I was born by the river, river.

Brick, brick, brick, brick, I was born by the river.

I was shaking that head.

Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher.

And I'm Rachel Hampton and you're listening to I see why I'm I.

In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.

On today's show, we are going to be taking you on a wild journey

that starts with a pretty innocuous cover of a Nina Simone classic

and ends with alleged embezzlement

and somehow involves one vice president, Kamala Harris?

I, Rachel, that's a mad lips. That's a fill in the blank paragraph, like add a noun, add an

adverb. Remember what an adverb is, then add an adverb. It's amazing because the description

gets at perhaps 4% of the story.

Mostly, though, it's a story about how when you find yourself falling into an internet k-hole of drama

and mess, like the one Rachel just so eloquently described in brief, the smartest thing you can

do, honestly, is to take a beat, take a breath,

and do a little bit of your own research. The reality of events usually ends up looking

different than, say, the original viral tweet might have indicated. But first, we simply have to

talk about Madison's absolute favorite topic, The Bachelor franchise.

In the outline for today's show, you wrote BACH, B-A-C-H, and for a brief fleeting moment, I thought we were going to talk about Bach, which I thought, okay, I'm ready. I can vibe with that.

I'm sorry to disappoint you.

We're not talking about Bach.

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