ICYMI - Who Isn’t a Nepotism Baby?
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🗓️ 5 March 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Nepotism is everywhere, and it’s always funny when a new generation realizes that. On today’s show, Madison is joined by Nichole Perkins to talk about the recent online conversation about nepotism babies that got started when people realized Lexi from Euphoria, played by Maude Apatow, is the daughter of two famous people. Madison and Nichole discuss the unending list of entertainment nepotism babies, why nepotism is a fact of daily life, and how privilege factors into it all. Plus, they share a few tips about being online during a global crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | I was already born and I wasn't born in epitism, baby, so I'm kind of fresh out of ideas. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm Nicole Perkins filling in for Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why am I. |
| 0:20.6 | In case you missed it it Slate's podcast about |
| 0:23.1 | internet culture welcome back Nicole so happy you're joining us once again thank you for bringing me back |
| 0:28.6 | in case you missed last week's episode Nicole is the host of the podcast this is good for you |
| 0:34.5 | the author of sometimes I trip on how happy we could be and if you're a slate long time fan she was formerly the author of Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be. And if you're a Slate long-time fan, |
| 0:39.5 | she was formerly the host of Slate's own Thursday Kit. |
| 0:46.1 | So if you know our show at all, you know we like to keep things light, we like to keep it topical. |
| 0:50.6 | But to be honest, it really feels like there is only one prevailing topic in the world right now, and that is the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:57.4 | So rather than weighed into war commentary, which our show isn't really equipped to do, we thought it would be useful to talk about what we are equipped to do, to talk about how to be online when something like what's happening in Ukraine is going on. |
| 1:10.4 | Absolutely. It's at times |
| 1:11.8 | like these that one of the most important things you can do is think, please think, before you |
| 1:17.2 | repost anything. Misinformation spread so quickly online and it's so easy to get taken in by |
| 1:23.6 | unchecked falsehoods. And it seems like the misinformation travels farther than the actual corrections or the proper |
| 1:31.6 | information. |
| 1:32.7 | Exactly. |
| 1:33.8 | So one of my favorite, like, easy tricks for doing this, especially on TikTok, is to check |
| 1:40.1 | where the audio source in a video has originated from. |
| 1:42.9 | Because in the past couple of weeks, |
| 1:44.3 | we've seen really horrifying images without sourcing, with even more horrifying audio playing |
| 1:50.7 | over top, you know, sounds of war traumatic sounds. But when you click them, sometimes you'll find, |
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