Oenone on bad influence, Tattle trolls and logging off

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Anna and Polly take a deep dive into the Internet with influencer Oenone who has written a book called ‘Bad Influence’. They talk about the unhealthy positioning of ‘influencer’ and ‘follower’ and how the algorithm is set up for us to feel, well, bad. Or lacking somehow. And they question the accountability of big social media giants in how we are feeling online. But also how our kids are going to feel in the future…

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:10.9	Welcome to this episode of Dirty Motherpucker.
0:18.0	I'm Anna White House, your host, and I'm the founder of Motherpucker,
0:21.2	and I'm joined by Polly Hazerwood. P-Dog. P-Dog? I don't know if I'm cool enough to pull that off.
0:28.4	I don't think you are either. Would I be A-dubs? A-dubs. Yeah. A-Dog. A-dubs and P-Dog here. Yeah. Bringing you some fabulous news.
0:38.3	Coming up, we have the brilliant influencer Anoni Forba.
0:41.7	She's also a comedian and a host of the hugely popular adulting podcast.
0:46.4	She is going to be talking to us about bad influence.
0:50.2	Her life online, and I'm here for it.
0:52.8	Do you remember when we did the episode on clubs and how it's
0:56.6	apparently cringe for anyone over 40 to go clubbing? Can you imagine if we entered de club
1:02.3	referring to each other as Pea dog? A peedog! Fadog, over here, yeah? Got some banging tunes on.
1:09.8	I've just, P dog, I've just requested Shaggy.
1:11.8	Oh, God. No, look, listen, I don't think you and I should ever go to a club ever again after our antics.
1:17.1	People have heard what we get up to.
1:18.6	Peabog and Adab's getting down to Shaggy's. It wasn't me.
1:22.6	The thing is, after 25 years of Shaggy singing that song, do you know what? I believe him. It wasn't him. I don't
1:28.7	think it was him. Apparently it wasn't him. Oh. It wasn't about him. Well, hold on. Who was it?
1:32.5	It was about his mate. He threw his mate under the bus. That's what you would do to me.
1:36.2	Every time. Listen, every time. Well, how did the lyrics go? Um, I was banging in the kitchen. It wasn't me.
1:44.4	I was something in the bedroom.
1:46.3	It wasn't me.
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