Stop Memeing the Epstein Files
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Kat Tenbarge, who wrote “There's nothing funny about the Epstein Files,” to discuss how the internet has turned Jeffrey Epstein into a meme. While dark humor has long been a way to process tragic events, online shitposts about the sex offender and alleged sex trafficker risk minimizing his crimes. Instead of justice, the public is using the newly-released files to score internet points at the expense of victims.
This podcast is produced by Daisy Rosario, Vic Whitley-Berry, and Kate Lindsay.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Katelyn't, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I-M-I, or in case you missed it, |
| 0:19.0 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:21.5 | And today on the show, we have official friend of the pod, Kat Ten Barge. |
| 0:27.1 | Hello, Kat, welcome back. |
| 0:28.9 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:30.5 | So glad to be back. |
| 0:31.5 | This is getting into like not my home, but I know my way around territory. |
| 0:36.6 | But we knew we had to have you for today's episode, which we're going to get to in a minute. |
| 0:41.3 | But first, I would be remiss if I didn't ask you about how you spent the Super Bowl. |
| 0:56.1 | Did you watch the Super Bowl? |
| 1:05.1 | I did. I still don't, after having people explain it to me probably a dozen times over the course of my life, I still don't understand how football works. |
| 1:12.8 | But I love the Super Bowl because Super Bowl snacks to me are like the pinnacle of food. |
| 1:16.1 | So I basically just ate myself into like a food coma last night. |
| 1:17.0 | That's good. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.0 | I did not watch a Super Bowl, but I did watch the puppy bowl. |
| 1:22.2 | Oh my gosh. I had two friends over. |
| 1:24.9 | We started promptly at two. |
| 1:27.1 | We just ate snacks and it was vaguely on in the background. |
| 1:31.3 | But it was very fun to tune in and out of and by the time it was over, they left. |
| 1:37.3 | I never turned on the TV again, did not watch it at all. |
| 1:41.3 | But I obviously caught up this morning with everyone's takes. |
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