It’s Back! A Full 'Close All Tabs' Season Is Here!

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder where the internet stops and IRL begins? Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor. From internet trends to AI slop to the politics of memes, Close All Tabs covers it all. How will AI change our jobs and lives? Is the government watching what I post? Is there life beyond TikTok? Host Morgan Sung pulls from experts, the audience, and history to add context to the trends and depth to the memes. And she’ll wrestle with as many browser tabs as it takes to explain the cultural moment we’re all collectively living.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Olivia Allen Price here, dropping into your feed on a Monday to share a quick bit of news.
0:06.3	KQED just launched a new podcast called Close All Tabs, and it's off to a roaring start.
0:13.7	Here's a little taste of what the show is all about, and if you dig it, be sure to follow or subscribe.
0:20.2	The Internet.
0:24.0	It's where so many cultural trends start.
0:27.3	You see how I do my makeup for work?
0:29.4	Very demure.
0:30.5	Very mindful.
0:31.7	And where they thrive and grow.
0:33.9	This gets a really big boom.
0:36.5	Oh, you got to give them that hook. I'm Mr. Bees. These are my five. Oh, you gotta give him that hook.
0:38.3	I'm Mr. Bees.
0:39.3	These are my five.
0:40.3	It's where subcultures gather.
0:41.3	And for all my Harry Potter fans, I'm Carol.
0:44.3	Oh, that's at all.
0:45.3	South Korean caper group.
0:46.3	BTS.
0:47.3	And where misinformation, confessor.
0:50.3	Stop those feel.
0:51.3	Stop those feel.
0:52.3	Stop those feel.
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