Phone Etiquette Is In The Toilet
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by writer and comedian Matt Buechele to talk about how the etiquette around phones is shifting, with previously phone-free spaces now welcoming them into the room. In almost all cases, this makes the experience worse for everyone else, but rather than rebelling, people are starting to accept this as a fact of life. Enough! Let Kate watch Hokum in peace!
This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I, or in case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. And today we are joined by |
| 0:23.2 | writer, comedian, content creator, Matt Bouchel, welcome Matt. Thanks, Kate. Happy to be here. |
| 0:29.7 | Matt is also the host of the new podcast, a new one, thank God, called That Sounds Like a Lot, |
| 0:36.7 | which I love |
| 0:38.0 | because I was watching |
| 0:38.9 | some of it today |
| 0:39.8 | and I didn't realize |
| 0:41.2 | but I think it's great |
| 0:42.0 | that it begins |
| 0:42.6 | with your quintessential |
| 0:43.6 | talking to camera |
| 0:44.9 | moment thing |
| 0:46.5 | maybe you want to explain |
| 0:47.7 | how that became your thing |
| 0:48.9 | I wish I could |
| 0:50.3 | it is the golden shackles |
| 0:52.9 | of my content creating life now. |
| 0:59.0 | No, I just, I started doing that a long time ago out of laziness and not wanting to edit videos. |
| 1:07.0 | And I just said, oh, well, if I got a funny bit, I'll just walk and talk and do it in one take. |
| 1:11.2 | And people enjoyed it. And now I open every podcast episode every Friday morning with a little news recap of me walking into the studio. Hey, real quick, how is everyone affording anything right now? I feel like the prices keep going up. We just have to deal with it. If you want to buy tickets to the World Cup or Monsters Inc. gun ice you got to deal with something called dynamic pricing which is basically tech speak for |
| 1:30.0 | pricing that fucks you. I know I'm tapping my credit card to iPads. I should not be tapping it too because the total was always news to me. I spent... Yeah, you literally can't stop. Yeah, I can't. Well, yeah, I wonder if the version of you who were going to conjure when I asked this next question, |
| 1:45.1 | whatever, have guessed that that would become sort of your role on the internet. |
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