ICYMI - We Bought Weed in the Metaverse
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🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The metaverse wants to convince us it’s the future of retail, even for buying marijuana. On the show today, Madison is joined by Slate’s Shannon Palus to talk about Shannon’s recent journey into the metaverse to buy weed gummies. They discuss what it’s like to enter the metaverse, the mediocre graphics on display there, and if it really is the future of retail—or just a misguided lark from Big Tech.
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| 0:00.0 | You can now buy cannabis, cannabis in the metaverse, and have it delivered in real life. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher. |
| 0:15.3 | And I'm Shannon Paulus, filling in for Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:18.1 | And you're listening to I see why am I. |
| 0:20.2 | In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture. Shannon, welcome to I-C-Y-M-I. Thank you so much for having me, Madison. For those of you who don't know, Shannon is a senior editor here at Slate. She mostly focuses on science and health, which is great because I've got a weird mole. Could you look at it? I'm worried. No, I couldn't look at your weird mole, Madison. But if you were my editor, you could assign me a piece about your weird mole. |
| 0:43.4 | Okay, okay. A loophole. I like it. A loophole. We're all about the weird personal health stuff here at sleep. |
| 1:00.6 | Well, before we get into the show, I do want to talk about the latest news from TikTok. |
| 1:10.1 | It was just announced that TikTok is increasing the maximum video length from what already felt agonizing, three minutes, to 10 minutes. |
| 1:11.9 | Yikes. |
| 1:14.4 | I just remember the days of the single minute video? |
| 1:15.5 | Better times. |
| 1:19.1 | I get all of my TikToks on Instagram Reels. |
| 1:23.0 | So I'm still living in the blissful world of the single minute. |
| 1:26.2 | On Reels, they just like cut you off at some point. |
| 1:27.4 | Wow. Did Mark Zuckerberg pay you to say that? No, cut you off at some point. Wow. |
| 1:29.7 | Did Mark Zuckerberg pay you to say that? |
| 1:31.2 | No, I'm just 31. |
| 1:34.3 | I'm imminently 30. |
| 1:37.9 | So apparently the microgenerational divide is that singular year. |
| 1:41.8 | I'm resisting the vibe shift to more apps and TikToks. |
| 1:48.5 | I've calcified fossilized in the Instagram era. I'm not learning new apps. |
| 1:54.3 | I don't know. You're the science writer. Pick the verb. So the sort of length creep is disappointing to me, but unsurprising. After July of last year, when they increased the length up to three-minute |
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