Madison Malone Kircher Logs Off
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🗓️ 23 July 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a great run, but Madison is leaving ICYMI for new ventures. On today’s show, Rachelle interviews Madison about her time working on ICYMI, her own internet habits, and her first online scams. Plus, they’ve got a round of High Speed Downloads, perhaps the greatest one ever recorded, so get ready to be shocked and astonished in the best way.
This podcast is produced by Daniel Schroeder, Rachelle Hampton, Madison Malone Kircher, and Daisy Rosario.
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| 0:00.0 | When you can't quite get the angle, take hands-free selfies with the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5, |
| 0:05.2 | stand it up, step back, and your photos are also synced to your Chromebook, ready to edit. |
| 0:10.8 | The new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Chromebook, available on Vodafone. |
| 0:14.8 | Hi, Rachel Hampton. And I'm Madison Malone-Curture. You're listening to ICYMI. |
| 0:32.8 | In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. Rachel, it is time, as they say, |
| 0:40.8 | for some personal news. I'm sorry I can't hear all of the sudden. |
| 0:45.0 | I've lost the ability to understand. I'm illiterate. That's reading. |
| 0:49.6 | Sorry, what are you saying? You're going through a tunnel. |
| 0:53.0 | Well, while I'm in the tunnel, let me shout loudly and say that today is my last day hosting ICYMI. |
| 1:03.9 | The day I've been avoiding mentally for the last undisclosed amount of time is finally here, |
| 1:08.7 | and I'm weeping. I'm crying. There's literally no tears. |
| 1:14.3 | Just for those of you listening at home, truth and journalism, accuracy and journalism. Rachel's |
| 1:19.3 | not crying yet. Okay, but we do have to get through this episode. Infamously, the only thing that |
| 1:24.9 | has made me cry on this show is Sesame Street, but there is a first time for everything. |
| 1:28.8 | I'm sorry. Thanks for the memory. It's just playing in my head right now. |
| 1:32.0 | I've actually been thinking a lot about what farewell show, too, and I should perform in full, |
| 1:36.0 | all out like full belt and believe me. I've had some good ideas because this is in fact the |
| 1:42.0 | last midnight. You saw it into the woods last night. I just saw that with land. I just saw that. |
| 1:47.2 | I was like, wait, I get that one. Wait, my little hand and I whisper so long, dairy. Wow, |
| 1:52.8 | it's finally like the Captain America meme of I got that one. It only took 16 months, but I got |
| 1:59.1 | that one. I also considered the goodbye song from Smash, which if you know you know, goodbye from |
| 2:04.5 | Catch Me If You Can, a little on the nose. Goodbye until tomorrow from the last five years. I know |
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