Lofi Girl
Endless Thread
WBUR
4.2 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The popular YouTube channel Lofi Girl provides a 24/7 livestream of chill beats to relax and study.
Endless Thread producer Nora Ruth Valerie Saks and co-host Ben Brock Johnson look at how the Lofi Girl phenomenon has expanded into a record company, inspired copycats, and prompted academic research.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for this podcast comes from Celebrity Series, inviting you to Jazz Along the Charles, |
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| 1:01.0 | Let producer Nora Sachs and I introduce you to Kevin. |
| 1:06.0 | My name is Kevin Leatherwats, he's him pronouns. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm a PhD student at the University of California Santa Cruz. |
| 1:14.0 | When you hear Kevin's credentials, you might be surprised to immediately after that |
| 1:18.0 | hear how hard studying in schoolwork has been for pretty much his whole life. |
| 1:23.0 | So I had really kind of atypical path through school. |
| 1:26.0 | I was a high school dropout, and I kicked out over and over again. |
| 1:30.0 | As a kid, I got all these diagnoses really young about why what was wrong with me |
| 1:37.0 | and that kind of just pursued me through my life right and it was always this thing, |
| 1:41.0 | well what's wrong with you? |
| 1:42.0 | How can you be more like other people and stop being like you? |
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