ICYMI - Who’s Turning on Moo Deng?
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🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim is joined by Slate culture writer Nadira Goffe to play a game of High Speed Downloads, where they each get 60 seconds to break down an internet story they’re obsessed with. On today’s episode, they’re breaking down the Instagram comment that may affect Nicole Scherzinger’s Tony Awards chances, and the wild memes that struck the Moo Deng-iverse post-election. But first, Nadira and Candice share their two most recent celebrity encounters.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario and Candice Lim, with production assistance from Alexandra Botti.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Candice Lim. |
| 0:15.6 | And I'm Naderer Goff, and you're listening to I-CYMIMI. |
| 0:19.2 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:21.1 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. And Nadera to I-CYMIMI. In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:23.8 | And Naderia, I would ask how was your weekend, but I have a good guess of how it was. |
| 0:29.1 | I don't know. |
| 0:29.7 | Maybe you have a surprise for me. |
| 0:31.1 | I mean, my weekend was just okay for obvious reasons. |
| 0:35.1 | But I do have a story, an anecdote, a not-so-blind item, a du-mois |
| 0:41.0 | citing to report on this podcast today, if you will. I will. You got me. I'm hooked in. |
| 0:47.2 | Let's hear it. Okay. So, I was going from home, Philadelphia, back to New York City on Saturday |
| 0:53.6 | night. I was just home for 36 |
| 0:55.2 | hours for a little family thing. And I'm at the 30th Street train station in Philadelphia. |
| 1:01.8 | I get there very early because there was a gap in the local train schedules. It doesn't matter. |
| 1:06.7 | All you need to know is that I'm at the train station about an hour before my train is supposed to leave, which means that when it's time to line up to get on the train, I'm very, very close to the front. |
| 1:17.7 | I'm second in line. |
| 1:18.7 | There's a couple in front of me. |
| 1:20.3 | I'm number two. |
| 1:21.3 | And who should walk up to me and say, hey, is this the Northeast Regional train to New York? |
| 1:30.5 | If not, the Alec Baldwin. |
| 1:37.0 | And truly, I saw him walking up to me and I was like, wow, that guy looks a lot like Alec Baldwin. But I have my headphones in. And, you know, I live in New York. I don't expect to see |
| 1:41.6 | people in Philadelphia. And I'm like, great, he looks a lot like Alec Baldwin. He's like, hey, is this the right train? I nod. And I'm like, yeah, I smile. Very jovial, very nice, very cordial person. He goes to the front where the sort of train attendant person is. And the first thing that that person, the train attendant, says out of their mouth is, |
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