ICYMI - We Are All the Bad Art Friend
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
How many details must a writer change before real life turns into fiction? That’s a central question of “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?” the seismic New York Times Magazine article about a kidney donation, a Facebook post, and the subsequent fallout that has consumed social media this week. On today’s episode, Madison tries to summarize the story using only what she learned about it from reactions online. Then, Rachelle catches her up on the real story and all its bizarre details. Finally, they discuss whether anybody comes out of this situation looking like a hero, what writers owe to the people they know IRL, and the best practices for making sure your group chats aren’t the subject of the next big New York Times story.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
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| 0:00.0 | I knew that if I didn't donate my kidney one day, that it would probably nag at me my entire life. |
| 0:13.1 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:14.7 | And I'm Madison Malone Kircher. |
| 0:16.1 | You're listening to I-C-Y-M-I. |
| 0:18.1 | In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. All right, we're diving |
| 0:22.6 | right into the New York Times Magazine story that took over my entire Twitter feed this week. |
| 0:28.4 | But Madison, strangely enough, given your job, you have not partaken in this, in this discourse. |
| 0:34.8 | Oh, I'm sorry, could you roll that bus you just drove over me back, please? |
| 0:40.4 | And by strangely enough, given your job, |
| 0:42.5 | I mean, you were actually doing your job |
| 0:44.3 | and writing a piece versus me |
| 0:46.3 | who couldn't get to this piece till 5 p.m., |
| 0:49.1 | but very much engaged in the discourse before then. |
| 0:54.1 | I rolled it back. How do you feel? |
| 0:56.7 | I feel like I've been rolled over by a bus twice, actually. |
| 1:00.3 | I probably should have asked for like a crane removal. |
| 1:03.3 | Oh, well, next time. |
| 1:05.4 | Yeah. No. So I must come clean to the ICYMIMI guys and and say that no, I have not yet read the piece about the kidney. |
| 1:19.0 | I really, yes. |
| 1:21.3 | I was very confused when I logged on to Twitter and all of a sudden everyone was talking about quote unquote kidney person such that I just started keyword searching kidney on my timeline to see if I could like piece |
| 1:31.7 | this together. |
| 1:33.5 | This is hilarious because the title of the piece is who is the bad art friend. |
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