes the inspiration to make this musical film cinematic masterpiece. |
| 1:48.0 | Wait, that's crazy. |
| 1:51.0 | Those are personal letters. |
| 1:52.0 | Those are personal letters. |
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