ICYMI - The Rise of the Gentleminions
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Last weekend, Minions: The Rise of Gru premiered and a bunch of teens showed up to see it dressed up in suits, launching the #Gentleminions trend across TikTok. On the show today, Madison and Rachelle talk about why teens are putting on suits to go to the movies, and how the minions became such a dominant cultural and capitalistic force. Then, they’re joined by Vox’s Rebecca Jennings to discuss her latest piece on what the minions reveal about labor exploitation.
This podcast is produced by Daniel Schroeder, Rachelle Hampton, and Madison Malone Kircher.
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| 0:00.0 | anti mini cheddar they don't get cheddar than this could be the greatest cheese |
| 0:07.0 | no camera they might well breathe I just wish I had my own packet gives another |
| 0:12.1 | no chance you're better by your own well that's mature add some cheese to the |
| 0:16.8 | moment with mini cheddar's baked with real cheese |
| 0:30.0 | hi I'm Rachel Anthony and I'm Madison Loneford |
| 0:35.8 | you're listening to ICYMI in case you missed it Slates podcast about |
| 0:40.7 | internet culture here at your great news tell me the good news fried |
| 0:44.4 | month's not over June is still here we are still celebrating fried because |
| 0:49.0 | Elliott Paige is getting people to platform just by existing honestly the |
| 0:53.9 | power that he has the international implications that he has I just what a |
| 1:00.7 | Canadian you know so last month on June 22nd Jordan Peterson who is a |
| 1:09.0 | Canadian psychologist best known for his anti trans and anti cancel culture |
| 1:15.2 | please pretend that every other one of those letters was capitalized like I |
| 1:18.3 | was tweeting a SpongeBob shouting meme you know what I mean he tweeted |
| 1:23.9 | of extremely hateful tweet in which he dead named Elliott Paige I didn't |
| 1:28.8 | realize this was inter-Canadian violence I they really said Fourth of July who so |
| 1:36.1 | Twitter responded for once in its life by removing Peterson's tweet and |
| 1:41.6 | locking down his account and saying that he couldn't get it back until he |
| 1:44.6 | removed the tweet which he did because he's a very calm person yeah understands |
| 1:51.1 | and accepts criticism does not have random hills he wishes to die on no he chose |
| 1:56.9 | not to remove the tweet and is now of course painting himself as a martyr |
| 2:01.4 | struck down by the strong hands of cancel culture claiming he'd quote rather |
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